Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - Whoa! Has gas prices really gone below $2 in Oklahoma? Was it just for a day? Roy in Perry, Oklahoma told us that Conoco-Phillips dropped the price of regular to $1.51.9 today (September 12, 2011).

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Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (1903-1978)

Joe Venuti was the first great violinist of Jazz. The music he made with Eddie Lang would later be a major influence on Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in France.

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E. M. Markers 1950 All-Americans

Alva, OK - Remember when Editor Brooks Bicknell and Barker's collaborated on E.M. BArker's All-American football team, which featured Alva Citizens? Jim Barker sent us the following cartoon that appeared in the late 1940's to earlier 1950's of the Alva Review Courier.

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Kiowa (KS) & Carry Nation

Kiowa, Kansas - Carry Nation Marker, Kiowa, Kansas -- Just a mile over the Kansas Border in NW Oklahoma is the small, rural community of Kiowa, Kansas. On the south side of town, located near the water tower and town park is an historical marker that tells how Carry Nation launched her career of saloon smashing in Kiowa, Kansas.

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This Day In History (September 12)

America - On Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. - Go to article

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Alexander's Ragtime Band

Alexander's Ragtime Band is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft composition submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.

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Obituary - Dr. John Kenneth Beadles

Steve Nicholson forwarded us the obituary of Kenneth Beadles, who was the biology teacher at Alva High School way back when. Beadles Obituary appeared in the Emerson Funeral Home. Did you have Dr. John Kenneth Beadles as a biology teacher at Alva High School?

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McKeever School Teachers (NW Oklahoma Territory)

Oklahoma - Info from the book, The First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma 1886-1986, by Seekers of Oklahoma Heritage Association -- McKeever School District 23 was located on the SW corner of Section 24, 6 miles west of Alva, Oklahoma.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - As we scour our OkieLegacy stories of 2001 that are not in our database, we found the photo above that a reader sent in to us in 2001 concerning a 1890 McAlester, Indian Territory school photo.

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PARRIS Family Inquiry

Jimandjo White (Email: jimanjo@hotmail.com) has an inquiry and says, "I am researching the Parris Family. My mother-in-law, Opal Parris White, now deceased was decended from James Parris born 1755. You have an Edward Parris born to Alexander and Elizabeth Smith Parris in 1699 in Kent County, Delaware. I believe that he had a son named Moses who had a son named James who is my James.

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Stella Friends Academy Marker

Oklahoma - As we search back through our archives of the Spring of 2001, Vol. III, of the OkieLegacy (which is not in our database), we find the Stella Friends Academy Marker that sets on the southside of Hwy 11, where a mobile home and farm now reside.

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