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The Childress Index (Childress, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 2, 1913 (open access)

The Childress Index (Childress, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 2, 1913

Weekly newspaper from Childress, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 2, 1913
Creator: Haskett, Fred L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Childress Index (Childress, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 177, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1948 (open access)

The Childress Index (Childress, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 177, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1948

Daily newspaper from Childress, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 1948
Creator: Warren, W. S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Primaries/ Desegregation/ Jet crash] (open access)

[News Script: Primaries/ Desegregation/ Jet crash]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 3, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Old Settlers Parade 1942]

Photograph of the Old Settlers' parade held in Childress, Texas in 1942. In the procession are two young children, a boy and a girl, in costumes riding scooters. Following them is a woman dressed as a clown and a line of men and women riding horses. The parade is traveling down a busy street lined with businesses, parked cars, and watchful spectators. Among the spectators is a man in military uniform.
Date: July 17, 1942
Creator: Webb Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Childress County

Map of Childress County, Texas, including the Panhandle Plains region. The Initial Monument is located on the border between Texas and Oklahoma, as shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 9, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mrs. H. L. Chapman about an Incident on the Highway, July 5, 1961] (open access)

[Letter from Mrs. H. L. Chapman about an Incident on the Highway, July 5, 1961]

Letter from Mrs. H. L. Chapman to the Childress District Director of the Texas State Highway Department; She explains an incident that happened on a highway near a construction area between her husband, who was driving with her and their children, and the operator of one of the construction machines.
Date: July 5, 1961
Creator: Chapman, Mrs. H. L.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Grinding Triple Valves. (open access)

Means for Grinding Triple Valves.

Patent for a device for grinding triple valves to proper sizes and shapes for them to be inserted into things.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Innis, Ezra E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History