This Week in Odessa History

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From The Odessa Record

February 20, 1914

An advertisement for Union State Bank showed a picture of a sliver of moon outside a window with a shady character in a hat lurking at the bottom of the window. The advertisement read in big letters, “ Burglars can’t get your money when it is safe in our bank”.

Underneath it read, “In December 1902 Judge Lewis and wife, an aged couple, were brutally murdered at their ranch between Odessa and Almira. They were known to habitually keep large sums of money about their premises, and their lives were sacrificed because of this fact”.

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