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Snyder Daily Signal (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1911
Daily newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 21, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 28, 1911
Creator:
Barnes, E. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style
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In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand …
Date:
August 15, 2010
Creator:
O'Neal, Bill
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. FIFTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 21, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 21, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1911
Creator:
Barnes, E. B. & Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 13, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1980
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
October 24, 1980
Creator:
Helm, J. D.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 6, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 25, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. TWELVE, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1921
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 2, 1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 7, 1908
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. FOURTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, September 14, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 14, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWO, Ed. 1 Friday, June 27, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 27, 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1976
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
December 9, 1976
Creator:
Cornoyer, Paula
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. SEVEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 1, 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 6, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. TWENTY-THREE, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 21, 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. TWENTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, December 30, 1921
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 13, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 18, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 24, 1911
Creator:
Barnes, E. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 15, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Light. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. [32], Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1909
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 5, 1909
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History