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- Cuttings
by Mike Cox 7-10-08
Remember way back
before the advent of the internet when people clipped newspapers instead of downloading
stories? Way back, newspaper clippings weren’t even called clippings. People referred
t them as “cuttings.” So, for some lazy summer reading, here are some early-day
“cuttings” from various Texas newspapers... - More
News of the Odd by Mike Cox 12-13-07
The day may come when the internet forces newspapers to give up paper distribution,
but the human appetite for offbeat news is as robust as ever, no matter the medium.
Herewith some “cuttings” (as clippings used to be called) and a couple of rewrites
from various 19th century Texas or Southwestern newspapers... - Austin
Happenings by Mike Cox 8-22-07
Though its masthead
proclaimed that the Texas State Democrat held itself in devotion to “those things
which make happiness in the Texas home, prosperity on the Texas farm and contribute
to the development of Texas resources,” news is news. And news, especially in
1902, sold newspapers... - In
the News Mike Cox 7-17-07
A sampling of cuttings
from the Dallas Herald shedding light on what was going on in Texas in the spring
of 1890... - Weird
News Mike Cox 4-25-07
From the Lone Star State in
1899, an assortment of weird, mostly fatal happenings - vintage news of the odd... - Oddities
from Naylor’s Epic-Century: The Illustrated All-Texas Magazine December 1938 issue
- News
from Texas - From Niles’ National Register 1939-1940
- Summer
News from 1894
- Old
News - "Late from Texas" from various 1851-1852 issues of the Western
American, a weekly published in Keosauqua, Iowa
- "Struck
on the head by a Locomotive"
Early Waco Obituaries 1874-1908 - Weimar,
Texas, 1887
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News Gleaned from the Gonzales Inquirer - 1900
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News Gleaned from the Brenham Banner-Press
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News Gleaned from the Bastrop Advertiser
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