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The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 5, 1900
Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
May 5, 1900
Creator:
Newton, W. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1900
A weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that included local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 9, 1900
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A Bird's Eye-view of Mineral Wells]
An early panoramic view of Mineral Wells is shown here. The picture is a composite of two views taken from East Mountain. Attached to the composite is a date "1901." The large building in the front middle of the picture is the Holloway & Haley livery stable. Some of the buildings are numbered on the photograph. Recognizable are: (2) The Hawthorn Well, with steeple (Right middle of the picture), (4) The original Crazy water drinking pavilion (two-story with smaller upper third floor, right middle of picture), The Lythia Well (between the Crazy Well and the Hawthorn Well), and The Hexagon House at the far right edge of picture.
Date:
1901/1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Donkey Trail up East Mountain - 1901]
A trail ride, going up East Mountain on burros, is pictured here. The participants listed on back of picture are: "Jessie Padgett - Dallas, Mr. Oscar Levin, Miss [unidentified], Mr. Coy Wimberly - Tyler, Miss [unidentified], Miss Burriss - Terrel, Mr. Jacobs - Atlanta, Lilian Webster - Dallas, Raymond Caruth - Dallas, Johnetta Armstrong - Dallas, Mr. Cousins - Tyler, Maggie Street - Dallas, Katie Elliott - Dallas, Miss Hyman - Min. Wells, Mr. Nance - Dallas, Mr. Brown - Tyler, Mary Roberts - Terrel, Will Caruty - Dallas. Mineral Wells, June 11, 1901." Burro rides on the Donkey Trail up East Mountain were a popular pastime around the turn of the twentieth century.
Date:
June 11, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Daily Index
Shown here is the front page of the Mineral Wells "Index", featuring a picture of Judge Alvin Lynch, astride a mule and holding a large bottle of the Mineral Wells water. The picture is not sufficiently in focus to read a reliable date to the newspaper, except perhaps to discern that the issue comes from "Volume VIII". We are accustomed to having a newspaper printed with the help of electricity. However, the "Index" of 1940 states that such was not always the case. "Employees of the Index", is said, "Can remember back in the old days when the electric service was rather questionable, especially at night--and it was the custom to put the press boy up on the feeder of the newspaper press, tie an electric cord around his neck,and let him go to sleep. When the power came on the bulb would get hot and wake him up--then he would round up the printers and they would get back to work." All this was in keeping with electricity that consisted of "[A] single drop cord in each room and on the end of it a 32 candle power light globe."
Date:
1902?-05-(06)?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The First Boy Scouts in Mineral Wells, 1902]
A note on back of this photograph states, "1902, 1st Boy Scouts in Mineral Wells, organized by Frank Creighton (L) met in old Sangcura Sprudel Well Pavilion." The picture was taken in front of Green's Transfer Building. This photograph possibly shows the youth division of a local lodge, probably Shriners. Please note that the boys shown in the picture are shouldering real rifles. The uniforms depicted look more like Zouaves (down to the fezzes that the boys are shown wearing) than Boy Scouts, while the adult frowning on the extreme left has a sword in his hand. This historic photograph captures a precursor to the Boy Scout movement, that started six years later in England. It spread to America in 1910 to generate an interest in outdoor and educational activities among teen-age boys. The first Boy Scout Troop was organized in 1914 by a Mr. Harris. World War I delayed any further development until L.H. Gross got things underway again. He served a Scoutmaster until 1925.
Date:
1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mineral Wells' First Public School Erected in 1884]
This rock structure is now [2008] a museum dedicated to the preservation of the history of the city. There was some construction around the school at the time of this photograph, probably due to the building of Mineral Wells' first high school, the West Ward School, on the same lot, next door to and north of the little Rock School in 1902.
Date:
1902?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Newspaper Clipping of A Mineral Wells School, Texas]
A newspaper clipping with a photograph of a Mineral Wells School. This clipping had been mounted in a scrapbook, and the legible portion of the caption says, "Mineral Wells School, Texas." The whole caption read: Mineral Wells College. [sic]--A School for Both Sexes The building, which the Weatherford Democrat of September 12, 1895 says would be built in Mineral Wells (It would have been in Romanesque architecture), was to offer "Classical, Scientific, English, Music, Elocution, and Art Courses" . Professor J. McCracken was the head of the school. The building was never built, because the state provided education up to (but not including) college. A need for further education was not felt. .
Date:
1902?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
West Ward School Mineral Wells, Texas
This photograph illustrates a view from the east of the West Ward School at the time of its completion in 1902. It was located just north of Mineral Well's first public school, the "Little Rock School", at 205 NW 5th Avenue. West Ward housed first through twelfth grades. Mineral Well's first high school graduating class (four students) graduated from here in 1905. High School classes were moved from here to the East Ward School when it was completed in 1906. Only elementary school classes were taught here at the time West Ward school was torn down, about 1930. The Lilian Peek Cottage, Texas' first free-standing Home Economics building, was built by the W.P.A. in 1937 just to the north of where the West Ward School had been located.
Date:
1902
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 3, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 3, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 10, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 10, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 17, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 7, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 7, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, February 21, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 21, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 7, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 7, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Palo Pinto County Star. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. [38], Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1902
Weekly newspaper from Palo Pinto, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
March 14, 1902
Creator:
Son, J. C.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History