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  • Originally published July 18, 2008 at 7:53 p.m., updated July 18, 2008 at 7:53 p.m.

July 19, 1908

“Victoria Ought to Have 15,000 People,” by A. D. Powers: There is no reason on earth why Victoria should not have 15,000 people, and street cars and other improvements. The money is here and the town is backed up by the best country in the world. The logical location for a city equally distant from Houston and San Antonio. I come into Victoria for the first time and these are my impressions. A good hotel, a city of the most beautiful homes I ever saw, good substantial business houses, strong and liberal banks and evidently a pleasant place to live. But all this will not make a city. It takes brawn as well as brains to make a city. Where are the neat cottages of the middle classes, where are the working men’s homes? These are lacking. This is the next stop in the development of Greater Victoria. Victoria must have factories to give employment to wage earners, and Victoria must have homes for working people to live in. Banks and stores don’t make a town, it is the business enterprises that employ people and pay out wages that makes the town. No trouble to get factories. Let the world know that you want them and they will come.

July 19, 1933

(Advocate files for July 1933 are missing)

July 19, 1958

Port Lavaca: Sharon McKamey, 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. McKamey, was chosen queen of the Calhoun County Farm Bureau in ceremonies Thursday night. Miss McKamey received her crown from retiring queen Elizabeth Sterling.

July 19, 1983

Effects of more than a week of rain began showing up in city street and other facilities over the weekend, with Public Works Director Richard Voigt reporting one serious street washout and two sections of a 36-inch sewer line caving in. The washout, producing holes up to 2

School board members will consider a lone item at Tuesday’s Citizens Hearing, but face an agenda with over 30 items for the monthly meeting scheduled for Thursday. At Tuesday’s meeting which begins at 7 p.m., trustees will seek public comment on whether to close both Victoria and Stroman high school campuses for freshmen only. At is last meeting trustees approved a goal which sated they would close the campuses if a viable enforcement procedure could be arranged and it they received favorable public input.

Two Crossroads Mustang Club members placed during show events at the Texas Mustang Automobile Roundup Saturday and Sunday in Temple. Forrest Imhoff won a first place trophy for showing the best 1967-69 Shelby Mustang, while Dale Turner garnered a third place trophy for his 1965-66 Mustang.



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