• Originally published July 22, 2008 at 12:50 p.m., updated July 22, 2008 at 12:50 p.m.

July 23, 1908

By A. D. Powers: They tell me that the Progressive League is getting out a splendid book advertising Victoria. They also tell me that hundreds of people have come to Victoria in the last few years to locate, they have been turned away because there were no homes for them and they were unable to procure a business house. This reminds me of a show that continues to advertise and when the people get there they find the “Standing Room Only” sign hung on the door. Better quit advertising until you have something more than “standing room” to offer a fellow when he comes. Advertising is much more than printing; some people seem to thin there is no advertising except that ground out of a printing press. Let me tell you a few things about advertising: Anything that makes a town desirable as a place to live and a place to do business is advertising. Putting down sidewalks and keeping the streets in repair and clean is advertising. But the best advertising in the world is for the citizenship to grasp the hand of a stranger and say to him: if you will come with our family and live among us we will help you and we want you to help us build a city. Let then know you want them and help them to get located.

July 23, 1933

(Adovcate files for July 1933 are missing)

July 23, 1958

Victoria, which a few weeks ago joined the select list of cities of the world that can literally roll out the red carpet for visiting dignitaries, finally got a chance yesterday to do so, welcoming the highest dignitary in the state - Gov. Price Daniel. When the governor stepped from the private plane at 2 p.m. at the Victoria County Airport en route to Shiner for a campaign week, his feet became the first to tread 36 feet of plush carpet kept at the airport for just such purposes. “By George,” he declared. “I’m not used to this kind of operation.” Mayor W. R. McCright, City Manager Ivan P. Oliver and Chamber of Commerce manager Les Kelley, were on hand to greet Daniel and see the red carpet - donated by furniture dealer Morris Kamin - undergo its baptism of feet.

July 23, 1983

Bernard Green, and a group of Devereux School students he took on an outing to Magnolia Beach, are now in possession of a live crab that obviously crawled into a discarded bottle when it was about dime size, then became trapped when it grew to silver dollar size.

Bloomington Independent School District may be able to cut eight cents from the current 85 cents per $100 dollars valuation tax rate to fund the 1983-84 budget, trustees president Gutherie Sklar said Friday.

Two Victoria students at Texas A&M University-College Station, have been accepted into the freshmen honor society, Phi Eta Sigma. They are Rogelio Martinez, industrial engineering major, and Mark Stevens, a pre-medicine major.

Cuero – The 82nd annual session of the Mount Zion District Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress ended Friday with a president’s night program. Special recognition was giver the Rev. L. D. Elliott of Victoria, association president. Following the president’s message, a love offering and gifts of appreciation were presented Rev. Elliott.

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