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The documented story
Multiple contemporary reports document performed activity, approximate size, instruments, leadership, and civic support.
People and leadership
Prof. L. F. Katzmyer/Katzmeyer is identified as director, instructor, and clarinetist; roster names are retained in source evidence.
Community and organization
Merchant and civic support are documented; ownership and later continuity are not established.
Reading the evidence
Relative-day dates and later continuity remain qualified; the relation to earlier or later Wagoner Band records is unresolved.
Questions for further research
Verify the newspaper images, normalize the Katzmyer/Katzmeyer spelling only with evidence, and recover the full roster into the member layer later.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1917 – 1918
Wagoner Merchants’ Band had a fifteen-member roster and documented civic, park, escort, auto-show, and Sunday-concert activities in 1917–18.