El Paso Schools Dominate Region 8 Meet in Track Events
Region 8 meet highlights El Paso schools sweeping many events led by Austin High with two first places and overall 27 29 33 score while Wink and Bowie follow and pole vault records fall. Alpine winners in declamation Elinor Ray and Albertine Starr with multiple placings across events.
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Ress College
el Paso
Brewster County
Elinor Ray
Alpine
Albertine Starr
Marathon
Sonnier
Rede
Sublett
Norman Montgomery
Shelton Coleman
Iraan
Bill Ferguson
Jim McHargue
Midland
Jack Terrell
Monahans
Albert Perches
el Paso High
Georgia Means
Mar
Maria
Norma Whipple
Austin High School
Gladys Textor
Helen Weign
Ida Naparstek
Austin High
Wink
Bowie
Ysleta
Swisher
Austin
Phifer
Haynes Sanderson
Wilkins
Marshall
Rankin
Stocking
Beau Ft. Davis
Webb
Big Lake
Sul Ross Homecoming Plans Set With May 10 Event
The Sul Ross celebration includes a dormitory tea for parents, the dedication of the Women’s residence hall, and the crowning of the Sweetheart of Sul Ross Anna Goering of San Antonio. Activities on Homecoming Day feature an all college dance, banquet, and a play by Mask and Slipper Club.
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Clifford B. Casey
H. W. Morelock
Mary P. Bogle
Ticketa
Sul Ross
Kokernot Lodge
College Auditorium
Anna Goering
San Antonio
Royal Arch Masons Gather in Marfa for Capitolular Meeting
Royal Arch Masons in Marfa plan a capitular meeting on Saturday April 29 with about 200 members invited from Alpine Fort Davis Fort Stockton Van Horn Shafter and Presidio. Grand High Priest Joe W. Pender of Texas will give the evening address. Marfa East ern Star members host a dinner before the program.
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Big Bend Sentinel
Royal Arch Masons
Marfa
Alpine
Fort Davis
Fort Stockton
van Horn
Shafter
Presidio
Texas
Joe W. Pender
Texas State College For Women
Order of the Eastern Star
Eastern Star Meeting Tuesday Election of Officers
The regular Eastern Star meeting is scheduled for Tuesday evening at 7 30. An election of officers will be held. Members are urged to attend and visitors are welcome.
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The
Eastern Star
Texas university honors 238 engineering students on list
Gloyd R. Moss of Alpine is among 238 engineering students named on the university honor roll last week. He will receive a chemical engineering degree this Spring.
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Gloyd R. Moss
Gertrude Moss
Alpine
Texas University
Gloyd
Western Union Prepares for Observatory Opening Dispatches
Western Union plans extensive dispatch coverage for the Mount Locke Mc Donald Observatory opening near Fort Davis. Electa Wade says a half dozen operators and staff will handle thousands of words sent to scientific magazines and papers nationwide and abroad. Extra wires and facilities are being added with the superintendent visiting to oversee the operation. A Fort Davis office will be kept open and special messenger cars will run between Alpine and Fort Davis to relay messages to publications.
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Western Union
McDonald Observatory
Mount Locke
Fort Davis
Electa Wade
United States
Sul Ross Wins Class B Newspaper Award at TIPA Meet
The Sul Ross Skyline earned first place in Class B at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association meeting in Fort Worth on April 21 22. Five Sul Ross delegates Myril McBride Lola Lee Young Mary Hartman Aleta Bierschwabe Bert Bowles and sponsor Dr E C Coleman attended. The association will meet in San Marcos next year. The program included an address by Truman Pouncey Dallas News, a talk on Recent at Lake Worth by Stanford Engraving, a luncheon at the Fort Worth Club by Star Telegram, and a banquet and midnight matinee.
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Sul Ross
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Fort Worth
Myril McBride
Lola Lee Young
Mary Hartman
Aleta Bierschwabe
Delbert Bowles
E. C. Coleman
San Marcos
Truman Pouncey
Dallas News
Lake Worth
Stafford Engraving Company
Star-Telegram
Telegraph and telephone counts in 1876 Europe and US
In 1876 there were about 200 telephones in Europe and 376 in the United States, reflecting early adoption of telecommunication devices. The figures show limited penetration and rapid growth potential for the era.
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Europe
United States
Cross & Cross Expands with New 20x30 Store Room
Cross & Cross announces a new storeroom to house enlarged furniture and ready-to-wear stock. The 20 by 30 foot warehouse will be built at the back of the store, with the entire storefront to be renovated and stock reorganized after completion.
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Cross & Cross
Kids Name Their City Officials In Youth Week
Alpine youngsters will take over city duties in National Youth Week events sponsored by Rotary. A 206 vote elected mayor Hal Smith and commissioner Bob Crawford with other activities including bicycle races at the loop road, field day at Jackson Field, a donkey race, soap box derby and an evening youth entertainment at the courthouse.
