Smithsonian Money Collection Expands to 65 000 Items
Smithsonian Institution houses some 65 000 coins and banknotes, spanning centuries and regions. The piece highlights ancient staters dating to 700 B C, Roman and Venetian issues, and a large paper currency group including Confederate notes and Revolutionary era bills. The curator notes many pieces never circulated, complicating value estimates while stressing historical and cultural significance.
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Patricia Gray
Tnitea Press Saft
Washington
Smithsonan
Atel Press
U.S
Philoandelline
Alnion
Pisiemy
Julius Cas Say
Gent
Bureau of Engrav
Cidin-Stefanéki
Nick May Be Too Late For Tot
In Hominy City a-year-old boy James Lee Gilmore, with incurable cancer, lies in a hospital hoping for a glimpse of Santa Claus. Doctors warn he may have only a short time to live after a recent hemorrhage. His family appeals for Christmas joy to bring him happiness in what may be his final season.
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Hominy City
Wospiti
Santa Claus
Old St
James Lee
Famek
Zmek
Stage Production Plans Slated By Lawton Groups
Lawton two amateur theater groups Lawton Little Theatre and Red Barn Players plan stage productions for next year. Tonight at 7 p.m. at Dr. Mos Hicks home members discuss first season play Three Men On A Horse with Mrs. Earl Deskins reporting. Executive boards meet after. Red Barn boards meet at 7:30 p.m. on military reserve Flaghouse with Capt. James Convex presiding to select second play and set dates and casting times.
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Lawton
Lawton Lile Theatre
Red Barn Players
P.m
Ad Mos
Johan T. Hicks
Img Cherry
Lawton Little Theatre
Earl Deskins
Mane
Area Men In The Services Pie Carl E Franklin Camp Pendleton
Area servicemen from Maine area towns report on Marine ground air exercises at Camp Pendleton California. First inland troop lift by helicopter fifty miles inland after a beach capture action.
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Pie
Carl E. Franklin
Tansler Franklin
McKinley
Maine
1St Marine Division
5Th Cegiment
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Oklahoma Voters Pass Bonds and School Board Posts
Oklahoma voters weighed several local bond measures and school board races in today’s balloting. In Caddo County a $550,000 bond would replace the aged courthouse while Leflore County considers a $98,000 hospital expansion adding beds for old age pensioners and freeing beds for others. Choctaw County faces a $152,000 repair bond for the county jail yard courthouse.
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Heer
Oklahoma
Caddo County
Woudd
Leflore
Meimo
Choctaw County
Select Top Steer Today at International Live Stock Exposition
In Chicago a veteran cattle judge from Kansas, Dr. A. D. Weber of Kansas State College, will name the grand champion steer amid the 58th International Live Stock Exposition. He will choose from Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, and Shorthorn breed finalists as thousands watch the final selection.
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Chicago
Kansas
A. D. Weber
Kansas State College
Weber
Wereford’s Honeymoon Wins Junior Grand Championship
Honeymoon, a 100 pound wereford, claimed the junior grand championship last Saturday for owner Mrs Sue L Secondina of Erre Haule Indiana. Secondina became the first married woman to show a champ at the event. She and her husband bought Honeymoon for $100 last summer while honeymooning in Texas.
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Honeymoon
Wich
Sue L. Secondina
Erre Haule
Ind
Secongina
Texas
Pensioners To Receive Income Questionnaires
Veterans and dependents on non service connected pensions will receive annual income questionnaires that must be returned to the VA within 30 days. Zipen, service and finance officer for Towery Whitehead Post 29, cautioned that failing to return prompts stoppage of payments. Those not receiving by January 10, 1958 should contact him at the courthouse.
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Z. L. Zipen
Towery Whitehead Post
Zipen
Court House
Goodwill Clothing Campaign Bags Go To Area Schools
About 1557 bags for collecting discarded clothing and other articles were distributed Monday to Cache Snyder Inlahoma Man itou Chattanooga Faxon and Frederick elementary students. The bags will be returned Thursday and picked up by Lawton Goodwill Industries workers. Items will be reconditioned by 11 handicapped workers and sold to support training for handicapped employment in state industries. Barney Quinn of Oklahoma City assists as public relations director for Goodwill Industries of Oklahoma. The drive, expanding across seven southwestern counties, followed a successful Lawton drive in early November and will be followed by similar drives south and east of Lawton next week.
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Cache
Snyder
Inlahoma
Manitou
Chattanooga
Faxon
Frederick
Lawton
Goodwill Industries
Sant Blackwell
Oklanoma
Barney Quinn
Oklahoma City
Goodwill Industries of
Oklahoma
Chickashag
Law
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This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!