Hardback manual, light purple with gold embossed title "Drill Regulations of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America." This book belonged to William Gerard Dixon, a member of Tancred Commandery No. 50 in Belleville, Illinois. The Knights Templar is a fraternal organization related to Freemasonry (called an "appendant body").
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