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  • Originally published July 14, 2008 at 2:07 p.m., updated July 14, 2008 at 2:07 p.m.

July 15, 1908

Victoria is to have a big real estate auction. The North Heights Realty Company is going to put the new addition up for auction. They say they are going to sell three hundred and forty-four lots in three hundred and forty-four minutes. If they do, the sale will be a hummer. A. D. Powers, of Chicago, is here to take the management of the sale. It is being planned on a scale that will make the sales day a gala day in Victoria. There will be a brass band, a circus tent, some kind of a gift distribution and a general good time. This is something new for Victoria and the outcome will be watched with a great deal of interest.

July 15, 1933

Advocate files for July, 1933, are missing.

July 15, 1958

What would happen if someone set Victoria’s lion free from its city park cage? The answer to that question was nearly provided sometime in the early hours Sunday when someone attempted to break the padlocks on the cage. And they almost got the locks off, too, prying up and down on the lock ring with some type of round bar. Luckily, the pranksters, if you can call them that, were probably scared off, Police Sgt. Thomas Rakowitz, said Sunday. When the battered locks were discovered Sunday morning, both broke with almost no pressure at all. “It might have been bad,” Rakowitz said. The lioness might have wanted to play at first, but there’s actually no telling what might have happened.”

July 15, 1983

How do you make wind chimes? What is “fabricated silver?” And is any information available on ileum bypass surgery? These are samples of the questions received at the information desk at the Victoria Public Library. Once called the reference desk, library officials decided that the term” information” better describes the service. Most of the inquiries fall on the ears of De. Williams, coordinator of information services, and Janet Kent, information librarian.

Three Victoria High School students, Carol Guajardo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Guajardo, Kim parker, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parker and Rose Wenske, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Wenske, will compete in the Miss Victoria Pageant Aug. 9 at Victoria College Auditorium.

Henry Fuentez was elected president of the Victoria Democrats Club at an organizational meeting held Thursday night. Other new officers are Brian Hasler, vice president; Ruby O’Neil, secretary; and Mack Judd, treasurer. They were promptly installed by State Re. Ken Armbrister. Sixty-five persons signed up as members, with approximately 75 persons attending the meeting. Bylaws were approved, and purposes and goals of the club discussed. A Democratic victory in November is the ultimate goal. Fuentez said. Mrs. Page, temporary chairman opened the meeting.

New York (AP) – Scientists are recommending scrapping the half-finished atom smasher at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, which already has cost $200 million and already is obsolete. In 1978, ground was broken for the atom smasher designed to keep the United States in the forefront of particle physics for at least a decade. However, the project has been plagued with problems.



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