Old News: An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era
A seizure of sombreros in San Antonio.
A seizure of sombreros in San Antonio.
By Julia Suits
A young gentleman from Comanche makes a splashy entrance.
By Julia Suits
A booming celebration for President Garfield.
By Julia Suits
A big bag o' cats in Austin.
By Julia Suits
A courtroom brawl in San Antonio.
By Julia Suits
The time it rained frogs in Houston.
By Julia Suits
Veggie tales from Brownsville in the early twentieth century.
By Julia Suits
Galveston hosts a baseball game with nursery rhyme flair.
By Julia Suits
The aerial pursuits of the Greenville Banner.
By Julia Suits
The whisky fad.
By Julia Suits
A winter wonderland.
By Julia Suits
Fly, fly, blackbird.
By Julia Suits
Harry Potter and the unlit lights.
By Julia Suits
Chatter at the Hempstead drug store.
By Julia Suits
The mad skunks of Georgetown in 1875.
By Julia Suits
From the Bryan Daily Eagle, July 7, 1910
By Julia Suits
“Our water squirters again find employment by amusing themselves in sprinkling our streets.” —San Saba County News, April 7, 1893
By Julia Suits
“Lightning killed near Blossom, Tex., a mule and cow at the same time. They were a mile apart.”—Jefferson Jimplecute, May 1, 1908
By Julia Suits
“A large chair factory began operations in Tyler on Saturday.”—Abilene Reporter, May 2, 1890
By Julia Suits
“Pistol carrying is now so prevalent here as to be a first-class nuisance. The young men, white and black, hardly consider themselves in party attire unless they have on a pistol.”—Brenham Weekly Banner, May 27, 1886
By Julia Suits
Crossing the Rio Grande in one’s undergarments.
By Julia Suits
An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era.
By Julia Suits
An Illustrated Look at Curious Headlines From a Bygone Era.
By Julia Suits
“Tramps are overrunning the towns of Eastern Texas, and will soon overwhelm Austin.” —Weekly Democratic Statesman, December 16, 1875
By Julia Suits
“At Bonham, recently, Miss Jessie Bryant, while sleeping, was robbed of her beautiful golden tresses by some unknown party. Six years ago the little lady met with the same misfortune.”—Shiner Gazette, November 1, 1894
By Julia Suits
“The Hempstead brass band displays great presence of mind in going entirely out of the hearing of the citizens of the town to practice.” —Brenham Weekly Banner, August 2, 1878
By Julia Suits
“Mr. Connelly, a farmer, living near Dallas, was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake. . . . He went home and drank a quart of whiskey; split the back of a live chicken and applied it to the wound. The treatment was successful.”—Brenham Weekly Banner, August 9, 1878
By Julia Suits
“An irate gentleman went for the city editor of the Dallas Herald a few days ago, but was met with a six-chambered apology-maker. It might as well be understood now that all local editors in Texas have their pants made with pistol pockets in them.” —San Marcos Free Press, June 19,
By Julia Suits
“New towns are springing up so rapidly in Texas that even the people of the State seem at a loss to keep track of them. Hence a stranger, traveling by rail, asking a Texas fellow-passenger the name of places being passed, will find from the response that a generic term has been adopted,
By Julia Suits
“There are so many mad dogs in Denton county that people won’t send their children to school, and people riding about o’nights ride like Arabs on dromedaries, crossing their nice little legs in front of them.” —Weekly Democratic Statesman (Austin), June 3, 1875
By Julia Suits
“Six-shooters have superseded bells at Dallas as fire alarms. Over 200 shots were fired on the occasion of a recent blaze.”—San Marcos Free Press, June 19, 1884
By Julia Suits
In this installment, the missus of a sheep farmer visits Waco—as a mister.
By Julia Suits
In this installment, the King Ranch receives a mighty substantial shipment of barbed wire.
By Julia Suits
In this installment, Dallas feasts for six months on something called the "boss turtle."
By Julia Suits