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Willie ("Pancho") Villa, 38-year-old son of Mexico's late, highly-seasoned revolutionary, turned up at an attorney's office in Sapulpa, Okla. and set the lawyer tracking down the Villa birth certificate. Villa needed it to get a war plant job in Tulsa, explained he wanted to "start paying back for some of the trouble" his late father had caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Last week in Sapulpa, Okla. a judge instructed the Sinclair and Minnehoma oil companies to pay to the heirs of Lete Kol-vin $7,413,286 in cash, and to surrender the 160 acres of Oklahoma land, a gasoline plant, and 15 producing wells. Half of Lete's fortune went to her 65-year-old half sister. The other half went to Willie and Floyd Mayweather, nephews of Lete's husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: No Diamonds, No Dames | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Tenth. In Sapulpa, Okla., Aunt Lizzie Deevers, no, got set to marry Neighbor John Knight, 77. Cackled bird-eyed, bird-sized Aunt Lizzie: "I'm tough. Man, I've been snakebit six times, been bit by a mad dog once, had nine husbands and I'm still here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Back to his old job as flagman on the Dallas-Tulsa freight run of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, after being laid off month ago for a minor infringement of rules, went Ora Thomas Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., father-in-law of Thomas E. Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer boy from southern Oklahoma. With a baby on the way they decided they had better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Child Mother | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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