Treasure Still There Padre Island Cattle Empire Born
In 1847 the schooner Alice Sa fell on Padre Island, Capt. John Singer and his family salvaged the wreck and chose to stay. They built a ranch named Las Cruces, bought cattle, and developed water wells, corrals, and a mahogany homestead. Alexander led the sons, branding 1500 calves in one year as they traded saddles for paddies to drive stock to market. Life on the island mixed hardship with enterprise as the Singers forged a remote ranching life.
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Alice Safell
South Padre Iland
John Singer
Singer
Oia
Singers
Capt. Snger
Capt
Alexander
Brand
Corpus Christi
Gulf
Wealth and Flight of Capt Singer Family amid Civil War
The Singer family lived on Padre Island growing crops and raising stock. Merrill Singer’s letters led to a $150,000 check and then a $500 loan for a patent, later swelled by $215,000 in wealth. As Civil War neared, Union troops seized Padre Island, burying their riches and fleeing to the mainland with $2,000 recovered. cattle died or were slaughtered.
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Capt
Singer
Fronton
Merritt
New York
Capt. Singer
Ft. Brown
Clarksville
Bagdad
Rio Grande
Padre Island
Padre
For Sale Items Including Engine Boat and Piling
Classified listing offers a 12 hp air cooled on motor in A-1 condition for 140 dollars a wooden 4 ft boat for 40 dollars a 25 ft creosote piling for 5 dollars and an acetylene gas generator for 20 dollars Call WH 3-2 or write Box 492 Port Isabel.
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Port Isabel
Fragmented crossword clue snippet catalog
A garbled OCR fragment lists numbered terms and partial words across multiple topics including gas globule, imaginary, French coin, Hawaiian dish, and chemistry. It reads as a disjointed puzzle or index with incomplete entries and stray punctuation. The readable bits suggest a dictionary style or crossword source text.
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