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| Lurid
Literature of Other Days |
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| Matchmakers and Bachelors Found; Marriage Aid Societies Quickened Pulse in Early Days |
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| State
Fair of Texas Had Crude Beginning. |
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| Memories
of East Dallas Municipality Recalled by School Board's Action |
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| Following
Buffalo Herd Great Sport in West |
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| Pomp
of Autumn Sunsets and Meaning of the Cycle of the Seasons. |
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| Movies
Now Flicker Where Once Great Thespians Trod. |
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| Awful Sundays |
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| Bootleg
Booze is Dream Producer |
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| Dallas as Seen in its Beginnings; Razing of an Old Structure Revives Memories of the Long Ago. |
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| When Men Voted as They Pleased; Palmy Days of Ward Heelers, Yellow Journalism and Oratory Recalled. |
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| Old Landmark is Being Demolished; History of City's Earliest "White Way" Recalled by Razing of Building |
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| Earliest Days of Dallas Recalled |
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| Holdups Recall Sam Bass Gang |
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| Indians Worried Early Dallasites |
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| Old Union Depot Nears Its Finish; Prominent Part in History of City Played by Station in East Dallas. |
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| Pioneers Balked at Toll Charges; County Purchased Bridge Over Trinity When Protest Filed. |
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| Pioneers of City Were Progressive; Mardi Gras Celebration in '70s to Advertise Dallas is Recalled. |
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| Times Were Wild in Young Dallas; Republican Mayor Surveyed Out City -- Growth of Trade Told. |
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| Dallas
Pioneers Had a Hard Fight; Coming of Railroads; First Paved Streets, etc. |
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| Dallas
Building Boom Began Early; Population Began Growing and New Subdivisions Opened in 1886. |
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| Dallas
a Rival of El Dorado in 80's; Property Soared Over 500 Per Cent in Boom of 1886-90. |
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| Values
Fell with Alien Land Law; Depression Followed Enactment of Measure in Year 1891; Building Suspended; Bankruptcy Overtook Various Street Car Lines During Years of Hard Times. |
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| Prize Fighting Stopped in '95; Special Session Prohibited Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Here; Test for Texas Law; Dallas Got National Publicity, but No Championship Bout. |
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| When
The News Came to Dallas; Veteran Writer Tells of Early Days in Texas Journalism; Merged with Herald; Combination with Herald Owners Gave News Pioneer Place in the Local Field. |
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| Variety
Theaters Flourished Here; Show Manager Looked to Bar Rather than Admissions for Profits; Music Was Good; Legislature Took Hand in 1887 and Enacted Statute Which Abolished Showhouses. |
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| When
Dallas Had 7,054 Residents; Directory for 1873-4 Shows One Saloon to Every 165 Persons; Review of the City; Much Interesting Information is Carried in the Old Volume Now in Dallas Public Library. |
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| Dallas
Building Boom at Heighth; Activity in 1921 Greater Than Any Period in City's History; Expect Record Year; Building in Residential Sections is Solving the Housing Problem. |
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| Dallas
of 1875 a Shadow of Today; Citizens Fought to Keep Railways from Building Through; Population of 7,000; Little Opportunity for Social Activities in Pioneer Settlement. |
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| Dallas
of 1883 Prosperous City; City Directory Gives Population as 33,304; County 40,154; Great Future is Seen; Progressive Spirit of Builders is Shown in Public and Private Enterprises. |
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| History of Old Builder Related; Improvements in Dallas in Early Days Come with Boom; Hardships Overcome; Thomas L. Marsalis, Was One of Really Strong Men of This Community. |
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| First
Boat Came to Dallas in '58; History of Attempts to Navigate Trinity Covers Half Century |
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| Dallas
Has Gone Forward Rapidly; Steady Growth Enjoyed Since Business Revival After Civil War. |
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| Pioneer Lawyer Arrived in 1845; Bar of Early Days Tried to Increase Culture of Community; Had Difficult Task; Colonel John C. McCoy Controlled Legal Field Three Years Before Others Came. |
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| Pioneer Doctors Had a Hard Life; First Physician Arrived in This Locality in the Year 1843; Many Malaria Cases; Dr. McDermott, Who Came to Dallas in 1847, Still Engaged in Active Practice. |
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| Pioneer Woman of City 93 Years Old; Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Has Resided in Dallas Since 1869; Lives in Same House; Her Husband Bought a Homestead of 40 Acres Adjoining Pearl and McKinney. |
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| Pioneer Engineer Resides in Dallas; Hank White Began Service on Michigan Central Road in 1860; Employed by T. & P.; Spent Years in Service of This Road After Coming to Texas in 1873. |
