Volume 9 , Issue 51

1st Day of Winter 2007

How's this weekend and the first day of Winter, weatherwise, turning out for your Christmas traveling in your neck of the woods? Have you spotted any great Christmas decorations this week? Any gigantic snow drifts?

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The Stuffed Christmas Pug

Sadie and myself, Duchess, would like to publicly give a special "Thank-You" to some Harper, Kansas four-legged animals and their Master, Rosalea, for the Christmas card and stuffed Christmas Pug that they sent to "The Girls (Duchess & Sadie)."

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1906 Woods County Atlas Reprint

The Waynoka Historical Society and the Major County Historical Society have accomplished a joint project of having the 1906 Standard Atlas of Woods County reprinted [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Francis P. Church's 1897 Editorial

"Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" was an immediate sensation in 1897 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Love, Generosity, Hope & Santa Claus

How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

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Pioneer Porter C. Burge - Hopeton, OK

This is another Northwest Oklahoma Territory pioneer that settled around Hopeton, Oklahoma (about 7 miles South of Alva) [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

This is the famous 1897 Editorial Page that appeared in the New York Sun. Is there anyone out there that remembers this famous editorial letter? Do you still believe in what Santa Claus stands for -- Love, Generosity, Hope & Faith in those things you can not see?

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Pioneer George W. Wood - Cherokee, OK

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Pioneer Sandor J. Vigg - Alva, OK

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Old Alva Roller Mill & Hackler

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Where Was Skyer, OK? Beaver County?

"Has anyone every heard of Skyer, OK and where is it? On the newly released 1890 Census of Oklahoma, Skyer is listed as my father's birthplace and he was born in Beaver County in 1889 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Oklahoma Sightseeing

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Stella Academy & Alva Roller Mill

"My grandfather name was George Wallace DuBois and he attendent the Stella School in the years 1899 to 1902 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Pioneer Rev. Samuel H. Raudebaugh

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WWII POW Camp at Windfall, Indiana

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Oklahoma Independent History & Genealogy

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Icy Weather In Oklahoma

"Our weekend snow in Perry, Oklahoma began Saturday with a misty rain changing to tiny snowflakes [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Roy's Contributions

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Pioneer Omer Schnoebelen - Mooreland, OK

Some of you out there in Northwest Oklahoma near Mooreland, Oklahoma might remember the surname of Schnoebelen connected with the Mooreland Leader newspaper [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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