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  Ony recorded earthquakes in the area were nine miles east of Alice in 1997 and 2010. POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM AUGUST 30, 2021 On November 4, 1925, the Hebbronville News reported A. J. Ayers of Duval County had reported a “young earthquake or two running wild” at his ranch, located 12 miles north of Hebbronville. Ayers told the newspaper that on three occasions he had heard “mysterious explosions” followed by rumbling. Neither Ayers nor others who also heard the mysterious explosions were able to locate where they originated. He investigated the possibility that the noise came from oil wells in the area or ranchers removing stumps with dynamite. Neither the oil companies nor area ranchers reported using explosives. He said the “explosions seemed to be muffled as if coming from deep in the earth.” Ayers had no option but  to believe they were “seismic disturbances.” The News reported the following week that the San Antonio Express had picked up the story and added a...

  Photo by Texas Parks & Wildlife Department POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM AUGUST 26, 2021 It was an exciting time in Duval County during the year 1921. However, it was somewhat of a lull between the high drama that occurred during the previous decade and what was on the horizon in future years. Still, one can never say that things in Duval County were ever dull. At the end of 1920, on December 27, San Diego movers and shakers held a meeting to organize a chapter of the Boys Club. Father Cunningham took the lead in this movement and might have organized a troop at the beginning of 1921. The year got off to a quick start with Sen. Archie Parr introducing a bill in the Texas Senate to amend the territory of the Benavides Independent School District. The change was needed because some of the school district’s lands took in property in the newly created county of Jim Hogg. At the same time that this change was taking place, the Legislature also created the new Jim Hogg County I...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM AUGUST 16, 2021 One hundred five years ago this Wednesday, on August 18, 1916, a Category Four hurricane hit the Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi and took a route up today’s State Highway 44 all the way to San Diego. It caused death and destruction as far away as La Rosita. Early reports from the Corpus Christi Caller & Daily Herald prematurely played down the storm’s impact. Corpus Christi Defies Tropical Hurricane read the lead headline on the newspaper’s front page on Sunday, August 20, 1916. No loss of life or serious injury was reported, the Caller wrote. Damage was kept to under a million dollars. “Flimsy structures” were washed away, but the business section and residential neighborhoods were mostly unscathed.  But, in an adjacent story, the facts told another tale. “Three Bodies Was Ashore,” read the headline. In a smaller story on the bottom half of the newspaper’s fold, a headline announced SAN DIEGO FEELS FULL FORCE OF WIND DAM...

  POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM AUGUST 8, 2021 On October 2, 1906, the United States Patent Office approved Patent No. 832,459 to Patricio Cruz, a San Diego, Texas resident, for having invented “new and useful improvements” to the existing merry-go-round.  Cruz’s notable improvement was the innovative idea of having bicycles operated by the merry-go-round riders to provide the power. It took the Patent Office nearly two years to approve Cruz’s application, submitted on October 17, 1904. Bruno Rios and John L. George witnessed Cruz’s submission. The objective of the innovation was to combine entertainment with an opportunity for the merry-go-round riders to get some exercise. The design provided a  track for the bicycles to move; it also used a motorcycle in a second track to give more power to help move the merry-go-round. Ironically, men and horses provided the fuel of earlier carousels. It was not until the middle of the 1800s that steam-powered carousels came into ...