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Legal To Dance In Public

Used News Crime Beat

Thursday February 23, 2017

Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders voted Tuesday to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

In February, resident Joni Insabella decided to host a dance above her store, which is within 500 feet of a church. The city's Chamber of Commerce posted abou ...

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Did You Know

  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

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Friday September 12, 2003

Swaziland's King Mswati III selected bride number 12, less than a week after he picked his 11th bride from thousands of young Swazi maidens. Mswati's 12th bride was identified as 18-year-old Nomonde Fihla, who was crowned the first princess in the Miss Swaziland 2003 pageant. In an interview at the time, she told a magazine she did not believe in polygamy.

Fihla was one of thousands of maidens ...

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Thursday February 23, 2017

Dancing in public is now legal throughout Henryetta, Oklahoma. City leaders voted Tuesday to abolish an ordinance on dancing. The dance ordinance, with a penalty of $25, prohibited dance halls within 500 feet of a church or public school.

In February, resident Joni Insabella decided to host a dance above her store, which is within 500 feet of a church. The city's Chamber of Commerce posted abou ...

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  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

  • Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

  • Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

Quips

The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

Filed Under: Church Notices


The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Sign seen at a Hair Salon: We curl up and dye for you.

Filed Under: Signs


Fun Book Titles

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

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Good Question

  • Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo. How come nobody will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down?

  • Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

    Thursday February 7, 1991

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • 1st meeting of the Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

  • Filed Under: → Entertainment


Events

  • The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

    According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

    Monday September 4, 2006

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

    Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

    Saturday February 18, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

    They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

    Thursday February 23, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

World Firsts

  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected President.

    Thursday February 7, 1991

  • Filed Under: → Politics


  • New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

    Monday February 6, 1815

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


  • Edward of Caernarion, later Edward II, becomes the 1st Prince of Wales.

    Monday February 7, 1301

  • Filed Under: → Miscellaneous


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Wise Words

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

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Good Question

  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

  • Why does an inspiring sight like a sunrise always have to take place at such an inconvenient time?

  • How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Filed Under: → Good Question