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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
3
A reminiscence recalls summer school in Brownwood after failing arithmetic. The narrator traces a trek from Brady to Menardville and Fort McKavett, recalling a meat market owner, a one eyed federale veteran, and vivid, partly garbled anecdotes of meals, water, and frontier life.
A sprawling, eclectic text surveys Texas history figures, cultural bits, and occasional jokes. It references figures from Texas Rangers to politicians, adds poems and snippets about markets, museums, and local life, and touches on inquiries about land grants and coin collecting.
The Southern Aircraft corporation near Houston will test its first two seat open cockpit biplane for U S Army trials at Houston Municipal Airport before moving to Wright-Patterson Ohio for official government testing. Aircraft features include 34 foot wingspan 28 foot length 2700 pound weight 105 mph top speed 122 mph carrier speed and a 22 horsepower seven cylinder engine. Prices for production are about 100000 per unit with a quoted private sale price around 47000.
A reader quiz features curator A Garland Adair and the Trxag Menorial Museum in Austin. It asks about land grant values in Texas and includes quirky notes on Spanish grants, a Westaco naming tale from Weslaco News, and a Dudley Wooten metaphor. The University of Texas offers forty four courses and twelve hundred forty one classes.
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