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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1985
Page
6
An essay on how sports terminology sticks or shifts across baseball hockey and other games. It notes dugouts becoming level with fields, old terms like niblick and brassie, and playful phrases like par for the course and dome-covered bleachers. It highlights confusion from evolving language in sports culture.
Texas long treated its Indian population with varied measures from 1840 relief acts granting land to the Alabamas and Coushattas to 1854 reservations. Sam Houston aided land purchases in Polk County for tribes, while Comanche and remnant tribes faced relocations to Oklahoma. Alabama-Coushatta reservation persists today alongside medical notes on 19th century alcoholism treatment and San Antonio Zoo’s early open exhibits.
A reader collects altered lines and cultural references from Ben Franklin to Shakespeare and movie slogans. The piece lampoons famous phrases by swapping words for humorous or anachronistic twists, highlighting the fragility of memory and the way quotes evolve in popular culture.
The writer recalls Richard Halliburton's adventurous life from Royal Road to Romance and notes a relative Wesley Robbins pursuing a similar path. A postcard from Red China mentions travels across Europe, the Mid East, Africa, and the Orient, with him working as an oil ship chef.
Government numbers misstate growth and productivity, with systemic errors in GNP, CPI, and income measures. The piece critiques reliance on flawed data and urges modernization of data collection, warning that miscalculations can trigger misaligned expectations and economic risk.
Crimeline Brownfield Crime Line Information offers a $300 reward for information leading to arrest and indictment of suspects in the theft of a motor boat and two bait traps from a storage behind 804 E Reppto between June 6 and June 8, 1985, plus a burglary attempt at 1317 E Harris on June 6 1985, and narcotics indictments in Terry County Texas.
Scientists 149 years after the Alamo uncover tangible battle remnants of Santa Anna's army including a bayonet a lance head musket balls an eight inch howitzer shell and weapon parts. The find provides the first solid evidence of the Mexican general's forces in 1836. Nearby Peru findings reveal lost civilizations with burial towers cliffside ruins 18 buildings and well preserved pottery. A separate Venezuelan jungle expedition yields dozens of new species showing evolution in isolation since prehistoric times.
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