Texas Now a Buffer Province in Global Struggle
The article notes Texas as a fragile buffer in the Louisiana transfer drama among Spain France and the United States. It cites Juan Bautista de Elguezabal and UT translated archives detailing San Antonio de Bexar Nacogdoches and Bahía del Espíritu Santo. It highlights poverty scarce cattle no mills and rising risk of starvation without markets and funds for irrigation.
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United States
Great Britain
France
Napoleon
Louisiana
Texas
New Orleans
Juan Bautista de Elguezabel
Bexar
University of Texas
Elguezabel
Towit
San Antonio de Bexar
Bahai del Espiritu Santo
Nacogdoches
Presidio
Villa de San Fernando
Presidio de San Antonio de Bexar
Saltillo
San Antonio de Valero
San Carlos de Parras
Don Antonio Beca
Bahia
Nuestra Senora del Rosario
Espiritu Santo
Nuestra Senora del Refugio
French Towns In Jura Pay No Taxes And Dividend To Inhabitants
In the Jura mountains near the Swiss border forty two communes with about ten thousand residents pay no local taxes. Each person receives an annual dividend of 100 to 200 francs from profits from communal spruce and fir woods. Profits fund municipal expenses and villages resist newcomers seeking a share.
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Paris
Jura
Alas Poor Editor and the Redheaded Apprentice
A fragment traces a boy from birth through early schooling and childhood pranks, noting a red headed freckled appearance at age ten and an apprenticeship in printing begun at twelve, after surviving childhood diseases.
Beer Lover Claims World Record for Speedy Guzzling
Floyd Verette, a 310 pound Milwaukee bartender, guzzled a half gallon of beer in 34 seconds to set a world record at a Fond du Lac Avenue Advancement Association event. Whitey Berghausen tied Verette's 34 second time in a final performance at a picnic near Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Floyd Verette
Fond du Lac
Whitey Berghausen
Berghausen
Verette
Here
Portrait of a Printer King in a Minnesota Paper
The excerpt traces a life from youth to old age, noting at 18 he owns two cases of long primer and an army press and edits a country newspaper, at 20 he marries, at 30 he is bald and stooped with a large family, at 35 he lies dead in a cheap pine coffin as 500 delinquent subscribers file by, with the remark he was a good fellow yet failed to save.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Minnesota Press
World's longest mule ear claimed by Platte County farmer
Kansas City report says William Briggs of Platte County boasts a mule ear stretching forty four inches from tip to tip and forty eight inches when fed corn. Briggs seeks Sheriff Bush's participation in a world contest to determine ownership of the longest ear. He plans to return Monday for the proceedings.
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Kansas City
William Briggs
Briggs
Platte County
Thomas B. Bush
Mary Frick
Bush
Notable Global Affairs and Trials Report
Foreign tabs note German university delays due to army service and Nazi study. English saints Thomas More and John Fisher canonized. Alexander Kapusko executed in Rostov. Fascist Italy signs 1087 treaties with 59 nations since 1922. Lawrence of Arabia's unpublished RAF autobiography delayed to 1950. Berlin case Frau Juenemann appeals against beheading. Hitler cited as hope for expectant mother. Sweden debates worker vacation and discharge rules.
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Sir Thomas More
John Fisher
St. Peter’s
Alexander Kapusko
Rostov-on-Don
Russia
Pris
Italy
Lawrence of Arabia
England
Royal Air Force
Supreme Court
Charlotte Juenemann
Berlin
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Austin
Texas- Louisiana
Napoleon Bonaparte
Spain
Mexico
Charles IV of
Manuel Goday
Bancroft
New World
Nuestra Senora de Nacogdoches
America
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Ned MoOre
Lee
Manley
Nancy
Congress
Boston
Ness
Whitewright
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