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Spring of 1945

This week takes us back to 1947 with a short stop (or memory jog) in the Spring of 1945. We hope you remembered your "Mother" this weekend with something special for Sunday, May 8th, Mother's Day. AND... while you are remembering your mothers, let us not forget the 60th Anniversary of VE-Day - the Allied Victory in Europe, May 8, 1945.

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May Day at Wolf Creek Pass...

Last Sunday we took a drive up towards Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado to see the snow in the mountains [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


Williams, Mowdy, Denton & LeFlore County, OK...

"I have been roaming the 'net' and found some information on the WILLIAMS and MOWDY families from Leflore Co., Oklahoma, in and around Smithville, Ludlow, and Octavia.

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1937-38 Kemper Military Photos...

We recently found, scanned some of our Uncle Bob's (McGill) Old Kemper Military School Pics that were among Uncle Bob's treasure chest AND... Kemper military days in Booneville, Missouri back in the years 1936 thru 1938. This picture shown here is one of Bob's buddies, Willie Gibbens, that played in a "swing band" aboard the ship "Europa" during the "Summer of '38."

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Alva Golf & Country Club...

"I have fond childhood memories of the Alva Municipal Golf Course on Flynn Street. I was born in a house across the street from it. The golf course figured in a ten second of Andy Warhol fame moment for me. In 1998 I entered the Favorite Poem Contest sponsored by Robert Pinsky the Poet Laureate of the United States. He asked for folks to write about their favorite poem and if selected, read it on audiotape for inclusion in the archives of the Library of Congress.

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60 Years Ago - May, 1945...

With the talk of the 60th Anniversary of VE Day - May 8, 1945, it sent us back through Uncle Bob's WWII Timeline to get a perspective of where he was around the end of April & May of 1945 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


WARRICK/WARWICK Researcher...

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History of Mother's Day...

Did you ever wonder "WHY" we celebrate "Mother's Day?" One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship - which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus - was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world from there.

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Kentucky Derby History...

"The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race currently covers one and one-quarter miles (2.012 km) at Churchill Downs; colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg), fillies 121. The race, known as The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports for its approximate time length, is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in the United States .....

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VE Day - May 8, 1945...

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Businesses In Alva, Okla. - May, 1947...

Some of you out there might remember some memories of some of these businesses that could be found in the Alva (Oklahoma) area, around May 1947:

  • Rialto Cafe
  • Tony's Cafe
  • Babcock's Cafe
  • Coffman's Cafe
  • Wright's Cafe
  • Shorty's Cafe
  • The National Farm Loan Ass'n of Alva
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    1947 - Wrecks Kill Two Collegians...

    Taken from The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947 - Oklahoma City, May (UP) -- "Two college students returning home for the weekend were killed in automobile accidents last night and early today to raise Oklahoma's May traffic total above the month's record last year [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    1947 - Smoking Method Developed for Administering Penicillin...

    Back in May, 1947 by way of Rochester, NY (UP) and The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, A NEW revolutionary and more pleasant method of administering penicillin by "smoking" rather than injection, had been perfected by two University of Rochester medical school faculty members [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    1947 - Debt Reduction Due...

    Also in that same Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, by way of Washington, (UP) -- "The Treasury announced today it will reduce the public debt another $1,000,000,000 (B) on June 1 by retiring that amount of maturing securities with cash [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    1947 - New Food 'Ice Age' Believed on Way....

    From The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947 and Chicago, (UP) -- "The Frozen Foods Association of Chicago predicts a new ice age when the future housewife can serve venison, whale meat and enchilladas as easily as bread butter and coffee [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    1947 - Oil Companies Step Up Daily Production...

    Does this sound familar! In The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, New York, May (UP) -- "Oil companies of the nation have stepped up their overall daily production of crude petroleum to a record high or more than 5,000,000 barrels in a heroic effort to avert a threatened shortage of gasoline this summer and of fuel oil next winter [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    MOM - Job Description...

    POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mama, Mommy, Ma

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


    1947 - New Streamliner Starts Schedule Here June 8...

    One of the headlines in The Alva Reveiw-Courier dated 21 May 1947 was, New Streamliner Starts Schedule Here June 8 - Beginning June 8 (1947), a new diesel-powered streamliner "Grand Canyon" will replace the present train now making the run through Alva from Chicago, ILL., to Los Angeles, Calif., it was announced today.

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    MORE McGILL Relatives...

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    1947 - Civil Service Needs Inspector Jobs Filled...

    Back to the era of May, 1947, the U. S. Civil Service commission announced that Meat inspector, livestock inspector, and virus-serum inspector were needed. That is what the small article in The Alva Review-Courier, newspaper, dated 21 May 1947 stated:

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