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National Grand Orient insurance certificate issued for Addie B. Bell and signed by William Fitzpatrick, M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander. The certificate was issued by the National Charity Department, Electa Chapter No. 10, Alliance, Ohio on April 1, 1949. The beneficiaries were her two children.

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A music score for piano/vocal copy/SATB Choir arrangement, and trumpet trio of We Give Kids a Hand, a musical composition by Robert Kircher. Inspired by the speakers of the 2000 Millennium Banquet held at the Valley of Cincinnati, April 29, 2000, Kircher composed this music to support the Scottish Rite Masonic goals in their work in education of children.

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Manuscript copy written by Abraham Jacobs of the Register of Rules and Statutes of the Sublime Degree of Masonry, dated ca. 1809. It includes a copy of Jacobs Second Degree of Masonry certificate issued by the Lodge of St. Andrew in Boston, 1782.

Scope and Contents Handwritten portions of addresses by the Grand Orient of France and Supreme Council of Belgium, regarding the tolerance of Masonic institutions. Includees an address by Deguaire-Grobel, member of the Council of the Order and of the Grand College of the Rites of the Grand Orient of France. Deguaire-Grobel states that the Grand Orient of France has been often misunderstood, claiming that the aim of Freemasonry is to assure the acceptance or denial of belief in God. He closes by asking for...

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Certificate for 30th Anniversary of the Masonic Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program, framed. It reads in part "On this Thirtieth Anniversary of the/ Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research/ Program...November 21, 1963/ Frank E. Proslar [?]/ President" presented to the Supreme Council, 33 degree, A.A.S.R.