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Clinton Boys Band

Also documented as: Clinton Boy Band

ClintonDocumented in contemporary newspaperBoys band
Documented history with gaps
Master record221
Newspaper clipping from The Daily Oklahoman, September 27, 1912, page 6, documenting Walter 'Little Ten' Boys Band; Clinton Boys Band.

Operational evidence

Walter 'Little Ten' Boys Band; Clinton Boys Band

The Walter 'Little Ten' Boys Band and Clinton Boys Band are separately identified.

The Daily Oklahoman, September 27, 1912, p. 6. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, via The Gateway to Oklahoma History.

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Underlying newspaper issue published before 1923; public-domain publication. Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, and Gateway credit retained under current Gateway citation guidance.

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Documented overview

A contemporary newspaper separately identifies the Clinton Boys Band.

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

A contemporary newspaper separately identifies the Clinton Boys Band.

Leadership

The reviewed evidence for Clinton Boys Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Sponsorship and participation

Clinton Boys Band is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Youth ensemble.

Activity

A contemporary newspaper separately identifies the Clinton Boys Band.

Why this band matters

Named western Oklahoma boys band documented by contemporary primary evidence.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    A contemporary newspaper separately identifies the Clinton Boys Band.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Clinton Boys Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Documented in contemporary newspaper as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Clinton Boys Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Evidence

Sources

The controlling project citation was reconciled in the saved source corpus (Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-045 / assigned NEWS row). No live item URL was available for this packet.

  1. Newspaper Evidence TRIAGE-045 / assigned NEWS row

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