February 14, 1932. Paper Doll with Valentine costume by Mercedes Moniz, age 14, member of Aunt Elsie Club.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Theodore Wants To Be Your Valentine
February 09, 1912. Another of the Roosevelt Puzzles that appeared in many newspapers.
How Many Faces Can You Find In This Picture? The winner received an upright piano from Ambuhl Bros. Piano Company.
April 02, 1899. "Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York, Oct. 17, 1858; his father was a member of an old New York family, his mother a native of Georgia; he was slight in build and weak, which led him to athletics; attended private schools; graduated Harvard, 1880; married Miss Alice Lee of Boston, who died two or three years later, leaving a daughter; New York assembly, 1881-85; chairman New York delegation republican national convention, 1884; married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, 1886; defeated for mayor of New York, 1886; at odd times lived on his Montana ranch; civil service commissioner at Washington from 1889 to 1895; president police board New York from 1895 to 1897; assistant secretary navy, 1897-98; lieutenant colonel Rough Riders (First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry) May 6; in battle La Quasimas, first of the war, June 24; in battle San Juan, July 1, 2; promoted to be colonel a few days later; got up the famous round robin, protesting against plan of administration to keep soldiers in Cuba till fall, Aug. 3; landed at Mantauk, Aug. 15; left regiment Sept. 13; nominated for governor Sept. 27; elected by 18,079 plurality, Nov. 8; inaugurated January 2, 1899; father of six children and author of "The Naval War of 1812", "Life of Thomas H. Benton", "Life of Gouverneur Morris", "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail", "The Winning of the West", "Essays on Practical Politics", "The Wilderness Hunter", "Hero Tales From American History"; his home is at Oyster Bay, N.Y."
- - - - - - Teddy's life up to April 1899 with so much yet to happen!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Milk Makes Us Happy, 1926
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Kellogg's - Nestle's Milk Coloring Contest
The Hero of Bunker Hill
June 11, 1899. "Gen. Joseph Warren, born on Warren St., Roxbury, June 11, 1741. Graduating from Harvard, he became master of the Roxbury grammar school. Then he studied medicine. On the anniversary of the Boston massacre in 1775, when British officers threatened whoever addressed the people on the occasion, Warren pleaded for the dangerous honor. The people surged about the Old South so densely that Warren, securing a ladder, entered by a window. Ignoring the presence of more than 40 British officers, he delivered a stirring address on the baleful influence of standing armies in times of peace, and was unmolested. As chairman of the committee of safety he despatched Paul Revere to warn the inhabitants of Middlesex of the British movements. He was later the president of the provisional congress, and the second major general of the provisional forces. On June 17, 1775, he rode to Bunker Hill, and although both Putnam and Prescott offered to serve under him, he refused, saying he desired to take a lesson in warfare under such well trained officers. While rallying the militia for the final struggle he was shot in the head and instantly killed." Many thanks to General Joseph Warren, a true American hero.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
My Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Fair
May 21, 1899. "Grace Darling, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper at the Farne Islands, a perilous group on the east coast of England, was in her 23rd year, when on the morning of Sept. 07, 1838, she gave that supreme test of the true heroine. After a wildly tempestuous night, which had disturbed her rest by thoughts of those exposed to the storm, she espied in the dawn a shipwrecked steamer. The only man at the lighthouse was her father, her brothers being away on the mainland. It was doubtful if a boat manned by a stalwart crew would live in such a sea. All this her father represented to her, but she would not be dissuaded, and he yielded to her entreaties at last. The perilous passage was made to the cruel rocks, at great expense of toil and labor, and with many misgivings of a watery grave. The nine survivors, after infinite pains, were received into the frail boat, and land was safely made at last. Only once in her brief life the exigency arose for her to manifest her heroism of soul. Her conduct then revealed the deep hidden springs of her nature, and was the expression of an habitual temperament. Never was a girl so subjected to such public adulation as Grace afterwards was, and never was any person so little affected by it. A purse of $3,000 was raised for her and medals came from the leading societies of the world. Until the day of her death, four years later, she continued to live at the lighthouse with her parents."
I had never heard of Grace Darling until Ghosts, an album by The STRAWBS which included the song "Grace Darling" written by Dave Cousins. It is one of my favorite songs and I got to see The STRAWBS perform it live in concert when I was 13-years old. Here are the words to the song --"You have been my lighthouse in every storm. You have given shelter, you have kept me safe and warm. And in my darkest night you have shone your brightest light - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya.- You have been the pilot who guides me home. You have been the rock as on the seven seas I roam. And when I was becalmed you were the strength in my arms - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya.- And when my back was torn and broken on the reef, you sailed your tiny boat across the dark seas of my disbelief. You have been the anchor and I the chain, straining as we hold ourselves together in the rain. I have found you ever there, my constant keeper's daughter fair - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya." Many thanks to Dave Cousins.
We Get The Funniest Looks From Everyone We Meet!
Michael Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davey Jones - The MONKEES.
Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork.
Peter Tork.-- My two oldest brothers were always going across the street to the Stop-n-Go store and buying packs of bubble gum with collector cards inside. Lucky for me, they would become bored with the cards and then they were mine, all mine, ha! I know that there are more MONKEES cards somewhere among my junk.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Billie Wants Playmates, 1934
January 22, 1934. BILLIE, a Laura Brock paper doll. "She has curly brown hair and big brown eyes, and likes most to sail boats. She wants to be added to the Doll Family so she can have lots of playmates. Billie can roll the hoop, skate, play ball and jump the rope, besides sail her boats. Here she is dressed in her playsuit, ready to meet other boys and girls."
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
JOSEPHINE, Empress of The French, 1899
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Crooked Man With His Crooked Cat, 1900
Sunday, January 15, 2012
JANE and SUSAN Paper Dolls
Problems With My BLOG!
I have not been able to access comments or followers this past week - I hope everything is posting okay.
A Book of Cradle Songs, 1943
Saturday, January 14, 2012
A Paper Doll by Frances Montrose, 1936
CINDY Paper Doll by Betty Parcheski, 1949
THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE Movie Coloring Contest, 1973
February 26, 1973. This Disney film starred Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos and Roscoe Lee Browne. - - -Today in Houston we had some of the United States greatest athletes competing in the U. S. Olympic Marathon Time Trials. Tomorrow more great athletes will compete in the Houston Marathon. I run 6-miles four to five times a week at Memorial Park but to run 26.2 miles - these guys are good!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
THE NEW ZENITH WASHING MACHINE, 1935
PETER PIPER and HIS PICKLED PEPPERS
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Good Luck today, TEXANS!
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have Your Been?
Friday, January 6, 2012
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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