THIS WEEK IN TEXAS
Unidentified Flying Objects not new to North Texas
BY BARTEE HAILE
      A breathless farmer burst into the Stephenville office of the "Dallas News" on Apr. 17, 1897 and excitedly announced, "I have found it!" "Found what?" asked the local correspondent for the big-city paper. "Found the airship the 'Dallas News' has been talking about!
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ALL THINGS HISTORICAL
San Jacinto 172 years later: fly the flag, remember the Alamo
Archie P. McDonald
      News of the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, and the execution of Texians captured at Goliad three weeks later, produced the terrible Runaway Scrape, a mad flight of refugees who scrambled eastward to escape a similar fate at the hand of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's armies. In the mids...
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30 years of press clippings a public service of the History Center
      ONE YEAR AGO Doyle R. Simons is named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Temple-Inland. The Angelina County Historical Commission convenes at The History Center in Diboll for its quarterly meeting. The featured topic is the history of the Diboll Free Press.
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