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Drag Racing

Description: Column includes: Visit to the drag strip north of Ardmore run by the Ardmore Timing Association. J. R. Shaw, Joe Carroll and Dennis Lavers were in charge of the group. Outline of regulations and events at the drag strip is given. Visit to the Gourmet Restaurant owned by Mazola McKerson. Her devotion to cooking with fresh ingredients is reported. newspaper article, original
Date: 2013
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Partner: Ardmore Public Library

State Fair Better Newspaper Contest, 1969

Description: Article in The Oklahoma Publisher, Oct. 1969, announcing winners in the contest held Sept. 26, 1969, at the State Fair of Oklahoma. Daily Ardmoreite won sweepstakes trophy, Division One, with a total of 440 points. Winners in other divisions, along with other places, are also listed.
Date: 1969
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Partner: Ardmore Public Library

Meeting of Lawmen

Description: Column includes: Meeting at Hardy Murphy Coliseum by local and visiting law enforcement officers. Photo shows P. G. McGaghren, Buck Houchin, D. W. Cranford, Walter Wood, B. L. Cantrell and A. Shaffer. Operations by American Flyers and visit with Phleat Boyd, captain with the airlines. American Flyers president Reed Pigman, Jim Hamilton, Jan Fielder, Ernestine Burns and R. W. "Tiny" Welsh are also mentioned in connection with Am. Flyers. newspaper article, original - mounted on paper
Date: 2013
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Belle Starr

Description: Postcard of the early day woman outlaw from George Colton, Ardmore, to Mac McGalliard. post card
Date: unknown
Creator: Colton, George
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Weeks Plumbing

Description: Information from Lucy V. Weeks concerning the plumbing business run by her husband, Roland, and his brothers, Sam and Bert. Husbands family came to Ardmore c1890 and began work c1907 with the new sewer lines being installed in Ardmore. Mrs. Weeks family farmed near Ravia. Her father was Daniel H. Ward. Other information on both of the families is included. 5 pages, typed and handwritten
Date: unknown
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Bloomfield Cemetery

Description: Notes concerning the cemetery located southeast of Durant, near Achilla, Oklahoma. 57 headstones were still readable at the time, among those one for Holmes Colbert. Mr. Colbert, drafter of the Chickasaw constitution and National Secretary of the Chickasaw Nation, died 1872. Also mentioned is Rev. J. H. Carr, first supt. of the Bloomfield Academy, and his wife and daughter.
Date: unknown
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