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| Dallas'
History Started in 1841; John Neely Bryan Built Rude Cabin and City Began its Career; Election Held in 1846; Handful of Residents Sent W. H. Beeman to Legislature Without Right. |
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| Butcher Tells of Former Days Here; Frank Hamm Settled in Dallas in 1872 and Built Up Business; Sees Dallas Grow from Village to Present-Day City |
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| First Movie Shown in Dallas in 1897; People Blocked Streets in Order to Witness Exhibition; Great Progress Made; State Fair Ran Advertising Car With Moving Picture as Chief Attraction. |
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| Many Changes Made in Grocery Trade; J. J. Simmons Tells of Early Days Here in the Business; Hard on Drummers; Traveling Done by Stage Coach or on Horseback and Hotels Not of the Best. |
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| Druggists
Happy in Pioneer Days; Gen. Patterson Discourses on Conditions Before City Had Arrived; Had Ananias Club; Only Three of Pharmacists Who Were Here Forty-Three Years Ago Survive. |
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| Election
Methods Radically Changed; Dallas Was First City in South to Abolish Old System; Gang Rule Prevailed; Saloons and Gambling Houses Took Leading Part in Electing Ward Candidates. |
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| Salesman Tells of Life 45 Years Ago; C. E. Dickson is Probably the Oldest Drummer in Dallas; Made Long Trips; Weeks Required to Cover Territory, Which Extended to San Angelo and Fort Griffin. |
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| Fire
Department Limited in 1887; Six Pieces of Apparatus Comprised Equipment at that Time; Rainey Gives History; Tells of Most Important Fires During His Thirty Years of Service. History of Dallas Department |
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| Art Appreciation is Growing Here; Development of Exhibit at State Fair Indicates Rapid Increase. |
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| Dallas
Has Seen the Time When Food Was to be Had for Asking [Old-Time Restaurants in Dallas] |
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| When
"Hoss Tradin' " Was in Flower in Dallas; Wagon Yards and Livery Stables Abounded in the Old Days When the City Was Young... |
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| Dallas
News Boys Real Merchants and Know Business; Old Times Among the Newsies; First Circulator in Dallas; The Race for the Gambling House Door; One-Time Newsie Now Owns Block and Building; Banner Days Among the Little Fellows; How They Sell Extras |
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| Confusion Would Result if Fashion Arbiters Quit; Story of Styles in Dallas from Early Days -- Pagan Gods Must Have Laughed to See Costumes of Individual Tastes |
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| Game
was Abundant 50 Years Ago Near Dallas |
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| Gambling
Frenzy in United States Began Shortly After Close of Civil War; Veteran Retired Gambler, Now Living in Dallas, Tells of Days When Mining Camps Were Principal Gaming Places in Country. |
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| Dallas
Began to Grow When Railroads Came; Many Other Towns Just as Promising as This and a Number Were Far Ahead of It |
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| Strange Story of the Silent Minister; Christmas Tale of a Mining Camp in Which Spirit of Departed Divine Eventually Eliminated Its Wickedness and Crime |
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| Wholesale Dry Goods Business in Dallas in Early Times; Frontier Country Merchant Was Not a Discriminating Buyer in Those Days -- Reminiscences of Old-Time Salesman |
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| Telegraph
Business in Dallas Has Increased a Thousand Fold. |
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| Who
Can Predict Where Growth of Dallas Will Finally Lead? |
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| Dallas Was Always Hustling Town |
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| John Hess Came To Dallas in 1870; City Had a Population of 838 -- and Looked It -- To People From Horseless Country Riders Seemed to Be Centaurs. |
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| When
the Smoke of Burning Dallas Was Seen From Afar |
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| When
Customers Asked That Milk be Watered; Buttermilk Was Considered Unfit for Human Consumption |
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| Judge [George W.] Riddle Tells of Early Times |
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| When Dallas Was Not Counted in the Census; Impossible to Find City on Old Maps -- How State Representative to Legislature Was First Elected. |
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| When Elm Street Was a Rural Highway |
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| Old French Settlement Near Dallas Had Many Splendid Citizens. [La Reunion] |
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| Captain Erath and His Noble Broncho |
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| Saddle and Leather Industry |
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| A Texas Utopia of the Long Ago; Strange Colony of Enthusiasts Founded Town in Peter's Colony Grant. |
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| Reminiscences of Dallas Pioneer [Capt. W. H. Gaston] |
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| When Water Sold For Five Cents a Bucket in Old Town of Dallas; Merchant With Five Thousand Dollars Was Considered a Croesus -- Creek Once Flowed Along Murphy Street. |
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| Birdseye View of Dallas in 1872 |
