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Old news is amusing |
- John
Roan Mystery by Mike Cox 11-4-09
On
Dec. 13, 1879, the Atlanta Constitution published a brief story that should have
been big news in Texas, but somehow no editor in the Lone Star state picked up
on the Georgia daily’s report. The story dealt with the purported solution of
a 29-year-old mystery in Central Texas, the disappearance of one John Roan... - Dusting
off pages offers up the dirt on Times gone by by Delbert Trew
10-27-09
Kansas Historical Society archives
contain every issue of the old Dodge City Times published in the 1870s and 1880s.
Browsing the many articles contained within is interesting and educational as
we learn about the common happenings of that time... - The
Huntsville Humdinger and the Texas Prison Rodeo by Mike Cox 10-1-09
When
the Huntsville Humdinger hit the streets that Monday, the feisty four-column competitor
of the long-established Huntsville Item carried on page one a humdinger of a local
scoop: The prison system would be starting a rodeo that fall. On Sept. 4, 1931... - Baled
in a Bale by Mike Cox 9-11-09
Though
most of the ginning is done by brainless machinery, the industry’s human element
has developed a colorful folklore with a range of subsets. But no ginning story
can top the occasional tale of a body in a bale. - Central
Texas Flood by Mike Cox 9-3-09
The
first day it started raining, people took it as good news... - The
times, they aren't a-changin' by Delbert Trew 8-22-09
Old
newspaper clippings reveal the continuity of daily life - Runaway
scrapes by Mike Cox 7-9-09
Thousands
of people die every year in traffic crashes, but the horse and buggy era had its
injurious and fatal accidents as well. - News
Bits by Mike Cox 5-21-09
Run-of-the-mill
news does not have a particularly long shelf life, but some tidbits from old newspapers
stand the proverbial test of time very well indeed. Herewith some examples... - Terrible
Memories of Hurricane Carla by Murray Montgomery 10-13-08
The
story was from the Associated Press (AP) wire service and it was titled: "15-Year-Old
Boy Describes Loss Of Family In Storm." And what triggered the bad memory for
me was; I knew that boy... - Cuttings
by Mike Cox 7-10-08
Remember way back
before the advent of the internet when people clipped newspapers instead of downloading
stories? Way back, newspaper clippings weren’t even called clippings. People referred
t them as “cuttings.” So, for some lazy summer reading, here are some early-day
“cuttings” from various Texas newspapers... - More
News of the Odd by Mike Cox 12-13-07
The day may come when the internet forces newspapers to give up paper distribution,
but the human appetite for offbeat news is as robust as ever, no matter the medium.
Herewith some “cuttings” (as clippings used to be called) and a couple of rewrites
from various 19th century Texas or Southwestern newspapers... - Austin
Happenings by Mike Cox 8-22-07
Though its masthead
proclaimed that the Texas State Democrat held itself in devotion to “those things
which make happiness in the Texas home, prosperity on the Texas farm and contribute
to the development of Texas resources,” news is news. And news, especially in
1902, sold newspapers... - In
the News Mike Cox 7-17-07
A sampling of cuttings
from the Dallas Herald shedding light on what was going on in Texas in the spring
of 1890... - Weird
News Mike Cox 4-25-07
From the Lone Star State in
1899, an assortment of weird, mostly fatal happenings - vintage news of the odd... - Oddities
from Naylor’s Epic-Century: The Illustrated All-Texas Magazine December 1938 issue
- News
from Texas - From Niles’ National Register 1939-1940
- Summer
News from 1894
- Old
News - "Late from Texas" from various 1851-1852 issues of the Western
American, a weekly published in Keosauqua, Iowa
- "Struck
on the head by a Locomotive"
Early Waco Obituaries 1874-1908 - Weimar,
Texas, 1887
- Old
News Gleaned from the Gonzales Inquirer - 1900
- Old
News Gleaned from the Brenham Banner-Press
- Old
News Gleaned from the Bastrop Advertiser
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