Volume 14 , Issue 28

Duchess of Weaselskin

The last few days we have been experiencing an early monsoon weather in Southwest Colorado, where the afternoons are formed, filled with much needed rain showers around this neck of the woods.


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100 Years Ago Today - 9 July 1912

One hundred years ago today, in The Democratic Banner, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Tuesday, July 9, 1912, we find the headlines, August 5 Is The Date for the "Bull Moose" convention in Chicago, Illinois. Back one hundred years ago political issues were calling for a third party convention as the doors were thrown open to all.

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NW Okie's Corner

The day after the 4th of July, we set our video camera on time-lapse to capture the hummingbirds who were taking in sweet nectar from the hummingbird feeder outside our living room window, Thursday morning.

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Pendleton County, (West) Virginia - Before White Man Came

This week we continue our history of Virginia by moving to Pendleton county, West Virginia. The History of Pendleton County, Virginia is written in 1917 or around there by Oren Frederic Morton, the author of the History of Highland County Virginia. The image on the left shows the county of Pendleton, West Virginia highlighted in red. Pendleton county was thought to have been named for Edmund Pendleton, a Virginia statesmen and jurist.

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Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925)

Who was Thomas Riley Marshall besides being an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under President Woodrow Wilson?

In the July 9, 1912, newspaper, The Democratic Banner, page 2, we find a feature concerning Thomas Riley Marshall, the Democratic candidate for vice president. Marshall was born at North Manchester, Indiana, March 4, 1854. His father was Daniel M. Marshall and his mother was Martha A. Patterson.

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1912 - Teddy Roosevelt Denounces Anti-Trust Law

It was in Oyster Bay, New York, 6 July 1912, that Theodore Roosevelt repeated his attack upon the platforms of the two great parties, which he considered radically wrong. What his own platform was to be in the 1912 campaign, he said he hopes to be able to announce within a week or two. Roosevelt's utterance indicated a tentative return to "the new nationalism" and the familiar gospel preached at Osawatomie, Kansas, in 1910.

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Bryan Back Home and Makes Speech (1912)

In that same newspaper, The Democratic Banner, dated 9 July 1912, page 2, we found this article concerning William Jennings Bryan made in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 6, 1912, concerning Bryan being back home and making speeches about the Republican convention.

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1900 - Muskogee People Think Dennis Flynn Is Looking For Trouble

On 7 August 1900, page 8, of The Guthrie Daily Leader, there was a story that proclaimed that the honorable Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma was looking for trouble. What was this trouble Flynn was looking for?

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1920 Meal Ticket Patriots of Oklahoma Politics

Have you ever heard of the "Meal Ticket Patriots" of the 1920's of Oklahoma Politics? Who were they and how did they influence Oklahoma politics? This article was found in the Durant Weekly News, dated 24 September 1920, page 11, Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

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