Volume 11 , Issue 13

Spring Snow of March 2009 - NW Oklahoma

The digital photo on the left was taken by one of my sons, Michael E. Wagner, living in the Alva, Oklahoma area during this weeks Spring Snow, March 28, 2009.

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Fargo OK Spring Snow (March 28, 2009)

Ellis Raymer submitted these Spring Snow (March 28, 2009) of Northwest Oklahoma. The photos were taken by Khristina Benson near Fargo, Oklahoma. Her husband, Brock, is a deputy sheriff in Ellis County.

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March Madness In Kansas

March 22, 2009, James says, On"Our forsythia is just now beginning to get yellow and we are having some fine spring-like Weather [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1918 Fire In Alva OK - Antlers Cafe

Kirt T. says, "There was a fireman in Alva from 1919 to 1923 that kept a scrap book that recently sold on ebay. Dr. Meyer bought it and brought it by the the Fire Station for me to copy. The attachments are from the scrap book. The picture is a fire that occured in 1918 and just happens to be Antlers Cafe where the murder of Joe Riles took place March 5, 1917, a year earlier."

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Alva Murder of 1917 (March 5)

Kirt Trekell says, "I Came across a clipping from a Wichita news paper about a murder that occured in Alva at Antlers Cafe in 1917. A 20-year-old Harrison Eller, Killed a 20-year-old Joe Files. It was reported as a very violent homicide. The paper said Files was nearly decapitated. Have you heard of this before?"

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Classic & Antique Road, Rail & Highway Crossings of Oklahoma

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Old Planes & Gene McGill

Back in the 1930s Gene McGill took to flying [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (2 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Missourians On Eagle Chief - 1914

This is a July 19, 1914 view of a bunch of Missourians at the Eagle Chief in Northwest Oklahoma [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Bataan Memorial Death March

Marvin says, "Sunday, over 5000 individuals from all 50 states, as solo and team marchers, will take part in the 20th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range Headquarters.

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Grandpa Baseball Legacy

Grandpa's Baseball Legacy old photos put to movie on YouTube by OkieLegacy

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Grandma 1908-09 Scrapbook Legacy

I gathered some photos that I had scanned of Grandma':s 1904-09 scrapbook showing photos of Constance and William McGill's courting days, in shade of an old Apple, in NW Oklahoma [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Insight Into Grandpa

This weeks letter from John C. McClure take us back to February 22, 1904, Quincy, Illinois, postmarked May 15 and 17, 1904 by the respective postoffices of Quincy, Illinois and Alva, Oklahoma, respectively.

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Warwick / Warrick DNA Project

Family genealogists have concentrated efforts resolving relationship amongst the male Warwicks in early western Augusta County, Virginia. This area includes the current Virginia counties of Augusta and Bath, and the West Virginia counties of Pocahontas and Randolph. The only way around the roadblock would be Y-chromosome DNA tests... so we are soliciting contributors - DNA sample - money donors.

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The Times They Are A Changin'

The following lyrics are from an old '60s song written and sung by Bob Dylan that could be representative of today for many.

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