The Garland News (Garland, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941 (open access)

The Garland News (Garland, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941

Weekly newspaper from Garland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 20, 1941
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Allen Wight to T. N. Carswell - January 20, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from Allen Wight to T. N. Carswell - January 20, 1941]

A letter written to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Parramore Post No. 57, Abilene, Texas, from Allen Wight, Touchstone, Wight, Gormley & Touchstone, Dallas, Texas, dated January 20, 1941. Wight confirms that he is available to speak at the meeting and is "by no means a famous man" but, complying with the request by Carswell for a personal sketch, details his background: Born in 1889, a great grandson of Lyman Wight, who brought a colony to Texas in the days of the Republic; graduated Austin College in 1909 and spent 1912-1913 in Panama in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission then engaged in building the canal; graduated the University of Texas (in Law) in 1915 and practiced law under Ellis Douthit in Sweetwater 1915-1917. "I went to the First Officers' Training Camp at Leon Springs in 1917; was commissioned captain, assigned to the Regular Army, going Overseas with the First Trench Mortar Battalion, which was engaged as Infantry at Chateau Thierry; operated two batteries of French Artillery at St. Miheil; and both operated as Infantry and used its Mortars in the Argonne. I was promoted to Major after the Armistice, remaining in the Reserve Corps until 1937." Wight called the …
Date: January 20, 1941
Creator: Wight, Allen
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Judge E. J. Miller to Jeff Davis, copy to T. N. Carswell and J. M. Cook - June 20, 1941] (open access)

[Letter from Judge E. J. Miller to Jeff Davis, copy to T. N. Carswell and J. M. Cook - June 20, 1941]

A letter written to Dr. Jeff Davis, Chairman, United Texas Drys, from E. J. Miller, Judge 35th Judicial District, Brownwood, Texas, dated June 20, 1941. Copy to T. N. Carswell and J. M. Cook. Miller reports on the hearing at Huntsville regarding the liquor law.
Date: June 20, 1941
Creator: Miller, E. J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Mesquiter (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941 (open access)

The Texas Mesquiter (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941

Weekly newspaper from Mesquite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 20, 1941
Creator: Cook, Mrs. A. J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941 (open access)

The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941

Weekly newspaper from Carrollton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 20, 1941
Creator: Harvey, J. Edwin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History