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Show Boy's Hunt for Autographs Valuable to Oklahoma State NORMAN, OKLA. Because of a boy autograph collector, the University Univer-sity of Oklahoma's manuscript collection col-lection has been enriched by a treasured state historical document. The 15-year-old autograph hound, Robert E. Jackson, was a page boy from Sallisaw, Indian territory, when Oklahoma's constitutional convention met in Guthrie in 1907. Jackson collected the signatures of the 112 delegates present. Now a colonel serving with the U.S. occupation occu-pation forces in Tokyo, Jackson turned over his signature book to the governor. Names in the book include those of four men who served as governor gover-nor of Oklahoma, the state's first senator, a university president and other men prominent in Oklahoma history. |