Trans Pecos place names and early El Paso history
Fragmentary notes recount Ugalde’s 1787 expeditions near San Jacinto and Tobaco sites, and arrival of Tigua and Seneños communities. Mention El Paso valley presidio Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Ysleta mission, and later moves. References Porciones of 1680s and early Juarez links.
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BA Paso
Juarez
de Cruzate
Nuestra Senora del Pilar
el Gloriosa San Jose
el Paso del Church
Juarez de Guadalupe
EL del Norte
de Vargas
Hints for Homemakers by Jane Rogers
Hints for Homemakers offers a recipe using pineapple and grape juice with water to create a cold drink. The piece discusses framing valuable etchings and watercolors with pressed wood, gummed tape, and humidity control to protect art during storage and handling.
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Jane Rogers
Carveth Wells Completes 10000 Mile Travel Trailer Trip
World explorer Carveth Wells finished a ten thousand mile auto trailer journey visiting mountain resorts national parks and lakes as prep for a coast to coast radio series starting Sunday September 21. The program will air at 12 30 p m on WEAA WOAL KOA and will feature Wells travel notes and insights.
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America
Carveth Wells
Continental Oi! Company
Hopedia-and-atlas Ox Wells
Note
Attle K
Globe
Billy Rose Show Went Through Pecos Texas Stopover
Billy Rose once ran nine shows in Pecos Texas with Fort Worth earnings listed at about 1000 dollars daily and a weekly total near 10.4 thousand. The El Paso to Fort Worth run included stars like Fanny Brice Phil Baker and Ted Alle. Rose’s early rise is recalled by Lang agent for the Frontier Celebration who noted his tactic of persuading owners to relocate families to create dressing rooms.
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Poens
Texas
Billy Rowe
Fort Worth
Baby
A.B. Marcus
el Paso
Fortarth
Fanny Brice
Phil Baker
Ted al
Che Lang
Front Celebration
Pecos
Long
Billy Rose
Rose
Pentcost and The Three Crowns At Local Church
A church invites all to morning worship at 9:45 with a sermon on Pentecost and an evening service at 7:30 focusing on The Three Crowns. Minister M. A. Buhler urges attendance and warm welcomes all Christians to join the services and learn about wisdom, understanding, and devotion.
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Ermon
M.A. Buhler
Church Services Schedule At Sul Ross Campus
Morning worship begins at 10 50. Church school starts at 9 45 and the choir offers special music. The pastor delivers the sermon. Services at eight o clock. Welcomes Sul Ross students and the community to worship and serve.
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Sul Ross Stuats
Reality Lesson-Sermon for Christian Science Churches
The weekly Christian Science lesson sermon for Sunday September 27 centers on the Golden Text from First Corinthians and Psalms, with related readings from Science and Health. A stray note mentions Pecos train loadings and a donkey suffocating, plus Soviet experiments reviving ancient Arctic insects.
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Churches of Christ
Corinthus
Fort Davis Club Teaches Pickle Making At Home Demonstration
Members of the home demonstration club at Fort Davis met at Mrs Preston Johnsons home last week. Miss Fontius Johnson the county agent instructed on brine for curing cucumbers and making sweet pickles. The club meets twice monthly and invites others to join. Presbyterian Missionary society hosted at Mrs J W Merrills ranch with Mrs Merrill and Mrs R D Swartz as hostesses. Fort Davis high school defeated Marfa 14 to 6 in first grid game. Davis showed aerial play, intercepted two Marfa passes and completed two of their own. Captain Earl Grubb led the team with quarterback Johnny Fitzgerald and players Myrrl McBride Tyrrel DeVolin.
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Preston Johnson
Fontius Johnson
The
Presbyterian Missionary Society
J. W. Merrill
Merrill
R.D. Swartz
Fort Davis
Marfa Wi
Davis
Mara
Marfa
B. E. Coan
Sach
Coan
Johnny Fitzgerald
Myrrl McBride
Earl Grubb
Hicks Gray
Wilson Redford
James McBride
Otto Everett
Tyrrel DeVolin
Clell Meeks
Oil Tests Shifted on Land Between Here and Valentine
Oil test work on the Jones Coffield land is moved five or six miles across the S P railroad but remains in Jeff Davis county. Coyotes menace stock raisers on the north side of the Davis mountains prompting a new trapper to be hired in conjunction with Reeves county with a $25 monthly allowance. Ross Graves and Will Everett are noted as experienced Jeff Davis county trappers.
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Jones Coffield
Here
Valentine
S. P. Railroad
Jeff Davis County
Davis Mountains
Reeves County
Ross Graves
Will Everett
Cinderella Queen seeks screen career from Centennial Expo
Geraldine Robertson of Lamesa crowned Centennial Queen enters statewide pageant for Hollywood fame. A separate incident reports a robbery where a watch was taken and returned with a taunt. Also public notice of a retail package liquor permit for Alpine in the Hord Building by S.M. Williams, 9-25-26.
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Storms
Gates
Hollywood
Geraldine Robertson
West Texas
Lamesa
Liquor Control Board
Alpine
Texas
Hord Building
North Sixth Street
S.M. Williams
Death of A J Richardson in Alpine noted in local section
Mr and Mrs W D Bureham were called to Colorado Texas last Saturday by the death of Mrs Bureham's aged father A J Richardson. The Richardson family lived in Alpine for several years and are known to many in this area. Read the Classified ads.
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Neodent
W. D. Bureham
Colorado
Texas
Bureham
A. J. Richardson
Richardson
Alpine
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Trans-Pecos
T. Fletcher
Ugalde
Ranenpria
Cando
Ciencia da San Jacinto
San Jacinto Spring
Alamito Creek
San Jacinto Peak
Cienega de San Jacinto
Aguayo de San Felipe
Limpla Creek
Alpine Creek
Paso
Aguayo de
Tobaco
Sierra del Guadalupe
Uvalde
Texas County
Otermin
Santa Fe
Pope
Ileta
Ysleta del Sur
Yaleta
el Pass
Corpus Christi de
Islets
San Antondo
el Paso del Norte
Socorro
Rio Grande
Carver Wells
Dallas
Mas
Gwendolyn Rupe
Hall of Transportation
Texas Centennial
Wren
Mary Baker Eddy
Big Bend
Alpine Lumber Company
Y Seabee
Y. Lockwood
Oakland
Cal
Lockwood
Witt Stack Laboratory
Alpine Motor Co
OMS General
McCool
Big Bend Feed Co
T. A. Beard
G. K. Lange
Fitth St
Alpine, Texas
U Churches
Matt Smith
Bas
Mildred Witwer
Magnolia
Mobilgas Mobileus
Davis Hinson
W. G. Fielder
Mobilgas
WE Great American Life Insurance
San Antonio
Sam Nelson
Hotel
Paso del Norte
J.r.chaney
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