Bygone Stories from a Texas Newspaper 1881 - 1883 eBook Karen Ballentine
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This book was previously titled under the name TEXAS CLIPPINGS. It has a new title, new cover, but the content is the same, minus some typos.
A gentleman, who overate himself at the Presbyterian supper last night, enclosed an extra half dollar to one of the lady managers this morning. It's the only case on record of conscience money paid to a church festival. Out of respect to the family, we will not mention the name of the gentleman.
The city marshal wants the city to reimburse him for goods stolen from his desk in the police office.
It seems that the bulletin board set up in the post office inviting patrons to complain to the postmaster is a regular trap to catch the unwary, as the postmaster gives the complainant a piece of his mind for daring to complain. So says a patron.
Alderman Story is the first violator of the undertaker ordinance. He stored a corpse in his stable.
As the LIGHT wants all its space for live items, we shall ask the readers to take it for granted there has been a stage robbery either west, northwest, or in some other direction, just as they already know every morning, without telling, that the chicken thieves have been exercising their industry.
The killing of Harris by Ben Thompson, Marshall of Austin, has created a feeling of horror throughout our city.
We learn from an exchange that the Rev. M. Reed has recently made a smart attack on Mr. W. H. Murray’s ideal hell.
Lawyer Dibble does not pay ten cents for the LIGHT – but borrows it from his neighbor.
City carts are employed today hauling off mud. In dry weather they will haul it back again.
It is now discovered that the abutments for the new bridge on Houston street are nine feet short, and the masons are at work remedying the mistake of the city engineer.
A plan is in contemplation to turn the historic Alamo church into a museum. It should be abandoned. The building is unfit for a storehouse for old trumpery.
To refined vagrants it is known as the Hotel Shardein, so called from the gentleman who has charge of it. Others call it the Bat Cave. In city parlance it has the uneuphonious (sic) name of the city jail.
Many of the citizens refuse to believe that the statement of a man being found in the Water Works reservoir was untrue. They assert that the water has tasted bad for some time and they are quite sure that said bad taste was caused by the presence of the dead man.
The census takers are instructed to take only the people and to omit the cats, which the Examiner says were included in Ft. Worth.
Postmaster Gresham is suffering with insomnia, which seems to be obstinate. If he will only read the Houston POST, sleep will surely descend on him.
A Chicago minister had great trouble from a large number of his congregation determining to have front seats. Finally he put up a notice saying this privilege would be granted according to age. The effect was as desired, and most of the ladies sought seats far in the rear.
A Maine young man has perfected an invention for starting a kitchen fire in the morning without getting out of bed. Its principal effects may be indicated by the divorce dockets.
At the gate of the cemetery at Avignon, in France, the parents of a child certified to have died of croup, insisted on having the coffin opened to take a last look. The child was found breathing, and was expected to be saved.
There is a church in Michigan which has been struck by lightening a dozen times, and now, whenever the preacher shows signs of getting long winded, the organist slyly imitates the sound of approaching thunder on the pedals. The way that preacher dives into the conclusion and rushed through it and starts the doxology is a caution. The congregation would not part with the organist for a million dollars.
All I know is just what I read in the papers.
Will Rogers
Bygone Stories from a Texas Newspaper 1881 - 1883 eBook Karen Ballentine
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Often hilarious, these snippets bring the past alive. Great for dipping into.
Coffin Wars is an unusual book – it’s both hard, and easy. Hard to put down as you get involved in reading about wandering cows and missing chickens and early San Antonio (entertaining and educational). But if you must put the book down for some lame reason like eating or sleeping, it’s easy to pick up the story line again, and get hooked again. Karen has discovered a fun way to absorb some history – what’s next?
What I found most amazing was how little so many things have never changed for then to now. Had to laugh about the excessive heat articles during summer but no mention of global warming.
Great collection of historical newspaper clips. Very entertaining and great to be able to pick up and put down as you have time. Highly recommend it!
Loved this look back at San Antonio's history. Thank you for sharing.
Great fun to read. Tragedy, stupidity, everything,
I can't put this book down. The stories are funny, obscure, unbelievable and entertaining! There are so many interesting phrases in these articles that I can hardly wait to read it again and again. Bravo to Karen Ballentine for all the years she put into compiling this treasured collection and sharing it with the world! This collection transported me back in time!
This is an amazing collection of news stories from 1881-1883 (134 years ago). News was reported in short paragraphs rather than in-depth articles of today, but that's what makes this book so interesting and fun to read. The newspaper reported on chicken thieves, cattle roaming the street, who had to go to the poor house or insane asylum, who committed suicide, and more. But there are also some light-hearted news stories, too.
Although the paper was printed in San Antonio, Texas, it reported news from surrounding towns, other U.S. cities and around the world. The author's next book is going to be from Chicago newspapers. I can't wait to read it.
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