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It is with a heavy heart that we share that Ed Eades passed away Friday, October 6th surrounded by his loving family.
10/08/2023

It is with a heavy heart that we share that Ed Eades passed away Friday, October 6th surrounded by his loving family.

Cooksville Edwin O. Eades, 75, of Cooksville, passed away at 914pm, October 6, 2023, at Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Normal. Cremation has been accorded. A memorial service will be held at 200pm, Saturday, October 21, 2023, at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Colfax. Pastor Wendell Wardell will be officia...

10/02/2023

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08/21/2023

Will Rogers, who died on this day in 1935, was the very definition of American.

Born to a Cherokee Nation family in Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Rogers joked that though his ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, they "met the boat".

Dog Iron Ranch, the property of Will's father Clement Vann Rogers, had as many as 10,000 Texas longhorns, and Will, the youngest of eight children, grew up in the saddle. An avid reader and good student, Will quickly decided that the saddle was more comfortable than the school desk, and, after dropping out of school in the 10th grade, worked his father's ranch full time.

When he was 22 years old, Will and a friend set off from Oklahoma to Argentina, sure that their cowboy skills would serve them well as gauchos on the Argentine Pampas. They bought a ranch and worked for five months before running out of money. Unwilling to return home and face his father's disappointment, Will boarded a boat to South Africa, where he got a job as a rancher at Mooi River Station.

Soon, a Wild West Circus passed through the area and Will Rogers went to see the show, intent on asking for a job handling the show's livestock. Rogers would later tell a reporter for the New York Times:

"Texas Jack had a little Wild West aggregation that visited the camps and did a tremendous business. I did some roping and riding, and Jack, who was one of the smartest showmen I ever knew, took a great interest in me. It was he who gave me the idea for my original stage act with my pony. I learned a lot about show business from him. He could do a bum act with a rope that an ordinary man couldn't get away with, and make the audience think it was great, so I used to study him by the hour, and from him, I learned the great secret of the show business—knowing when to get off. It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of."

This Texas Jack was not John B. Omohundro. Actually, no one, not even the man himself, knew this Texas Jack's real name. He was born sometime between 1863 and 1867, and his parents had been killed when their wagon train headed west was ambushed, reportedly by a Comanche raiding party. The child had been taken captive, along with two young girls from another family's wagon, but was rescued by the cowboy Texas Jack Omohundro, who delivered the children to a Kansas orphanage, selling the Comanche ponies to provide funding for the children's education. The boy grew up not knowing his name or the names of his parents, only knowing that the man who rescued him was called Texas Jack. After Omohundro's 1880 death, this young man showed up at the Omohundro home in Palmyra, Virginia, asking for the family's blessing to use his rescuer's name as he set off on his own venture into show business.

Initially called Texas Jack Junior, by the time he had established himself as a performer in America and Europe he dropped the "Junior" entirely. By the time Will Rogers asked for a job in Ladysmith, South Africa, his show was billed as Texas Jack's Wild West Circus. According to Rogers, he asked the circus owner if he was really from Texas, if he was related to the famous Texas Jack from the dime novels, and if he had any jobs wrangling horses for the show. Jack Jr. asked the young man if he could put together a rope trick act. The young man said he believed he could and Jack Jr. hired him on the spot, suggesting the young performer adopt the nickname “The Cherokee Kid”. Performing the same lasso act that Texas Jack Omohundro introduced to the world thirty years earlier, this was Will Rogers’ first job in show business.

Will Rogers died in a plane crash with aviation pioneer Wiley Post in Alaska on August 15th, 1935. Before his death, the State of Oklahoma commissioned a statue of him to place in the United States Capital's National Statuary Hall collection. Rogers agreed on the condition that his statue face the House Chamber so that Rogers could "keep an eye on Congress." Since the statue's installation in 1939, each President of the United States of America has rubbed the Will Rogers statue's left foot for good luck before stepping into the House Chamber to deliver the State of the Union address.

[Pictured from left to right: Texas Jack Junior, Lyle Marr (TJ Jr's wife), Clarence Welby Cooke, and Will Rogers.]

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Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star by Matthew Kerns is available at:

Amazon - https://amzn.to/44nahux

Signed and inscribed first edition copies and Wild West merchandise are available at:

https://www.dimelibrary.com/shop

08/18/2023

In 1789, St. Louis co-founder Auguste Chouteau paid $3,000 for the former home of fellow co-founder Pierre Laclède. The Chouteau family turned the stone home into the showplace mansion of early St. Louis. They added a wraparound porch, cabins, stables, and a stone wall around the property.

Home sweet home. Learn more about homely at the exhibit.

08/13/2023

Honest Abe is one of history’s most recognized figures, but the real story behind Lincoln's family life is bringing to light his private struggles that many haven’t previously understood.

08/09/2023
08/09/2023

Join our group if you love the laugh Ladies That Laugh

08/07/2023
08/05/2023

On July 30, 1982, the first-place Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa's teepee from the unoccupied section of the bleachers so that the team can make more seats available during sellouts. After the team blows a 10.5 game lead, losing 19 out of its next 21 games, the fans will pressure the management to reinstate the mascot's home, which appears to end the skid for the eventual division champs.

Chief Noc-A-Homa was the original mascot of the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves from 1950s until 1986. The name was used for the "screaming Indian" sleeve patch worn on Braves jerseys. From at least the early 1960s, while still in Milwaukee County Stadium, until the early 1980s at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, this mascot "lived" in a teepee in an unoccupied section of the bleacher seats.

