Since I was researching the family murder last night--an 11-year ranchers' feud, irrigation wars, shovel fights, gouged-out eye, yearlong revenge plot, shotgun ambush, an old guy named "Boss"--this alternate spelling of OK'd, which I came across in a little story, tacked onto the bottom of a regional news roundup in The Richfield Reaper, c. about 1948 or '49, is only the second most shocking thing from the past that no one had ever told me about.