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| Dallas Was a Mere Village in 1869 |
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| Chasing Mule-Eared Rabbits |
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| When Dallas Was a Dead Town |
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| Quarter Horses and Their Successors |
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| When There Were Stage Lines Between Dallas and Fort Worth; Burning of Dallas Witnessed by Pioneer Citizen [Geo. E. Cornwell] -- Hanging of Desperadoes -- Indian Uprising in Parker County. Wild Horses in Vicinity. -- Two Routes From East Texas -- Jefferson Was the Livest Town in State. |
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| When Dallas' Population Was in Advance of the Houses of Old Times; City Gave Itself Airs of Frontier Town on Completion of First Railroad; Streets Seas of Mud When Wet Spell Set In; People Bought Water at Five Cents for a Bucketful. Browder Springs Was Source of Supply |
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| 1872
Celebration Was a Big Event; Only Two Residents of Dallas County on Program Survive. |
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| Hard Times in Dallas During the Civil War; Tonkaway Indians and Their Ways; When an Indian Surrenders, He Surrenders All Over; Much Suffering Because of Scarcity of Salt |
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| Warned
That Dallas Was a Wild and Woolly Town; Post Office Has Wandered Considerably Since Early Days and One Man Was the "Force"; When Lots and Lumber Were Cheap, Old Pleasure Garden at Head of Stone Street -- Adventure of Roxy Clements, Kerosene Lamps Were Used as Illuminants in Homes and Stores -- When Dallasites Had Never Heard of Things Now Considered Essential to Life and Comfort. |
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| The Cyclone at Cedar Hill |
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| Girl
Heard Fire Alarm When Dallas Was Destroyed in Summer, 1860; All Churches Worshipped in the Courthouse in Early Days; Maker of Looms and Shoes; First Piano Brought to Dallas Was Made in Switzerland and Had Pearl Keys; When Cattle Passed Through Dallas in Enormous Numbers. Hair Bobbed in Fashion of Today -- Low Necks and Short Sleeves for the Women -- Linen Sheeting Manufactured in Dallas During the Civil War. |
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| Dallas Was an Island in 1866; Reported Several Drowned on What Are Now Business Streets of City; -- Reconstruction Days. How the Old Song, "Dixie," Was Taboo. Hunting in What Is Now Manufacturing District of City -- Law and Order Was Maintained -- Few Men Had the Nerve to Start Anything -- Every Grown Man "Toted a Gun." |
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| Great
Road of Republic of Texas Started From Cabin of John Neeley Bryan |
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| Dallas' First Newspaper Appeared in 1849 |
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| Traffic Officers Worked in Dallas in 1872 |
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| Indian
Raids in Early Days Near Dallas |
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| [J. D. Herndon] Rode a Horse From Springfield to Dallas; Missourian Found Texas of 1871 Much as it Must Have Been in 1771; How Beeves Were Killed and Meat Preserved in Early Days; Farm Lands Were Cheap |
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| The Arkansas Traveler |
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| Texas and Pacific Came Fifty Years Ago to Dallas |
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| [I. E. Rose] When the Railroad Came From Jefferson |
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| When the Railroads Killed the Stage Lines |
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| The
Old Dallas & Wichita Railroad |
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| When Indians Were Plentiful in Llano [Asa Johnson] |
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| When Old Jefferson Was Distributing Center [L. Craddock] |
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| When the Meat Problem in Dallas Was Only a Question of Marksmanship [H. H. Smith] |
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| Life in Rural Texas in Early Days; Caravan of Horses in Charge of Early Pioneers Made Trip Through New Country -- Eleven Terrific Rainstorms in Fifteen Days; When a Sight of the Plains Was Rare -- Coming of the Cyclones in Their Infant State -- Large Families in Those Days. [Jeff G. Jones] |
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| How Rockwall Got Its Name |
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| When
a Toll Bridge Spanned the Trinity at Commerce Street [S. B. Scott] |
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| What
the Negroes Did When Told That They Were Free; Shooting Five-Hundred Times at an Antelope with a Cartridge Pistol Before Bringing it Down; When Land was Cheap in Dallas; Threshing Wheat by Walking Horses Over It. [O. F. Yarbrough] |
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| When There Were Devils in the Print Shop; George Myers Tells of the Days When a Regular Pay Day on a Newspaper Was a Novelty; Ups and Downs of the Newspaper Business in Dallas |
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| Dallas
Suppressed Gambling Long Before Several of the Other Texas Cities Undertook to Do So; Town Had Adobe Houses in Some Places on Prominent Streets -- Old-Timer [Wood H. Ramsey] Tells of Early Days in Hustling Frontier Town in Which He Delivered Newspaper |
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Section |
| Three
Candidates for Dallas County Seat Were Eventually Successful [John H. Yeargan] |
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Section |
| Felt the "Rabbit Risin' " in Him; Experiences of Some Old-Time Dallas Police Officers; The Woman Who Found the Chickens That Had Been Stolen |
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Section |
| E.