The name was intended to be a playful variation of "Knock a Homer." The mascot's job was to exit his teepee and perform a dance whenever a Braves player hit a home run.

In the late 1970s, when the previously mediocre Braves became contenders again, a peculiar superstition arose. When football season approached and the portable bleachers needed to be opened up for the Atlanta Falcons, the teepee was typically removed... and at that point, the Braves would typically start to lose. Superstitious fans claimed that disrupting Noc-A-Homa's home was the cause of their downturn, rather than the team just not having enough depth to sustain first place for the season. After this happened several years in a row, though, the story began to take on a semblance of truth.

The rumor reached a fever pitch in 1982, when the Braves were in first place with a seemingly insurmountable lead. Needing additional seating for sellouts, the Braves removed the teepee and sold tickets to the seats normally supporting it. The Braves promptly lost 19 of their next 21 games and fell to third place. When Braves management put the teepee back in place, the Braves went back to first place and ultimately won the Western division that year.

The best-known Noc-A-Homa was Levi Walker, Jr., an Ottawa native and an Odawa Indian. In 1986, Walker and the Braves mutually agreed to end their relationship due to disagreements about pay and missed dates. Walker petitioned the club to revive his role during the Braves' 1991 magical pennant run, but the Braves' management declined.

View the baseball collection at American Retro Apparel: https://americanretroapparel.com/pages/baseball

08/01/2023
07/31/2023

Nothing better on a Saturday night :)

07/31/2023

NEW VIDEO is up on my YouTube channel. In the video is two John Deere X9 combines with 50 foot heads harvesting wheat with a Deere 9620RX tractor pulling a Brent Avalanche 2596 grain cart. PLUS 3 John Deere tractors baling straw with more tractors picking up bales, working ground and planting soybeans. Lots of great farming action in this video.

07/30/2023
07/26/2023

Lunch with a side of American Family Field ⚾️👏🏼

Featuring the Lumberjack Turkey Sandwich, piled high with 1/2 pound of smoked turkey, broccolini, heirloom tomato, dijonnaise, cranberry on toasted bread

07/26/2023

This is a 📸 picture of the 🏆 Greatest ⚾ Baseball 🏟️ player to ever live 📝 💪

07/24/2023

Throwback 1949 and now in 2023 🚀
What a mystery!!! 🤔

07/21/2023

Sportsman Park, St Louis, April 9, 1922 - Hall of Famer George Sisler of the St Louis Browns would be thrown out at home three times in a St Louis City Series game against crosstown rivals Cardinals, including here in the third inning after trying to tally on a Ken Williams single. But the perfect throw home by Cards outfielder Cliff Heathcote to catcher Eddie Ainsmith squashed Sisler's dash as umpire Charlie Moran is in solid position to punch him out. Not literally of course.

The city series was a prelude to both St Louis baseball teams 1922 regular season and was seemingly a big deal as proven by the sold out Sportsman Park crowd of 29,000 plus. Despite Sisler's many failed attempts to cross home safely his Browns still managed to beat the Cards 6-3.

One interesting note not many might be aware of, at the time of this game the Browns owned the city of St Louis, not the Cardinals. In fact the Cardinals were tenants of the Browns as it was the Browns who owned Sportsman's Park.

Up until 1920, the Cardinals were a bottom feeder in the National League who played at the smallish and outdated Robison Field and were in quite the bind, but the Browns gave them second life by letting them play at Sportsman's Park, for a fee of course.

One of the most ironic moments when it came to St Louis baseball was some years after the Cardinals moved in, Browns owner Phil Ball was so confident of his team that he expanded Sportsman's Park in 1925 with the reasoning that soon a World Series would be played in St Louis, well, he was right as the Cardinals won the 1926 World Series and it was at that time the worm turned.

In all the Cardinals would win six World Series titles during the time the Browns were still in St Louis (left for Baltimore after the 1953 season). The Redbirds also transformed into one of the elite franchises in baseball while the Browns, well, lets just say there is a good reason I like to call them the Sad Sack Browns from time to time. They're also my favorite old-time team, being a current Mets fan it just seems like a logical choice.

But one can't help but think if back in 1920 if the Browns had instead let the Cardinals sink and not bailed them out, it might have been the Cardinals who bailed out of St Louis and the Browns would still be around.

-Ron A. Bolton

11/12/2021

The Eades Farm Christmas Light Show 2021 will be turning on the lights and playing Christmas Songs SOON! Watch for it ❤️

08/14/2021
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June Stubblefield

09/30/2019

The grandsons summer project, putting the 170 year old buckboard back together with newer iron wheels was used for the first time to load pumpkins from the Pumpkin Patch 🎃🎃🎃
We welcome kids of all ages to come out and your Jack O Lantern pumpkins of all shapes and sizes.

09/13/2019

The Barn III Dinner Theatre and Event Center

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Barry Ward for our first ever concert event! Thank you to everyone who came out and we look forward to hosting him again! Great food and great music, what more could you ask for!

09/07/2019

🎃 Pumpkin Patch is Open
Red Barn Country Store
FREE Admission
Stop and see us 🎃🎃🎃

08/29/2019

🎃 the pumpkin patch is showing lots of pumpkins and funny looking gourds that will be ready sometime sooner or later ~ WATCH for the SIGN🎃
And stop in and see us 🇺🇸

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