Volume 16 , Issue 9

NW Okie's Journey

How is everyone doing surviving the wintry snow storm of this last weekend? We escaped the snow at Vallecito Lake, 1 March 2014, when we headed towards Houston, Texas via Albuquerque, El Paso and San Antonio, along Interstate 10. We arrived in Houston the afternoon on Monday, 3 March 2014.

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Walking With Sadie

Well, wouldn't you know it. NW Okie goes to head south towards Houston, Texas and leaves this Sadie Pug in the snowy mountains of Southwest Colorado. And all she sent me back was this image of the Houston skyline taken looking East at the Texas Medical Center.

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Painting From WWII POW Camp @ Jerome, Arkansas

Brenda came across a painting that was painted for my dad by a German officer in 1945, and sent us an image file of a landscape painting done by a German officer and prisoner of war in 1945 at the Jerome, Arkansas POW Camp during World War II (WWII). The transcription on the back of the painting (on the right) reads: "Painted 1945 for B. J. Kerley, German POW Camp, Jerome, Ark., Painted by a German Officer."

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100 Years Ago - 4 March 1914

Anadarko, Oklahoma, Wednesday, 4 March 1914, The Daily Democrat frontage headlines: The Gentle Jury, was about a play that was faithfully practiced and prepared the suffragette farce for the benefit of the Presbyterian Social Union as they did their parts well Tuesday evening, 3 March 1914.

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1914 - Votes Or Fight, Women's Threat

On 4 March 1914, Wednesday in a news article that appeared in The Washington Herald, Washington, DC, there were headlines, Votes Or Fight, Women's Threat, which the suffragist was telling the House Democrats: 'Remember Ides of November.' Also Antis opposed methods. And ... the Judiciary Committee granted full hearing to both sides on suffrage amendment.

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The New Deal (3/4/1933)

ay some will remember back to 1933, March 4, when President Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office to become the 32nd president of the United States of America. The country was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history, with the onset of the Great depression initiated by the crash of the stock market in the Fall of 1929, and over $75 billion in equity capital had been lost on Wall Street. FDR's Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born into an upperclass family in Hyde Park, New York, in 1882, the fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, who served as the 26th U.S. President from 1901 to 1909.

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Arkansas, Hattie Caraway, WWII & Etc...

Arkansas changed the political climate of wartime America with their advances in women's rights. It was from 1931-1945 when Arkansas elected the first woman to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate with Hattie Caraway.

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