French Traveler’s Harsh View of Texas Frontier
De Pages, an experienced fighter, praised Indian ally methods and cavalry support during attacks on Fort Texas but faulted militia vigor and European regular persistence. He described brutal river crossings, swamp barriers, and mused on fatigues of traversing Texas rivers, lamenting delays and hardships faced by travelers and the misery of crossing a single brook.
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Tan
Kataalo
du Pages
Texas
de Pages
de Pager
Birth Certificates Urged For Citizenship Proof In Wartime
Dr. Geo W. Cox of the State Health Office stresses every American should obtain a certified copy of birth records. Requests are made to the State Health Department Bureau of Vital Statistics with a 50 cent search and copy fee. Birth certificates key for citizenship proof, military entry, and employment in defense industries. March saw 19,810 requests.
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United States
Baie Deseret
Geo, W. Cox
Hoon
State Health Department
Bureau of Vital Hatiation
Cox
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Postwar world to bring rapid changes in transport and housing
Predictions from industrial labs foresee big postwar shifts in air and automobile tech with higher efficiency engines and lighter vehicles. Housing advances include lighter walls and modular, movable homes. plastics and air cooled engines may reshape production, while new postwar industries expand to meet national needs and raise living standards.
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New York
N. Y
IPS
Liv
Mnug
Harly
Jany
Plas Ee Tay Bw
Iddustrial Research Laboratories
Glider Attacks Being Groomed In U S Training Centers
AMARILLO June 11 America's new fighting flyers the glider Dilott will be trained in six weeks to conquer wind weather and terrain. Glider troops are described as silent messengers of death using surprise to strike. Preliminary training schools opened at multiple Gulf Coast centers and midwestern towns.
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Amarillo
America
Dilott
Eto
Middle
U. 8
United States
San
Geal
Crete
Africa
Mage
Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center
Pittsburgh
Kan
Spencer
Iowa
Okmulgee
Okta
Hays, Kan
Lonoke
Ark
Aberdeen
Goodland
Baylor Honors Visiting Press With Musical and Military Event
About 200 Texas Press Association members visiting Baylor were treated to a tour of the Texas collection and Browning library, a banquet in Memorial dormitory, and a musical program led by Bill Shriner and Miss Billie Gaynes. President Neff inducted several members into service branches as rookie officers while Baylor's military band named drum majors and exhibited marksmanship.
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Texas Press Association
Baylor University
Texas Collection
Browning
Memorial
Bill Shriner
Houston
Billie Gaynes
Jackson
Miss
Baylor
Neff
Billie Murray
Same Fore Jr
Ploresville
Sam P. Harden
Dallas
Kitchen Police
Charles K. Devall
Kilgore
Rufur Higgs
Stephenville
Bob Edwards
Denton
Deskin
Waco Times-Herald
Girl lands fist due to dangling hook incident
Sun Valley Idaho reports Dolores Hegatrom fishing at Magic dam pulled in a rout when her hook touched no fish. The line had swallowed a previous angler's hook and parts of gear from the fish's mouth still remained attached, indicating a unusual snagged lure incident.
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Sun Valley
Idaho
Jane
Dolores
Scrap metal drive to aid war effort in Bosque county
The Work Projects Administration will start a scrap metal and rubber drive in Bosque county within days. WPA trucks will collect metal and rubber from farms for feeding war production, paying 25 cents per hundred pounds for all metals and a half cent per pound for rubber. Farmers may donate or have WPA collect, with cards sent to gauge quantities and pickup needs. Materials will be assembled at county rail points and auctioned to highest bidders for shipment to war factories within 60 days. Proceeds from sales go to the government and farmers may receive War Stamps if they sell scrap privately.
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Eye
Bosqueounty
Work Projects Administration
Wwe
W. H. Beasley
Dis
Tetet Cmanager
WPA
America
Weazley
War Production Board
Bosque County
WBP
Donald M. Nelson
Beasley
Weasley
Ita Aale Oea
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Elias Proverund
West Teaas
Gmibley'ss Cafe
Mia
Shirley
Yarmor
Sealey Amertal
Great Britain
Hocord Advertioars
Fresh Summer Mobitoil
Phil Gilliam
F. I. Lynch
A. G. Gilliam
Leo Richards
Wood Bros
Waco
Dad
Arrow
Arrow Sport
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