The Brazos River’s temperamental mood swings made the cattle driving business unreliable, difficult, and frequently dangerous. In 1866, shortly following the Civil War’s conclusion, the Texas State Legislature chartered the Waco Bridge Company, granting the enterprise a $25,000 budget, not to mention essentially a local monopoly, to construct a new bridge spanning the wild Brazos. It cost the city one dollar. Well, technically.
In February and March of 1941, Julius “Jules” Bledsoe might have been the biggest name to visit the Baylor University campus. Bledsoe’s upcoming appearance in Waco Hall on March 13 merited a front-page story in The Lariat, trumpeting the singer’s many accomplishments, calling him “one of the greatest concert and opera singers of the present
Unprecedented. This is the word many use to describe the spring of 2020. Yet, while COVID-19 is a novel virus, an era of pandemic is not unknown to the world. “For the most part scientists believe [the 1918 flu] first spread in Kansas around March 1918, and was particularly noted in a local army camp.
