Volume 14 , Issue 46

Duchess of Weaselskin

We remember all Veterans of all wars. We give them our support and thanks for their sacrifices!

NW Okie's Uncle Bob McGill (in the left & bottom photos) fought in WWII. My grand uncle, Robert Lee Warwick (picture in the photo, upper-right), enlisted with the Canadian forces, fighting in WWI, and came back a broken man.

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100 Years Ago Today - 12 November 1912

It was one hundred years ago today, 12 November 1912, Tuesday, that we find in The Democratic Banner, out of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, that the department of justice was making a strenuous effort to push as close to conclusion as possible all pending anti-trust prosecutions of the Taft administration for President-elect Wilson and his attorney general when they take the oath of office on March 4.

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NW Okie's Corner

I found this family history on the internet that mentions my Hull, Hohl, Diefenbach, Dyer, Kiester, Keister, paternal ancestors. It shows the timeline, chronological historical and genealogical research notes recorded while researching the paternal ancestors, descendants and collateral lines of David William BIRD (1901- ) Including the families of BIRD, BYRD, BIRT, BORDT, CALLAHAN, CURRY, DIEFENBACH, DYER, HULL, HOHL, KEISTER, KIESTER, RIDER, RYDER, RADER, READER, STEUART, STEWART, USHER, WENDEROTH, WINTEROTT. Compiled by: BILL DECOURSEY, New Brighton, MN 55112.

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1908 - Counter Charges Are Made By Bryan

In The Washington Times, dated Sunday, 27 September 1908, in Washington, we found this front page headline concerning President Theo. Roosevelt, Steel Trust Deal and counter charges being made by William Jennings Bryan. It was continued on page 2.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia

According to Oren Frederic Morton's 1912, The History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, the history of the upper valley of Virginia the European background is to be sought in the southwest of Scotland and the north of Ireland, in the Strathclyde and in Ulster, respectively. In each there were mountains, usually deforested and sometimes gaunt and gloomy, which were similar in height to the elevations rising above the floor of the Valley of Virginia. To learn more of the Valley of Virginia, we need to study more of the Scottish and Ulstermen of the British Isles.

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1901 - Teddy Roosevelt Takes Office After President Wm. McKinley's Death

This is a sketch of President Theodore Roosevelt that was displayed in a Washington, DC newspaper, The Colored American, page 5, dated 25 June 1904, with the following caption: "Enthusiastically endorsed at the Chicago Convention by a grateful republic, and beloved by ten-millions of Afro-Americans for his manly stand for human rights and equity of all citizens before the law, President Theo. Roosevelt will be triumphantly elected president in the Fall."

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Hooray For Bill McKinley - 1896 Campaign Song

This is a YouTube video of what might be President William McKinley's 1896 campaign song, "Hooray For Bill McKInley." It was considered the first moving images of a president. It was filmed on the front lawn of his Ohio home. McKinley is the fellow on the right.

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1907 Statehood Proclamation

The 1907 Statehood Proclamation By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation: Whereas, The congress of the United States did by an act approved June 16, 1906, provide that the inhabitants of the Territory of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory might, under and upon the conditions prescribed in said act, adopt a constitution and become the state of Oklahoma, and,

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