Perspectives

A recent news development has left some folks scandalized and others envious.

Dear Heloise: We like to stay in Airbnbs for extended vacations, and we typically look for units with laundry facilities. Sometimes this is just not possible, so if that’s the case, we pack clothes that we were planning on getting rid of. Then we either throw out the clothes or donate them. This also leaves room for souvenirs in our suitcases. -- S.B., Fort Wayne, Texas

The shocking events of June 30, 1903, may have left most Texans at a loss for words but not an East Texas editor, who wrote, “The tragedy is the first of its kind in the history of the state and is the most appalling in the annals of the South.”