K. Martyn Rode a Three- Year-Old Colt to Texas in 1873 |
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| When
Dallas Firemen Hiked it as the Big Bell Tapped |
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Section |
| J.
B. Banks Reached Texas With Fifty Cents in His Pocket. |
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| Dallas'
First "Opera House" Opened in 1873; Father of B. F. Sala Built Playhouses in Texas from Galveston to Dallas -- Knew Old Families and Had Thrilling Meetings With Noted Bandits of Early Days -- Dallas Fire Department Gave Lively Exhibition With Old Hand Pump |
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Section |
| When
the Steamer Sallie Haynes Docked at Dallas |
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| Recalls Bicycle Craze That Swept Country 40 Years Ago; Dallas Man [H. J. Blakeney] Tells of Early-Day Bike; Qualities of the Broncho Buster Required to Ride Big Wheel |
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| When Texans Traveled in Wagons Drawn by Ox Teams |
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| When Black Land Farm Could be Bought Here for $2 to $6 an Acre |
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| Field Near Akard Once Grew Cotton; County in Early Days Was Open Range and Cattle Best Money Crop; Some Street Names; Stage Lines Were Operated Out of Dallas After Coming of Railroads. |
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| Dallas
Was Little Developed in 1857; Traveler Found Only Row of Cabins and Cheap Box Houses; Indians Numerous; [Andrew] Mason Visited Town Again in 1870 and Was Surprised at Improvements. |
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| [Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Kittrell of Cisco] Tells of Trip to Texas During 1863; Farmers Refused to Sell Their Wheat for Confederate Money; Freakish Weather; On April 11, 1857, There Was Hard Freeze All Way to the Coast. |
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| Dallas 63 Years Ago Described; T. C. Lewis of Atoka, Ok., Tells of First Visit to City in 1870; Was Frontier Town; Visitor Sees Many Changes Since He Lived in Dallas Three-Score Years Ago. |
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| On Cattle Ranges of Texas in 1869; A. Branshaw of Dallas Recalls Stirring Events of Early Days; Tales of the Trail; Texas Longhorns Would Charge Man on Foot, but Would Not Notice Him on Horse. |
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| Knew Texas Before Barbed Wire Fence; [Ben F.] Brandenburg Recalls Days When Country Around Dallas Was Open; Cattle Were Wild; Early Settlers Had No Butcher Shops and Each Took Time Killing Beeves. |
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| Malaria Here After Fields are Plowed; Pioneer Physician [Dr. W. P. Stephens] Says Few Mosquitoes in the Early Days; Asylum for Fugitive; Law-Abiding Citizens Had Difficulty in Breaking Up Organized Thievery. |
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| First Directory Published in 1873; Copy Gives Information Concerning Dallas 50 Years Ago; Population Small; Finest Suspension Bridge of Frontier Days Was Built Across Trinity. |
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| Dallas Man Tells of Indian Fights; Henry C. Clark's Father Fought With Captain John B. Denton; Came to Town in 1856; Early Farmers Around Dallas Restricted Their Crops to Wheat. |
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| Texas
People Built the Early Railroads; Central Depot Located Exactly One Mile From Courthouse and According to Law; What Followed When the Road Was Completed to Dallas; Traffic in Days When the Traffic Policemen Had to Help Guide Vast Herds of Cattle Along the Streets [Judge R. B. Seay] |
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|
Magazine |
| Civil War Repeated in Indian Territory [Capt. June Peak]. |
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Magazine |
| Hunting Buffalo on the Little Wichita River [Capt. June Peak] |
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|
Magazine |
| Dallas
Drew on Population of Lazy Neck; Days When a Lot on Elm Street
Could Have Been Bought for the Price of a Pony -- How Raw Hide Church Got Its Name -- When It Did Not Pay to Raise Cotton in Collin County. |
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Magazine |
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| Naming Places in Dallas County; Some of the Oldest Families, Where They Lived and Who Their Neighbors Were |
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| Forty-Six Years Ago in Dallas |
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| Mustang
Pony Was Original Source of Dallas' Pep |
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| Time
Was When There Was Not Three Hundred Dollars in Dallas |
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| When Rangers Fought Indians |
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Magazine |
| Dallas Was a Wide-Open Town in '71 |
