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The photo to the left is a picture of two football players with the following info on the backside: "Pillow Top, manufactured by The Harry M. Muller Co., Mfgs of Photo Pillow Tops, 411-413 Montrose Ave., Chicago, Ill." It also states, "Stick on back of photo, Size - 18x18; color - blue; copies - 1; Agents Name - Phillips; ship by mail; town & state - San Francisco, Cal.; remarks - Zenobia satin. The football has "Pug Ugly Twins" written on it. Is the writing on the backside of photo, at the bottom "(either 104 or P04) Kanis 148 CO?" What is the symbol on the shirt of the player on the left? Remembering September 1943
What were you/your ancestors doing around the 12th of September 1943? NW Okie was not born yet. Not even a twinkle in my parents eye, but my older sister Dorthy was 12 days old! 2009 - 116th Anniversary Cherokee Strip Celebration
Roy in Perry, Oklahoma says, "Yesterday (Tuesday, September 15, 2009) saw the opening of the Noble County Fair and the beginning of our celebration of the 116th anniversary of the Cherokee Strip Land-run. 1882 - Memories & Energy
Many things happened in 1882! It was October 20, 1882, that a young girl, an oldest child was born in Monterey, Virginia to John Robert and Signora Belle (Guinn) Warwick. Eleven years later, 1893 John and Signora Warwick packed up their young family (Constance, 11 years, and Robert, 6 years) and moved westward settling in the Coldwater, Kansas area where John R. Warwick taught school while waiting for the Oklahoma Run of 1893. 1882 - Transportation
1882 - Transportation -- The St. Gothard tunnel that opened May 20, 1882 was the first great railroad tunnel through the Alps. 1882 - Communications & Media
1882 - Communications & Media --
Western Electric Manufacturing Company of Boston won a contract February 6, 1882 to produce telephones for the Bell Company. Publisher Charles Scribner had invested in the company that the Bell Company would acquire. 1882 - Immigration
1882 - Immigration -- U.S. immigration from Germany reached its peak. The first U.S. cacti restricting general immigration was passed by congress. The new law excluded convicts, paupers, and defectives and it imposed a head tax on immigrants. |
This week's letters from John C. McClure brings us into January 4th, 8th & 23rd, 1906 with three letters from John. John is still doing accounting at the First National Bank, in Alva, Oklahoma Territory and Constance is teaching in one room rural school. John's father and sister were in Oklahoma Territory in the Capron, Oklahoma area visiting, but John had not had time to visit with them because accounting work at the bank was keeping him busy. 1943 - Northwestern Normal & Sabin C. Percefull
Young in Years, Percefull has long record at Northwestern - Sabin C. Percefull is counted one of the old-timers around Northwestern State College, having been connected with the college since before the outbreak of WWI. William J. Magill of South Carolina & Georgia
This is not NW Okie's Magill, but Glen Baldwin, of Wilmington, DE 19880-0025 - EMAIL: glen.s.baldwin@usa.dupont.com, is inquiring, "If you have any information on a William J. Magill, a gentleman I am researching for a history project. I have this information on his history and am looking for a family connection who may have a picture of him. 1882 - Politcal Events
1882 - Politcal Events -- Ireland's Charles Stewart Parnell and his associates were released from Kilmainham Prison May 2, 1882 after agreeing to stop boycotting landowners, to cooperate with the Liberal Party, and to stop inciting Irishmen to intimidate tenant farmers from cooperating with landlords. 1882 - Human Rights & Social Justice
1882 - Human Rights & Social Justice -- Brtain's Married Women's Property Act was passed by Parliament following efforts by women's rights champion Richard Marsden Pankhurst, whose widow Emmeline would campaign for woman suffrage after his death in 1898. 1882 - Crime
1882 - Crime -- Jesse James dies April 3, 1882 at age 34 of a gunshot wound in the back of the head. A fugitive since the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery attempt of 1876, James had been living quietly at St. Joseph, Missouri, under the name Thomas Howard. The governor had offered a large reward for the capture of James dead or alive, James had befriended fellow outlaw Robert Ford, who had shot him to get the reward, and his murder inspired a ballad that would make future generations regard James as a Robin Hood figure.
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Origin of Paris Family Name
Paris is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname that came from the Saxon tribe called Parisii who originally lived beside the Humber river in Lincolnshire. The Western Normal College - by The Pilgrim Bard
The Pilgrim Bard, O. Scott Cummin, was living at Winchester, Oklahoma Territory. He wrote and dedicated the following musing May 12, 1903, page 39, Pilgrim Bard's poem about Northwestern Normal School - "The Western Normal College" The Scot Family of NE Kansas
James Bradley writes, "Where I live here in NE Kansas is the homestead of a Scott family. They came directly from Scotland in 1870 and purchased the farm from an early day real estate broker. The house is built from limestone quarried on a pasture hill to the northeast of the house. 1882 - Medicine
1882 - Medicine -- The tuberculosis bacillus was discovered by Robert Koch who established that the disease was communicable. Koch's findings along with those of many other bacteriologists would lead physicians to believe that certain diseases such as beriberi were caused by bacteria rather than by dietary deficiencies. 1882 - Education1882 - Education -- Oscar Wilde arrived in New York in January and said, "I have nothing to declare by my genius [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0) | Receive updates (0 subscribers) | Unsubscribe 1882 - Agriculture
1882 - Agriculture -- Drought continues on western U.S. ranchlands. |
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