Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty First Year - Number 47
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 25, 1931
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'NAMES Is NAMES' APPLIES
To MANY MARLIN STREETS
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Similarity Noted in Some While
Oddity Appears in Designa-
tions of Others.
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       "Names is names" in reference to many Marlin streets, affording in-teresting study for the observer.
       Live Oak, Oakes and Oak are designations borne by three thoroughfares, while even more similarity is found in Williams, originally William, Bill, Wiley and Willis streets.
       For oddity, consider "Lost" street running by the negro cemetery, while numerous other instances of this nature may be found.
       Many of the streets hve been named for Marlin residents, perpetuating their memory, while sundry others bear names of places--for instance, consider Beaumont street, which recalls that the addition it traverses was opened about the time of the Spindletop oil boom.
       Several streets running the length of the city bear different names on opposite stretches--Live Oak and Bridge, Coleman and Fortune, Ward and Falls, Williams and Craik being continuations of each other.
       Driving from the ice-electric plant to the Cedar Springs road on an almost direct course with three slight offsets, one traverses Monroe, Winter, National--east boundary of the block in which The Democrat office is located -- Island and Bennett streets.
       Marlin has a couple of streets known as Lang, and the street often referred to as Postoffice in reality is Common street on the original records and maps.
       "Rat Row," which the city is now planning to improve as a wet extension of Branch street, Brickbat alley, which is now more appropriately referred to as Concrete, since its improvement with this material, and "Tin Cup" alley are some other unusual designations handed down by tradition.

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