Rachel Whitney, Curator, Sapulpa Historical Museum. Tuesday, April 11, 1911, Sapulpa Evening Light: Hugged Her Before People. “Suzanne La Homa, Oklahoma’s most gifted songbird, is soon to appear here and her art is second to none. This woman, whose life history reads like a romance, is one over which all Oklahomans are glad to pronounce praise, and her talents of late years trained by the best masters, are second to no one now before the public. Suzanne La Homa is known in Sapulpa and Manager Van Orman is more than pleased with the arrangement which brings her to the city. The rendition of the La Homa program will be the best offering Sapulpa has had in months, and one that is already assured of record-breaking attendance. The Muskogee Phoenix today, says of La Homa: ‘Madame Lillian Nordica, the greatest soprano in the world, sang at the Hinton last night, but the applause that resounded through the theater before the great audience had left was all for LaHoma, the great singer of Muskogee and the Cherokee people, a protege of Schumann-Heinke…”