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1909
Nov. 8 - W.C. Johnson reports much building activity at Port O'Connor and says 125 men are employed grading the streets. He informed the Advocate that nearly 100 town lots have been sold, and that sales are being made every day.
Nov. 10 - V. Zouppas, who has been employed on the Dredgeboat Guadalupe for several months, was transferred to Galveston today. He reports the dredgeboat within 22 miles of the city on her return voyage.
Nov. 11 - While M.C. Levi's black mare was turned loose yesterday with the two family horses, a pair of beautiful bays, considered the prettiest carriage horses in town, one of them penned her up in a corner, and in fighting her way out she kicked him, breaking his right hind leg above the hock in three places. He was killed to put him out of pain.
Nov. 14 - The old calaboose on the Court House Square is being torn down. Ben W. Fly was given permission to do it without cost to the city or county for the use of the material, which he will use to fill in his lot across from the square.
1934
Nov. 8 - The program presented at the Junior Bronte Wednesday afternoon at the Victoria Junior College gymnasium included an informal dramatization of the "Barretts of Wimpole Street." Those taking part in the program were Misses Louise Levinson, Mary Jane Roos, Jerry Lamkin, and Dorothy Schneider. A large number attended the meeting.
Nov. 11 - Thousands of people were present at the formal opening of the Victoria factory of the Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Corporation yesterday. It was preceded by a banquet tendered a large group of officers of the corporation by the Victoria Chamber of Commerce and Victoria County Farmers Luncheon Club at the Episcopal Parish Houses. The hall was too small to accommodate the many banqueters and extra tables had to be provided on the lawn.
Nov. 10 - Professional yeggs broke into the warehouse of Joe Montag's turkey dressing plant in the western suburbs of this city last night and blew the safe with nitroglycerine. They escaped with $130 in cash and a check for $59.40. Neighbors heard the report when the nitroglycerine was exploded but thought it was an automobile tire blowout.
1959
Nov. 10 - Police Monday were looking for a vandalism suspect with a well-developed arm Mrs. Mary Doughtie of 1201 Locust called police at 10:15 p.m. Sunday evening to report the following: A few minutes earlier she and her son had been watching television when they heard "what sounded like a shotgun" outside the house. Investigating, they found someone had thrown a rock that: bounced off the top of a small foreign-made car parked in the driveway, and smashed the glass panel in the garage door, and the back glass of the car parked inside the garage, and continued on to smash the windshield of the same car. Police Chief Elmo Anderson exhibited the rock, weighing about a pound and a half, in his office Monday.
Nov. 11 - Work came to a virtual standstill yesterday on Victoria's new federal building as construction workers affiliated with Local 510 Iron Workers International, AFL-CIO went out on strike for higher wages and welfare benefits.
Nov. 12 - Services commemorating Armistice Day were held at the Public Square yesterday following a rather lengthy parade made up principally of school children. It started on the west side of Market Square and ended at the bandstand in the park.
Nov. 13 - Martin Kneblick, a well known farmer of Salem in the northern portion of this county, reports the capture of an eagle with a wing spread of seven feet six inches which is believed to be the largest bird of the kind ever captured in Victoria County.
1984
Nov. 8 - Authorities Wednesday theorized that a truck driver with a good aim intentionally dumped a load of neutralizing salt on a set of truck weighing scales, located off U.S. Highway 59, east of Inez. However, they were not sure of the trucker's motive. The mound of salt, used in oilfield operations completely obscured the scales used by license and weight troopers in the Department of Public Safety for checking the weights of loaded trucks.
Nov. 9 - An almost life-size mural - 23 feet high and 120 feet long - depicting six buildings of Victoria's 1910-1915 ear is taking final form facing Santa Rosa and Main Street.
Nov. 10 - The demand for Cabbage Patch dolls, which skyrocketed during the pre-Christmas season last year, has grown to such heights that shoppers can't be particular about sex, size or color. The price range locally is from $34.99 to $45. The problem of getting a Cabbage Patch Kid makes women and men resort to finding out when delivery trucks will arrive at local toy stores and then being on hand several hours ahead of the truck's arrival to get a strategic place on the store's list just in case some dolls may be on the truck.
Nov. 11 - With a cholera scare in Houston a few weeks ago and certain Texas bays closed to oystering due to polluted waters, oysters have received a lot of adverse publicity lately, and this had affected local demand for the shellfish, according to a local restaurant manager. However, there have been no cases of cholera reported in Victoria, according to Dr. Pattie Dodson, director of Victoria City-County Health Department.
