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...William ("Noah") Greenwood completed his second ark (his first was burned by city authorities) on a prairie near Olympia, Wash., equipped the 60-foot craft with 27 swords, a suit of armor, several tomahawks, a cat and a hat which once belonged to Annie Oakley, and waited for the "world tidal wave" he expects...
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 34, gentleman-farmer great-grandson of Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, great-grandson of the late Wall Street Plunger Jay Gould; of an accidental gunshot wound; in Oakley...
Higher Education. In Oakley, Idaho, a schoolteacher took her pupils on a field trip to demonstrate the pitfalls of gambling, put a dime in a slot machine, hit the jackpot...
...hair; and swinging "rumble seats" attached to the customers' chairs on which the barbers sat while clipping. On request, porters wheeled carts loaded with tonic bottles from chair to chair. A phonograph played hit tunes; portable telephones could be plugged in anywhere. Just inside the plate-glass doors, Oakley proudly flicked the switches of an intercommunication system through which he could converse with the occupant of any chair...
Dapper, graying, 46-year-old Bert Oakley sold out his shop in Salt Lake City in 1928 to move to California, settled...