The Okie Legacy: Duchess of Weaselskin 100 Years Ago Today - 17 September 1912 NW Okie's Corner Pendleton County, (West) Virginia 1913 Reapportionment Bill & Oklahoma News Notes Theo. Roosevelt Pledges New Laws For Working Men 1912 - Laughter Shakes Moose Hopes

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Volume 14 , Issue 38

2012

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Duchess of Weaselskin

It has been feeling a little bit like Fall around these parts. Is it because of the college football season starting up? Or is it the coolness in the air? Whatever it is I love this time of year! We got a good rain a few days ago. Hope it lasted long enough to travel to the drought stricken areas of the prairies & plains of Northwest Oklahoma.

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100 Years Ago Today - 17 September 1912

One hundred years ago today, Tuesday, 17th of September 1912, New-York Tribune, reported that the "Western States In Line For Taft." President Taft received encouraging reports from Ohio, Nebraska and various other sections. Negroes were turning to Taft because they deeply resented the treatment of their race in the third term convention and the attitude of its candidate.

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NW Okie's Corner

Since this an "Okie Legacy," let us go back to the 16th thru the 18th century, discovering a few facts about Oklahoma that some of you might never have known or have forgotten. The Oklahoma timeline begins with Spain, England and France claiming the area at different times during Oklahoma's history. Did you know that 14 flags (including those of four foreign nations) have flown over the territory that became Oklahoma?

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia

Through Oren Frederick Morton's book, History of Pendleton County West Virginia, we learn that no state suffered more severely from the effects of the four years war (civil war) than the Old dominion. There was general devastation all over.

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1913 Reapportionment Bill & Oklahoma News Notes

As reported on page 6 of the Farmers' Champion, 20 February 1913, out of Elgin, Oklahoma, it showed an image of a reapportionment bill of Oklahoma divided into eight districts.

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Theo. Roosevelt Pledges New Laws For Working Men

It was one hundred years ago, in The Washington Times, dated 17 September 1912, Tuesday, we find in an article written by Theodore Tiller about Teddy Roosevelt's pledging new laws for working men. The Bull Moose cheered Col. Roosevelt's statement that he would call special session of congress if he was elected.

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1912 - Laughter Shakes Moose Hopes

In a San Francisco, California, newspaper, Tuesday, 17 September 1912, The Call, the frontpage headlines read: "Laughter Shakes Moose Hopes, New Don Quixote Is Manhandled, Third Party Is Shown In True Light."

The sledge hammer blows delivered by John Maynard Harlan and impaled on the shafts of J. Adam Bede's ridicule, the Bull Moose was manhandled last night for the edification and intense amusement of a crowd that filled the National theater to overflowing.

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