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Welcome to the Zaner Robison Historical Museum at Royse City, Texas The Zaner Robison Historical Museum Corporation is a Texas Nonprofit Corporation, 501 (c ) 3. It's mission is to preserve, protect and promote Royse City area history from the early settlers through the economic boom of the thirties, to the year 1960. SCHOOL IS ABOUT TO START, AND ROYSE CITY STILL HAS TEAM SPIRIT FOR THE BULLDOGS. OUR TEAM JUST BECAME 4A TEAM ONCE AGAIN. GO DOGS! | Hours of Operation Wednesday - Thursday 12 noon to 4 PM Friday - 12 noon to 5 PM Saturday 12 to 4 PM 
The first Sunday of each month join us for "Lunch & Learn" $6 12:30 - 2 PM Sept 7 - "Bulldog" Days of Glory Lunch: Red beans & rice, corn bread, peach cobbler, ice tea/water PLEASE RSVP BY SATURDAY 7/6/08 Oct 5 - Black dirt /Perfect Plants Nov 2 - Indian Lore Dec 7 - Christmas in the Country Location: We carry TrueWest pottery dishes made here in Royse City. There are several patterns from which to choose, as well as the Little Buckaroo set.  | ZANER ROBISON HISTORICAL MUSEUM Location: 124 S. Arch, Royse City, Texas, just south of Main Street. Royse City is a Main Street City. For more information on the town, go to COMMUNITY CABINET For the month of August, our Community Cabinet features "Manly Toilet Articles" from Barney Jones, and "Kitchen Utensils" from Cynthia Bruce. Mr. Jones also brought a Jewel Tea Teapot to display. Cynthia Bruce not only has a hand-written cookbook, and other vintage cookbooks, but a lovely glass reamer. Also known as orange juice squeezers or juicers, reamers are one of the fastest growing collectibles in America today. The main reason for this is time and efficiency. The reamers were invented over 200 years ago out of necessity when it was discovered that citrus provided a cure for diseases like scurvy. The first reamers were all produced in Europe. The first reamer was patented in the United States around 1867, after the Civil War. It was a hand held reamer, followed by a messy and inefficient one piece reamer with a small saucer and cone which poorly fitted the glass. In the 1880's a glass rim was added to the bottom of the saucer to help keep the reamer on the glass. Around the same time, wooden squeezers with a press action were also being used. Two-piece sets with measuring pitcher bottoms and separate reamer tops did not come along until the mid 1920's. Sunkist, the named used by a California group co-op, produced Sunkist reamers as a promotional item in 1907. By 1916 reamers marketed to the masses in colors like green, pink, blue, yellow, black and white (the most popular color). Three different glass companies manufactured the Sunkist reamer from 1916 till the early 1960's. . |
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