Volume 11 , Issue 38

NW Okie's Corner

The photo to the left is a picture of two football players with the following info on the backside: "Pillow Top, manufactured by The Harry M. Muller Co., Mfgs of Photo Pillow Tops, 411-413 Montrose Ave., Chicago, Ill." It also states, "Stick on back of photo, Size - 18x18; color - blue; copies - 1; Agents Name - Phillips; ship by mail; town & state - San Francisco, Cal.; remarks - Zenobia satin. The football has "Pug Ugly Twins" written on it. Is the writing on the backside of photo, at the bottom "(either 104 or P04) Kanis 148 CO?" What is the symbol on the shirt of the player on the left?

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This week's letters from John C. McClure brings us into January 4th, 8th & 23rd, 1906 with three letters from John. John is still doing accounting at the First National Bank, in Alva, Oklahoma Territory and Constance is teaching in one room rural school. John's father and sister were in Oklahoma Territory in the Capron, Oklahoma area visiting, but John had not had time to visit with them because accounting work at the bank was keeping him busy.

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Origin of Paris Family Name

Paris is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname that came from the Saxon tribe called Parisii who originally lived beside the Humber river in Lincolnshire.

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Remembering September 1943

What were your ancestors doing around the 12th of September 1943? NW Okie was not born yet. Not even a twinkle in my parents eye, but my older sister Dorthy was 12 days old!

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1943 - Northwestern Normal & Sabin C. Percefull

Young in Years, Percefull has long record at Northwestern - Sabin C. Percefull is counted one of the old-timers around Northwestern State College, having been connected with the college since before the outbreak of WWI.

In 1915 Percefull came to Northwestern to teach physics and chemistry, spending two years as a faculty member before the US entry into the war. He entered the army and served in the chemical warfare division for two years. After the war he returned to Alva and taught economics before succeeding to the deanship.

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The Western Normal College - by The Pilgrim Bard

The Pilgrim Bard, O. Scott Cummin, was living at Winchester, Oklahoma Territory. He wrote and dedicated the following musing May 12, 1903, page 39, Pilgrim Bard's poem about Northwestern Normal School - "The Western Normal College"

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2009 - 116th Anniversary Cherokee Strip Celebration

Roy in Perry, Oklahoma says, "Yesterday (Tuesday, September 15, 2009) saw the opening of the Noble County Fair and the beginning of our celebration of the 116th anniversary of the Cherokee Strip Land-run.

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William J. Magill of South Carolina & Georgia

This is not NW Okie's Magill, but Glen Baldwin, of Wilmington, DE 19880-0025 - EMAIL: glen.s.baldwin@usa.dupont.com, is inquiring, "If you have any information on a William J. Magill, a gentleman I am researching for a history project. I have this information on his history and am looking for a family connection who may have a picture of him.

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The Scot Family of NE Kansas

James Bradley writes, "Where I live here in NE Kansas is the homestead of a Scott family. They came directly from Scotland in 1870 and purchased the farm from an early day real estate broker. The house is built from limestone quarried on a pasture hill to the northeast of the house.

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1882 - Memories & Energy

Many things happened in 1882! It was October 20, 1882, that a young girl, an oldest child was born in Monterey, Virginia to John Robert and Signora Belle (Guinn) Warwick. Eleven years later, 1893 John and Signora Warwick packed up their young family (Constance, 11 years, and Robert, 6 years) and moved westward settling in the Coldwater, Kansas area where John R. Warwick taught school while waiting for the Oklahoma Run of 1893.

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1882 - Politcal Events

1882 - Politcal Events -- Ireland's Charles Stewart Parnell and his associates were released from Kilmainham Prison May 2, 1882 after agreeing to stop boycotting landowners, to cooperate with the Liberal Party, and to stop inciting Irishmen to intimidate tenant farmers from cooperating with landlords.

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1882 - Medicine

1882 - Medicine -- The tuberculosis bacillus was discovered by Robert Koch who established that the disease was communicable. Koch's findings along with those of many other bacteriologists would lead physicians to believe that certain diseases such as beriberi were caused by bacteria rather than by dietary deficiencies.

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1882 - Transportation

1882 - Transportation -- The St. Gothard tunnel that opened May 20, 1882 was the first great railroad tunnel through the Alps.

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1882 - Human Rights & Social Justice

1882 - Human Rights & Social Justice -- Brtain's Married Women's Property Act was passed by Parliament following efforts by women's rights champion Richard Marsden Pankhurst, whose widow Emmeline would campaign for woman suffrage after his death in 1898.

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1882 - Education

1882 - Education -- Oscar Wilde arrived in New York in January and said, "I have nothing to declare by my genius [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1882 - Communications & Media

1882 - Communications & Media -- Western Electric Manufacturing Company of Boston won a contract February 6, 1882 to produce telephones for the Bell Company. Publisher Charles Scribner had invested in the company that the Bell Company would acquire.

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1882 - Crime

1882 - Crime -- Jesse James dies April 3, 1882 at age 34 of a gunshot wound in the back of the head. A fugitive since the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery attempt of 1876, James had been living quietly at St. Joseph, Missouri, under the name Thomas Howard. The governor had offered a large reward for the capture of James dead or alive, James had befriended fellow outlaw Robert Ford, who had shot him to get the reward, and his murder inspired a ballad that would make future generations regard James as a Robin Hood figure.

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1882 - Agriculture

1882 - Agriculture -- Drought continues on western U.S. ranchlands.

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1882 - Immigration

1882 - Immigration -- U.S. immigration from Germany reached its peak. The first U.S. cacti restricting general immigration was passed by congress. The new law excluded convicts, paupers, and defectives and it imposed a head tax on immigrants.

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