Volume 17 , Issue 46

NW Okie's Journey

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas to some and Happy Holidays to others! They say we have some snow coming in this evening through Wednesday with sunshine pushing through on Saturday and Sunday for our parts of Southwest Colorado. And . . . Winter begins tomorrow! How appropriate, huh?!

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie (Dawg)

With Christmas just around the corner we searched online through Newspapers.com for the September 21, 1897, of The Sun and Editor, Francis Pharcellus Church's answer to Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking the Editor if there was a Santa Claus.

The Sun, New York, dated September 21, 1897, page 6, the Santa Claus Editorial was the most quoted by other newspapers over the past years. If one lets the heart judge, the greatest and most famous editorial ever published.

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Christmas In the Days of 1864

It was in The Farmer and Mechanic, Raleigh, North Carolina, dated 24 December 1907, Tuesday, page 6, we found this and many other Christmas stories: "In the Days of '64 (1864), The Last Christmas of the Southern Confederacy."

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"A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore

Have you ever heard this famous poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," written many years ago, but popularity never waned? This poem appeared again in The Farmer and Mechanic of Raleigh, North Carolina, 24 December 1907, Tuesday, page 6.

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Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York

Searching back to 26 January 1901, Saturday, page 5, of "The Courier-Journal," Louisville, Kentucky, was this article: "Handsome Edition of An American Classic."

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1915 - Unpublished Letters of Washington Irving

The New York Times, New York, New York, dated 17 October 1915, Sunday, page 58, had the following article: "Unpublished Letters of Washington Irving." Many never before in print appear in his correspondence with Henry Brevoort, telling of Walter Scott, Dolly Madison, and other celebrities.

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1909 - Knickerbocker's Centenary

The following information was found in The New York Times, New York, New York, 26 August 1909, Thursday, page 8, with the "Knickerbocker's Centenary."

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