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Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) 5/29/1925
(C. Avis Catalog entry #848)


p.26

BUSH. - Van Alstyne, Texas, May 28. - 
The funeral of Mrs. Louisa Bush, who died at her home in Farmington, was held Tuesday afternoon at the Hall Cemetery.

 

The Bowie News, Bowie, Texas 7/24/1958
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1356)

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1363966/m1/81/zoom/?q=avis&resolution=4&lat=5487.707760844852&lon=2227.646119577574

Thursday 7/24/1958
Section 11, p. 3

EARLY DAY FACTS
Burns on the Head of Elm opened the county's first store.  John H. Cox attended the first sale of lots in Montague, bought property on the public square, and late in 1853 opened Montague's first store.  David Avis opened a store shortly afterward.


 

News Bulletin regarding Charlie Rudd crash
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1302)
(Document ID #303)

    Bulletin
    Stockton, Cal., Nov. 13 --- Mather field officers are in Stockton today investigating the death of Aviator Lieutenant Charles Rudd, of Temple, Texas, who was killed in making a forced landing after dark near Stockton last evening.  Private Salcido, with Rudd in the plane, is at a hospital here with minor injuries.  Results of the investigation so far is that Rudd mistook Stockton for Sacremento and thus became confused in trying to locate bearing for his landing.

        ---ma---557 p.m.

Dallas Morning News 3/1/1898
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1328)

p. 4

Killing at Wichita Falls.
    Wichita Falls, Tex., Feb. 28 -- This afternoon J. D. Modglin was shot and killed.  I[t] was on a farm about three miles south [of] this city.  The deceased leaves a wife a[nd] two children.  Mike Bush came in and surrendered to the sheriff.
 

Dallas Morning News 11/15/1906
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1326)

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New Incorporations.

Special to The News.
Austin, Tex., Nov. 14. -- Charters of the following corporations were filed today in the Secretary of State's office:

    Farwell Wholesale Grocery Company of Farwell, Palmer County; capital stock $30,000.  Incorporators are Mart Roberson, John J. De Oliveira, R. C. Hopping, all of Texico, N. M.; L. C. Roberson, J. C. Dyer and R. B. Thompson, all of Farwell, Tex.
 

The Standard Blue Book - Texas Edition July 1921
(C. Avis Catalog entry #125)

Issued by 
Standard Blue Book Co.

p. 152-153

Avis, A. W. Jake, Wichita Falls, Merchant, The Gift Shoppe.  Born in Wichita Falls, Texas Dec. 1894[sic].  Descendant of Mr. and Mrs. James David Avis.  Educated at Wichita Falls, Texas.  Member of First Presbyterian Church, B.P.O.E.  Favorite recreation, horseback riding.  Served as Sergeant in Supply Co., 142nd Regiment, 36th Division, in France eleven months.
 

The Knoxville Republican 12/18/1833
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1312)

p. 2

JOURNEYMEN TAILORS.

The subscriber wishes to employ two or three good Journeymen Tailors, to whom liberal wages, in cash, will be given, if immediate application be made at his Shop in Madisonville, East Tennessee.
    Joseph R. Rudd
 

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, 4-10-1926
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1296)

p. 11

Temple Girl Weds Birmingham Man



MRS. GEORGE SAMUEL MOORE

Special to The News.
    TEMPLE, Texas, April 9.
One of the recent pretty brides of Temple is Mrs. George Samuel Moore, who before her marriage was Miss Madge Rudd.  The young couple will live in Birmingham, Ala.  Mrs. Moore's bridesmaids were Miss Caroline Johnson, Miss Mildred Rudd and Miss Florence Watts and her matron of honor was Mrs. Tom McIlheny [sic] of Birmingham.  The best man was Forest N. Hall of Dallas.
 

The Electra News, Electra, Texas 5/26/1932
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1284)
 

The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1932, newspaper, May 26, 1932; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth892656/: accessed June 20, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Electra Public Library.

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Jake Avis Candidate For County Clerk

    Jake Avis, prominent young business man of Wichita Falls, called on the "News" last Tuesday and announced his candidacy for County Clerk. He was born and raised in the county and knows the needs of the county and the office.
He authorizes the following statement:
    "In announcing my candidacy for county clerk of Wichita county I am asking for the first time a favor at the hands of the voters of this county. I was born in this county and except for the period spent in the army have lived here all my life.
    "I believe those who know me will say that I have done what I could forward the development of this county and will say that my long business and clerical experience qualify me for this important position.  I would like to be regarded as running on my merits.
    "I promise the people of Wichita county that, if elected, the duties of this office will have my constant and undivided attention, and that my administration of this office will be both economical and efficient.
    "I invite for my candidacy the careful consideration of every voter."
 

McMinn County, Tennessee and its People 1819-1997
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1241)

Publisher:  McMinn County Heritage Book Committee and Don Miss, Inc., 1997

p. 275
Article 781 Tombstone Inscriptions James Wright Long Family Cemetery

The James Wright Long Family Cemetery was established on the farm of James Wright Long, who had entered the land.  When the county was first opened for settlement, or possibly before, several of his wife's first cousins also  came to this part of McMinn County and all lived within a radius of a few miles of each other.  Among them were Isham Reynolds and his sisters:  Elisabeth Reynolds, who married William Maples; Alice Reynolds, who married David Cantrell; Anne Reynolds, who married James Chesnutt; Jane Reynolds, who married Raleigh Chesnutt.  The James Wright Long Family Cemetery is owned by Misses Nan and Grace Chesnutt, Route 2, Englewood, Tennessee.  It is on the Chesnutt dairy farm 7 miles Southeast of Athens just off the road leading from Athens to Etowah.