Charro Days Fiesta Revives Frontier Charm in Brownsville
Brownsville hosts Charro Days Fiesta a four day border celebration uniting 300000 Americans and Mexicans amid parades rodeos street dances and a Noche Mexicana in Matamoros. The event blends Spanish colonial legacy with frontier myths featuring charros and china poblana costumes and draws Duristas from across the Americas.
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Nurse Recalls War Days of 1898
Florence Robinson, 82, a nurse of the Spanish American war at Birmingham veterans hospital in Van Nuys, recalls enlisting in 1898 when nurses first served in the armed forces. She describes 18 hour days during a typhoid epidemic at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, with no standard uniform and pay of 30 dollars a month as horse drawn ambulances operated nearby.
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Soldier Come Home BETTY ZANE WATSON
Johnny Davia returns from war to work at the Datty Clarion with his father Me and falls for Kit Witlett, a reporter engaged to his cousin Hiastl Martini. They plot to build a park but need a grant from Jennifer Martin, Johnny's rich grandmother who has not acknowledged them. Derry Murphy promises revenge after his father’s death. Johnny spots Jerry on the Martin grounds after a football game. a scare ensues and Basil and Henry Martin pursue Johnny as Jerry escapes.
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Honey
Nighttime Crash Shocks Town as Boy Hit by Car
Kit, Basil, and Johnny are drawn into a crisis when Basil’s car fatally strikes a young boy on Jenkins Street. The child is rushed to hospital after Johnny and the doctor act swiftly. Kit’s tears and Basil’s guilt collide with unresolved romance as a fragile balance of blame and care unfolds.
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