Bead-Dime Box Gold Green White Glass Teardrop TB
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Owner:
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shellbadger
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Released:
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
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Origin:
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Texas, United States
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Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish. No permission is needed to leave the U.S.
Travel bug photos are appreciated. I will re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.
This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.
There's an Old and a New Dime Box. The name comes from the practice of leaving a dime in a box at Brown's Mill to get a letter delivered to Giddings. This was before a Federal Post Office opened in 1877. Old Dime Box is the second oldest (Evergreen is the oldest) town in Lee County. The PO opened under the name Brown's Mill or a variation thereof, and in short order a lot of mail was misdirected to Brownsville. The postal people were livid. They had a reputation for refusing names that could be confusing with existing post offices, but this one got right by them. Ordered to change the name, the townsfolk submitted Dime Box and it was accepted.
In 1913, the Southern Pacific Railroad came within 3 miles of the town and almost everyone moved for the convenience this afforded. Enough remained to retain the name and they decided to become Old and New.
"New Dime Box" opened the 1944 March of Dimes Campaign and the town was featured in Life magazine. The Postmaster General even showed up to be photographed on the front porch of the store with an oversized mailbox which was sent to the White House. Today an oversized vintage dime stands in a transparent case in downtown Dime Box.
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Netinator discovered it
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I discovered your nice TB while out geocaching or at an event. Discovered it in the Texas County Challenge Ammo Can. There is no better sound than the clank of an ammo can.
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MethaneMan11 discovered it
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Signed the TCC log and discovered all the trackables inside!
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Einstienium99 discovered it
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Discovered it in a cache. Thank you for sharing.
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TX Cronins discovered it
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Discovered it. Thank you for sharing.
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go-cachers discovered it
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Discovered in TCC! Thanks!
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mjbuzz discovered it
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Found code in TX County Challenge ammo can. I discovered as I finally got to sign the log as #267.
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djbtex discovered it
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Discovered in the Texas County Challenge Cache when MJBuzz was signing the log.
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Lonestar yoda discovered it
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This code was in the Texas County Challenge ammo can. I discovered at the TCC 254 finisher event, I am finisher #260.
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shellbadger marked it as missing
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The owner has set this Trackable as missing.
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SFC Soto, F discovered it
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Found these in my list, sorry for the late post.
Others were found during the Texas County Challenge 2021 in Cisco, TX.
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