The Last Days of Camp Wolters, 15 August 1946 (open access)

The Last Days of Camp Wolters, 15 August 1946

This pamphlet describes the last eight months of Camp Wolters, during which time it was closed down, and its personnel were transferred to positions in other places.
Date: August 15, 1946
Creator: Coing, Edward E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Archie Gantt, August 31, 1999

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Interview with Army veteran Archie Gantt. The interview includes Gantt's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, boyhood in central Texas, basic training, shipping to England, combat on the Siegfried Line, and the Battle of the Bulge. Additionally, Gantt talks about leadership problems, combat living conditions, Officer Candidate School and commissioning, and his postwar war service in Europe.
Date: August 31, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Gantt, Archie
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 20, Pages 16168 to 17017, Supplement (June - August, 2020) (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 20, Pages 16168 to 17017, Supplement (June - August, 2020)

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2020
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 20, Pages 16168 to 17017 Supplement (June - August 2020) (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 20, Pages 16168 to 17017 Supplement (June - August 2020)

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2020
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 3] (open access)

[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 3]

Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities and history of the Abilene Fine Arts Museum in Abilene, Texas during the 1940s. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, invitations, programs, booklets, letters, and exhibition information.
Date: 1946-08/1949-07
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987

Interview with homemaker Jane Armstrong. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences about life on the Scott Jacobs Farm in Denton County. Armstrong talks about the purchase of the land by her grandfather, implements and outbuildings found on the farm, oil income and farm improvements during the 1920s and 1930s, rural entertainment and leisure activities, crops and planting, food preservation, in-town shopping, making homebrew and bootlegging activities, schools and churches, cemeteries, epidemics, and folk medicines and remedies.
Date: August 20, 1987
Creator: Renner, Steve & Armstrong, Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Directory of Services: 1968-1969 (open access)

Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Directory of Services: 1968-1969

Directory of institutions coordinated by the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation including mental hospitals, state schools, development centers, and youth centers, along with information about accessing services.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Texas. Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 2] (open access)

[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 2]

Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities and history of the Abilene Fine Arts Museum in Abilene, Texas during the 1940s. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, invitations, programs, booklets, letters, and exhibition information.
Date: 1942-08/1946-07
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
List of Nurserymen, Florists, and Dealers Licensed to do Business in Texas and the Texas Orchard and Nursery Inspection Law with Rules and Regulations (open access)

List of Nurserymen, Florists, and Dealers Licensed to do Business in Texas and the Texas Orchard and Nursery Inspection Law with Rules and Regulations

Agriculture bulletin providing a list of in-state and out-of-state nurserymen, florists, and dealers who have licenses to do business in Texas (as of August 31, 1926), after their premises were inspected by the appropriate authority from the Texas Department of Agriculture. It also provides information about the licensing process and regulations for Texas and other states, as well as other laws and information about selling or importing plants across state lines, quarantines and inspections, and other information that may be relevant to sellers.
Date: August 1926
Creator: Scholl, G. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
List of Nurserymen, Florists, and Dealers Licensed to Do Business in Texas and the Texas Orchard and Nursery Inspection Law with Rules and Regulations (open access)

List of Nurserymen, Florists, and Dealers Licensed to Do Business in Texas and the Texas Orchard and Nursery Inspection Law with Rules and Regulations

Agriculture bulletin listing names of licensed nureserymen, florists, and dealers licensed to do business in the state of Texas. Also includes Texas orchard and nursery inspection law with rules and regulations as enacted in 1927.
Date: August 1927
Creator: Scholl, G. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man

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Frank Reaugh (1860–1945; pronounced “Ray”) was called “the Dean of Texas artists” for good reason. His pastels documented the wide-open spaces of the West as they were vanishing in the late nineteenth century, and his plein air techniques influenced generations of artists. His students include a “Who’s Who” of twentieth-century Texas painters: Alexandre Hogue, Reveau Bassett, and Lucretia Coke, among others. He was an advocate of painting by observation, and encouraged his students to do the same by organizing legendary sketch trips to West Texas. Reaugh also earned the title of Renaissance man by inventing a portable easel that allowed him to paint in high winds, and developing a formula for pastels, which he marketed. A founder of the Dallas Art Society, which became the Dallas Museum of Art, Reaugh was central to Dallas and Oak Cliff artistic circles for many years until infighting and politics drove him out of fashion. He died isolated and poor in 1945. The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in Reaugh, through gallery shows, exhibitions, and a recent documentary. Despite his importance and this growing public profile, however, Rounded Up in Glory is the first full-length biography. Michael Grauer argues for Reaugh’s …
Date: August 2016
Creator: Grauer, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 5] (open access)