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| When Railroad Had Wooden Rails |
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| When
Dallas Had Good Shows and Bad Lights |
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| Chased by Prairie Fires; John Henry Brown's Home, etc. |
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| Pioneer Railroad Men of Dallas |
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| Dallas Once Like Movie Town |
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| When Dallas Tried to Keep Close to the Courthouse |
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| Bears,
Wild Horses and Panthers in Texas in Old Days. |
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| When Farms Were in Dallas |
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| Captured by Indians in Texas |
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| How Fire-Chief Myers Learned Which Was Right Hand |
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| How Cowboys Once Roped a Panther |
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| Peculiarities of Longhorn Cattle |
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| Wondered,
When He Came to Dallas and Saw Things |
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| Following the Railroad Through Texas. Interview of R. R. Nelms |
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| When
Dallas Was Town of Orchards, quoting Mr. D. C. McCord |
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| Old-Time Hotels of Dallas |
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| When
Dallas Was a Crude Big Town |
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| Early Dallas Hotels |
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| The First Typewriter in Dallas |
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| Frank Jackson, Sr., Seventy-five Years in Dallas |
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| When Dallas Streetcars Ran by Steam; J. F. Witt interview |
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| D.
M. Clower Tells of When Texas Towns Were Young |
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| Hunting Rabbits for Christmas, Thomas P. Scott interview |
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| John
J. Good, Ex-Mayor of Dallas, Serving Between 1879-81; Story of First Settlers of Dallas Reads Like Romance |
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| Judge
Charles I. Evans Saw Jones County's First Cotton Bale; Man Who Fired Last Gun of Civil War |
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| Texas
Gave the Railroads One Section of Land for Every Mile of Track Built |
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| Incidents
of the Battle of San Jacinto Recalled |
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| W.
R. Conine Tells of the Times When Texas Prairies Were Covered with Buffalo Bones; Remembers Dallas as a Row of Log Houses Along Riverbank. Sul Ross and His Band of Friendly Indians |
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| When
Dallas Had Gas Illumination on Streets, H. H. Magee Interviewed |
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| Dallas
Boasted Traffic Officers in '75 |
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| Col. Gaston's Erratic Stage Driver Marvel of Action; Adventure in West Texas |
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| Once Plenty of Water in Trinity River, says J. M. Cochran. |
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| The Trip to Texas Was Long and Tedious in Days of Long Ago |
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| George
W. Blair Gives Experiences of Early Days in Texas |
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| How
Dallas County Sheriff Ended Highway Robbery |
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| A.
Branshaw Saw His First Stampede at Kentucky Town in Grayson County; Old-Time Cattleman Says There is No Way to Tell What Makes a Herd Stampede; Old Chisholm Trails Were Not Myths |
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| Judge Ben L. Jones Interviewed on Early Days in Texas |
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| Cooke County Folk Slain by Indians; Woman in Dallas [Mrs. Sarah Witt McCutcheon] Recollects Raid of Marauders in January, 1868; Left Girls to Perish; Uncle of Mrs. Sarah McCutcheon Built First Grist Mill in Dallas County. |
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| Last
Indian Fight in Texas Described; W. E. Cureton, Tells of Big Battle on Concho River on January 8, 1865; White Men Defeated; Indians, Armed With Rifles to Hunt Buffalo, Killed and Wounded Many in Attack. |
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| Crockett Man is Texas 'Forty-Niner'; N. B. Barbee Remembers When Houston County Was Wilderness; Tells of Early Days; Wolves Howled Around Public Square and Wild Pigeons Hid the Sun. |
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| Elm Street Once Trail in Brush; W. M. McCommas Tells of Early Days in Village of Dallas; During Indian Days; Red Men Had Surrendered Country East of River, but They Claimed Territory West. |
