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Linden’s new city manager faced some lions recently. Stephen Barnes, only three days on the job, didn’t seem frightened. In fact, he and the Linden Lions laughed and roared a lot.

Texas History Minute

Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that captured the hearts of millions in the nearly 50 years that Peanuts ran in thousands of newspapers around the world. Schulz, an amiable and soft-spoken Minnesota native and World War II veteran, had been drawing the daily strip since 1950. Fifteen years later, he would be responsible for a Christmas story that has since become a cultural icon. But it was almost entirely by accident.

Dr.Absalom Carter Oliver
Dr.Absalom Carter Oliver

Dr.Absalom Carter Oliver

Dr. Oliver was a pioneer physician of Texas. He was born 23 June 1839 in Butler County, Alabama. In the later part of 1854, he moved with his parents Samuel and Eliza Oliver to Douglassville, Cass County, Texas. His early education was obtained in the private schools of that time. His medical education at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. His first practice was in Shelby County, Texas, in 1859-1860. He left there and entered the Medical University at Augusta, GA where he received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861.

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