Baylor Adds Letter, Plans to Texas History Collection
Baylor University acquires a copy of the first reproduction of Cor te s second letter to Charles V along with an initial plan for Mexico City. The donation expands the Texana collection with about 3 000 volumes valued near 300 000 dollars and items like Santa anna’s sash and a piano once owned by Sam Houston’s daughter.
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Hernando Cortes
Mexico
Waco
Texas
University “Y of Texas
Baylor
K. H. Aynesworth
Casgas
Sanish Ruelty
Sam Houston
Daugher
Nannie Elizabeth
New York
Morrow
Houston
Black Foot
Placado
Vessel of Napoleon relics and local notices mix in brief page
The item lists include two candlesticks and a clock said to have belonged to Napoleon during his exile on St Helena. Other items note a for sale potato slips at Sinclair place, a Methodist Missionary Society meeting with study titled The Church Takes Root in India led by Mrs. M C Dalhhan, and a Washington purging remark from the Hawkeye Daily Gazette.
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Placado
Black Foot
P. Ross
Waco
Texas
Napoleon Bonaparte
St. Helena
Methodist Woman's Missionary Society
India
M. C. Dalhhan
Vanishing Indian myth noted as growing problem in US
Denver report on Indian Affairs meet with nearly 500 Indian Service employees. Commissioner John Collier says Indians must gain land and learn farming to stand on their own economically. Navajo population rises from 9 000 to over 50 000 in 60 years. Ohio[?] visitors Miss Mayrene Garrett and Mr and Mrs Garrett with daughter Mary Lee visit Albuquerque parents on Mother's Day.
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Denver
Colo
United States Indian Service
John Collier
United States
Missioner of Indian Affairs
Collier
J. C. McCaskill
W. W. Beatty
Mayrene Garrett
Houston
Paul Garrett
Mary Lee
Albuquerque
New Mexico
C. P. Garrett
Eleanor Powell and Robert Young in Honolulu at Lantex Theatre
Eleanor Powell and Robert Young star in the MGM musical Honolulu show at the Lantex Theatre with George Burns and Gracie Allen featured. The engagement runs Sunday and Monday with additional musical numbers and comic bits.
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Eleanor Powell
Robert Young
Honolulu
Lantex Theatre
George Burns and
Grasie Alien
Livestock Improvement Association Meets Today
Damon Smith and John J. Lewis call a meeting of all association directors and county committee members at Mays Chapel. The talks cover the association status and tentative plans for fall shows, just before a session with the Extension Specialist and the District Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damon Smith
Livestock Improvement Association
John J. Lewis
Mays Chapel
Greenville Banner: Scales Missing from Big Fish Tales
In Greenville, readers lament the lack of scales to weigh the famed giant fish stories. The local paper notes the humor of tall tales without measurement tools to verify the claims.
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Greenville Banner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Texania
Llano, Texas
O. P. Gresham
Llano
San Saba
Hatchery
Percy
Crosby
GS Afeaio
Sinclair Place
Methodist
Washington
Statesman
Hawkeye Daily Gazette
Undertaker
Sument
Sylvia Sidney
Lief Erikson
Ivestock Improvement Association
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!