Volume 11 , Issue 39

An Okie Legacy

This is what we know of last weeks old time football players in the photo on the left: "Pillow Top, manufactured by The Harry M. Muller Co., Mfgs of Photo Pillow Tops, 411-413 Montrose Ave., Chicago, Ill." 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?" Could this "148 CO" have reference to the "148th CAC CO?"

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148th Coast Artillery Corp WWI

The 148th Company of the Coast Artillery Corp (CAC) was in operation during WWI. The photo on the left shows a baseball team with the emblem of the 148th CAC on their shirts and equipment laying down front of the seated group of men.

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Bayfield, Colorado Heritage Day

In Bayfield, Colorado this Saturday morning about 9 o'clock in the morning the ewes and lambs were back traveling south on Buck highway, in Bayfield this year, as they make they fall trek to the valley pastures. The Heritage Day parade followed at 10:00 that same morning.

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Insight Into Grandpa Bill McGill

William Jacob (John) "Bill" McGill was born 29 June 1880. Bill played baseball in the Major (St. Louis Browns, 1907) and Minor (Austin Senators, 1906 ) Leagues. In his later life he encouraged sports in his two sons (Gene and Robert).

One of the Baseball leagues he played for was the St. Louis Browns around 1907. During and after his baseball days, he came back to Alva, Oklahoma (1909); married my grandmother in 1910; and continued in the furniture business with his Older brother (James Acel McGill, bachelor).

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1880 - Political Events

"War is Hell," said a U.S. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, who was 60 in 1880, in an address to a Columbus, Ohio, reunion of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic). Sherman went on to say, "There is many a boy here who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come."

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1880 - Human Rights & Social Justice

Tennessee's 1875 "Jim Crow" law was called unconstitutional by a Federal Circuit Court.

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1880 - Energy

Thomas Edison's 1879 incandescent bulb was patented [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1880 - Transportation

A pooling agreement signed February 2, 1880, resolved disputes among the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; the Union Pacific; the Kansas Pacific; and the Denver, Rio Grande and Western.

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1880 - Economics & Finance

Leadville, Colorado, storekeeper Horace "Hod" Tabor, 53, grubstakes two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions and ends up 10 months later owning silver mines including the Matchless that would earn him as much as $4 million per year. Tabor takes as his mistress the blonde, blue-eyed divorcee Elizabeth McCourt "Baby" Doe, 23, by buying off her previous protector. He divorced his wife and marries Baby Doe for whom he will build a Denver opera house and a mansion graced with nude statuary and 100 peacocks.

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1880 - Technology

A bush roller chain patented by Swiss engineer Hans Renold improved on the the James Slater drive chain of 1864. Renold had acquired Slater's small textile machine chain factory at Salford and had devised a chain with an arrangement of bushes that prodded a much greater load-bearing surface than did the Slater chain.

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1880 - Education

The University of Southern California was founded by educators who included Marion McKinley Bovard, 33, he became the university's first president.

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1880 - Communication & Media

Parcel Post service begins in Britain.

The first British telephone directory was issued January 15, 1880 by the London Telephone Co. It listed 255 names.

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1880 - Agriculture

Tenant farmers work 1/4 of U.S. farms, which number just over 4 million.

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

This week's insight into Grandma & John's letters brings us up to February 9 & 26, 1906, Alva, Oklahoma Territory.

February 9. 1906 -- John's short letter is handwritten in ink on The First National Bank letterhead, and begins, "Miss Constance Warwick, Connie, Okla. The envelope is addressed to Miss Constance Warwick, R.F.D., Alva, Okla.

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Inquiry - Tressie Lorene Paris Jordan

Mary Jordan Pollack says, "My mother's name is Tressie Lorene Paris. I am trying to trace her family for her 90th birthday party next month. This is a longshot but here goes. Her father's name was Albert Paris. Her mother's name was Maude Bell Franklin Paris. Her sisters were Lela Paris, Zella Paris, Mary Paris, Treila Paris and her twin sister Tessie Morene Paris. Tressie Lorene Paris was born on October 9, 1919, in Pratt, Kansas.

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Alva's WWII POW Camp

Marty says, "I am reading the book The Yard Dog by Sheldon Russell and the setting is the Alva POW camp and Waynoka Rail yards and Ice plant. I know I have seen information about Camp Alva on the OkieLegacy ezine letter but can't seen to find it. Can you help me? The book is great."

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Remembering September '43

Lou says, "In September 1943, my family was living on Mountain View Avenue, in Orange, NJ, awaiting the birth of your husband, David. Anita, our mother, had been hospitalized for some time. I think we visited her in August or September at a hospital out in the country. She had been in poor health with the pregnancy for some time during the summer and was finally hospitalized toward the end of her term.

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September 1943

James says, "Linda, you asked what we were doing in September 1943. This is what I was doing in Alfalfa County.

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