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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
4
Thirteen days after the Alamo battle Fannin’s 350 men retreat from Goliad are surrounded by Urrea’s 1500. The Texans’ cannons lack water, surrender is agreed, but Urrea later orders a brutal massacre on March 27. Preachers exhort, a prayer is published from 1842, and Mexican dragoons finish the execution.
A bustling street scene captures residents like Howard Riggs, Wilma Ruth Forbis, Patricia Sullivan, and others in mid afternoon moments. Vendors, shoppers, and farmers discuss crop prospects, business hopes, and daily routines amid hot weather and storefronts, while several figures reflect on paper mentions and neighborhood life.
A short tribute notes Leonardo da Vinci born 1452 as the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer. It credits him as a universal genius and highlights his invention of the wheelbarrow as a quintessential labor saver and early mechanical concept.
A Colorado Springs essay chronicles a newsboy in an oversized regulation army blouse. It uses the image to argue that war threatens youth and demands America, Europe, and all nations shun armed conflict to protect democracy. The piece reflects on past wars and cautions against future ones.
Mr. Snow, Mr. Ice and Mr. Winter recently registered at the Colonial Hotel in Springfield, Missouri, all in one day. A light aside notes that many novels have a moral while best sellers carry an immoral undertone.
In a note carried by the Chillicothe Valley News Mayor W. L. Ledbetter urges parents to stop allowing children to ride bicycles on Highway 5. He stresses the great danger and asks parental cooperation to prevent the practice.
W D Newell said the Floyd county Silverton survey has reached a center line into Silverton linking east and west Highway 86 with more office and field work planned. The Clarendon News reports the local office supply business sold last week to Fred L Williams a young man.
The lesson portrays Josiah’s reforming reign, reading the Book of the Covenant, and binding both ruler and people to a renewed divine law. It stresses building on solid foundations and eradicating idolatry, urging modern society to adopt true character, covenant fidelity, and moral rebuilding.
A collage of light notes features a mountain climber motto Excelsior remarks about Il Duce and Halle Selassie lineage, a man aged 32 years older than driving allowed, a Worcester man’s stolen car missing parts, a 150 year old Bible claim, a bear in Glacier National Park, a boy paid two cents by nurses, and an eccentric note on a divorce case in Indianapolis plus stray names and bits from local life.
George Springfield of ham England faced possible death notice in newspapers. A. L. Myers of Salinas California, described as a garbage man, was involved in a fence dispute. A man imprisoned for two years for stealing a kiss from a 19 year old girl.
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