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1909
July 20 - Dr. C.F. Goodenough, a well-known veterinary surgeon of this city, returned yesterday from Calhoun county, where he was called to investigate a deadly disease among stock, which he found to be genuine carbon or anthrax. The disease has caused the death of two mules at Alamo Beach and three mules on a farm near Port Lavaca. Dr. Goodenough vaccinated many head of stock in the infected region and will return there to continue the work. He said the situation in Wharton County is becoming alarming.
July 21 - Galveston: Two severe hurricanes struck Galveston this morning, and the last one was still raging at last accounts, extending to Houston. The beach bath houses and new Southern Pacific docks are gone. Water was running over the sea wall at 10:30 a.m. All wires between Houston and Galveston are down. A railroad conductor who passed over Bay Bridge at 6 a.m. said water was running over the bridge at that time, and, since then, a good portion of the structure is reported to have been washed away.
July 22 - Local Adlet: Electric Flatirons are a success. We put them out on a 30-day trial. Victoria Mfg. Co.
July 24 - An opportunity for state-subsidized home mortgages enticed a handful of people to stand in line well before sunrise Monday, but he demand of the loans proved far less than the overflow crowd seen in previous years. Both Victoria Savings and First Victoria National Bank may have finished the day with money left over for more low-interest home loans, a situation officials at neither institution expected.
July 25 - R.H. Crawford, Lloyd M. Stevens, Guy Stapleton and E.W. Parker left here this afternoon in Mr. Crawford's fine launch, the Lucy, on a pleasure cruise down the river and the lower section of the Intracoastal Canal. They will visit Rockport, Tarpon, Aransas and Corpus Christi. The Lucy is a 30-footer, and will be the first vessel to make this trip since the river has been cleaned.
1934
July 21 - Fannin: A shaft has been drilled 50-feet down into the hard, dry ground, 5-miles from this historic town, in the hope of tapping a storeroom of Spanish gold mined nearly 200 years ago. Harry Gordon, 40, is the gold seeker. He is an ex-soldier, a lean, ruddy man with carrot-red hair and a native of El Paso, with experience in the mines of Alaska and California. Guided by a map dated 1746, the tracings on it only faintly discernible and the paper rotted with age, Gordon began his digging in a grove of stunted twisted oaks on the old Parks ranch, which stretches between Fannin and Goliad. He is confident that his twisting shaft has pierced into the ancient tunnels of LaBahia Mission near Goliad and that he is on the threshold of one of many gold storerooms of an 18th century Spanish mint.
July 24 - Damage estimated conservatively at $10,000 was done here as Victoria felt the sting of a tropical hurricane of slight intensity that lashed in from the Gulf of Mexico. Towns all along the coast over a 100-mile radius suffered more or less serious damage, as gales uprooted trees, leveled old frame houses and buildings and badly damaged growing crops. A dozen persons were drowned and killed in the Galveston-Freeport area by tidal waves. The only loss of life in the immediate section occurred at Morales, Jackson County, when a cyclone, an offshoot of the disturbance, smashed a farm house, killing five people and critically injuring a sixth.
1959
July 19 - The emphasis will be on history in First Methodist Church services here this morning. The occasion is the groundbreaking and attendant ceremonies for the congregation's new $248,355 church building. Former pastor, John G. Palmer, will turn the first spade of earth for the new edifice and the Rev. Val L. Sherman, present pastor, will open the strongbox which was encased in the corner stone of the present church in 1911. Others taking part in the ritual will include P.K. Stubblefield, chairman of the building committee; Alex Ragen, chairman of the official board; J.H. Bankston, chairman of trustees; Ted Reed, church school superintendent; Mrs. R.L. Flowers, director of religious education; Mrs. R.E. Hobbs, president of the Woman's Society of Christian Service; James Fortner, president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship; Jane Board, representing children of the church; Mrs. Ruth Williams, minister of music; and R.T. Collins, contractor and chairman of the building and grounds committee.
July 22 - American Bank of commerce announced yesterday the purchase of a 12 1/2-acre tract of land on which it plans to build a new, multi-storied bank building. The tract is situated on Laurent Street, immediately north of Baptist Temple Church.
July 23 - The first bale of cotton produced in Victoria county this year was by L.L. Jenkins, who harvested 1,590 pounds of Tuesday on a 5-acre tract of Mrs. Lena Jenkins' farm, 1-mile southwest of Victoria. The 508-pound bale was ginned by Fiek's Gin. Hipolito Salinas and Perfecto Ramirez were crew leaders for 20 cotton-pickers recruited by W.B. Bouldin, chief of the Texas Employment Commission Farm Placement Bureau.
1984
July 19 - Alfred Baass probably has married more Victoria County couples than any other person in Victoria County. The Precinct One Justice of the Peace performed the marriage ceremony for the first time in January 1941. "Now, I'm marrying their children and grandchildren," Baass said. The marriage ceremony recited by Baass takes just under two minutes to read. "Hopefully, the promises the couple make will last a life-time," he said. Last year, Baass tied the knot for 333 couples. So far this year, he has performed 181 marriages - 65.8 percent of all civil ceremonies and 35.1 percent of all the weddings conducted in the entire county.
San Ysidro, Calif. (AP) - A heavily armed man opened fire in a McDonald's restaurant Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding a dozen others before he was slain by a police sharpshooter, authorities said. The 90-minute rampage was believed to be the worst single-day slaughter by one man in U.S. history.
July 21 - Washington (AP) - Americans' personal income jumped 0.8 percent in June, twice the increase of the previous month, the government said Friday, drawing even more cheers from the private analysts about the economy's solid performance.
July 25 - Highway Department crews finished resurfacing work of Navarro Street Tuesday. The week-long project involved laying 1 1/4 inches of hot asphalt from Airline to Rio Grande Street.
