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Multiple News Items.

A report on the 1880 Texas State Farmers Association Convention held in Dallas published in the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel (February 18, 1880)

From Gale. 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. ©2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

Milwaukee Daily Sentinel

1880-02-18

Newspaper article

THE PAN HANDLE COLONY. GALVESTON, Feb. 17. -- The News' special from Dallas says at the colored convention today several additional counties were represented. The convention received and considered the report of the committee on constitution and by-laws, which forms the convention into the Texas Farmers' Association. Object, the forming of a colony in the Pan Handle. Capital stock one hundred thousand shares of $ 25 each. A committee was appointed to visit the Pan Handle and select land for the colony.

Dallas

TX

USA

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