Two more Texas newspapers up

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I've just loaded two more sets of Texas newspaper articles:

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX] 1859 - 1864 (but with big gaps)

http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/ranchero.htm

An interesting viewpoint seldom considered outside of South Texas. Impact of pre-war withdrawal of troops from Corpus Christi, lots of coverage of Cortinas on the Rio Grande (although I didn't transcribe it all), lots of concern over the Indians and the lack of protection by pre-war federal troops, efforts to improve the ship channel, sheep ranching, a story from Bastrop Military Institute, camels, hunting deer with greyhounds, bay fishing, waltzing with hoops ("I saw them. They're blue!"), little girls' hair, dyeing with onion skins (finally!!), yellow cornmeal vs. white cornmeal, printing muslins, turtle soup factory, "do you own any books"--wonderful essay, arming the pre-war Rangers, manufacturing velvet, Knights of the Golden Circle, Sunday School celebration, the fires of 1860, how ladies should dress, how to eat watermelon, Mier grafitti, the Texas penitentiary, various recipes, reports from San Antonio and Brownsville and Austin, bath house, flag presentation, camps of instruction (with list of clothing and equipment needed), wartime food shortages, paper shortages, Corpus Christi hospital, Mutual Aid Society, plenty of clothes in Walker's Texas Division, cartridge factory in Austin, capture of E. J. Davis, 4th of July 1863, number of women killed in Vicksburg.

Best quote:
THE RANCHERO [Corpus Christi, TX], December 29, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
Texas.—A correspondent of the Scientific American thus expresses his opinion of this State:
"Having completed my rapid survey of Texas, I suppose you would like to have the briefest possible statement of its prominent peculiarities. Texas is a great, beautiful, dry, windy, cotton, cattle, Methodist, live-oak State."

Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX] 1860 - 1861

http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/alamo_express.htm

VERY pro-Union, very anti-KGC. Includes an account of the fall of the Alamo by the alcalde at the time. Includes two articles about the carousel at the German beer garden. Nice description of new market house. Discusses Twiggs' surrender and the subsequent move out of federal troops from and through the city. A Washington's birthday celebration the day before the secession vote. This film was wildly out of order, and sometimes unreadable. It didn't help that either the editor or the typesetter was a lousy speller.

Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net

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Cornmeal

Where's the info about yellow and white cornmeal located?

Thanks.

[vbetts]

Re: Two more Texas newspapers up

THE RANCHERO [Corpus Christi, TX], December 31, 1859, p. 4, c. 1
Corn Meal for Cooking-White vs. Yellow.-A writer in the N. E. Farmer remarks on this subject as follows:--"The New England people consider the yellow corn the only sort that is fit for the table, and believe that the white kind is only fit for hogs and cattle. The opposite of this is the truth. Meal made from the white corn is the best, both for cakes and puddings, but the yellow corn is more fattening when given to domestic animals, and is preferred by them to the white. The southern people are well acquainted with this fact. All their Indian bread and their hominy are made from white corn; and they smile at our simplicity, which leads us to prefer the yellow corn. As the southerners use Indian corn in a greater variety of preparations for the table than we do, and are adepts in this branch of domestic economy. I think they are better authority than we at the North in this matter. I may add that those individuals of my acquaintance who have experimented upon the two sorts of Indian corn, have concluded that the southerners are right.
The superior sweetness and tenderness of the white ears of corn, when they are in the milk and boiled for the table, are apparent to all. But the community have been very slow in finding out this fact, and even at the present day, some people may be found, not apparently deficient in common sense, who still cultivate the yellow corn for table use as a green vegetable.

Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net

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Re: Two more Texas newspapers up

:) Thank you!

Neal Sexton