First Texas School Plans Envisioned by Coahuila Legislature
The Coahuila legislature proposed a Lancasterian mutual instruction system in every department with 150 pupils per school teaching reading writing arithmetic Catholic doctrine and Ackerman’s arts. In practice only township schools existed under Austin’s colony, while Laredo opened Texas’s first Catholic school in 1783 under Don Manuel de Aceves. J. T. Garner became Austin’s colony’s first teacher in 1825 after Isaac M. Pennington’s 1823 informal teaching.
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Stephen F. Austin
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Laredo
Don Manuel de Aceves
Austin
J. T. Garner
Isaac M. Pennington
Excuse Sounds Good But Judge Remembers
Elmer O. Noe, 23, faces trial on a traffic violation after telling the judge he had his one arm around his girlfriend and everything was under control. Judge Pfaff replied that not all things can be under control in such circumstances.
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Los Angeles
Elmer O. Noe
Roger A. Pfaff
Mother is the Best Of All In The Reader’s Memory
A light verse recalls a mother as the ideal companion who never smokes or drinks and remains sweet and gentle. A joke, a math riddle about a field of corn, and a call to send puzzles to Midge Tippett appear in this Austin American page.
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Midge Tippett
Ground Breaking Due Today on Legal Center
Ground will be broken Saturday for the Southwestern legal center at Southern Methodist University.
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Legal Center
Dallas
Southwestern Legal Center
Southern Methodist University
Lad Puts Self In Dog House
Eight year old George Raspberry fled domestic trouble and slept in a terrier Freckles’ dog house beside his aunt Thelma Graves’ home in Denver. He was found in an attic after two weeks and placed in a juvenile home while authorities investigated.
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Denver
George Raspberry
Freckles
Lewis Jarman
George
Thelma Graves
Jarman
Navy Flies Rabies Serum to Soldier
A Navy PBM from Midway dropped two packages of rabies serum to the Army transport General Nelson M. Walker for a Okinawa bound soldier bitten by a dog at Camp Stoneman California ten days earlier. The serum was delivered about 300 miles north of Midway. Private First Class George R. House, 22, was bitten but showed no skin break. The dog died and autopsy found rabies. House is not ill. serum flown as precaution.
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San Francisco
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Midway
Army
Nelson M. Walker
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Yokohama
George R. House
House
High Mass Slated For Vallee's Father
A high mass of requiem will be celebrated Saturday in St Hyacinthe Church for Charles A Vallee 81 father of Rudy Vallee star of stage screen and radio He retired in 1929 after operating drug stores in Maine and Vermont for 40 years and died after a short illness in Westbrook Maine
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Westbrook
St. Hyacinthe Roman Catholic Church
Charles A. Vallee
Rudy Vallee
Mystery box rumored in air explosion aboard Philippine Airlines plane
Manila papers say authorities hunt a shipper who placed a mystery box aboard the PAL airliner that disappeared after takeoff from Daet. The box reputedly held high explosives aimed at one passenger, with 13 dead including four crew and two Americans.
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Mindszenty Reported Critically Ill in Rome
Vatican radio on May 13 reported Cardinal Mindszenty, imprisoned Hungarian primate, is critically ill and losing his mind. The Hungarian doctor cited was unnamed and Mindszenty now resides in Vienna after arriving in Rome. He was convicted in Budapest last February of espionage treason and black market currency dealings and sentenced to life.
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Abilene Traffic Triumph Praised by Governor
Governor Beauford Jester lauded Abilene for leading the nation in traffic safety sending a telegram to Mayor Hudson Smart. Public safety head Colonel Homer Garrison would join the city’s celebration as Abilene marked 702 consecutive deathless traffic days and aligned with the upcoming national highway safety conference.
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Austin American
Smart
General Clay to Fly Home to United States
General Lucius D. Clay, retiring US military governor in Germany, will fly back to the United States next Tuesday. His plane is scheduled to land at National Airport at 8:15 a.m. from Washington.
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Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Army
National
Court Records and Marriages Noted in Local Courts
Multiple divorce and dissolution filings across S3RD, 98TH, and 126TH District Courts including Sieck, Downey, Brown, James, Harding, Burns, and others. Estate and damages actions listed. intermittent wagings fines and a set of marriage licenses issued. various new car purchases and registrations recorded.
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Anna Louise Sieck
Lester R. Sieck
State of Texas
F. T. Lindamood
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Service Mutual Insurance Company of Texas
Carroll R. Downey
126Th District
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Giddings Launches Cleanup Campaign
Giddings city manager R A Toler announces a citywide cleanup starting May 23 with city trucks removing debris from homes and businesses. Crews will spray garbage cans for mosquitoes and offer 25 percent DDT larvacide at cost. The drive aims to boost sewage connections, noting 60 new links this past year and 300 in four years.
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Toler
Mayor Urges Heavy Vote on Austin Bond Issue
Mayor Taylor Glass urged a strong turnout for the Austin bond vote of 7.15 million dollars to finance expansion of electric water and sewer plants. Absentee voting ended Friday with only 11 votes cast. The bonds will be repaid from net earnings of the water and light plant over their term.
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Taylor Glass
Austin
Goose Force-lands Jet After Goose Strikes Cockpit
Anchorage May 13 A United States Air Force pilot Lieutenant Kelsey O Wynns of Oklahoma City survived a goose strike during a training flight from Elmendorf Field. A large explosion broke the cockpit windshield and a goose pierced the cockpit leaving blood feathers and goose parts inside the cabin. The plane landed safely after dropping tip tanks and the right wing damage was a ten inch hole. Wynns and his family reside in Anchorage with a three month old son.
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Alaska
Kelsey O. Wynns
Oklahoma City
Okla
Elmendorf Field
Wynns
First Power Driven Sawmill in Maine 1631
The first power driven sawmill in America stood at Salmon Falls River Maine and was built in 1631. It marks an early industrial milestone with the mill advancing timber processing through powered machinery.
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America
Salmon Falls River
Maine
Arlington Students Prove too Brilliant
Arlington Heights High School faced a mass cheating incident after 75 students scored 99 or 100 on a nationwide achievement test. Twelve confessed to entering the classroom Monday night to copy answers and share them the next day, prompting an investigation and disciplinary action.
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Fort Worth
Arlington Heights High School
Kentucky Well Divided by Counties Among States
Kentucky ranks with 120 counties as one of the most county rich states. Only two states exceed its number of counties reflecting historic territorial divisions and local governance structure.
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Kentucky
Suspicious Bird Rejects Kind Deed
A Philadelphia zoo story notes a white-necked crane laid an egg in the open. The keeper moved the egg to a nest for safety, but a crane knocked the egg from the nest and broke it, suggesting the bird rejected the keeper’s kindness.
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Zoo
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