Shrine convention mobilizes thousands in Los Angeles
Ronald W. Wagoner reports a massive Shrine gathering in Los Angeles for the 55th annual convention. An estimated 75,000 registered at Shrine headquarters and 25,000 more to witness events. The program includes services, concerts, parades with 40 bands, and a gala for retiring Imperial Potentate Frank C. Jones. Weather promises ideal conditions for the parade from the business district to the coliseum.
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Ronald W. Wagoner
United Press
Los Angeles
Order
Shrine
Hollywood Sowl
Shrine Singers
Imperial
Frank C. Jones
Houston
Texas
Shriners
Coliseum
Dedicated Courthouse Becomes Eastland County Showpiece
Fastland Texas hosts the dedication of a $300000 six story courthouse praised as one of the finest public edifices. The event honors 900 Eastland county men who served in World War I as the building’s rotunda bears a bronze tablet and the friezework features Old Rip the horned frog. Floodlights illuminate the structure nightly amid a Memorial Day celebration with veterans, courthouse walls housing stone likenesses, and multiple civic and Shrine events including a Circus Maximus at the coliseum and a Shrine Hawaiian pilgrimage sailing from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
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Fastland
Texas
Eastland County
America
Tor
Shriners
History Society Adds Early Branding Irons and Household Relics
Panhandle Plains Historical Society gains branding irons and pioneer era household items through gifts and a San Saba Austin collecting trip led by R O Burns C H Park and J Evette Haley. Items include a 1908 asbestos lined sensible flatiron a Dove sad iron a waffle iron an old brace and D and D branding irons from Fisher Garza counties tied to 1897 1900 branding history and the X of the ZXT brand born on the Brazos Clear Fork.
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Dee Boren
Garza County
Historical Society
Southwest
Fisher County
Garza
Clear Fork
The
Brazos
John Cough
Grammarslips and Branding Symbols in County Histories
A reader asks about grammar and pronunciation with answers offering finishing eating and demonstrative accent guidance. The text lists brands like Vicissitude Mooars of Garza county and various branding icons at Canyon, noting historic society files and a grim line about deaths of seven children daily in England and Wales.
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Mooars
Garza County
Canyon
Diamond Tail
T-Anchor
Rockingchair
Ja, JJ
HCS
Hank Smith
Crosby County
XIT
Capitol Syndicate
T. M. Montgomery
N of
Crosby
Society
They Have Many Questions to Settle and Many Purchases
A brisk shopping note lists items for households including furniture, kitchenware, linen and china-silverware, cereals, meat and potatoes as demand grows.
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Mouion
Imperial Potentate
Leo V. Young
Carworth
Lubbock
Perryton, Tex
Kan
Perryton
Liberal
Rayton
Moody
Canadian
Tex
G. W. Cutter
Charlie Underwood
News-Globe
North Plains
Central Panhandle
Oklahoma
P. S. Charlie
Kwitscherkikkin
Gil
England
Wales
Amarillo Auto
Basco
Spencer
Pedrick Rings
K. F
North Fillmore
Dayton Suints
Amarillo
Moonlight Ave
Hubby
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