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| Stirring
Incidents of Early Day Texas; A. Wayne Mitchell Tells of First
Settlements of Walker County; Bear Halts Sermon; Congregation Thought It All Right for One Member to Go Bear Hunting and Divide. |
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| Burning
of Dallas Occurred in 1860; Three Negroes Hanged and Two White Preachers Driven Out; Say Town Was Fired; 89-Year-Old Dallasite Disagrees With Account That Black Slaves Started Blaze. |
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| Old-Time Dallas "Drummer" [R. H. (Dick) Wall] Talks; Early Day Commercial Traveler had to be Much of a Missionary; How Times Changed; Wholesale Center of Southwest Once Looked Upon as an "Upstart" Village. |
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| Kidd Springs Land Open in Early Days; Soil Fertile as the World Afforded and Sold at $10 an Acre; Dallas During 1877; Business District Started to Leave Square and Wend Way Down Elm. [Wilber M. Kidd interviewed] |
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| Took Part in Early Battles; Alex Landolt, 75, Ready to Again Enlist for Uncle Sam; Recalls Indian War; Fought With Forrest and Also Joined Texas Rangers -- In Battle With Comanches. |
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| Knew Dallas as Small Village; G. D. Smith Tells of Days Just Following War Between States; Stock Were Starving; Cows Were Skinned and Their Hides Sold to Buy Shoes Made in Germany. |
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| Dallas Man Tells of Frontier Days; Sterling P. Strong Worked Yoke of Texas Steers Clearing Ground; Recalls Indian Raid; in Early Days State Was Full of Wild Horses, Deer and Various Game. |
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| Central
Texas Had a Varied History; Bosque County Center of Thriving Business in Horses and Mules; On Military Trail; Sheepmen, Too, Had Their Day, but Lost Out, Owing to Cleveland's Policy |
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| Tells of Pioneer Days in the South; B. F. Lewis, Dallas, Among Youths Called to Flag of Confederacy; Started as Teacher; Came to Longview During the Christmas Festivities and Saw Wild Times. |
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| [John W.] Dixon Tells of Dallas in 1876; Town Did Not Then Give Promise of Becoming a Great City; Land Was Very Cheap; Acreage Where Oak Cliff Now Stands Could Have Been Bought for $5 an Acre. |
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| Days of Quarter Horse Recalled; Dallas Man Tells of Some Early Race Meets in This Section; Owned Many Horses; Important Track Events of Early Times are Remembered by Henry Batcheller. |
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| Emil Fretz Tells of Early Dallas; Came to Town Dec. 3, 1870, with 26 Members of Swiss Colony; Many Sorry Shacks; First Impression of Texas in Pioneer Days Was That of Plenty of Room. |
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| Describes Early South Texas Days; Mrs. Dorothy Dettmer of Dallas Comes to U. S. in 1834; Had Stormy Voyage; Landed at Galveston Island, Where Father Farmed with Tools Brought with Him. |
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| Early Railroad History is Told; Dallas Man Knew Beginnings of International & Great Northern; Father Was Pioneer; Charles E. Young Established Iron Works in East Texas During Civil War. |
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| Gaston
Hunters Killed the Deer, Countless Numbers Over East Texas During 1857-1910 |
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| Tells
of Pioneer Day in Ad Game; Arthur T. Wilson Got Job in Galveston From Louis Blaylock. |
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| Dallas Not Much in the Early 80's, Emigrant from Old South Thought Gainesville More Promising |
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| Mesquite Paper Started in 1881; John H. Cullom Tells of Early Newspapers in Dallas County; Garland Gets Name; Town is Compromise Between Two Rival Villages Forty Years Ago. |
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| Recalls All-Day Baseball Contest; Jeff Jones Saw Troup and Concord Play from Dawn to Dark; Train Gave Thrill; First Appearance in East Texas Stampeded Stock and Scared People. |
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| Remembers Dallas as Country Town; Albert K. Hurst Describes City as it Looked in 1877; Looked for Indians; Trains of Wagons Brought Buffalo Meat from West -- Business in Early Days. |
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| Dallas Post Office Grew as City Grew; Employe Tells of Development After Service of Forty Years; Experience is Varied; James H. Jackson Was First to Deliver Parcel Post Packages in 1913. |
