Volume 15 , Issue 9

Duchess of Weaselskin

This Duchess Pug has been doing a lot of laying around outside in a sunny dry spot soaking up the mid-40's to 50's degree temperatures here in southwest Colorado rockies during the daytime hours. My favorite past time, when NW Okie lets me.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 4 March 1913

It was one hundred years ago today, 4 March 1913, that The Evening Standard, a fearless, independent, progressive newspaper, out of Ogden City, Utah, Tuesday evening, reported in frontage headlines, "New president Inaugurated, Wilson Takes oath of Office."

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NW Okie's Corner

[Those listed in the 1909 Guthrie Senators, Upper L-R: Herman Leuttke, Clare Patterson, Bill McGill, Norman Rice, Clyde Geist, Tom Reed. Middle L-R: Red Davis, Tony Anderson, Howard Price, Ted Waring, Milton Pokorney. Seated L-R: floyd Willis, Jesse Clifton, Clarence Nelson.]

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia

As we continue our history of Rockbridge county, Virginia, by Oren F. Morton, we learn about the villages, hamlets and summer resorts of Rockbridge county, Virignia.

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Old NW Oklahoma Wedding Announcements

Alva Girl Is Married Saturday -- Mrs. Ivy Alexander, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. I. DeGeer, and Howard Dunning united in marriage at 6 o'clock Saturday morning, at home of bride's parents, 613 1/2 Barnes (Alva).

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The Negro In the early life of Oklahoma

It was during the Run 1889 that we find the negro life during pre-statehood of Oklahoma Territory where many negroes among those who were anxious to secure homes in the new territory of Oklahoma.

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NW Oklahoma Mysteries

Have you heard about the 1922 bluish-hellish flames that menaced a paralytic in northwest Oklahoma, in the community of Alva? It was thought to be another occurrence of spontaneous human combustion (SHC).

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Mysterious Blue Fires Threaten Woman's Life

In the New-York Tribune, 14 March 1922, page, 3, "Mysterious Blue Fires Threaten Woman's Life" was the headlines. As the newspaper reported, "Flames leaped out at intervals from clothing and bedding of invalid."

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Has Halifax Spook Moved To Oklahoma (1922)

In the Port Arthur Daily News, dated Monday, March 13, 1922, page 4, there was this headline: "Has Halifax Spook Moved to Oklahoma?"

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Flames Leap From Air (1922, Alva, Okla.)

On Roostweb site was the following: Friday, 17 Mar 1922, Vol 35, No 48, in Kathy's notes that she had transcribed it with as much legibility as she possibly could.

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