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Identifier
20127082
Description
England's Top Town Crier Opens City Council Here England's champion town crier opened the Fort Worth City Council meeting Friday with a brass bell and a brassier voice. "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!" rang out Will Cruttenden in tones not calculated to ease the aching heads of drunks down in the city jail, three floors lower. Cruttenden rang a 200-year-old bell with a wooden handle. He read from a medieval type scrool containing a message of greetings to Fort Worth from his city of Hastings. Mayor McCann made him an honorary Fort Worth citizen. Cruttenden addressed him as "your worship." The visitor is being sent around the nation by the British Travel Association. He has been town crier 10 years in Hastings which has had somebody doing the job since 1205.
Archival Date
1958-12-13
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-182
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
City Council
Names
Cruttenden, Will; McCann, Tom
Subjects
City Council