Comanche Students Among Tarleton Enrollees in Tarleton
Comanche County sends a sizable cohort to Tarleton College with 1129 students total 732 boys and 397 girls. The list names numerous Comanche residents among Tarleton adherents including Mary Jane Bramiette Nancy Pamela ine Bratton Gertrude Haddox James Hampton Pinkard McCorkle Marshall Mcmaid Mary Nichols Garry Palmer Baby Wel uggles Palmer Merle Lockniel Coda Baggett Velda Williford J Lawson Annie Sears Melton War Simpson Billie Joe Doug Margaret Eanes and Sidney residents. The article notes Jeffersonian land purchase linked to the expansive western states.
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John Tarleton College
Comanche County
Tarleton
Comanche
Mary Jane Bramiette
J. D. Bramiette
Nancy Pameline Bratton
E. J. L. Geye
Gertrude Haddox
Daugher
R. F. Haddox
James
C. C. Hampton
el Pinkard McCorkle
McCorkle
Marshall Mcmaid
T. A. McDonald
Mary Nichols
F. C. Richols
Garry Palmer
Inez Palmer
Baby Weluggles Palmer
Gustine
Sidney
Eele
W. J. Steele
Old Time Revivals and War's Impact on Faith
Comanche Chief notes revivals thrived in early America from 1776 onward, but wars since then reduced great revival meetings. War sows materialism, tests faith, and weakens religious conviction as soldiers face barbed realities. Earlier generations found meaning in Bible study, nature, and dramatic preaching, unlike modern media influenced times.
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State Press
Dallas Morning News
America
Our Republic
Texas's historic name Philisabelia uncovered in old archives
In Austin on April 3 a UT translator reveals a 1719 document naming the Texas province Philisabelia. Don Juan de Olivan Rebolledo is listed as governor of New Phillipines or Philisabelia, a name spanning from the Mississippi to the Medina. An advertisement for Kilpatrick's Hardware Store appears in the same item.
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Austin
State of Texas
J. W. Haggard
University of Texas
Bexar
Haggard
Don Juan de Olivan Rebolledo
Egg Subscription Offer Promises One Dollar Per Dozen
A limited time promotion pays one dollar per dozen eggs on subscription. The notice advertises a poultry product deal with a simple pricing incentive aimed at attracting steady buyers.
Smiley Burnette Finds Fame With Radio To Film Transition
Smiley Burnette, a Republic Pictures comedian, rose from WDZ Tuscola radio performer to featured partner of Gene Autry on the National Barn Dance. He bought a $450 accordion with $300 saved, learned on the road, then joined Autry for two years on Barn Dance and later starred in Autry western films.
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Smiley Burnette
Republic Pictures
Cewtre
WDZ
Tuscola
Chicago
Smiley
Gene Autry
WLS
Autry
Hollywood
Comanche High School Plans Senior Day Trip
Comanche High School week wraps with Junior-Senior Banquet on All Fools Day. One hundred five students attended as the Swing Orchestra played and seniors prepare for graduation activities and the upcoming Senior Day trip planned for late April or early May.
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Comanche High
Nokia Dunn
W. O. W. Hall
Fit Howard
Sanatorium
Texas
Comanche Students Enter District Meet At E wood Today
Comanche Public School and county entrants travel to Howard Payne College Brownwood for the District Meet today and tomorrow. Events include Junior and Senior Declamation, Debate, Reading Writing, Tennis Doubles, Track events 100 to mile relay, Polo Vault, and a note on the Comanche Grammar School Club not attending.
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Comanche Public School
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
Makie
Mary Louise Rayborn
Roy Esmond Waloo
Ted Durahm
Harold Hoffman
Pollyanna Speed
Ruby Williams
Isham and
Save Our Soil
A 1930s appeal on soil erosion cites that 50 million acres are badly eroded and another 50 million nearly so in the United States. It notes 100 million acres seriously impaired and another 100 million at risk due to erosion and mismanagement. Texas Extension Service began terraces and contours. 12 million acres terraced in Texas and over two million under the Agricultural Conservation Program. The message warns of a future food shortage if erosion continues.
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United States
National Resources Committee
Texas Extension Service
Texas
Garrett Likes Congress and D C In Texan District Insight
Clyde L. Garrett, a 215 pound former farmer and Red Rider nemesis, is described as calm and mild unlike his predecessor Tom Blanton. Representing a diversified farming district, Garrett backs tenant farmer homeownership and enjoys the District’s welcome, praising its beauty.
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Clyde L. Garrett
Tom Blanton
Red Rider Advocate
Texas
Garrett
Blanton
Life and Poems of Mira beau B Lamar to be published
Philip E. Graham of Comanche and former Gustine High School principal writes the biography of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. The University of Texas professor notes the work presents Lamar as a private man and poet whose verses reflect personal life and regional ties between the Old South and the New West. A daguerreotype frontispiece accompanies the UNC Press edition.
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University of Texas
Philip E. Graham
J. P. Graham
Comanche
Philip
Gustine
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Philip Graham
University of North Carolina Press
Lamar
Republic of Texas
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
Georgia
San Jacinto
Lone Star Republic
Graham
Qld South
New West
West
South
Sketch of Gas Victims Buried At Sipe Springs
Marion Wayne and Patty Anna Mote, siblings from Old London, Texas, among the hundreds killed in the New London school explosion of March 18. Marion, born Oct 6 1922 in Sipe Springs, and Patty Anna, born Aug 28 1925, moved to Old London in 1931 and attended church there. Service held March 21 at Sipe Springs Baptist Church with interment in Sipe Springs Cemetery. parents, grandparents, and great grandfather listed among survivors.
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Marion Wayne
Olne Anna
J. W. Henderson
Pat Brown
M. E
Iva Burleson
Fredericksburg
C. H. Morrow
Sipe Springs
Jack Almond
Deward Burks
Kenneth Foster
Wilson Smith
J. Leazer Rhymes
Dee Brown
Harlon New
J. C. Smith
Johnnie Ray Landreth
Curtis Hil
Paul Morris
Johnnie Turner
Mesdames Opal Whitesides
Fred Tunnell
Fred Cook
Amanda Sprayberry
Rising Star
Joyce Brown
Emma Poteet
Junior
Patty Anna
Sam Barton
Mr. Mote
Paris
Texas
John Rye
Mary Barton
East Texas Fiddlers Meeting Invites Athens Crowd
The East Texas Fiddlers Association plans the Sixth Annual Fast Texas Fiddler Contest and Reunion in Athens on Friday May 28 drawing about 29000 attendees. Highlights include fiddle music all day, a Texas products show in public square windows, a large square dance, and free admission on the court house square with loudspeakers. Hon J E McDonald State Commissioner of Agriculture will speak on pioneer fiddlers in East Texas history. C H Stanton of Athens chairs arrangements.
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Athens
East Texas Fiddlers Association
Texas
J. E. McDonald
McDonald
East Texas
Court House
C. H. Stanton
Jamboree Draws Comanche Trail Council Scout Troop
The Trad aims to send the Comanche Trail Council’s 33 scouts to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington from July 30 to July 9. They will wear Twin-Tail War Bonne breech clothes moccasins and war paint to depict Comanche life with teepees and Indian relics. Contact Scoutmaster or Council Office to participate.
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Comanc Trail Council
Council
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