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Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe) (circa 1732 – 24 November 1797) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme , " Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea " ( Roud #1359).
In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The STAR was born! Paul Waples was the President of the Star Telegram publishing company and Chairman of the Board when he was tragically killed in an Interurban accident at his estate in ...
The Opies (folklorists) have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early ...
Here’s what the Star-Telegram’s front pages looked like when President Kennedy came to Fort Worth and then was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
July 24, 1961: Jimmie Dip, former manager of the Blue Star Inn in Fort Worth, stands outside his newly opened restaurant Jimmie Dip’s at 1500 S. University Drive. (The location is now a Jack in ...
This envelope was used by war correspondent Flem Hall to send copy to Fort Worth Star-Telegram managing editor James R. Record in July 1944. In the days and months to follow, Hall went on to ...
John's son Robert Shafto (1732-1797) was a politician known famously as 'Bobby Shafto'. He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He married heiress Anne Duncombe. He was Member of Parliament for County Durham 1760-1768 and later for Downton, Wiltshire 1780–90.
The Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram. [6] In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. [6]
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