Volume 15 , Issue 33

NW Okie's Corner

Another week and another day or three days later, we are up and running again at The OkieLegacy. Maybe you noticed in the past few days or over last weekend, if you typed in okielegacy.net into the browser, it did not take you to our website. It took you to readyhosting.com website.

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The Cherryvale Fiends (Kansas 1873)

The Emporia News, 16 May 1873, out of Emporia, Kansas, reported on page 2, concerning "The Cherryvale Horror," that the latest accounts were three more bodies had been discovered, victims of the Bender murderers, fourteen in all. The Benders had been traced to St. Louis, and it was believed they had gone to Germany.

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Duchess of Weaselskin

[This is a view taken of Clinton Gulch Reservoir near Salida, Colorado.] It is always good to see your human come driving back home into the driveway. We were all smiles, wagging tails and Sadie showed off by running wide circles around NW Okie again.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 2 September 1913, Tuesday

Scouring the chronicling America old newspaper on the web, we found in The Daily Ardmoreite, 2 September 1913, Tuesday, the following headlines, "Democrats Enroll Big Membership," demanding that republican office holders be replaced with loyal democrats.

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50th Anniversary, 28 August 1963 (I Have A Dream)

Last Wednesday we remembered the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream speech." Where were your on that day that millions gathered on the Mall in Washington D. C.? I was a beginning sophomore in High School, in northwest Oklahoma.

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The Cherryvale Horror of 1873

In The Wichita City Eagle, 15 May 1873, page 2, we found the headline: "The Cherryvale Horror!" It was a den of thieves and murderers with eleven bodies in all found near Osage Mission, on the prairie of Kansas, April, 1873.

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1873 - Searching the World for the Kansas Murderers

In the Belmont Chronicle, 24 July 1873, out of St. Clairsville, Ohio, we found this article: "Searching the World for the Kansas Murderers."

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