The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 426
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in the total project, and each house is to be a replica of a
famous Texas home. "We will use native stone and whitewash,"
says Mr. Lambert. "The furnishings will be made in Texas,
of Texas lumber, and copies of original Texas pieces to keep in
tune with the era of history each house represents."
The new hotel should become the greatest museum of houses
in Texas. The whole project presents a rare combination of
the artistic and practical upon a background of Texas history.
But what are Texas houses that should be reproduced? Mr.
Lambert is anxious to find out as much as possible about homes
built during or prior to the days of the Republic. Members should
forward photographs, descriptions, or suggestions directly to
the office or to Mr. Lambert.
Brigadier General J. Watt Page has furnished for the archives
a copy of the American Legion Magazine for October, 1944,
which contains Eric Sevareid's article, "On the Standards of
the 36th Proudly Inscribe VELLETRI." This is the account
of the operation by Texas' Thirty-Sixth which made the German
defense of Rome an impossibility.
Ben B. Hunt's recent pamphlet "My Chinese Client" con-
tains some delightful recollections and splendid native humor.
It is good commentary on Texas life and on the legal profession.
It was on a "third Monday" back in 1903 in a historic county seat town
in central Texas ...
On Saturdays and on tradesdays (the latter usually being the first
or the third Monday in each month) the town was seething with activity.
Country merchants, farmers by the hundreds, white and negro farm
hands, cowboys, Mexican wood choppers, Italian colonists from large
river plantations, and hundreds of others from an extensive trade territory
thronged the little city. Wagons and teams - horse, mule, and ox teams -
jammed the dusty streets. Saddled horses and horses harnessed to gigs
and buggies were tied to the hitching posts of the iron fence around the
large courthouse yard. Throughout the day the braying of jackasses and
neighing of stallions at the trading corrals just off the square could
be heard throughout the business section, reverberating through the
courthouse while law cases were being tried. When some jackass would
bray extra long and loud while a lawyer was addressing either the court
or the jury, his opponent --that is, the lawyer's opponent - would jump
to his feet and demand that counsel speak one at a time; or the speaker426
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/470/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.