Peebles' Choice on Time Travel and History Figures
The column muses on The Langoliers and time travel imagining meeting historic figures like Columbus, Franklin, Travis, Crockett, Bowie, Jackson and Roosevelt. It notes a weekly If You Ask Me feature and invites reader questions to Garry Peebles at the Brownfield News.
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Stephen King
Langoliers
Geoffery Pinchon
Bangor, Maine
America
Columbus
Henry VIII
Benjamin Franklin
Travis
Teddy Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Brownfield News
Garry Peebles
The
Bonnie and Clyde and the Psychology of a Notorious Pair
Sixty one years after the couple died in a Louisiana ambush psychologists weigh how two opposites formed a crime partnership. Bonnie a Dallas high school graduate poet. Clyde a fifth grade dropout, both buried in Dallas. Travel Texas features Odessa’s presidential museum, and Salado College’s liquor laws in 1866, with the school closing in 1885.
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Jack Maguire
Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Louisiana
Texas
Frank Hammer
Bonnie
Clyde
Dallas
Letter to the Editor recalls San Antonio and Aransas Pass
The writer nostalgically references old Fort Sam Houston and August 1924 infantry gear, notes wool wrap around leggings and OD shirts, and mentions a reverence for the Alamo. An uncle, Andrew Kent, is noted as one of the Gonzales immortals. A June 1940 Nevada desert roadside sign of Aransas Pass is recalled, praising the local Chamber of Commerce.
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Old Ft. Sam
Andrew Kent
Gonzales
Kent County
Texas
Nevada
Aransas Pass
Great Chamber of Commerce
Area Everts in printed at four corners of the Brownfield News
Area Everts appears in the Brownfield News with available space noted at four corners of the page. The brief item indicates space is open for brief notices or small ads as layout allows. Entities include Brownfield News and a unit called four corners.
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Brownfield Regional Medical Center
Women's Protective Services
Brownfield News
Meadow High ties second at UIL Literary state contest
Sarah Hamm, daughter of Scott and Francis Hamm, placed second in Informative Speaking at the UIL Literary Contest held in Austin. Hamm is a Meadow High School sophomore. The Spelling team Dustin Jordan Britt McClung Heather Wilson did not place and Jamie Jones did not place in Ready Writing.
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Meadow
Sarah Hamm
State University
Austin
Hamm
Scott and
Francis Hamm
Meadow High School
Dustin Jordan
Britt McClung
Heather Wilson
Wellman
Jamie Jones
The Clock Ticks Down in Texas Legislature
Rep Gary Walker updates on the final ten days of the Texas legislative session. He notes conferral on tort reform and the concealed weapons bill Senate Bill 60 signed into law, praising the tort reform and property rights measures. He urges citizens to continue sending input and emphasizes defending property rights and self defense.
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Gary Walker Austin
House
Senate
Bush
Susan Combs
Austin
Teel Bivins
Amarillo
Combs
District 80
State of
Texas
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St. Anthony's Catholic Church
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Joseph Vasquez
Marque Morin
Mark Franco
Stacy Flores
Veronica Acosta
Monica Gallegos
Christy Morin
Monica Dillard
Olave Salgado
Marcelo V. Gutierrez
James Pauda
Linda George
Candelario Davila, Jr
Cipriano Pauda
Brant Farrar
Adam Farlow
Jeremy Thompson
Stephanie Deanda
Melanie Mendez
Michelle Allen
Rownfield News
Union Isd
Chevyl
Brownfield School
State U.I.L. Literary Contest
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Bureau Insurance
Terry County Farm Bureau Insurance
Jarvis Haynes
Linda Speed
LOTCF
Ronnie Seaton
Texas Slice
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