Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - Happy End of April and beginning of May this week! We have been working towards the end of April on our veggie and herb garden here in southwest Colorado mountains. The photo on the left is some wild mountain strawberries that we planted in a huge pot last year that have began to bloom again this spring. They usually are a bit smaller than the strawberries you buy in the grocery store and farmers markets.

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Highland County Virginia - Civil Officers, Legislators, Justices and Officials

Highland county, Virginia - [The 1907 penny postcard featured this week is sent from Vanderpoole, Virginia by Robert Brill Doyle to Miss Constance Estella Warwick in Alva, Oklahoma. Robert Brill Doyle took care of the old "Pine Grove School" in Mustoe, Virginia and donated the land for the school. He was born 12 March 1875 on the Jackson River, Highland County, Virginia and died 14 December 1945. He comes down through the Doyle ancestry through Leona Doyle Dever. he and his mother are buried, without head stones, in the Scared Heart Catholic Cemetery, right beside the old school.]

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1896 Killing At Pushmataha Courthouse

Pushmataha, Oklahoma Territ - The Langston City Herald dated 16 May 1896 reported that a full-blooded Choctaw, Charles Homes, was legally shot at Pushmataha court house grounds thirty miles west of Antlers, Wednesday, in May of 1896., for the murder of Charles Kiotubby, his son-in-law.

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Marjorie Caroline Lisk Hayward Obituary

Woods County, Oklahoma - VIEW/SEND CONDOLENCES -- We lost another Northwest Oklahoma pioneer today when Marjorie Caroline Lisk Hayward died 23 April 2012, at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Her graveside services were held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery with Rev. Joshua Leu officiating. Interment was under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home.

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100 Years Ago Today - April 30, 1912

America - The headlines of the New-York Tribune, dated Tuesday, 30 April 1912, a hundred years ago, read: "Taft and Roosevelt Rock Old Bay State." President and Ex-President dash through massachusetts towns in final appeals for votes at Primary as cheering crowds greet them. Thousands applaud as Executive asks the people to give him a square deal. He follows trail of Colonel who raised cry of bosses and interests. Democrats Active.

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Tidbits of May 1896 Langston City Herald

Oklahoma Territ - I love reading old newspapers to find out what life was about back in the "Old Days." According to The Langston City Herald, 16 May 1896, which was published from 1891 through 1902, we found a few interesting little tidbits worth sharing and reading. Have you ever heard that the best time to plant alfalfa, as proved by Payne county, was on May 1?

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Grandpa's Model T Torpedo Roadster of 1912

Woods County, Oklahoma - [Click images to view larger images of Grandpa Bill McGill and his 1912 Model T Torpedo Roadster.]

Whoever was taking the picture may have been looking towards the southeast to catch the "Castle on the Hill" in the background. If someone else has a better description of the composition, I would love to hear from you via comment or email. What about the image in the shiny gas tank? I can see grandpa's image, but what is the white image? Is it a lady in white with umbrella? Flowers? Can not quite make the white image out.

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Dixiecrats of 1960's & 1970's

Southern Dixiec - Remember when there were conservatives in the Democrat party until the 1960's and 1970's. When Democrats became divided amongst each other, splitting into the Southern Dixiecrats American Independent Party. The short-lived Dixiecrats were formed for/by a Democrat in Southern States who opposed desegregation.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - Happy May Day as April 2012 ends on this Monday evening! Most citizens in the United States probably think May Day is another rite of Spring. BUT . . . What and How is May Day celebrated around the World? We found this little poem for May Day Workers online by Walter Crane, The Workers' Maypole, 1894

. . . Let the winds lift your banners from far lands
With a message of strife and of hope:
Raise the Maypole aloft with its garlands
That gathers your cause in its scope....

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1896 School Systems and Teachers Pay

Oklahoma Territ - In that same newspaper dated 16 May 1896, The Langston City Herald reported that several of the Oklahoma county superintendent say that many of the districts would begin the coming school year free of debt. Teachers would feel that a better day had dawned, when once they can take their orders to the district treasurer and received the cash for them.

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1912 Motor Cars Show Marked Improvement In Style & Appearance

America - In The San Francisco Call, dated Sunday 29 October 1911 we we found the headlines that read: "1912 Types of Motor Cars Show Marked Improvement in Style and Appearance." Cole Cars Show several changes. Roadster and speedster types improved by factory officials.

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