What's in a Name Tells of Towns Of West Texas
Tanner Laine reports in What's in a Name how about 330 West Texas towns got their names. The book alphabetizes towns from the Panhandle to the Big Bend and includes 53 short stories on unusual names. It notes Andrews county and town origins, post office dates, and local history. Andrews Office Supply sells the volume.
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West
Texas
Tanner Laine
The
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
West Texas
Panhandle
Big Bend
Andrews
Richard Andrews
Big Dick
Gonzales
Conception
Kepler Mars moons revealed by 19th century discovery
A historical note recalls that Mars has two tiny moons first observed in 1877 by Asaph Hall at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C., following Kepler’s 1610 prediction of Martian satellites. The article then shifts to a government Q A on Phase II of the President’s Economic Stabilization Program outlining price control rules, wage limits, and cost-based adjustments through November 14 1971.
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Kepler
Mars
Asaph Hall
United States Naval Observatory
Washington, D.C
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
The
Price Commission
Ghost Towns Recapture Spirit of Old West
The Old West spirit survives in ghost towns across New Mexico to Idaho as prospectors once chased silver and gold. Nevada’s Hamilton drew 15,000 in a brief rush. Treasure City and mining booms in Eureka and Leadville shaped early frontier fortunes. Now tourist interest fuels towns like Virginia City and Tombstone while many relics endure as curios.
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New Mexico
Idaho
National Geographic Society
California
Panamints
Nevada
Sierras
Hamilton
London
Treasure City
Eureka
Colorado
Pikes Peak
Leadville
Aspen
Central City
Grant
Virginia City
Tombstone
Arizona
Deadwood
South
Dakota
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Santa’s
Fantasy Land
Front Idugan Builders Supply CO. Midland
Ching’s
Bank Americaid
World
Midland, Texas
Midland Livestock Market, Inc
Clark Moreland
Lester Irvin
Heartbreak Ridge
Pioneer
Bennie
Bennie’s
Town & Country
E. University
Odessa
Oak Ridge Shopping Center
Garfield & Woodley
DIAI
Midland Radiator Wrecker & Salvage Y Ate Minasich
Jwner
Remy
Pork Chops
del Mont
Elbo Macaroni
Cascade
Ivory
Food King Solid
Shurfine
Bama
Coe
Oxydol
van Camps
Vienna
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