Are You kin to Colonel House of Texas
A column recounts family legends about Col onel House of Texas and a Governor for a day linked to Te xas political figures. The narrator notes seventy five years since Lincoln’s death and recalls meeting people who claim to have seen the Great Emancipator. A tale about a Springfield attorney’s gaunt look is shared.
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Colonel House of Texas
Woodrow Wilson
Eastland
East~land Dailly Oil
Belt News
Wilbourne Collie
Colone
Collie
Senate
S.M.U
Senator Collie
House of Texas
House of Sexas
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Walrea
Ilinois
Maitland
Springfield
Hilarious and historic nuggets in a jumble of lines
A collage of anecdotes and rhymes recalls Lincoln’s assassination echoes, a theater scene, and a poet’s quips. It riffs on old jokes and limericks, then shifts to a daydream on the 50th anniversary edition of the Tuila Herald towering like a 69 foot stack of papers.
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Tuila Herald
Texas newspaper folks win awards and appointments
Kilgore Herald publisher Charles K. Devall becomes president of the State Press Association. N. E. Pierce's Menard News wins second in a national contest. Temple Telegram earns a silver plaque from the National Editorial Association for community service. Willard Proctor named postmaster. Lindale News marks 40th anniversary. Shamrock Texan purchased by Albert Cooper. Wheat crop figures cited with 1989 reference. A man with a hoe is the best machine for weed-killing.
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Charles K. Devall
Kilgore Herald
Texas
State Press Association
N. E. Pierce
Menard News
Temple Telegram
Frank Mayborn
Walter R. Humphery
National Editorial Association
Telegram
Willard Proctor
Grand Saline Sun
Lindale News
Tom P. Choper
Shamrock Texan
Albert Cooper
Arvil Montgomery
Tea Rogers
Texas Birthplace of Forty Two Dominoes Game
The article notes Texas as the birthplace of Forty Two a dominoes based game created by W T Thomas a Dallas based revenue collector in 1887. It highlights Texas resisting card playing in public spaces and recounts how dominoes supplanted cards among boys in rural communities.
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Texas
Mineral Wells
W. T. Thomas
United States Internal Revenue
Dallas
Trap Spring
Garner
Parker County
Thomas
Young Thomas Creates Sociable Domino Game Forty Two
The inventor W A Thomas introduced the game Forty Two in Mineral Wells in 1887. At ten years old he devised a bidding and tricks style domino game that spread from church socials to hotels and drummers camps. Now sixty four, he recalls how Forty Two became a nationwide sociable pastime.
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Thomas
Mineral Wells
W. A. Thomaus
Lodge Directory Liluno Commandery No. a4 K. T. Regular Conclave
Liluno Commandery No a4 K T holds regular conclave on the third Monday each month Visitors are invited to attend Commander Ra Ajlen and Johnson Recorder EL W Tarrence
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Liluno Commandery No
K. T
Ajlen
Llano Masons Convene Monthly Sessions In Vishora
Liano Chapter No. 197 R A M and Llano Lodge No. 212 R FF A M announce regular convocation on the third Tuesday and regular meeting on the second Tuesday each month. Visitors invited. Llano officers Liniard Tarrence Baldwin and Tarrence preside and oversee.
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L. H. Baldwin
E. W.tarrence
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Gutenberg Printing Anniversary Celebrates Milestone in 1940
The 600th anniversary of Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type is celebrated in 1940, marking its impact on literacy and the spread of printed text worldwide as reading becomes more accessible.
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Johann Gutenberg
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