Volume 12 , Issue 45

Duchess & Sadie's Mtn Domain

Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour this last weekend, Saturday night, November 6, 2010? Did the extra hour add to your productivity in the days that followed? Is this whole Daylight Savings Time worth it?

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Methods of Cooking (cont.)

1934 Methods of Cooking continued from the 1934 Wrought Iron Range Home Comfort cookbook. Last week we promised you more methods of cooking. This week we bring you boiling, stewing, steaming and frying.

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NW Okie's R & R

With the return to Mountain Standard Time (MST) and an extra hour the beginning of November 2010, in the San Juans comes the Winter storm watches for the western slopes of Colorado.

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Obituary: Senator Ernest D. Martin (1921-2010)

Funeral Services for Senator Ernest D. Martin were held 10:00 A.M. Friday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Alton Fannin officiating. Interment followed to Rosehill Cemetery with military honors.

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This Day In History - November 8

* 1861 -- Trent Affairs (Civil War) Begins - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason and John Slidell. The incident turned into a major diplomatic crisis between Great Britain and the United States until the diplomats were released nearly two months later.

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1918 Standard Time Act

Standard time in time zones was not established in U.S. Law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act (a.k.a. Calder Act, (15 USC 264)). The act also established daylight saving time, itself a contentious idea.

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Daylight Saving Time

It was February 9, 1942, when Congress pushes ahead standard time for the United States by one hour in each time zone.

Daylight saving time, suggested by President Roosevelt, was imposed to conserve fuel, and could be traced back to World War I, when Congress imposed one standard time on the United States to enable the country to better utilize resources, following the European model.

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Old Pitts Family Photos

Here is Terry's mother's grandmother. They called her Big Mama. Her real name is Mattie Green Pitts. Green is her Cherokee Indian name. She was born on Indian Territory, Oklahoma.

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