NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, CO - Happy mid-June 2013 and Father's Day to all the deserving fathers out there. The photo image on the left was taken Sunday afternoon as the afternoon clouds rolled in at Vallecito Reservoir (not dropping much moisture), but I could not resist clicking this shot of the stately pine trees standing tall on the mountaintop back behind our cabin in the woods.

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1941 Shooting of Donald Lee Benson (1919-1941)

Alva, OK - Marian Hatcher sent us a copy of the 1941 Wichita Beacon news article that appeared around December, 1941. It shows a photograph of Sheriff Ken Greer and his prisoner, Kenneth Root. It also gives updates on Benson's Condition.

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1913 Many Ex-Texans Now Oklahomans

Amarillo, TX - If you checked the front page headlines of the Amarillo Daily News, dated Tuesday, June 17, 1913, in Amarillo, Texas, you might have noticed this little headline: "Many Ex-Texans Now Oklahomans." It also mentioned that Sooner state thickly populated by emigrants from this state, and overcrowding is the cause. A. S. Stinett says, "Great Panhandle Fair would bring stream of immigration to this section of Texas."

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One Hundred Years Ago - 17 June 1913

America - If you would have picked up the newspaper one hundred years ago today, 17th of June 1913, you might have read about, "Mrs. John Jacob Astor, the most interesting widow in America. John Jacob Astor was one of those aboard the Titanic when it sank back in April, 1913. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1885 - Statue of Liberty Arrives

New York Harbor, NY - It was in 1885, the week of June 13th to 19th that the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. A gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, the Statue of Liberty was shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 300 cases. It was reassembled, dedicated the following year in a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland, becoming known around the world as an "enduring symbol of freedom and democracy."

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Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, CO - Since we caged the SW Colorado Columbine flowering plant, no squirrels have eaten the buds off of it. It finally started opening it buds on Sunday, Father's Day, 16 June 2013. It has loads of buds. NW Okie loves the burgundy and white Columbine.




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1889 - The Lost Found

Kansas City , MO - In the Oklahoma City Daily Times, Vol. 1, No. 88, Thursday, October 10, 1889, located in Oklahoma City, Indian Territory, sported this front page headline: "The Lost Found!" Who was lost, and who was found? After twenty years' absence, a lost son was found in a Kansas City drug store.

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