Volume 15 , Issue 28

NW Okie's Corner

It has been over a year or so since I worked on the Eagle wood carving I started back then. I never did finish it. My Texas sister asked me about it when we were visiting her in Houston, Texas.

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One Hundred Years Ago - Tuesday, 15 July 1913

One hundred years ago today, Tuesday, July 15, 1913, we find on the front page of the Tulsa Daily World, that the "Farmer Fight Grasshoppers," while farmers spread fields with poison for destructive pests.

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Duchess of Weaselskin

We are still getting small, cloudy afternoon rain showers here in the southwest corner of Colorado. And NW Okie has gotten out her wood carving tools, chisels to work again on the unfinished piece she started almost a couple of years ago.

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1913 July 14 - Sherly J. (Hassler) Jenkins Died From An Operation

In the Tulsa Daily World dated Tuesday, 15 July 1913, front page headlines reads: "Died From An Operation." Sherly J. (Hassler) Jenkins, daughter of a Tulsa woman bled to death.

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1906 August 8 - Texas League Sued

It is in The Jimplecute (out of Jefferson, Texas), dated 11 August 1906, page 4, that we find this small article about the "texas League Sued." Temple baseball association instituted the action at Waco.

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September 1906 - Austin Baseball Champion

In The Jimplecute (Jefferson, Texas, dated Saturday, 15 September 1906, page 7, we found this article on the sports section of the newspaper, reporting that Austin were the Baseball Champions, of the South Texas Baseball League, took the Pennant in 1906.

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1941 December 7th - Nine Students Join Air Corps

It was 7 December 1941, as the northwest Oklahoma newspaper (Alva Reveiw-Courier) reported that "Nine Students Join Air Corps," and College Boys Now in Reserve.

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15 July 1913 - Talk of Lobbyists in Congress

One hundred years ago there was talk of Republicans and Lobbyists, and how Mulhall did a lot of "double-crossing."

On the front page of the New york Tribune dated Tuesday, July 15, 1913, several interesting headlines of that day. One of those was "Mulhall Tells of Party Work," manufacturers' Ex-lobbyist says he took orders from Republican congressional committee; Aided various nominees; declared money was furnished by National association for use in campaigning, admitting double-crossing Cushing.

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