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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1928
Page
11
The piece rails at Congress and Republicans, recalls a Dallas sexual assault case with two suspects likely to face the electric chair, and contrasts moral lessons with advising against surety on debts. It also reports a Chicago woman proposing to adopt fifteen internationally diverse children, predicting chaotic cultural clashes that would end in the asylum or penitentiary.
Clifford Land, former Eagle Lake High School athlete now at Rice Institute, watched Friday’s regional championship clash between Goose Creek and Eagle Lake, adding local interest to the event.
The tale recounts Bosque John McLennan who lived with Texas tribes for 12 years after being captured as a boy. He hunted, fought, and even helped scalp white settlers, later returning to his white kin, joining Rangers as an interpreter, marrying a white woman, and dying after a sleepwalking fall in his forties.
A jumble of notes from the community recalls Terry Loughridge taking over as editor of the Rosenberg N-Ray, praise for Jerry and wishes of success, health trips to Wooten Wells, printing shifts at the Advertiser’s press, and holiday closures. Several residents travel or visit relatives, including Col Tinderholt, Walter Brown, T.R. Brows, Miss Myrtle Cabanisa, Ruby Watts, and Jake Dial. New year business plans emerge as locals prepare for holidays and changes in work.
In Sealy a special election produced a 448 to 360 vote approving a 60000 highway bond. Funds will widen rights of way and improve routes Nos 96 and 73 in district No 1. Also note the Layne and Willson families scheduled for Christmas visits with Bruce McCarty.
Mrs J Jennings of San Antonio plans a Christmas visit to her parents Mr and Mrs B O McCarty. Mr Jennings is expected Sunday.
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