Volume 14 , Issue 35

Duchess of Weaselskin

August is here and so are the bears out and about hunting for calories to build up their body fat for their Winter hibernation [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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100 Years Ago Today - 27 August 1912

As we read in The San Francisco Call, 27 August 1912, out of San Francisco, California, we find various, interesting articles from one hundred years ago. One of those is:

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NW Okie's Corner

Although it was one hundred years ago today, I believe this speech by Teddy Roosevelt talking about the workers who are discriminated upon and should be given more justices could fit right in with today's politics of 2012.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia

As we continue with our look back to the History of Pendleton county, (West) Virginia we find that the first permit for a gristmill after Pendleton was organized appears to have been issued in 1803 in favor of James and John Dyer. The need of gunpowder in the war of 1812 stimulated the making of saltpeter from the nitrous earth found in the caverns of Cave Mountain, Trout Rock and Harman hills. This industry continued until after the breaking out of the war of 1861.Besides the Dyer surname showing up in our paternal ancestry, we have found the surname of Arbogast, Lightner and Kinkead/Kinkaid.

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History of Oklahoma

In The Indian Advocate, dated 1 January 1902, page 6, there was a bit of mention of "History of Oklahoma" as taken from the report of ex-governor Jenkins.

This is the story of the creation of Oklahoma Territory, but of the long struggles to secure the various enactments of Congress required to bring it about, of the successive great rushes of settlers to the country, of the Struggles to build up here an ideal American commonwealth, and of the great measure of success attained, volumes might be written.

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The Bull Moose Years (1912-1916)

In 1912 rough politics was nothing new, and it still happens today. It was without question former President Theodore roosevelt, contesting the renomination of President William Howard Taft. Both Roosevelt and Taft were opposed by the militant reformer Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, who saw both of his opponents as too conservative.

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Theodore Roosevelt 1912 - Why Trusts & Bosses Oppose the Progressive Party

One hundred years ago today a former President of the United States, Colonel Teddy Roosevelt, in one of his campaign speeches as nominee of the Progressive (Bull Moose) party during a campaign for president in 1912, was saying what many are saying today.

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