Volume 11 , Issue 36

Duchess & Sadie's Domain

Well! College football has arrived. Oklahoma State (OSU) beat Georgia 24-10 at home in the new Pickens OSU Stadium, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. BYU beat Oklahoma University (OU) 14-13 this last Saturday, September 5, 2009, when Sam Bradford, OU's Heisman Trophy quarterback, suffered joint strain to his shoulder when Bradford got pounded into the ground. Let us hope that the time out will be short for Bradford and OU football.

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

This week's 1905 letter from John C. McClure to Miss Constance Warwick takes us to October. I could not make out the exact date in October 1905, because part of the postmark was destroyed when Constance tore open the end of the envelope.

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Okie Tourist Website

Regina says, "Hi! I?ve been a reader of your site for many years [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (2 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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A Kinney Connection

I do not have an email for Sharon Arrington, who signed our OkieLegacy guestbook, but Sharon says, "My grandfather was born in Alva, in 1898 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Operation Blue Book & Area 51

Roy says, "This is proof that there was an 'Operation Blue Book', an "Area '51", and sightings of (so called) flying saucers [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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What Big Ears She Has ...

SBW of Weaselskin Creek, in SW Colorado says, "My, what big ears she has [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1914 Political Events

A World War begins in Europe July 28 one month after the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne in Bosnia. Riding in a 1912 Graf und Stift motorcar at Sarajevo, the 52 year old Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed by tubercular high school student Gavrilo Prinzip who had been hired by Servian terrorists to kill the nephew of the emperor Franz Josef.

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1914 Human Rights & Social Justice

The Ludlow massacre April 20, 1914 climaxed a struggle by Colorado coal miners struggling for recognition of their United Mine Workers union. a battle with state militia near Trinidad ended with 21 dead including two women and 11 children caught in tents that had been set ablaze, angry strikers took possession of the Colorado coalfields, and they did not yield until federal troops moved in June 1, 1914.

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1914 Economics, Finance & Retailing

Remember when the minimum wage was $5-PER-DAY? We have come along way since those days of 1914, huh?

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1914 Transportation

Rembember the Stutz Bearcat, Pierce-Arrow and the Dodge Brothers of Michigan? They were all before my time, but those times backt then had some great names for Cars, huh?

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1914 Communications & Media

The teletype machine introduced by German-American inventor Edward E [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1914 Everyday Life

It was about 95 years ago that the elastic brassiere would supplant the corset that was in common use. The elastic brassiere was patented in November 1914 by Mary Phelps Jacob who was a New York debutante, who devised the prototype bra with her French maid before a dance, using two pocket handkerchiefs, some pink ribbon, and thread.

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1914 Agriculture

95 years ago the U.S. ranchers herded their cattle with Model T. Fords.

AND ... U.S. farmhands begin annual migrations north from Texas, traveling in Model T. Fords and harvesting crops as they ripen up to the Canadian border.

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1914 Sports

Chicago's Wrigley Field was completed at a cost of $250,000 for the Chicago Cubs by local restaurateur Harry Weeghman who would sell the ballpark to chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., in 1919.

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