Volume 14 , Issue 37

Duchess of Weaselskin

I can not believe it is September, 2012, already! How time flies when you grow older . . . are we having fun yet? And College fantasy football has started already! NW Okie for the past couple of weeks has been holding LAST place pretty darn good. I told her she needed this Duchess Pug to do her picks, but . . . No! She won't have any part of that! We shall see, though!

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100 Years Ago Today - 10 September 1912

What was going on one hundred years ago today? According to The Evening standard, a fearless, independent, progressive newspaper out of Ogden City Utah, Tuesday evening, 10 September 1912, some of the headlines show us that "Polls Open In Colorado," "Roosevelt In Seattle," "Lemon Prices Go Skyward Today," Journalist Dies By His Own hand," and "Primaries Being Held."

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NW Okie's Corner

As we scour the historic newspaper for bits of genealogy in search of our ancestry, we found the following in the historic American newspapers for Highland Recorder, out of Monterey, Highland county, Virginia, 16th, 23rd & 30th of August 1907, concerning Martin Dever (dec'd ) and a public filing of his administrator, Charles P. Jones vs. Samuel G. Dever and others.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia - Period of Interstate War

The period of interstate war in the History of Pendleton County, West Virginia by Oren Frederick Morton, published around 1910, it tells the story of Pendleton during the great upheaval of 1861.

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Warwick Castle of Warwick, England

In searching through historic newspapers for mention of our Warwick surname we found an interesting feature concerning the "Warwick Castle" of England, printed in the Alexandria Gazette, dated 25th of November 1910, via San Francisco, Nov. 12th (1912). Other than the Warwick name, I have found no ancestral connection to the Warwick Castle.

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Populism & Progressivism

The 1890's and early 1900's saw the establishment of the Populist and Progressive movements. Both were based on the people's dissatisfaction with government and its inability to deal effectively in addressing the problems of the day.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Re-election Campaign - 1936

This is a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) during his reelection campaign in 1936. In FDR's case, the Republicans were claiming they could create and manage the social programs FDR was fostering better than FDR himself.

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