Volume 13 , Issue 8

Duchess Snowy Domain

Boy Howdy! When the Lady of this house gets ready to pop corn in the popcorn popper, this Pugster and her sidekick, Sadie, are on the Lady's trail as she saunters to the movie popcorn machine upstairs. Most times I beat her up the stairs and sit up there waiting patiently for her to start the popping and let the popped kernels fly out so I can help pick them up off the floor. Yummy!

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This Day In History (February 21)

We found some interesting news items that made the news on this date in history. See below.

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NW Okie's R & R - The Good Old Days

This week we rummaged through our archives to bring forward some history of Jo Ben Whittenberg, Sr., and his baseball gloves and days during the early 1900's.

Whittenberg's granddaughter (Cathie) sent us a scanned image of J. Ben Whittenberg and his early baseball glove. She says, "I asked my brother to take a picture of Granddad's glove. Instead he scanned it, front and back, and scanned the only picture we have of our grandfather in his playing days. He took the three pictures and combined them into the digital image above."

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Unsolved Mystery On Old Avard Road (13/03/1956)

[Mildred Ann (Newlin) Reynolds photo on the left. On the right is a Map of Woods County, T25-R14W WIM, with a red X marking the spot of Mildred Ann Reynolds death.]

Darlene Haltom Dyer left the following comment concerning the "Unsolved Mystery of Mildred Ann Reynolds death, March 13, 1956. In our OkieLegacy newsletter, Vol. 5, Iss. 16 Darlene says:

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Home Comfort Range (1934) - Puff Pastry Recipes

This week we bring you some instructions for Puff Pastry that was made on the Wrought Iron Range and found in the 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook.

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1895 Sod School House

Dale Talkington found this 1895 old Sod School house at sfrazier77 Webshots, in Wild Wild West Vol. 3 of the Wild Wild West albums (Vol. 1 - 4). The Old Sod School house was located somewhere in Woods (M) County, Oklahoma Territory around 1895.

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Alva POW Camp

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German Prisoners Made Life Interesting

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Rummaging Through Family Memories

When you rummage through family boxes searching for your genealogy, you find many interesting items, news of the times they lived through. it says a lot about where you came from and what your ancestors lived through. [the photo on the left above is a digital of Great Grandma's bible with her signature, dated on the inside cover. The image on the right is a news clipping of Great grandma's obituary.]

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1934 Newspaper Ads -- Alva, OK

Hankin's Dairy was located east of the College as the 1934 Ad states. Also listed in the ad was something called "666 Liquid Tablets Salve & Nose Drops."

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The Salt Fork River of Oklahoma Territory

These were the headlines in an Alva, Oklahoma newspaper, dated November 23, 1934, Salt Fork River Once Full of Fish and Canoes Glided Up and Down State Stream. T. E. Beck, Jefferson gives us an interesting history of the body of water near Alva. Old name comes from Indians, he says after study.

The news article was printed in The Alva Daily Record, Alva, Oklahoma, Friday, November 23, 1934, Vol. 32, No. 276. The article is as follows below:

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