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| Saw Stirring Times in Central Texas; Magazine Editor [Richard Potts] Witnessed Battle Between Cowmen and Sheepmen; Battled in Streets; Organized Bands Roamed Country and Mob Law Held Sway for Several Years. |
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| Tells How Dallas Obtained Its Name; Downtown Business Lot Given Woman for her Selection; Paid 25 Cents for Land; W. W. Glover, First White Child Born After County Organized, Tells of Pioneer Times. |
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| Indianola Thrived in the Early '70s; as a Port it Vied Then with Galveston and New Orleans; Cattle Industry Big; Dallas Man [Andrew Miller] Tells of Happenings Fifty Years Ago on Texas Coast. |
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| Dallas Volunteers Fought the Flames; Fire Chief T. A. Myers Tells of Early Days in Department; Makes Historic Gift; Presents Corner Stone of Old Engine House to Historical Society. |
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| Tells About Early Times in Grayson; Y. S. Creager Claims to be Second Person Born in County; Attempts to Farm; As Boy Made Trip to Jefferson and Shreveport in Ox Wagons. |
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| Southern
Planters Trekked to Texas; Many Slave Owners Believed System Might Longer Prevail Here; Talks of East Texas; Dallasite [John F. Hyde] Tells of Early Days in and Near Quitman and Sulphur Springs. |
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| Came to Texas to Escape Politics; Dallasite [S. P. Mendez] Saw Stirring Times in Georgia During Reconstruction; New Start in Texas; Traversed State on Business Before Railroad Days in North and Central Parts. |
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| Making of Salt in Texas Began Early; Dallas Man [Dr. William H. Harrell] Tells of Olden Days in Pittsburg and Grand Saline; Freed Slaves Wept; Fierce Fighting for Control of Texas and Louisiana is Detailed. |
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| Dallasite Tells of Frontier Days; Father of J. R. Irion Came During Days When Mexico Was Dominant; Settlements Scarce; Fort Worth, Brownwood and Comanche in 1876 Were on Border of Civilization. |
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| Hanged and Lives to Tell the Tale; Dallasite [John W. Bowen] Relates Experiences in Missouri after Civil War; Dallas' Early Days; Were No Automobiles, but Jam on Lamar Street Necessitated Traffic Cops. |
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| Woman Chose Name of City of Dallas; Started When John Neely Bryan Built Cabin on Bank of River; Was First Explorer; Mrs. Martha Gilbert, Wife of Pioneer, Won Prize for Picking Name for Town. |
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| Texas Railroading in the Early Days; Dallasite [Charles B. Frechette] Tells of Experiences During Construction of T. & P.; Was in Quarantine; Mayor of Dallas Shouldered Shotgun to Keep Deadline Against Yellow Fever. |
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| [Kirk Hall] Knew Dallas When it Was a Village; In Early '60s Was Collection of Shacks Built Upon Sand; First Water Supply; Spring Upon Property of Ed Browder at City Park Was First Source. |
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| Kept
Fighting as Lee Surrendered; Force of Confederates Refused to Believe War Was Ended; Battled Three Days; John W. Roach of Dallas Tells of Incident of Civil War -- Early Settler in Texas. |
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| Dallasite Recalls Stirring Incidents; W. J. Newcom Came to Texas from Missouri in Year 1876; Horse Thieves Hung; Junius Street Man Tells of Unceremonious Treatment of Old-Time Robbers. |
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| Early
Day Chances in Dallas Related; M. W. Samuels Refused Opportunities
to Get in "On the Ground Floor"; Night with Sam Bass; Outlaw Band Unwelcome Guests of Dallas Business Men in Denton County. |
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| Tells of Dallas of 55 Years Ago; Roller Towel Feature of Only Hotel in the Village; Saw Texas in 1870; Tyler Resident [H. H. Rowland] Visiting in Dallas Describes Condition of Early Days. |
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| Resident of Chicago in Early Days; Dallasite [F. O. Brown] Was Born in Indian Village of Tilkilwa, Ill; To Texas in 1873; Arrived When California and Texas Railroad Was Building. |
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| 1875
Storm Blew Away Cedar Hill; Dallas Man [W. M. Taylor] Remembers
This and Other Old-Time Thrills; Pest and Illness; North Texas Coped with Croup and Grasshoppers. |
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| Dallas in 1847 Small Village on the Trinity; Mrs. Addie K. McDermett Tells How City Was 78 Years Ago; Few Houses Then; Deer Grazed in Front Yards and Buffalo on Prairie. |
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| Cedar Springs Once Was Hub of Big Region; Brought Corn There in Old Days to be Made into Whisky; Lost County Seat; Then They All Moved to Dallas, Winner of the Courthouse. |
