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The college and town were named for the legendary Texas Panhandle rancher Charles Goodnight. [3] In 1926, Eugene A. Howe and Wilbur Clayton Hawk bought the Amarillo Daily News and merged it with their Globe newspaper to form the Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company. The Amarillo Times started on December 15, 1937, as an afternoon tabloid ...
The 13-year-old died in San Francisco, California, reportedly after a circus clown named Manuel Rays swung him around by his heels. [138] [139] Victims of the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning: 1858: In Bradford, England, a batch of sweets accidentally poisoned with arsenic trioxide were sold by William Hardaker, colloquially referred to as ...
The Emily Morgan Hotel, formerly known as the Medical Arts Building, is a 13-story Neo-Gothic hotel near the Alamo and part of the Alamo Plaza Historic District in San Antonio, Texas. [1] Built in 1924 and standing 205 feet (60 m) tall, it was the tallest building in San Antonio until the Milam Building surpassed it in 1928. The hotel claims to ...
The Aurora Apartment Hotel. The Aurora Apartment Hotel (or simply the Aurora Hotel) is a historic, high-rise building located in the Tobin Hill neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. [1] The building is twelve stories high and the exterior is in the Neo-Gothic architectural style. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, 80, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic vicar of San Vicente (1986–1998), archbishop of Tunja (1998–2020) and twice president of the CEC, COVID-19. [41] Cliodhna Cussen, 89, Irish sculptor. [42] Jack Deloplaine, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears). [43]
The group that planned a $33.5 million renovation for Amarillo's Herring Hotel has ... though it is listed as one of Texas' most endangered places by Preservation Texas. The hotel's occupancy ...
The San Antonio Confederate Cemetery is a private cemetery in the city of San Antonio, Texas, which is now surrounded by the Old San Antonio City Cemeteries Historic District. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are more than 900 graves of Confederate veterans in the 2 acre (0.8 ha) cemetery, including those of colonels John S. Ford and George W. Baylor . [ 1 ]
The Gunter Hotel opened on November 20, 1909, on the site of the earlier Mahncke Hotel. [3] [4] There had been a hotel or inn on the same site since 1837. [5]The eight-story, 301-room hotel was built by the San Antonio Hotel Company and named for Jot Gunter, a local rancher and real estate developer who was one of its financiers.