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No Tears Shed For Back-Shooting Fort Graham Commander Print E-mail
Sunday, September 20 2009 11:44 am

  Bartee Haile When Major Ripley A. Arnold threatened to throw a couple of belligerent drunks in the stockade on the night of Sept. 9, 1853, the post surgeon retorted that the order for his arrest would be the last the Fort Graham commander would ever give.
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Texas Outlaw Musician Faces Charges Print E-mail
Written by Jim Parks   
Friday, September 04 2009 12:59 pm
Running your head about anything that happened in a Texas beer joint is just like what old Coach Darrell Royal of the University of Texas football dynasty always said about the forward pass.
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Texans Mourn The Passing Of ‘Miss Ima’ Print E-mail
Saturday, August 29 2009 05:39 pm
Bartee Haile Newspapers across the Lone Star State carried the same headline on Aug. 20, 1975: “The First Lady of Texas is dead.”
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Everyone Danced To Wells’ Tune In The Valley Print E-mail
Friday, July 31 2009 03:45 pm
Bartee Haile Twenty-eight year old James Babbage Wells, Jr. arrived at the southern tip of Texas on July 22, 1878, with a burning desire to make the most of a fresh start.
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German U-Boats Sink Ships Off Texas Coast Print E-mail
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Sunday, July 05 2009 10:46 am
Buried in the back pages of a Houston newspaper in July 1942 was a matter-of-fact account of the sinking on the sixth of the month of a cargo ship “somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.”
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Socialists Champion Cause Of Texas Sharecroppers Print E-mail
Written by Bartee Haile   
Saturday, June 27 2009 06:27 pm
Obeying a direct order from Washington, the postmaster at Hallettsville confiscated the latest edition of “The Rebel” on June 17, 1917.
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Doolittle On Hand For First Houston-To-Chicago Flight Print E-mail
Wednesday, June 10 2009 06:38 pm

Hoping to generate interest for its new Bayou City-Windy City connection, Chicago & Southern Airlines announced on June 8, 1946, that none other than famed World War II hero Jimmy Doolittle would be aboard the maiden flight.
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Texas Replaces Gallows With Newfangled Electric Chair Print E-mail
Wednesday, September 02 2009 10:37 am
Bartee Haile With the modern and presumably more humane electric chair due to replace the gallows at midnight, an overflow crowd packed the courthouse square in Angleton on Aug. 31, 1923, for the last public execution in Texas.
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County Seat Elections Often A Matter Of Life And Death Print E-mail
Wednesday, August 05 2009 12:25 pm

Bartee Haile None of the four candidates for the Dallas County seat received a majority mandate on Aug. 4, 1850, but Little D (pop. 163) beat Hord’s Ridge in the runoff to take the prize.
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Provisional Governor Caught In Political Crossfire Print E-mail
Written by Bartee Haile   
Sunday, July 19 2009 12:15 pm

Bartee Haile Andrew Jackson Hamilton returned to Texas on July 21, 1865, to take a job no one in his right mind wanted — presidentially appointed provisional governor.
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Two Infamous Mexican Exiles Both Die In Texas Print E-mail
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Wednesday, July 01 2009 12:42 pm

Pascual Orozco and Victoriano Huerta, the original “odd couple” of the Mexican Revolution, were arrested in southern New Mexico on June 27, 1915, and taken to Fort Bliss for temporary safekeeping.
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‘Know Nothings’ Spring Election Surprise On Democrats Print E-mail
Tuesday, June 16 2009 01:54 pm

With Election Day just seven weeks away, the Texas branch of the American Party, better known as the “Know Nothings,” met on June 11, 1855, to select a slate of candidates for statewide office.
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