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New Beckham Hotel, Wesley College Soccer In The News, 100 Years Ago

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published January 14, 2016 at 6:00 AM CST
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Carol Taylor, the chairman of the Hunt County Historical Commission, discusses the ambition of Greenville's Wesley College for a soccer team -- unheard of in Northeast Texas -- and the opening of the New Beckham Hotel in downtown Greenville, 100 years ago.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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