Volume 14 , Issue 27

NW Okie's Corner

How does your garden grow? After laying a concrete paver floor on our little 6 ft. by 8 ft. greenhouse, our veggies, particularly our tomatoes, are free of the pesky ground squirrels picking our ripening tomatoes before we do. IF . . . those pesky rodents try burrowing in from outside now, they will get a gigantic headache as they come into contact with the concrete pavers.



Beginning with this radio campaign speech, we found this radio speech of Theodore Roosevelt's on "Social and Industrial Justice."

For more than a decade before the first commercial radio broadcast station was inaugurated in Pittsburgh in 1920, citizens had been listening to candidate speeches on the phonograph.

You want to read an interesting book about independent women, politics and history, then read more about this great woman in the hardback or on your Kindle: The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey.

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