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Hal Smith
Bob Crawford
Rotary
Jackson Field
College Avenue
Community gatherings boost Alpine town profile and finances
The column urges stronger support for regional meetings such as the Trans-Pecos teachers gathering and upcoming Southwestern division meeting at the American Society for the Advancement of Science. It argues meetings bring prestige and outside money, calling for welcome cooperation to attract visitors and boost the local economy. The piece also discusses a Fort Worth restaurant owner suing a customer over insults and notes a competition on trapping in Refugio with anecdotal bequests about mice and possums.
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Trans-Pecos
American Society For the Advancement of Science
McDonald Observatory
Fort Worth
Refugio
George Bodry
Alpine
George
Fort Davis
Jack Nevens
J.C
Kline
Cleveland
Warner-Swasey
American Association For the Advancement of Science
West Texas Historical and Scientific Society
Charles Prude
McDonald Observatory dedication draws global AAAS scientists
Fort Davis prepares for a four day McDonald Observatory dedication starting May 5 with a end gate chuckwagon dinner and rodeo. Visitors from across the United States and abroad are expected for the AAAS meeting and the Alpine event running May 24 to May 28. Local hosts Warner & Swasey arrange the dinners and plans with Joe W. Espy ranch foreman Alec Dominguez coordinating the chuckwagon.
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Fort Davis
Texas
McDonald Observatory
Prude Ranch
United States
Warner & Swasey Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Alec Dominguez
Joe W. Espy
McCamey Plans Annual Celebration Weekend
Events planned for McCamey’s annual celebration on June 2 and 3 include a high school band contest motorcycle races baseball games rattlesnake derby bathing beauty review diving and swimming exhibitions and street dances. Parallel parking on three of Fort Stockton’s downtown streets is re
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McCamey
Fort Stockton
Fort Davis Unearths Le Figaro Copies With Classic French Authors
Children of Eli Bradford found four Dec 1880 and Jan 1881 Le Figaro literary supplements nailed under a wall at an old Fort Davis army building. Dumas pieces Sous La Guillotine and Un Incendie En Mer are signed Alexandre Dumas pere, Balzac contributes Ma dame Dosne, and a potential Twain piece titled Literature Americaine Les Barbiers appears, with other writers listed among the noted names. The papers are unusually white and well preserved, suggesting remarkable aging immunity. An additional note in the Dec 4 issue hints at further content by various Paris authors.
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Fort Davis
Paris
le Figaro
Frontier
Alexander Dumas
Honore de Balzac
Eli Bradford
Dumar
Dumas
Alexandre Dumas Pere
Calmann Levy
Balzac
Madame Dosne
H. de Balzac
Literature
Americaine
Les Barbiers
Mark Twain
The
Barbers
Joseph Tanski
Fernand Labour
Francois Coppee
Henri Lutece
A. de Pontmartin
Louis Et Georges Verbrugghe
Louis Bloch
Georges Maillard
Ludovic Harvey
Prosper Chazel
Panama Canal
International scientists to attend dedication of McDonald Observatory
The Southwestern division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science holds next week at Sul Ross College and McDonald Observatory. The event centers on Mount Locke dedication at 3 p.m. Friday and an Astronomical Symposium titled Galactic and Extragalactic Structure with five foreign speakers from Mexico, Canada, Holland, England, and Sweden.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Sul Ross College
McDonald Observatory
Mount Locke
Fort Davis
Holland
J. Gallo
National Observatory of Mexico
Mexico
J. S. Plaskett
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
J. H. Oort
Leiden Observatory
Oxford University
England
E. A. Milne
Sweden
Bertil Lindblad
Stockholm Observatory
Morrison
Lick Observatory
Canada
Alpine
Bennett Tire opens Alpine wholesale and retail office
W. D. Bennett, Kelly-Springfield tire distributor, announces an Alpine office and warehouse at the Davis Highway Gulf station corner College Ave and North Fifth St. Local towns will be supplied from Alpine. Bennett will move his family here after the school term ends and continues operations of Bennett Tire Co. Pecos.
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W. D. Bennett
Kelly-Springfield
Alpine
Davis Highway
Gulf Station
Corner College Ave
North Fifth St
Bennett
Bennett Tire Co
Pecos
Revival Meeting at Christian Church to Start Next Sunday
A revival will begin at the Christian church Sunday led by Rev. L. W. Bridges of Dalhart, former pastor, with Rev. J. A. Kearns and Mrs. Kearns assisting. The meetings run nightly through Sunday May 14. William Schultz of Fabens, a Sul Ross college student, directs the opening program and the young people lead the communion service.
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Christian Church
L. W. Bridges
Dalhart
J. A. Kearns
Moscow Patients Bring Their Own Gold for Fillings
In Moscow, patients seeking gold fillings must supply their own gold to the dentist. The practice places the burden on individuals rather than the clinic.
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Moscow
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Allan Mitchell
Frans Kurie
Hoosier Institution
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AAAS
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