Month: June 2010
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Mention of the “Alphadelphia Tocsin”
History of Washtenaw County, Michigan WITH SKETCHES OP ITS CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNSHIPS, EDU CATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL HISTORY; PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN, EMBRACING ACCOUNTS OF THE PREHISTORIC RACES, ABORIGINES, FRENCH, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CONQUESTS, AND A GENERAL REVIEW OF ITS CIVIL, POLITICAL AND MILITARY…
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“Missouri Town Might Assure Stockton as Atheist Target”, 1963
An article on Liberal from the September 4, 1963 Lawrence Daily Journal World. Front page news items were “80 Persons Die in Swiss Crash”, “2 Negroes in School in Spite of Wallace”, “Khrushchev Tour Indicates Moscow Changing Strategy”, “Topeka Youth Crackdown Set”, “Johnsons Meet Swedish King”, “KU Soph Admits Breaking Windows Windows in Rival Frat…
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The Alphadelphia Association in The People’s Journal
“The People’s Journal” appears to have been a weekly published by John Saunders and William Howitt from Jan 1846 to Jul 1849, and then as “People’s and Howitt’s Journal” from July 1849 to June 1851. * * * * * THE PEOPLE’S JOURNAL Edited by John Saunders Vol. III London People’s Journal Office MDCCXLVII The…
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Memoirs of Nona Strake, Part Three
A memoir by Nellie (Nona) Lenora Reynolds, daughter of Charity Alice McKenney. Continued from part two. Both the ocean and bay beaches were full of clams of different kinds. While we were living at the Big Stump place, Bart and I used to take our small homemade wagon to the beach and dig razor clams…
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Ads for Stanton Photo Company Reprints
What years did the Stanton Photo Company in Springfield, Ohio hawk their novelty prints? Thus far, a Google Book search returns the earliest ad they’ve scanned as 1900, and the latest as 1912, but so few of the ads thus far are returned that I imagine that’s not the full range of years. Perusing them…
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Memoirs of Nona Strake
A memoir by Nellie (Nona) Lenora Reynolds, daughter of Charity Alice McKenney. Nellie was born 1877 April 22 in Minnetonka, Minnesota and died December 6, 1963 in Coos Bay, Oregon. Nellie first married (1) Oscar William Peterson abt. 1900 in Lincoln Co., Oregon. He was born about 1873 in Wisconsin. She married (2nd) Frederick William…
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Memoirs of Nona Strake, Part Two
A memoir by Nellie (Nona) Lenora Reynolds, daughter of Charity Alice McKenney. Continued from part one. Most of the Indians had been taken to the new reservation on the Siletz River long before we came. A good part of the old, old sand spit upon which Waldport was built was used by them for a…
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The Quarrying Industry of Missouri, 1904 (at Liberal)
Now, it may seem kind of absurd, my putting up a posting on the quarrying industry at Liberal, but this was part of what Liberal was about, People such as George Walser made a living off mining stone. So, here you go. The quarrying industry of Missouri Ernest Robertson Buckley, Henry Andrew Buehler 1904 Right…