Life Exhibit Shows Their Finest Hour at Sul Ross College
Beginning today through April 19 the Big Bend Memorial Ami seur on the Sul Ross campus presents Their Finest Hour, a Life Magazine exhibit tied to Churchill’s war memoirs. Panels cover invasion plans, the Battle of Britain, and The Blitz with vivid period detail and civilian hardships. The museum is open 2 to 5 pm daily and for larger groups by arrangement.
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Big Bend Memorial
Hitler
Britain
London
Coventry
Local stores push oversized variety of bats and bait
Louisville Slugger bats in varied weights and lengths appeal to young players. The town hosts drives and campaigns while stores tout catfish bait and radar lore. Port Aransas fishing reports and a bargain record table round out items as North Street sweeper helps after a baseball game.
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Louisville
Ellis
Port Aransas
Gulf Shing
Sth Street
Friends of the Library contest aims to boost Alpine library
The Alpine community forms a Friends of the Library group to support the library through a fundraising contest run by El Progreso Club. Winners will be announced after January 15, 1950 and read at a post Easter meeting. The effort seeks to serve Brewster County which lacks public libraries in 150 Texas counties.
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Friends of the Library Group
Friends of the Library
el Progreso Cub
Brewster County
Texas
Alpine
Marathon
el Progreso Club
Alpine Public Library
Chalmers Broadfoot
D. M. Bennett
Harry Watson Jr
Keith Morrow
Harry Montgomery
E. H. Pullin
W. H. Perryman
John Newell
Special Palm Sunday Services at Presbyterian Church
Two Palm Sunday services are planned at the Presbyterian church on April 10 with choirs performing at the 11 o’clock service and a staged Mary Magdalene reading during the evening. A buffet dinner at Kobernot Lodge will precede a clinical forum led by visiting specialists, followed by talks from Dr. N B Armstrong and a panel on evaluating a school. Invitations go to Trans-Pecos school men.
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Presbyterian Church
Glenn F. Davis
Glenn Davis
Rogers
Kobernot Lodge
T. H. Etheridge
Sul Ross
N. B. Armstrong
Umstattd
Worley
Trans-Pecos
Foster
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Big Bend
Avalanche
Altpine
Sth & E
Olean Winter
Chamber of Commerce
Houghton
Shivers
Taylor
Baxter
Texas House Appropriations Committee
Ross Maxwell
Big Bend Park
Congress
Maxwell
Ford
Safeway
Sunshine Hydrox
Libby
Med
Tin
Brewster County Motors
E. Holland
Yorkshire
U. S
C.S. Gc
Morning Star
Cherub
Suzanna
Sunnybank
Northwest
U. S. No
Drug Department
Bayer
Mennin
McKesson
Ipana
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!