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me cuy, 'Mr, u*But Laredo should do something to aik(rp up the Interest of strangers iu h*our neetion. We have many things tu to attrac t people from other sections at this time of the year, when the hr people of the North are In the midst id of their heaviest cold weather and we a are doffing our winter c lothing. inIt has been suggested that a a pageant would be a proper way to at* re« tract people to this section. And of wlall Texas cities, not e ven San Antonio ha | has more history upon which to base I | a pageant. Our city dates hut little ths later in point of settlement than San so Antonio, and there was wild country to and much hardship in our neighbor sis hood long after Han Antonio had ho- eat come n trading center and tin* nucleus yea of a metropolis. j beiTradition says it was at our Indian am Crossing ‘ where the j\ztecs passe d pn on their way, led by the mystic pro ads phecies of their priests to the place g**i “where an eagle perched on a nopal Ion a rock should devour a serpent.*' sor The first Spaniards who came from mo Mexico to found the missions near hin Sun Antonio crossed the river at the, oil)same place, and during the campaign lift of Saitla Ana against the Americans oj in the various settlements to the* north tw« of us. the Mexican troops frequently his crossed and recrogsed at Laredo. j sai■ A pageant showing the* southward mo drive of the Aztecs in their search for lt;uu empire; the coming of tin* first Fran scs cfscan friars; the frequent fights he- y tween Spanish and Indians of the . vur North, as well as between the Anglo pj;jSaxons and the dreaded (’umamhes; thnthe march of the Mexican troops to asattack the pairo. the jpagoorm f|§; mScott and the* volunteer riflemen ofTaylor; tin* tinal victory of the Te xans1and their admission into the Onion; j * ^ all these farm pictures which could ^be readily presented. j*And then the conquering of the ^wilderness by the first pioneers; tin* + ^ trade with ox carts from Laredo toMonterrey; the- coming of the railway gand the transformation of a mezquite i
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 15, 1920
Page 10
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