Volume 13 , Issue 38

Duchess of Weaselskin

A few days ago (September 15, 2011) the mountains above 9000 feet elevation in the San Juans of Southwest Colorado, received 4 to 5 inches of snow while the rest of us below that elevation received some much needed rain most of last week. Did NW Okie get some of that rain and moisture blown to Oklahoma and Kansas? I heard Southern Oklahoma got 2-inches of rain last week. Hope the farm ponds are looking wetting!

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This Day In History (September 18 & 19)

On September 18, 1947, the National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force, went into effect. Go to Article

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NW Okie's Corner

I was shuffling through some old papers of my grandmother's this last week and found a couple of letters written in pencil and sent to my Great Grandpa, J. R. Warwick, in September 1917, February 1918 and September 1923. I have scanned those letters and tried to darken the lighter ones for easier viewing.

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How to Embed MP3 Audio Files In Web Pages

For those who did not catch the late update of how we embedded the MP3 files into our newsletter last week we have included the embed tag that we used below.

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Old Time Radio (OTR)

Old Time Radio (OTR) was a time of the "Golden Age of Radio" which refers to a period of radio broadcasting in the early 1920's until television's replacement of radio became the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950's.

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The Shadow Radio Drama

The unmistakable introduction from The Shadow radio program has earned a place in the American idiom: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" AND . . . While you were sitting in front of your radio, were you reminded to, "Don't that dial!"?

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WWII Lost Film of August, 1945

Ellis shared this link with us that he found of a spontaneous victory parade in Honolulu in 1945. How do you think this young lady felt when she discovered the movie her father had shot back in August, 1945, along Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki.

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Don't Touch That Dial

Remember these words: "Don't Touch that dial!" . . . "From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!"

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