Charles H Milby High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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And Sound Prosperity . The graceful, comfortable architecture of the venerable Charles H. Milby home, an integral part of the Harrisburg of old, can be seen only in this last photograph taken shortly before it was destroyed. HOUSTON . . . . . . gay again in 1926, sparked by a happy genera- tion of flappers and jelly beans who did not know that they were “lost” . . . the PORT listed among the top eleven in the country . . . . . . KPRC (Cotton Port-Rail Center) was the city’s lone radio station . . . . . . natural gas was distributed for the first time . . . HARRISBURG . . . . . . Mayor James S. Deady presided over the last official acts of the little town, just 100 years after Captain Harris had built his home . . . Harrisburg, along with Memorial Park, River Oaks, and Cottage Grove, was annexed to the city of Houston in 1926, to swell its area to 70 square miles . . . Cotton bales . . . old model T’s in their heyday . . . and the Port of • Houston flourishes during the Roaring 20’s . . .

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Of Firm Growth ♦ ♦ ♦ The first steamer to go up the ship channel . . . the channel which is today number two in the nation . . . REMEMBER . . . . . . a trolley ride from Harrisburg to Houston in 1906 for a nickle . .. . . . a tiny dry goods store in 1908 called Foley Brothers . . . . . . the Coca-Cola Bottling Company with horse-drawn carts to carry the cokes . . . . . . the formal opening of the Port of Houston with a twenty-five foot channel, signalled by President Woodrow Wilson’s firing of a can- non in 1916 . . . and so, the way was cleared for landlocked Houston to become an im- portant port. . . . . . patriotic fever on the eve of the great war . . . . . . vaudeville, parades, recruiting, sugarless days, and lightless nights, “Making the world safe for Democracy . . Houston’s “magnificent” Grand Central Depot on Washington Avenue, in the era of railroad building, expansion, and development, made it evident that Texas’s commerce would eventually move on rails rather than over plank roads.

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Evidence of the Dare to Dream And the Will to Do . . . “To link the new with the old . . . to join hands from our glorious new Milby High with those other, our supporting schools ... to convert the walls and halls of this new building from mere steel and stone to a sentimental, intrinsic part of student life . . With these words, the farsighted students of Milby in 1926 dedicated their BUFFALO. The city of HOUSTON and the township of HARRIS- BURG, once separate, joined together to grow into the pulsating metropolis that is Houston today . . . . . and in March, 1926 ... A great citizen of Harris- burg had died, the man who had given the land for the first school in the town . . . and the people of Harrisburg, in his honor, petitioned to have the new school named for him . . . and so it was . . . CHARLES H. MILBY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL The part is a hand turning the leaves of a yearbook of 1926 . . .