Volume 15 , Issue 1

Duchess of Weaselskin

As the sunsets in Southwest Colorado, on the turn of a new year 2013, we find our weather at a sunny, calm, chilly broadcast for the last few days, with it looking like that for this next week before another Arctic blast hits through here next weekend.

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100 Years Ago Today - 7 January 1913

One hundred years ago today in The Tacoma Times dated 7 January 1913, page eight, we find this article copyrighted by Herbert Quick in 1913, "On Board the Good Ship Earth." It was considered to be an continued daily great series.

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NW Okie's Corner

We have ventured a week into a new year with January, 2013, bringing with it a sunny, calm, chilly Winter covering us until another Arctic front awaits in the wing here in Southwest Colorado. Let us turn our journey to doing some webpage updating of The Okie Legacy to begin 2013. Okie Legacy gets a New look and purging of some old files!

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - War For Independence

In chapter XI of Oren F. Morton's book, History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, we learn of Rockbridge county and its part in the war for independence. We also learn the causes of the war; the Fincastle and Augusta Resolutions; Virginia in the Revolution; campaign of 1781; and Pensioners.

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1913 - Pope Pius Urges Peace Pact

In the 7 January 1913 newspaper, The Tacoma Times, out of Olympia, Washington, and on page eight, we find the article release by United Press leased Wire, Rome, Jan. 7, 1913, about the Pope Pius urging a peace pact to the European ambassadors who were holding conversations in London.

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Ghirardelli Sons Dies

In the Virginia Gazette, page 3, we found this article concerning Edward Ghirardelli, son of millionaire chocolate manufacturer of San Francisco (Ghirardelli) committed suicide at the Hotel Portland, in Portland, Oregan.

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Reasoning On Statehood (Oklahoma Territory)

As we were cleaning, digging through old files of The OkieLegacy, we found this Friday, 23 November 1904, article that appeared on the frontage of The Alva Weekly Courier, Vol. 9, No. 22, Alva, Oklahoma Territory (O.T.), titled "Reasoning ON Statehood.

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Salt Fork (Nescatunga) River

From the archives of the past The OkieLegacy, we found another interesting history of the body of water Salt Fork River (Old name, Nescatunga River, comes from Indians, T. E. Beck of Jefferson says after study) near Alva Oklahoma. It was printed in The Alva Daily Record. Alva, Oklahoma, Friday, November 23, 1934, Vol. 32, No. 276.

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NW Oklahoma Marriages Of 1941

Here are some other OkieLegacy archives we found while doing our Winter cleaning. It gives a list of marriages of 1941 back during the beginning of World War II.

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