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| Indians on Rampage in Dallas Area; Comanches Made Forays in This Section in Early Days; Big Flood in 1866; Bottoms Between Dallas and French Town Completely Submerged. [Judge W. S. Coombes] |
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| J. B. Martin Gives Experiences of Early Days in Texas |
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| Folks
Drawn to Texas by 'Fake' Story; Kaufman County Land Was Worth More Than $2.50 Acre Asked; So Tables Turned; Lawrence, Texas, Was Bubble, but Land Values Were Good. |
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| Realty Down and Up for Fifty Years; C. H. Cooper Relates Incidents of Early Years in Dallas; Values Changing; Property Now Worth Millions Sold for Hundred Thousands. |
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| Resident
[L. V. Meyer] of Dallas 1873 Tells Story; Enjoyed Boom When the
T. & P. Was Completed Through Here; One Street Car Line in
Village -- First Ice Made Here. |
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| Capt. Peak Recalls Last Indian Fight; Led Scouting Party That Engaged Comanches and Kiowas; One Ranger Killed; Love of Adventure Led Brave Fellow to His Death. |
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| Knew Dallas When it Was Mere Hamlet; Stories of Early Days Related by Mrs. Margaret MacKay; First Stores Here; Dr. MacKay Assisted in Starting School System in Texas. |
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| Dallas Gave Fine Promise 55 Years Ago; John E. Hess Came Here With Colony From Switzerland; Wilderness Then; City of Hour Resident Tells of Fine Hunting Near City. |
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| Land
Around Dallas Cheap 50 Years Ago; Consistent Growth Has Brought Amazing Rises in Realty; A Pioneer's [A. J. Weatherington] Tale; Town Lots Bought for Pittance Worth Fortunes Now. |
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| He's Lived in Dallas for 58 Years; George C. Rawlins Tells of Conditions Way Back in 1875; Brought in Cotton; No Roads Then, and Trail Was a Rough and Rocky One. |
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| Dallas
Called Texas Wonder 50 Years Ago; Wood H. Ramsey Soon to Round Out His Half Century Here; They Lived High; Wild Turkeys, Prairie Chickens and Bear Meat Food. |
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| For 84 Years Scott Beeman Has Lived Here; Daddy of 'Em All, He Came to Dallas in June, 1841; Lived in Blockhouse, the Only One Ever Built in City. |
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| Swaps Saddle for Acre of Dallas Land; G. E. Cornwell Recounts Trade Made by His Father in '60s; In City 71 Years; Ex-Police Chief Tells of Thrilling Times in Old Days. |
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| Sheriff of '83 Meets Old Pal at State Fair; Ira Wheat and Henry Putz First Met Back in 1885; Guide for Rangers; Led State Troops in Campaign Against Horse Thieves. |
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| Better
Grade Stock No Use Here in 1877; Old-Timer Visiting Fair Tells of Difficulty Selling Horses; Ridicule Bird Dog; Frank M. Crutcher Was One of First Realty Dealers Here. |
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| Big Change in Dallas Since 50 Years Ago; LeBaume Elliott, Now of Breckenridge, Tells of the '70s; Ice Was Novelty; Manufactured Product Was First Sold at 25 Cents a Pound. |
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| Dallas' First Architect Had Hard Sledding; __. __. Flanders Tells of the Early Struggles of City; Didn't Like West; ____ Was Not Particularly Promising in 1876, He Says. |
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| Mosquito Had Fine Time in Dr. [George T.] Veal's Day; ___ Where He Wanted ___ Had Not Been ____ With Malaria; Practiced in 1883; Appendicitis in Dallas ___ Was Colic and No Nurses Here. |
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| Wild
Animals and Indians Still Held Sway in Southwest When Dallasite [W. J. Newcomb] Arrived Here in '75 |
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| Ten-Year-Old Followed Dad Through War; J. T. Moye Was Among Ammunition Wagons During Battles; To Dallas in 1895; First Struck Fort Worth, but Has Been There but Once Since. |
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| He Bought $2 Land for $113, Sold at $3,000; L. Craddock Tells of Purchase of Acre Property in 1886; Lived at Kimball; Herds Stacked Up for 30 Miles When Brazos Was High. |
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| Dallas News Block Rented at $22 a Month; That Was in '71, When Only a Frame House Stood on Ground; Railroads Helped; City of Hour Doubled in Population When Engine's Toot Heard. |
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| Hard Work is Unknown Now, Says Pioneer [J. G. Durrett]; "Nothing to Do but Ride in Autos or Dodge 'Em," He Claims; Deer Fed at House; Trap Prairie Chickens in Bunches When Durrett Was Boy. |
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