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of 75 by the mid 1890s due to increased competition they represented a significant investment often costing one to two month s wages for an average worker so google says what garb do you wear when riding your bike and what is your bike like aren t you once again you live today and not in the 1890s posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels bicycles campbell house women s safety bicycle tuesday may 19 2026 wwii potato piglets world war ii was especially hard on england specifically english citizens and most specifically english housewives striving to feed their families on limited and rationed food quoting from a 2024 article on the bbc history website by eleanor barnett sharing information on the benefits of potato eating and recipes for potato based breakfasts dinners teas snack and desserts potato pete s recipe book aimed to educate those on the home front on the benefits of potato eating potatoes could be easily grown at home or bought cheaply providing a rich source of nutrients when rationing was introduced in january 1940 the amount of butter bacon and sugar you could buy was limited and by august 1942 almost all foods other than home grown vegetables fruits and game were in some way restricted here s the recipe for potato pete s potato piglets take 6 potatoes 6 sausages and 1 2 head of cabbage remove the centre sic of the potatoes using an apple corer or knife remove the skins from the sausages and fill the potato holes with sausage meat bake for 45 at 200oc 400of meanwhile chop the cabbage and boil on the hob stove for five minutes once baked serve your potato piglets on top of the cooked cabbage if you try this recipe please let us know how it turned out and how your family liked it posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels potato pete s recipe book potato piglets wwii england friday may 15 2026 spokane s trent alley then above and now below richard sola probably knows more about spokane s history than anybody else i know he shares his expertise with folks via presentations to ewgs and with local tours via the southside community center along with an eager group i recently took his tour where i learned a bit about spokane s historic trent alley read about trent alley below quoted from the spokane historical website in 1913 the east side of spokane s downtown teemed with small businesses run by japanese chinese italian greek and german immigrants their restaurants laundries and baths barber shops hotels groceries and pool halls mainly served the city s working class residents japanese photographer ryosuke akashi captured the lives of spokane s japanese entrepreneurs in an album entitled spokane japanese business men and their enterprises akashi carefully photographed each japanese business and proprietor as well as japanese farmers japanese baseball players and a japanese cemetery we are always discriminated based on our race in this foreign place he wrote i would like to share our story in the 1880s downtown spokane had a bustling international district known as trent alley the four block stretch between spokane falls boulevard and main avenue contained a network of alleys filled with chinese and japanese businesses such as kotaro konishi barber shop located where you are standing the neighborhood attracted workers passing through to work for the various railroads and mines in the region scattered with bars gambling houses opium dens and bordellos trent alley started out with a bad reputation edith huey describes trent alley as a small but busy community living to a considerable extent apart from the rest of the city as more families moved in and businesses grew the area became a thriving international neighborhood a 1912 newspaper article observed residents of trent alley celebrating christmas in true american fashion all along the alley the rattle of ivory chips and dominoes could be heard and the click of the cue ball was also in evidence during the 1930s trent alley was hit hard by the great depression after the bombing of pearl harbor in 1941 the neighborhood experienced a brief renewal as many japanese americans attempting to escape internment settled in spokane through the 1950s and 1960s most of trent alley s asian residents relocated into other parts of the city or passed away from old age in 1972 the spokesman review described the area as derelict spokane s chinatown centered along trent alley just south of trent and east of washington is now a series of empty boarded up buildings gradually the old hotels and stores once occupied by chinese people are being torn down the one surviving building was the hip sing association s headquarters which hosted tea and conversation for a handful of elderly men who remembered trent alley in its heyday in late 1974 the hip sing left trent alley for a new headquarters on the north side of town its headquarters and the other buildings of trent alley succumbed to urban renewal efforts over the subsequent decades the last building associated with the trent alley area was torn down in 2009 so now you know about spokane s historic trent alley ever wandered there posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels spokane trent alley tuesday may 12 2026 digitally accessing newspapers the full title of this post should have read digitally accessing newspapers state by state and it s from an article by kyle hurst appearing in the american ancestors magazine for winter 2026 i quote appreciating the importance of preserving us newspapers all fifty states have participated in at least one project to digitize their newspaper collections wow indeed your first click to website for finding digitized newspapers should be the library of congress s chronicling america chroniclingamerica loc gov this site contains millions of newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the u s published through 1963 hurst states in her article that about one third of the states have elected to keep their digitized newspapers solely accessible via