Volume 14 , Issue 50

Duchess of Weaselskin

There was a Santa siting this last week at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir, North of Bayfield, Colorado. Two pugs and a schnauzer spotted this Santa positioned outside by our chimney as these watch-dogs stood on the top stoop of the front porch. Thank goodness that Sadie Pug's bark is not too scary, because Santa is still viewable at night at the base of our stone chimney. But . . . where were the treats for our best behavior, huh? No cookies either! And what about the milk? Bah humbug!

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100 Years Ago Today - 10 December 1912, Tuesday

One hundred years ago, Tuesday, 10 December 2012, we found in The Times dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia, this front page headline: "No Trafficking With Old Parties." Teddy Roosevelt was demanding fight on straight, progressive lines as he makes address to "Bull Moosers." Former President Theodore Roosevelt said, "No honest man can be in Republican party." He attempt to lure members of New Organization back to fold would be futile.

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NW Okie's Corner

[Photo on the left is a picture of my 2nd great grandmother, Eleanor Dever Gwin, mother to Signora Belle Gwin, my great grandmother.] - In the Rockbridge History of Virginia there is mention of John Gilmore (1700-1759), my 6th great grandfather, that was killed in an Indian raid 10 October 1759, along with four members of his family and five of the ten members of Robert Hamilton's (my 7th great grandfather) family were afterward slain. The Indians did not go any farther.

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1912 News - Conference Begins On Panama Canal

One hundred years ago December 9, 1912, in the Richmond, Virginia, The Times Dispatch, we find a small front page headline, "Conference Begins Today," concerning the effect of panama Canal on South, that would be discussed.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Strife With The Red Man

This week we bring you more history of Rockbridge County, Virginia from Oren F. Morton's book published back in the 190-1912 era. We continue with Chapter VIII with the "Strife With the Red man." Rockbridge was a vacant land when found and explored by the whites. But there have always been inhabitants in America since a day that makes the voyage of Columbus seem as but an occurrence of the last years. In the Western Hemisphere as in the Eastern, we may be sure that war, or pestilence, or some other catastrophe hd here and there emptied a region of its human occupants.

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On The Spur Of The Moment

In that same newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia, dated 10 December 1912, page four, we found this interesting little article concerning christmas shopping, as written by Roy K. Moulton, entitled, "On the Spur of the Moment."

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Factors In The Higher Cost of Living

A hundred years ago today they were talking about the factors in the higher cost of living. They were saying, "Much of the protest at the high cost of living comes from those who are themselves partly responsible for that condition."

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1912 - Feared American Wife

Also, one hundred years ago there was talk about the feared American wife as it pertained to German diplomats that married foreign women, American women. American women were paid a handsome left-handed compliment by the Kaiser in reviving Bismarck's decree that German diplomats shall not marry foreign women.

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Pity the School Teacher

Back in 1912 the modern school teacher must have been inwardly a wonderful and awesome creation. She was the vortex around which swirled all the perplexing currents of our confused society. She must have the versatility, plasticity and adaptability of genius to answer the demands made upon her brain and heart. Upon her shoulders, as upon Atlas's, rests the whole world. Is it the same as it was one hundred years ago?

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American Indian Archives At Oklahoma Historical Society

The Oklahoma Historical Society is an affiliated archives for the records of the Five Civilized Tribes: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indians, as well as the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. Affiliated Archives are public or non-profit archives that hold Federal records owned by the National Archives and provide the public access to the Federal records placed in their holdings.

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