Volume 18 , Issue 9

NW Okie's Journey

Here it is another four years later and another "Leap Year!" This NW Okie was born four days before the 29th February, 1948. I know I was born early on that wintry morning in late February, 1948. My dad had to borrow a vehicle from a farm neighbor North of Waynoka, Oklahoma to get my mom to the hospital in Alva. Was it scheduled that way so I would not have the 29th of February as a birthdate?

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

In searching for information on NW Okie's grandpa Bill Mcgill's baseball stint with he St. Louis Browns back in 1907, we found the pitcher Mcgill cost the Browns $1,000 when they bought him from the South Texas League, Austin Senators back in 1907.

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Hull Family Crest & Origins

Description Surname: Hull This interesting surname has a number of possible origins. Firstly, it may be of English locational origin from one of the places thus called, for example in Cheshire, Somerset, and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The place names are recorded respectively as "Hulle" in the "Inquisitiones Post Mortem" (1283), as "Hilla" in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as "Hul" in the Early Yorkshire Charters (1156).

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Leap Year, Feb. 29, 1892

According to the Mckinney, Texas newspaper, The Democrat, dated 10 March 1892, Thursday, page 2, we found this mention of "A New Feature About Leap Year," written by the Editor of "The Democrat."

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1896 History of Leap Year

The St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, dated 12 January 1896, Sunday, page 19, reported on "The History of Leap Year.

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1907 - Lord Costs The Browns Just $15

Let us talk early 1900s baseball, especially about the "St. Louis Browns." The St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, dated 24 March 1907, Sunday, page 12, reported the following headlines: "Lord Costs The Browns Just $15." Fouls off dozen new balls into bleachers and over the stand.

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1907 - Suppose Train Were Wrecked With Browns Or Cardinals Aboard!

Via the San Antonio, Texas newspaper, March 23, 1907, the following appeared in The St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, dated 24 March 1907, Sunday, page 12, with the following headlines: "Suppose Train Were Wrecked With Browns Or Cardinals Aboard!" Hudson and Robison are carrying insurance policies to cover all money value in stars.

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