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Perth Amboy Evening News
Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey
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Announcement in Atlantic City on Nov. 22 that the 1921 Mystic Shrine imperial council session, expected to draw 100,000 visitors, is moving to Houston, Texas, due to a hotel dispute, costing the city $1,000,000 in business.
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By The Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. Nov. 22.-Definite announcement was made here today that the 1921 session of the imperial council of the Mystic Shrine will not be held in Atlantic City. as decided upon at the Portland, Oregon, meeting, but will go to Houston. Texas, instead.
The session is said to involve a visitation of 100,000 people and the city's loss in prospective business is estimated at $1,000,000. Local Shriners claim that a difference with one hotel management here led to the withdrawal of the gathering.
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Atlantic City; Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon
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Nov. 22 (Announcement); 1921 (Session)
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Definite announcement made that the 1921 session of the imperial council of the Mystic Shrine, originally decided for Atlantic City at the Portland meeting, will instead be held in Houston, Texas, due to a difference with local hotel management, resulting in an estimated $1,000,000 loss to Atlantic City from 100,000 expected visitors.