Life in Colonial Days and New Year Family Gatherings
A reflective column recalls colonial life with log cabins and candles, noting time for family and mutual aid. It recounts a New Year gathering, a bobsled ride to a Pennsylvania cousin, sleighs in winter, and a warm cake recipe. Elizabeth, the author, writes by lamplight from Indiana.
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Pennsylvania
Elizabeth
Lanter Light
Indiana
Coblentz
Oasis Newsfeatures
P.O
Middletown
Ohio
Jacksons King Fred and Laura mark 69th anniversary at home
King Fred Jackson and Laura Hughes celebrate their 69th wedding anniversary January 4 at their Garnett Kansas home. They were married January 4, 1926 in Kansas City, Kansas, per local records.
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King Fred
Laura Jackson
Hayes, Garnett
King Fred Jackson
Laura Hughes
Kansas City
Kan
Babies Named Cale and Joshua in 1994 Births
Ottawa couple Mark and Dana Paquette name son Cale Leland Paquette born December 21, 1994 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces. Joshua Dale Mills born December 23, 1994 at Olathe Medical Center weighs 6 pounds 2 1/2 ounces. Family grandparents and great grandparents listed with locations in Kansas. Riley Jo Pressnell born December 25, 1994 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita weighs 6.47 pounds with listed relatives across Kansas.
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Cale Leland Paquette
Mark
Dana Paquette
Ottawa
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Cale
Callie Paquette
Robert
Loree Gardner
Paola
Pat Paquette
Newton
Paul Alpert
George
Fran Hurd
Joshua Dale Mills
Dean
Erin Mills
Frorn
Olathe Medical Center
Jerry and
Vicky
Riley Jo Pressnell
Derrel
Della Pressnell
Wichita
St. Francis Regional Medical Center
Leigh Arnett
Lane
Margaret Arnett
Claude
Pat Pressnell
Joy Arnett
Richmond
Sarah McDaniel
Eileen Hixon
Vernessa Malone
Augusta
Engagement of Ratzlaff Spigle in Nixa Missouri
Ratzlaff of Glen Allen Virginia and Spigle of Springfield Illinois announce their engagement. The bride elect, daughter of Everett and Audrey Ratzlaff, holds a 1994 Evangel College degree after Erie High School and a 1991. She and her fiancé, son of Edward and Winnifred Spigle, plan a January 14 1995 ceremony at Nixa Assembly of God Missouri. He graduated Ottawa High School in 1990 and earned Evangel College degrees in 1994. He is an accountant at Calvary Temple Christian Center Springfield.
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Glendy Ellen Ratzlaff
Glen Allen
Daryl Edward Spigle
Springfield
Ill
Everett
Audrey Ratzlaff
Edward
Winnifred Spigle
Erie
Evangel College
Ottawa High School
Calvary Temple Christian Center
Nixa
Davis celebrates 80th birthday in Ottawa family dinner
Helen Davis of Ottawa celebrated her 80th birthday with a family dinner at Sirloin Stockade on December 23.
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Helen Davis
Ottawa
Sirloin Stockade
Third Birthday for Jane Seymour Seymour
Jane Seymour Sarah Jane Seymour daughter of Mark and Cheryl Seymour celebrated her third birthday Sunday January 1 1995 at 1010 St Cedar Ottawa. She has sisters Rachel Anne nine and Rebekah Leah five and a wide family including grandparents Bill and Marilyn Seymour and Bert and Gladys Fewins with great grandmother Thelma Jane Tallman Ottawa.
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aSasels
Jane Seymour
Sarah Jane Seymour
Mark
Ndt
Cheryl Seymour
St. Cedar
Sarah
Rachel Anne
Rebekah Leah
Bill and
Marilyn Seymour
S. Chestnut
Bert and
Gladys Fewins
Lavenburg
Thelma Jane Tallman
Ottawa
Judge clears way for wolves to return to Yellowstone
In Casper Wyoming AP report Judge William Downes refused to block a plan to reintroduce 30 wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho. The Fish and Wildlife Service seeks Canadian wolves, deemed similar to historic Yellowstone wolves, despite objections from the American Farm Bureau Federation and Moon Legal Foundation over livestock safety.
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Park
Idaho
American Farm Bureau Federation
Moon
The
Fish and Wildlife Service
Canada
Yellowstone
Technical Oscar Winners Announced in Hollywood
Everly Hills announces technical Oscars to Eastman Kodak for new stock and Petro and Paul Vinhos for a special effects process. Certificates go to makers of safe gun blanks biodegradable snowflakes mini camera on toy helicopter and more for digital data systems optical effects software and editing devices.
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Everly Hills
Calif
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Eastman Kodak Co
Petro
Paul Vinhos
Academy
Hope Diamond Moves to New Display at Smithsonian
The Hope Diamond, a 44.5 carat blue cushion cut gem, was quietly moved from its vault to a temporary second floor rotunda display at the National Museum of Natural History for two years during gem hall renovations. A new steel vault and bright lighting enhance observation while officials emphasize continued public viewing.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
Jeffrey Post
John Kirkland
Post
Rush for 3-cent stamps as letter rate rises
Across the nation customers scramble on the first day of 3-cent stamps after mail rates increase to 32 cents. Long lines form at post offices from Newark to Rochester as people seek stamps and cope with shortages.
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Randolph E. Schmid
Associated Press
Lexandria
Don McGraw
Newark
McGraw
West Orange
N.J
Aspen Hill
Naidene B. Rosenthal
John Barber
Ann Street
Hartford
Charleston
W.va
Alexandria
Rose Hill
Washington
19Th Street
Moya King
King
Rochester
N.Y
Cardinal goes online Archdiocese pioneer on Prodigy
New York Archbishop Cardinal John O'Connor became a cyberspace pioneer answering subscribers questions on Prodigy. The on line session lasted about 40 minutes with a staffer selecting questions and dictating his replies. Aides said it was the church's first cardinal on line appearance.
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New York
Archdiocesan
Cardinal John O'Connor
Prodigy
O’connor
Catherine Hickey
FCC filing seeks transfer of KZTO 95.7 license to GMA MOI
On December 20 1994 Kansas Broadcasting Systems Inc filed with the FCC for consent to assignment of license for FM station KZTO Ottawa Kansas at 95.7 mHz to GMA MOI Inc Public inspection of the application and amendments is available at the Ottawa Public Library during normal business hours.
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Kansas Broadcasting Systems, Inc
Federal Communications Commission
KZTO
Ottawa
Kansas
GMA, Moq, Inc
GMA, MO Inc
I Frank Copsidas, Jr
American Broadcasting Systems, Inc
Timothy Shailer
Thomas
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Wolves Toin States Legal Foundation
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William Downes
China
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