Oakie's NW Corner

OKC, Oklahoma - Last Friday's snowfall brought maybe two or three inches on the ground up in Northwest Oklahoma, but I hear it didn't last long. More of a soaker, I guess, and we needed that. After Saturday, the Spring-like weather has been shining across the state with promise of rain showers to come in Thursday. Those showers didn't amount to much in the Northwest.

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Naomi Warren Paris Obit

Colorado Springs, Colorado - The photo on the left is Naomi in 1955, playing cards and Paris family gathering in Hopeton, Oklahoma. She Loved Antiques & Cards.

I got a call from my cousins in Colorado Springs, Colorado the beginning of this week. Their mother, Naomi Warren Paris, passed away Sunday night, in her sleep, February 9, 2003, around 10p.m. she is finally resting on a Colorado Springs hillside with her beloved husband, Alvin Riley Paris.

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WWII 75th Infantry Inquiry

Paris, France - "I'm not sure if you could answer to this request , but perhaps could you forward this e-mail to other members of 75th infantry batallions units who could respond to my inquiry, thanks for everything.

This letter is addressed to the 75th infantry division association, attention to the division historian.

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Campbell, Secrest & Underwood Family Inquiry

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George "Machine Gun" Kelly

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Charles Urschel - Kidnapped - by Kent Frates

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John Martin

by Charles Cook -- John Martin was the brother of Hugh Martin Jr., Woods County, Oklahoma's first sheriff. John was born in Cincinnati in 1868. Like Hugh, he grew up in Missouri and Kansas. Like his father and a couple of his brothers he once was a railroad worker.

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NW OK Marriage 1942-43...

Alva, Oklahoma - Julian- Thomas - Wednesday, February, 1942, NYC, NY - Betrothal of Miss Julian Is Announced - Julian-Thomas Wedding Vows Read in Riverside Drive Church - Mr. and Mrs. Dee Julian, Alva, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Gwendolyn Dee. Julian, to Ensign Howard Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Thomas, Alva, Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Riverside Drive church, New York city, N.Y. The nuptial vows were read by the Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Navy chaplain of the Prairie State college.

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McGill Bros. Postcard Calendar Adv. on Ebay

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Gregory Inquiry

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July, 1933 Urschel Kidnapping

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Capt. S. T. Carrico

Carrico was born in Green County, Illinois, 1840. He attended school in a log school house until he was 18 years old. He went to Chicago to Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, graduating June 14, 1859.

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A. H. Beegle

This photo was taken from The Alva Pioneer Souvenir Editon, dated January 1, 1904. Another very distinguished gentleman of NW Oklahoma Territory. His name is A. H. Beegle.

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Murals at Alva POW Camp

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Wanted: Oklahoma Pork Recipes

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FBI Famous Cases - George "Machine Gun" Kelly

FBI Famous Cases -- "At 11:15 p.m., on Saturday, July 22, 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Urschel, one of Oklahoma's wealthiest couples, were playing bridge with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Jarrett, on a screened porch of the Urschel residence at Oklahoma City.

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Charles Francis Colcord

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