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Volume 14 , Issue 32

2012

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Duchess of Weaselskin

We are still having our afternoon and evening rains here is Southwest Colorado. I know those in the prairie of the heartlands and other states have seen their pastures and crops blistering in the heat of the early stages of the "Dog Days of Summer." It came early this year, didn't it?

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100 Years Ago Today - 6 August 1912

One hundred years ago today we find the Bull Moose Independent party convention opened in Chicago and arranged preliminaries. It was reported as a cut and dried program with the vice presidential candidate as the only question and the Negro delegates ditched, 6 August 1912, in The Hawaiian Gazette.

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NW Okie's Corner

I was going through some old paternal photographs and found this photo on the left. I believe it was taken around 1938 in the Virginia with my grandmother, Constance Estella (Warwick) McGill (second from the right, front row) and my father, Gene McGill (standing behind everyone and center). If any Gwin's, Hull's, Warwick's and Eckard's recognize any of the rest of these Virginia or West Virginia family, I would love to hear from you.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia - Pendleton Under Rockingham

This week as we continue our journey of Pendleton county, (West) Virginia, as written by Oren Frederick Morton around 1912, we learn that Augusta county has been a mother of counties in Virginia. It was the spread of the population and the increasing inconvenience of attending court that caused one county after another to be lopped off.

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T. Roosevelt Sounds Battle Cry - 1912

From the only independent newspaper (The Tacoma Times), in Tacoma, Washington, Tuesday, August 6, 1912, we find Teddy Roosevelt sounds his battle cry as he gets a tremendous ovation at the convention. Every seat in Chicago's coliseum was packed at 12:48 o'clock with most of its aisles filled with the wildly cheering throng of delegates. At 1:20 p.m. the volleys of hurrahs were still unchecked before Roosevelt made public the "confession of faith" on which he hopes to be a returned president in November, 1912 at the head of the "Bull Moose" party.

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Worthless As A Continental Bill

The Colonial currency was the continental bill signed with several different signers. On the back of most Continental currency issues was a leaf design. This was called a nature print. The technique was first used by Benjamin Franklin. An impression of a real leaf was made in plaster which was then used to make a metal mould. The idea was that no two leaves were alike so as to deter counterfeiters.

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Whiskey Insurrection of 1794

The "Whiskey Rebellion (or Insurrection)" was a tax protest in the United States and came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. It came to a climax in July 1794, when a marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise.

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Whigs & Tory Parties

The Tories were members of a British political party, founded in 1689, that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party (as in Canada) since 1832.

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Poll Tax of 1781

Early Virginia taxes during the colonial and early Federal period were taxed on their land (real property), and on certain items of personal property. They were also taxed by the head as polls (tithables). The specifics varied considerably over the whole period here considered, not only as to rates, but in the categories of things and persons taxed.

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