Alpine Avalanche notices and contacts in Brewster County
Alpine paper delivers social and reader notices for Alpine and Davis Mountain region. Includes rates for resolutions cards of thanks and reading notices, staff and correspondents from Port Davis Marathon Terlingua and more. Subscription prices and postage details noted, plus classifier about second class matter status.
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Grueta
Ana
Omy
Puonsnea
Brewster
Pbuilding
Alpine
Davis Mouniet Mie
Oeal
Grate
Bennett Raiter
C.D. Woon
Poppy Day Remembered Across United States
Observed on Saturday May 23, Poppy Day honors World War dead and supports disabled veterans and veterans families. The custom grew through American Legion Auxiliary effort, with poppy manufacturing in sixty centers and more than ten million poppies distributed annually, raising about one million dollars for welfare work. The piece also notes origins of the term Dixie from French ten dollar bills and Dan Emmett’s song composing the same name in New York.
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Aland
United States
France
Belgium
American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
South
Dixie
Fred W. Thompson
Richmond
Ofouisiana
Louisiana
Dixie Land
Dan Emmett
New York
Thompson
Size of living things contrasts huge and tiny in Huxley text
The excerpt discusses scales of life from a whale to microscopic insects. It notes whales rarely exceed about 100 tons while many small creatures weigh far less, yet some tiny organisms and cells show vast differences in size and complexity.
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Seie Huxley
Milee
Orig
Tan
Tsehaton
Roadside billboards draw protest over driver distraction
The National Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty objects to posters along New York highways calling them artful yet gruesome and potentially causing accidents by distracting drivers. The New York Sun urges safer, less distracting methods to convey roadside safety messages and criticizes New Jersey’s policy as weakening civic efforts against billboards.
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Newy
National Council For the Protection
New York Sun
New Jersey
War, gas warfare, and moral necessity in future conflicts
The text argues early in World War I that poisonous gases will intensify, persisting for days and capable of destroying cities from air attacks. It warns that such weapons could force governments to accept wholesale slaughter and even population extermination in future wars, regardless of treaties, under the maxim that necessity has no law.
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LTA
Sien
The Educated Man and a Missing Pocketbook
In a column reflecting on Albert Wiggam ideas, the educated man weighs evidence, avoids mockery of new ideas, and uses experts when needed. A Rockford man loses a pocketbook with $100 cash and $2390 in checks and notes. the cash is missing from a mailbox where it was found.
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Albert Ealward Wiggam
Henry Sherman
Rockford
Humorous Snippets and Local Oddities From East Texas
Centennial year visitors in East Texas may tour the famed oil field with Kilgore chamber of commerce guiding rules. They will see 20,000 oil derricks, many refineries, and other sites of interest without charge.
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East Texas
Rulles
Kilgore
Getting a Job and Getting Ahead
Advice on presenting personal value to employers. Emphasizes self analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses, avoiding overconfidence or underestimation, and presenting ideas with sincerity and confidence to advance professionally.
New Zephyrs to Make Overnight Runs
Denver Zephyrs by Budd and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad will operate lightweight diesel powered trains between Chicago and Denver on an overnight schedule. Two ten car trains will cut travel time by about a third, arriving in Denver for breakfast after departing Chicago late afternoon. The program follows earlier Zephyr successes and extends 1000 mile overnight service to cities including New York and Chicago.
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Chicago
Denver
Edward G. Budd Fufacturing Company
Denver Zephyrs
Lincoln
Omaha
Kansas City
Edward G. Buddent
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Isaac Newton
Floyd B Foster
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Nove Ck Arene
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Zephyrs
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Edward G. Budd
Manut Witt
Brewster County
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P. D. Coulson
West Holland Avenue
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Highland
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