Cynthia Ann Parker and the Pease River Rescue Saga
In 1833 a Texas bound group led by Elder John Parker founded a Baptist settlement near Limestone County. After a 1836 attack, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured and lived with the Comanche until her recapture in 1860 by Sul Ross, linking to Quanah Parker. The tale blends family memory, frontier conflict, and questions about vengeance versus humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Texas
John Parker
Limestone County
Navasota
Rachel Plummer
Elizabeth Kellogg
Cynthia Ann Parker
Cynthia Ann
Killihein
Tom
Cynthia
Sul Ross
Len Williams
Victor M. Rose
Pease River
Peta Nocona
Tom Killihein
Ross
Nocona
Houston
Austin
Quanah Parker
Quanah
James Dollahue
Little “Prairie Flower
Anderson County
This Is My Interest And Principle Clash
A tailor quips about payment terms saying it isn’t his interest to pay the principal and it isn’t his principle to pay the interest, highlighting a witty moral clash over debts.
Hints For The Housewife From Daily Tips
A list of practical homemaking tips including keeping chair rockers from slipping with velvet, cleaning sifters with a wood skewer, resizing a worn pillow case for a baby, threading embroidery floss with a clothespin, keeping a ladder handy for fires, using epsom salts in starch, cleaning photos with methylated spirits, using cardboard as a hem marker, improving window screens with white enamel on the inside, and preserving a cookbook with shellac.
Soldier's Desire by Edgar A. Guest
A wartime poem contrasts soldiers longing for peaceful domestic joys over medals and praise. It lists home comforts from a mother's kisses to family gatherings, sports, shopping, and simple trades, imagining a world where war never returns and veterans pursue useful peaceful work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar A. Guest
Danger Hours: Peak Work Accidents Timing
Statistics indicate most work accidents occur about three hours after a shift begins, around 10 AM and 3 PM, with higher risk during morning and afternoon periods. Factors include sleep deprivation and vitamin deficiency, affecting alertness.
Morning habits and discipline help dodge accidents
The note suggests adjusting eating and mood to avoid mishaps and urges a quick wash-up during shifts to stay alert. A wartime scene at Scott Field shows a sergeant and the commanding officer peering from a bomber window, teasing about insignia.
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Rotaryann
Scott Field
Notice to summon heirs in Wood estate Grayson County
Citation commands Grayson County officials to publish for at least ten days in a local newspaper. It instructs summoning all persons interested in the estate of C. W. Wood, deceased, Ellen Wood as executrix has filed documents in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
C. W. Wood
Ellen Wood
Auto Loan Financing Offer by Sherman Company
If you need money or want to refinance car payments, this auto finance company will loan any reasonable amount or length of time with no delay. Bring your title papers and car for inspection. F. W. Creager, Manager, 121% So. Travis, Sherman.
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Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Final report in estate of C W Wood heard November 1944
Probate Court of Grayson County sets the final accounting for the estate of C W Wood deceased to be reviewed the first Monday after ten days service, in Sherman court house on the third Monday in November 1944. Any interested party may appear to contest the report. Publication includes writ return and publisher proof. Witness H Grady Thompson, Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County
C. W. Wood
City of
Sherman
A. D
H. Grady Thompson
Texas
Marguerite Berry
Divorce Action Filed in Grayson County Texas
Citation to Kelly McGee commands appearance by 10 am on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance through December 25 1944 in the Grayson County District Court Sherman Texas Edna Mae McGee sues for divorce on grounds of three years abandonment filed September 23 1944 Case No 53062 Judge S V Earnest clerk with deputy Nancy Drake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Kelly McGee
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Edna Mae McGee
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Citation No 53143 Texas suit targets Gorman heirs and others
The State of Texas serves Daniel Gorman and others including Ellen Gorman Martha Newlin Brooks and Johnson unknown heirs and representatives. W G Meginnis receiver and successors The Iron Hall business relations and related parties are described with their potential heirs and trustees. David Gorman is living or his heirs. C Whitaker and E Callahan are named with their successors and representatives. Greeting:
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Daniel Gorman
Ellen Gorman
Martha M. Newlin
Brooks & Johnson
Brooks
Johnson
W. G. Meginnis
Iron Hall
David Gorman
L. Kidd
Ethelbert Callahan
C. T. Whitaker
A. D
Suit of Susan Mitchell for title to Grayson County land
On November 7 1944 Susan Mitchell also known as Sue Mitchell widow sues Daniel Gorman and others in Grayson County Texas to quiet title to Blocks 1 2 3 4 Subdivision T Denison Improvement Company map Vol 71 page 450. She claims fee simple ownership since January 1 1944 with peaceable possession for over twenty five years and charges the defendants with unlawful entry and cloud on title seeking removal of clouds and full title by court order. Drake Deputy. 40-Nov. 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honorable District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Susan Mitchell
Sue Mitchell
Daniel Gorman
Denison Improvement Company
P. C. Martin
State of
A. D
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
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By Jeff D. Ray
Magnifier
T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Shining Corner
Texaco
Luther Gordon
Pascal Farley
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Whitewright
Philco
Tom Brown
T. B. Blanton
Route Two
American Beauty
L. R. Woodruff
Floyd Shadden
Tom Bean
Fort Worth Press, Daily
The
Whitewright Sun
Sun
Tom Barbee
Social Security
Chateau Thierry
Philippines
Argonne
Tarawa
America
Kingston Drug Store
Denison
Rexall
By Enro
Kivolens
Department Stores
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