Volume 15 , Issue 17

NW Okie's Corner

[Photo image on the left is a picture of Bud and Lovina Clark ]

We all lost a very special lady last Wednesday, 24 April 2013, when Lovina Ellen Clark passed on. Lovina was born 25 December 1933, in Carmen, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Lovina (Bonewitz) and Jim Davis. She passed away at Beadles Nursing Home on the 24th day of April, at the age of 79 years, 3 months and 30 days.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 29 April 1913

One hundred years ago, 28 April 1913, as The Tulsa Daily World reported on the frontage headlines, 29 April 2013, Tuesday, "One Quarter Inch Lost For Oklahoma." It seems a Texas team won a thrilling track meet from the Sooner team that day.

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Duchess of Weaselskin

This Duchess Pug's unconditional Dog friendship, love and support goes out to my best of human friends, J. L. "Bud" Clark this week. He (We All) lost a special lady, Lovina Clark, Wednesday, 24 April 2013, when she passed away. We will miss her, but will remember those precious times we spent in their company when we were in Northwest Oklahoma.

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Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Suffragist (1847-1919)

Some Ninety-six years ago, 28th April 1917, the following information was found in The Day Book Dr. Anna H. Shaw, a noted suffragist, would be chosen to head the woman power of nation. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Three-Cent Postage Coming (1917)

Did you know that in 1917, or around that time, that the three-cent postage was making the scene around 1917? This information was also found the the 28 April 1917, newspaper, The Day Book, page 24, out of Chicago, Illinois.

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1917 - Western Suffragist Heads Thrift Campaign

Ever heard of Mrs. Walter Miller, chairman of the new National Suffrage Association thrift committee, who was so-operating with Herbert C. Hoover, head of the food board in the United States, in 1917, ending food wastage.

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1914 - Laidlaws Go West For Suffrage Fight

In The Day Book, dated March 19, 1914, page 31, out of Chicago, Illinois, we find this interesting article concerning another woman suffragist, Mrs. James L. Laidlaw, who had headed west for the suffrage fight happening in 1914.

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On This Day In History - 29 April (1429-1992)

On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

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