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No news is
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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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