Texas under six flags historical timeline summary
Clarksville Times outlines Texas history from 1664 La Salle colony through Alamo and independence, detailing key events, leaders, battles, and shifts in capital. It traces French claims, missions, Stephen F. Austin, Texans in 1835 1836 independence, Santa Anna, Burnet, Houston, and later 1845 statehood, Civil War era, and 1865 flag change.
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Texas
la Salle
Louis XIV
France
Great River
Mississippi
Matagorda Bay
Navasota
Indianola
Santa Anna
Mexico
Coahuila
San Felipe de Austin
Stephen Austin
Mexican Congress
Austin
Houston
Bowie
Travis
Crockett
Fannin
Milam
Burleson
Washington
Brazos River
David G. Burnet
Lorenzo de Lavala
Thomas J. Rusk
Sam Houston
Buffalo Bayou
Brazos
Harrisburg
Galveston
Cincinnati
Republic
Alamo
Goliad
Smith
Vince
Lamar
Lone Star
J. Pinckney Henderson
Thos
J. Rusk
United States
Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Lee
Robert E. Lee
Appomattox Court House
Virginia
U. S. Grant
Clarksville
Mothers Cook Book Promotes Duty Of Pleasant Living
Article emphasizes homemaking guidance urging mothers to embody courtesy and pleasant conduct as essential duties. It advocates kindness, orderly routines, and cheerful home life as core values for families.
Seasonal dishes and hearty pantry staples
A collection of timeless kitchen recipes highlights squash preparations such as baked hubbard squash and a squash souffle. It includes an Ice Box Rolls method with warm yeast dough, and a hearty Chili Con Carne with pork beef tomato and beans. Also suggests rabbit fricassee with curry and a horseradish cream sauce for steak or fish.
Phrase sparkles on Kipling style satire
The item quotes Olivia imagining Kipling naming today’s women as a “raveling, two bones and a cow lek” as a witty observational aside. It references Verece Margweed with a note of 1927 from Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Kipling
Olivia
Taken Down
Taft recalls a dinner exchange about cross examination and a preacher who outwits a lawyer with pointed Yes or No questions. The anecdote ends with a jab about reading advertisements and a courtroom laugh at the bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Washington
Citation by publication in Grayson County Texas 1928
Public notice issued by the Grayson County District Court instructs the sheriff to summon Billy Kennedy Sarah Kennedy J A Grinnell Joana Grinnell and Tommy Kennedy to appear on the March 1928 term to answer a land title and possession suit filed January 23 1928 by Regina Kennedy in the 15th Judicial District court. The case involves land on Mineral Creek 76 5 acres described, seeks title possession and possible sale with proceeds to be divided by law.
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State of
Texas
District Court
Grayson County
Grayson
Billy Kennedy
Sarah Kennedy
J. A. Grinnell
Joana Grinnell
Tommy Kennedy
15Th Judicial District
Sherman
Regina Kennedy
Charlie Kennedy
Sudie Kennedy
Mineral Creek
M. B. Lamar
J. Seymour
B. F. Bevis
Miller Land
J. A. Martin
Revis
R. B. Aston
District Court of
Grayson Co
City of
Two of a Kind Dialogue Between Merchant and Clerk
A humorous exchange features a self important merchant boasting of humble beginnings and a witty clerk replying he was also barefoot as a boy. The brief vignette plays on class pretensions with light sarcasm.
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Nero
Rome
Louisiana
Matagorda
Spain
Alonzo de Leon
de Leon
Jean Lafitte
Galveston Island
Moses Austin
Missouri
Baron de Bastrop
Stephen
Saltillo
Rio Grande
Karnes
Burnet
San Felipe
Congress
Rice Hotel
Texas Republic
England
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Anson Jones
Ashbel Smith
Mothers Cook Book
Barbee
James Kennedy
Wife Kennedy
G. P. Gafford
Whitewright
Ford
Adams Motor Company
Lincoln
Fordson
Sun Jop Printing
JOB Printing Department
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