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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
4
An anecdotal wartime account recounts a British trench scene near Mons with Irish soldiers cheerfully enduring near misses. A tall tale of bullets, shaken hats, and a laughing crew emerges as comrades boost morale despite fear and danger.
Real Mra Julatha Ann Cox Richardson, bride of a pioneer ox team party from Johnson County Missouri in 1848, died in Oregon recently at over ninety. Benjamin P. Richardson, her husband, was part of the trek. they later settled near Monroe and Lancaster. She left 51 descendants, including 12 children with seven surviving. The narrative recalls a long pioneer life and a colorful hotel encounter about a chicken and mushrooms.
A fragment from a medical journal echoed by a Chicago newspaper poet ridicules John Barleycorn, demon rum, as storms of prohibition and women's votes loom. The dated monologue cites boxing imagery and sovereign states, hinting at temperance battles and social change.
A Penn State garden reports a grafted potato plant where a tomato shoot grew on the vine and produced many tomatoes while the underground potatoes thrived. The bizarre hybrid was waxed and bound, creating an uncanny plant with both tubers and fruiting shoots.
An eccentric column notes turnips contain about 89 percent water and warn sulfur compounds in feed can flavor milk. It then promotes the Alamo Lumber Co offering home-building with small monthly payments, urging readers to pay themselves rather than others.
The timetable lists schedules for the Southern Pacific line with bound and west bound trains. It includes No 10 at 7.08, No 103 at 8, West Bound No 101 at 4:34 p.m, and related service identifiers K CM 0. ORIENT. GM. & 8.
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