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Sunday, February 5, 2017
Fundraiser started for the WWI hangar at the Kingsbury Aerodrome, it's National Fly A Kite Day, this week is the Full Snow Moon, cowboy celebrity Charles Siringo is born in Matagorda County this week in 1855, in Kingbury news past the March 27, 1880 San Marcos Free Pressreports that the W.H. Harris lumber company in Kingsbury is receiving large additions to their stock and G.W. Donalson in San Marcos has 10 pound pails of lard for $1.25, and pictures of the Kingsbury High School in 1940 and girls team sitting on the steps of the school in 1944.

Sunday, January 29, 2017
The proposed city of Capote Hills south of Seguin received the county Judge's approval to hold an incorporation election, it's Groundhog Day, February is National Bird Feeding Month, it is National Backward Day, facts and folklore about the month of February, in Kingsbury news past the November 28, 1879 San Marcos Free Pressreports on the steamer Teutoniaand immigrants brought to Texas by railroad agent Dr. Kingsbury and Morley's Two Bit Cough Syrup is what you need, the last day of the Bandit Queen Belle Starr in 1889, and a picture of students at the Kingsbury school in 1929.

Sunday, January 22, 2017
It's the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, in Kingsbury news past the March 8, 1879 San Marcos Free Presshas very nice things to say about Mr. Motsch at the lumber company in Kingsbury and Louisiana sugar is 10 pounds for a dollar, National Blueberry Pancake Day, Kingsbury T-shirts are available online, the Kingsbury Opry jams every Friday night, and a picture of the students at the Kingsbury school in 1904.

Sunday, January 15, 2017
The Derailment Saloon has it's Grand Opening, National Squirrel Appreciation Day, anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, in Kingsbury news past the February 28, 1879 Brenham Weekly Bannerreports that Mr. Williams got drunk and shot and killed Mr. Wingate and that three men were broken out of the jail in Brownwood in the "usual manner", the Kingsbury VFD passes inspection of their equipment, we made it through another Friday the 13th, the Spring Fly-In poster is released, and a picture of the Dowdy Roughnecks high school basketball team of 1933.

Sunday, January 8, 2017
Washington delivers the first State of the Union address to Congress in 1790, National Bubble Bath Day, it's the Full Wolf Moon, in Kingsbury news past the December 24, 1878 Galveston Daily Newsreports on the large wind-mill in Kingsbury, Columbus reports seeing mermaids in 1493, and a picture of a street scene with local businessmen, cistern, and the large wind-mill in downtown Kingsbury in 1913.

Sunday, January 1, 2017
Happy New Year 2017, first January 1 celebration in 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar, January facts, in Kingsbury news past the February 18, 1879 Galveston Daily Newsreports that the depot in Kingsbury "took fire", National Hangover Day, National Hot Tea Month, the first Kingsbury VFD meeting of 2017 is this week, Stephen F. Austin is imprisoned by Mexicans in 1834, and a picture of four generations of the Jones family in 1933.

Sunday, December 25, 2016
Christmas Day, the WWI Christmas Truce, National Bacon Day, Texas enters the Union in 1845, General Washington crosses the Delaware in 1776, in Kingsbury news past the October 26, 1878 San Marcos Free Pressannounces the new W.H. Harris & Co. lumber yard in Kingsbury, Moses Austin asks Spanish authorities for permission for 300 families to settle in Texas in 1820, Doniphan's Thousand takes El Paso in 1846, it's New Year's Eve, and a picture of the class in the Kingsbury School circa 1900.

Sunday, December 18, 2016
The first day of Winter, National Hard Candy Day, Christmas Eve, in Kingsbury news past the May 26, 1878 Galveston Daily Newsreports that a large crowd gathered for the baseball game between Prairie Lea and the "Kingsbury boys", and a picture of the workers behind the counter of the bank and a picture of a check for the First National Bank in Kingsbury.

Sunday, December 11, 2016
The Boston Tea Party takes place in 1773, National Gingerbread House Day, the Bill of Rights becomes law in 1791, it's the Full Cold Super Moon, moon folklore, the March 23, 1878 San Marcos Free Pressreports that you ship your goods to Kingsbury for 30 cents per 100 pounds and an estray notice for a one-eyed horse, Benjamin Edwards declares the Texas Republic of Fredonia in 1826, the first airplane flies at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, and a picture of Gander Slough oil field in 1923.

Sunday, December 4, 2016
New Kingsbury VFD and Auxiliary officers are sworn in, Japanese dive bombers descend on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S.S. Lexington sets sail for Midway to deliver a squadron of dive bombers in the days prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, National Cotton Candy Day, the great steer wrestling rodeo star Bill Pickett is born in Texas in 1871, and pictures of the inside of the First National Bank of Kingsbury around 1920 and the item in the Banking News reporting on the new bank in 1912.
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