Apache captive plays cowboys-and-Indians for keeps
      A Mason County mother sent her four children out to play on May 16, 1870, never imagining she would not see her oldest offspring again for eight long years. Eleven year old Herman Lehmann led his brother Willie, age eight, and two younger sisters to the far corner of the German family's frontier farm.
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An unlikely partnership
Bob Bowman's East Texas
      They were an unlikely business partnership--a German immigrant, an Irish storekeeper, and two Jewish brothers. But in 1900, Joseph Kurth, Simon W. Henderson, and Sam and Eli Wiener pooled their resources and created the Angelina and Neches River Railroad.
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Thirty years of Diboll Free Press clippings
A Public Service of The History Center
      ONE YEAR AGO Diboll voters approve a charter for the city by an over whelming margin, meaning Diboll will become a home-rule city with greater powers and more capacity for self-governance. The vote on the charter is 254-150. Kent Havard will join returning incumbents Trey Wilkerson and Chuck Mann on the Diboll school board of trustees.
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