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[Clipping: Sugar Mill Started Production in 1843] (open access)

[Clipping: Sugar Mill Started Production in 1843]

Clipping describing the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Houston and the history of Sugarland.
Date: August 15, 1954
Creator: The Houston Post
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Auction Announcement for Sutherlin Jewelers] (open access)

[Auction Announcement for Sutherlin Jewelers]

News clipping announcing an auction at Sutherlin Jewelers. It includes a small article on Edgar B. Sutherlin's retirement, and lays out all items that are for sale.
Date: February 25, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Bridge To Be Named For Senator, Engineer Quits Job 'by Request'] (open access)

[Clipping: Bridge To Be Named For Senator, Engineer Quits Job 'by Request']

Clipping from The Post's Texas News Service describing a bridge over the Brazos River that will be named after Senator Neveille H. Colson. The second article discusses George Fachinger's resignation from Acting City Engineer.
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: The Post's Texas News Service
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: City Okays $140,000 For Sewer Line] (open access)

[Clipping: City Okays $140,000 For Sewer Line]

Clipping of an article from the Dallas Times Herald, Dallas about how the city approves for a sewer line for $140,000. Dallas councilmen have decided to invest in the sewer line in order to serve the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Corporation Hamilton Park Addition Project. The $140,000 will be refunded back to the corporation due to a contract, while the original contract stated that the corporation would be the one to finance the sewer line construction.
Date: May 11, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: New 173-Acre Housing Area Dedicated Sunday] (open access)

[Clipping: New 173-Acre Housing Area Dedicated Sunday]

Clipping of an article from the Dallas Star Post regarding the new 173-acre housing area in Hamilton Park. The mayor of Dallas, prominent Black leaders, and members of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association were at Hamilton Park to conduct the formal opening ceremony for the new houses that were built of the housing shortage. The plan is progressing successfully, as fifty of the six hundred homes have been built with seventy percent already being sold.
Date: May 8, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Formal Opening To Be Held For New Negro Subdivision] (open access)

[Clipping: Formal Opening To Be Held For New Negro Subdivision]

Clipping of an article from the Daily Timed Herald, Dallas about the construction of homes in the Hamiton Park subdivision. A celebration regarding the newly built homes will be held with the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association, Jerome Crossman. Although the main goal of the project is to build homes, the association also wants to improve Hamilton Park by adding a shopping center, churches, parks, as well as adding sewer lines.
Date: May 2, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Opening Rites Held At Hamilton Park] (open access)

[Clipping: Opening Rites Held At Hamilton Park]

Clipping of an article from the Dallas Daily Times Herald regarding the formal opening ceremony of the new development of Hamilton Park, which was sponsored by Jerome Crossman, the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association. Dallas city officials, prominent black citizens, and other elected officials from the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association were present at the opening and are optimistic about Dallas' growth as a city and community. Fifty of the six hundred homes have been built, which seventy-nine percent of the homes have been sold before the ceremony.
Date: May 3, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Thinking Out Loud] (open access)

[Clipping: Thinking Out Loud]

Clipping of Lynn Landrum's "Thinking Out Loud," regarding the topic of helping others. Landrum hopes to see people helping one another in times of need since people are part of a community. Her poem serves as an abstract before an article about the goals and considerations for the Hamilton Park project.
Date: March 8, 1954
Creator: Landrum, Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: First Homes To Be Completed in Hamilton Park Addition] (open access)

[Clipping: First Homes To Be Completed in Hamilton Park Addition]

Clipping of an article from the Daily Times Herald regarding the first families that have become residents in the new homes of Hamilton Park. The goal to improve the housing shortage in Hamilton Park was a three-year-long project by the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association, Jerome Crossman; he also aims to construct more facilities in the 173-acre tract as well. Out of the fifty fully-constructed homes, most have already been sold by the new residents.
Date: March 4, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: Down Texas Way] (open access)

[Clipping: Down Texas Way]

Newspaper clipping about the school board of Houston's decision to not renew Dr. George W. Ebey's contract, the deputy superintendent of schools, Houston, Texas.
Date: March 22, 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: A. S. Cleveland, 82, Civic Leader, Dies] (open access)

[Clipping: A. S. Cleveland, 82, Civic Leader, Dies]

Newspaper clipping announcing the death of Alexander Sessums Cleveland that also provides biographical information for Cleveland.
Date: 1954-01~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: "Flora" Products} (open access)

[Clipping: "Flora" Products}

Clipping from Floralife Inc. advertising "Flora" products, in which supposedly boost crop production and performance.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Texans Pay $10 to Federal Government to Get $1 Back] (open access)

[Clipping: Texans Pay $10 to Federal Government to Get $1 Back]

Clipping advocating for more state control of tax revenue and spending, with statistics about the percentage of federal tax revenue to grants in aid.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Sell Tract By Lake for Subdivision] (open access)

[Clipping: Sell Tract By Lake for Subdivision]

Clipping describing sale of a tract of land just off the northeast corner of Lake Houston.
Date: 1954
Creator: Bugbee, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Offer Better Ideas or Accept Benson's Plan] (open access)

[Clipping: Offer Better Ideas or Accept Benson's Plan]

Clipping describing a surplus of farm products acquired by the United States under price support programs and the possible plans made by Senator Karl Mundt and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: $50,000 Gift to Harvard Honors a Banker Here] (open access)

[Clipping: $50,000 Gift to Harvard Honors a Banker Here]

Clipping from The New York Times describing a $50000 fund established at Harvard to honor Sidney J. Weinburg.
Date: 1954
Creator: The New York Times
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Assails Tariff Barriers] (open access)

[Clipping: Assails Tariff Barriers]

Clipping from the Associated Press describing an argument by John S. Coleman, president of Burroughs Corporation, attacking tariffs.
Date: 1954
Creator: Associated Press
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Andre Terrail, 71, Restaurateur, Dies] (open access)

[Clipping: Andre Terrail, 71, Restaurateur, Dies]

Clipping describing the death of restaurateur and hotel owner in Paris.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Area Free of Cost] (open access)

[Clipping: Area Free of Cost]

Clipping describing a plan to use donated sites within Galveston county to build a mental hospital.
Date: 1954
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History