chronicling america other states offer their digitized newspapers via different institutions such as state archives state universities or libraries our own washington digital newspaper website brings together over 600 000 pages from washington s earliest territorial newspapers to the present day freely accessible to the public this growing collection complements the washington state library s physical collection of more than 6500 newspaper titles i suggest you ask google for free digitized newspapers in xxxx state and prepare to be amazed and rewarded posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels chronicling america digital newspapers newspapers friday may 8 2026 scottish flag did you realize that scotland has its own flag the image of the white saltire cross against a blue background is the oldest flag in europe and the commonwealth the saltire or st andrew s cross is a symbol of scotland and its history of freedom bravery courage valor hope and pride i read various figures but it seems to that millions of americans claim some scottish ancestry the 2000 census reported nearly five million i have some scottish ancestry do you the saltire flag is believed to have its origins in a battle fought in the year 832 ad during a raid into what is now scottish territory the english and scottish armies came together at the firth of forth a wide vale of a protruding ocean in fear for his men and the outcome of the battle king angus of the picts old term for scots led prayers for a safe deliverance and so legend has it was overwhelmed by a blinding light the night before the battle that night while he slept he had a dream that the next morning he would see a cross in the sky and conquer his enemies the following morning king angus looked into the rising sun and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of the white saltire the white diagonal cross on which st andrew had been martyred against a clear blue sky angus vowed then and there that is the scots won this battle ahead of them that st andrew would become the patron saint of scotland and his symbol the saltire would be on their flag and so it was when you might be lucky enough to visit scotland you can visit the birthplace of the scottish flag saltire the east lothian village of athelstanford where that historic battle and king angus s vision took place is not home to the scottish flag heritage centre houosed in a 16th century doo cot a dovecot admission is free and it s open april to october posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels scotish flag tuesday may 5 2026 mt st helens ritzville the spokesman review wednesday may 21 1980 once a quiet little agricultural town ritzville has been turned overnight into a sahara of volcanic ash and the last refuge for thousands of travelers trapped on the roads sunday when mount st helens violently erupted while the rest of eastern washington received only 1 4 of an inch to one inch of ash ritzville sixty miles southwest of spokane was buried under 4 to 6 inches of the fine debris in spots the ash has drifted as high as two feet the city is in a state of disaster lynn krogh and i had a delightful field trip to ritzville recently and i took this picture in the railroad museum this is a scene of downtown ritzville i did first think it was snow then i read the blurb remembering this day as many of us do i learned that the total ash spread over an area of 22 000 square miles with far away oklahoma and minnesota receiving some before compaction by rainfall the total ash deposited was equivalent to a football field piled with ash 150 miles deep ritzville with 2 4 inches and yakima with 4 6 inches and little lind with 6 inches were the hardest hit eastern washington towns ephrata and othello each received 3 inches google states that spokane received one half inch but my memory surely remembers more than that what are your memories of may 18 1980 even if you were not living in washington then did the news impact you or your family posted by donna at 8 00 am no comments labels 1980 may 18 mt st helens ritzville friday may 1 2026 i love lucy did you grow up with i love lucy on tv perhaps watching it with your mother perhaps you still watch it today and what does this tv show have to do with genealogy lots when you re scribbling your memories have you thought to include how these early tv shows impacted your life the first tv show i remember watching on our little b w screen was 1954 1955 series flash gordon remember ming the evil emperor that show planted the sci fi seed in me and star trek still is my favorite shouldn t i have written in my memories how these shows impacted me i love lucy ran for six seasons 1951 1957 180 episodes and has never been off the air since the show s syndication was the brainchild of desi arnaz getting money from re runs of a tv show was a new concept pioneered by desi arnaz a new book desi arnaz the man who invented tv by todd purdun was the topic of a video that i watched recently the book tells the story of desi born in cuba in 1917 and grew up in florida when his parents emigrated he struggled with his music career and his big break came only after his marriage to lucy in 1940 they eloped lucy was already a rising star with a radio show my father s house which was morphing into a tv show they wanted lucy to continue with the show but she would agree only if desi were her husband that presented a problem in those days a white woman married to a cuban but this problem was overcome the people loved the show when their son desi jr was coming they wrote the pregnancy into the show this was the first time sex had been hinted at and a pregnant woman featured the show of little ricky s birth in january 1953 was seen by 44 million americans well the couple had a volatile relationship even as their businesses and fortunes grew they founded desilu studios which still produces movies and tv shows but apparently the strain was too much for desi they divorced in 1960 and desi died in 1986 of 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