The Okie Legacy: Duchess & Sadie's Domain Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Tips & Hints NW Okie's R & R Air Tour - June 1, 1946 This Day In History - November 15 Bill's 444 & The Barleycorn's Benediction F. M. Cowgill - Advice Not Wanted In the Nick of Time (1895-1896) A. C. Towne & Jesse Dunn Sholtz Butcher Shop Incident Anton (Tony) Schnitzer (1893-1955)

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Volume 12 , Issue 46

2010

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Duchess & Sadie's Domain

Latter part of last week we accumulated about 4-inches of snow up around the North end of the Vallecito Reservoir and chilly temperatures in the low teens to 20s in the evening. You can still see some of the snow on the mountain peaks around here.

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Tips & Hints

Did you know that after boiling salt beef, leave two or three carrots in the liquid until cool. These absorb the salt and the liquid may be turned into soup.

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NW Okie's R & R

We have some memory joggers to see if we can jog past memories of Northwest Oklahoma Territory. If you can enlighten us with your stories and photos, we would love to hear from you. We are hoping you can help us!

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Air Tour - June 1, 1946

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This Day In History - November 15

This Day In History - November 15 On this day in history, November 15th brings many things to mind. Such as: Civil March to the Sea; Stock Ticker and Pike's Peak.

On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock market by making up to the minute prices available to investors around the county. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or messenger.

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Bill's 444 & The Barleycorn's Benediction

Have you ever heard of W. H. Henderson's notorious saloon in Alva, Oklahoma? Henderson called his place "Bill's 444." Where exactly was Henderson's saloon located in Alva? North, West side of square? If anyone has any stories to share about Bill's 444, we would love to share them in the OkieLegacy newsletter.

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F. M. Cowgill - Advice Not Wanted

It has been spread around through stories of the past and news articles that F. M. Cowgill was one of the best men and the best lawyers and one of the best fathers and the best citizens and one of the most congenial. At the same time on of the most indifferent and uncongenial men that ever lived in Oklahoma or anywhere else.

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In the Nick of Time (1895-1896)

It was in the fall of 1895 when the City of Alva voted $15,000 waterworks bonds. One Jesse F. Scanlan had a hardware store in the city and made a contract with the City Council, agreeing to put in a system of waterworks for the bonds.

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A. C. Towne & Jesse Dunn

[Photo image on the left is a photo copy of A. C. Towne.] -- One afternoon, A. C. Towne and Jesse Dun drifted into the court of J. J. Hughes, who was judge of they county court, to argue a demurrer. On coming in, we found the Hon. C. H. Mauntel, who was then county attorney, was prosecuting a young fellow, who was charged with having stolen three hogs at Isabella in Woods county and having loaded them into a wagon and taken them to Waukomis to the railroad, where he sold them for $21.50.

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Sholtz Butcher Shop Incident

Have you heard this story of Bill Sholtz, who was a butcher and had a shop near Snyder's dry goods store?

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Anton (Tony) Schnitzer (1893-1955)

Vol. 9, Iss. 41 - Obit, June 4, 1955, Tony Schnitzer [Oklahoman-Times Northwest Bureau] - Alva -- Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Hill funeral chapel for Tony Schnitzer, 62, longtime Alva resident who was found dead Friday in the area between his slaughterhouse and the Santa Fe railroad tracks north of Alva.

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