NW Okie's Journey
Our journey continues slowly on a good note as we await our three month checkup (mid-May) with our oncologist here in southwest Colorado. Walking With Sadie
It turned out to be a beautiful Spring like Monday kind of day here at the north end of Vallecito Lake, North of Bayfield, Colorado. But how long will it last? One Hundred Years Ago - 21 April 1914
This is a strange, but interesting story of a lady who was in a hypnotic condition at Romar's Drug Store, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, one hundred years ago, 21 April 1914. The story was found on the front page of The Daily Ardmoreite of that same year. The Great Commoner, Wm. J. Bryan (1907)
Have you ever heard of the Newspaper, The Commoner? Editor and Proprietor was Willliam J. Bryan, in Lincoln, Nebraska, 13 September 1907. 1907 In Oklahoma
This article, In Oklahoma, comes from the front page of The Commoner, dated 13 September 1907, a week before the new state of Oklahoma held its first election. Coronado Copper Company Held 1st Annual Meeting At Alva, O.T. (1905)
It was in the Clayton Enterprise, dated 29 September 1905, page 4, that mentioned the Coronado Copper Co. held its first annual meeting at Alva, Oklahoma Territory, on September 22, 1905, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and to attend to other business of welfare to the company. William Jennings Bryan (1860-July 26, 1925)
It was Bryan county, in Oklahoma that was named for the Populist Democrat, William Jennings Bryan. Willliam J. Bryan ran for president in three elections, garnering fewer votes each time he hid. Bryan was a powerful speaker that drew large crowds. He once spoke to an audience of 5000 when he was in Muskogee. The Early 1920s
It was the early 1920s we find social patterns were in chaos. Traditionalists (older Victorians) worried that everything valuable was ending. Then we have the younger Modernists no longer asking whether society would approve of their behavior.
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