[Scrapbook: Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Volume 5]

Scrapbook of materials documenting the activities and history of the Abilene Fine Arts Museum in Abilene, Texas during the 1950s. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, invitations, programs, booklets, letters, and exhibition information.
Date: 1953-08/1956-07
Creator: Abilene Fine Arts Museum (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
County Mapbook of Texas, 2012 (open access)

County Mapbook of Texas, 2012

A book of maps of all the county roads in Texas with an index of all the roads and highways by county.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation. Transportation Planning and Programming Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 407 (open access)

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 407

Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from August 1927 to November 1927, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sale, bills of sale, homestead designations, various types of agreements, powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, restrictions, removals of disabilities (minor, coveture), certified copies of probate proceedings, certified copies of divorce decrees (when real property is divided), extensions, options, rental divisions, and amended restrictions. Specific information includes instrument number, kind of instrument, date and place of execution, names of parties involved, amounts of principal and interest (when applicable), description of property, signatures of parties, and notarization. Also includes recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1927-08/1927-11
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $606 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $606 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $606 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: August 10, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Outdoor Annual Hunting and Fishing Regulations Digest (open access)

Outdoor Annual Hunting and Fishing Regulations Digest

Summary of rules and laws that regulate hunting, fishing and watercraft as a sport.
Date: August 2019
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 443 (open access)

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 443

Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from August 1929 to January 1930, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sale, bills of sale, homestead designations, various types of agreements, powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, restrictions, removals of disabilities (minor, coveture), certified copies of probate proceedings, certified copies of divorce decrees (when real property is divided), extensions, options, rental divisions, and amended restrictions. Specific information includes instrument number, kind of instrument, date and place of execution, names of parties involved, amounts of principal and interest (when applicable), description of property, signatures of parties, and notarization. Also includes recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1929-08/1930-01
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 403 - Deeds of Trust (open access)

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 403 - Deeds of Trust

Recorded copies of deeds of trust used as mortgages or liens on real estate or improvements to real estate from August 1926 to January 1927. Shows date and place of execution; name of mortgagor; name of mortgagee; description of property involved; amount and terms of contract; signature of mortgagor; certificate of acknowledgment; and recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Also includes agreement that third party (named trustee) may in case of default advertise and sell the land encumbered to the highest bidder and apply proceeds to liquidation of lien. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1926-08/1927-01
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 459 (open access)

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 459

Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from August 1930 to December 1930, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of sale, bills of sale, homestead designations, various types of agreements, powers of attorney, revocations of powers of attorney, restrictions, removals of disabilities (minor, coveture), certified copies of probate proceedings, certified copies of divorce decrees (when real property is divided), extensions, options, rental divisions, and amended restrictions. Specific information includes instrument number, kind of instrument, date and place of execution, names of parties involved, amounts of principal and interest (when applicable), description of property, signatures of parties, and notarization. Also includes recording certificate, showing date filed, date recorded, and signature of county clerk or deputy. Arranged chronologically by date recorded.
Date: 1930-08/1930-12
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Story Log: August 11 to December 31, 1972] (open access)

[News Story Log: August 11 to December 31, 1972]

Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from August through December in 1972.
Date: 1972-08/1972-12
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, August 11, 1985 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, August 11, 1985

Interview with Arthur and Louise Caillet Dieterich, owners and operators of Hermosa Farms, Dallas, Texas. The interview includes the Dieterich's personal experiences about farming in Dallas, education, and establishing Hermosa Farms. The Dieterich's talk about their family backgrounds, Arthur's employment as operator of dairy cooperative with his brother in El Paso, Texas, the effect of the Great Depression on Dallas dairy businesses, milk processing and delivery operations, a typical day on a dairy farm, their change from retail to wholesale business, developing dairy herd, their cooperation with agricultural experiment stations, personnel practices, and civic and trade association activities. The interview includes an appendix with a family history written by Louise Caillet Dieterich.
Date: August 11, 1985
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Dieterich, Arthur
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing winter sheep range for greater profit. (open access)

Managing winter sheep range for greater profit.

Describes how to manage winter sheep in the western United States in order to increase production and profits.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Hutchings, Selar S. (Selar Stephen), 1904-
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1983-1984] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 1983-1984]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from August 1983 to December 1984.
Date: 1983-08-04/1984-12-20
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History