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[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces] (open access)

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Article: Obituaries] (open access)

[Article: Obituaries]

A series of obituaries in the Texas Medical Association's June 1988 Texas Medicine journal. Those listed in the obituaries included Dr. May Owen, Dr. William Frank Renfrow, Dr. Louis Reed Robey, Dr. Hampton C. Robinson, Dr. Lowell Edison Rutledge, Dr. Cassie Elizabeth Stuermer, Dr. Robert W. B. Terrell, Dr. Robert H. Thomason, and Dr. Leopoldo Villareal.
Date: June 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Newspaper clipping about Dr. A. G. Gonzales] (open access)

[Newspaper clipping about Dr. A. G. Gonzales]

Photograph of a La Gaceta Mexicana newspaper clipping about Dr. A. G. Gonzales. The caption and text under the picture is: "Dr. A. G. Gonzáles El Dr. González es quizá el más joven de los médicos de nuestra raza aquí establecidos. Es originario de Guadalajara, Jalisco, y en la Escuela de Medicina de aquella capital hizo sus estudios y obtuyo el Titulo de..."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Farm Business Man: Dolph Briscoe Makes Million on Cattle Ranching] (open access)

[Clipping: Farm Business Man: Dolph Briscoe Makes Million on Cattle Ranching]

Article by John S. Cooper discussing Texas cattle and Dolph Briscoe, owner of Catarina Ranch in Southwest Texas and part owner of other land in four Texas counties and Mexico.
Date: 1949~
Creator: Cooper, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: First Committee and the No More Foreign Wars Committee] (open access)

[Clipping: First Committee and the No More Foreign Wars Committee]

Newspaper clipping describing three members of the First committee. These members include General Robert E. Wood, General Hugh Johnson, and Verne Marshall. Special emphasis has been placed on the oil financier William Rhodes Davis. A section of the newspaper clipping has been underlined in red colored pencil. The underlined passage describes a plan to purchase £2,000,000 of British and American oil and sell it to Germany and Italy. On the back of this clipping is speculation that Nazi Germany was planning another expansion for March of that year.
Date: January 9, 1941
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Abre sus puertas el segundo Templo Mormón del país] (open access)

[Clipping: Abre sus puertas el segundo Templo Mormón del país]

Newspaper clipping about the opening of a Mormon Temple (Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple), which is the second in Mexico. The article describes the construction (March 1998-February 1999) and describes the interior as well as the opening event with photos of the building entrance and one of the temple's elders with the Governor of Chihuahua. Portions of other stories are on the backs of the article clippings.
Date: 1999
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History