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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1944
Page
2
Local residents share visits and travel as friends and relatives visit from Cisco, Lockney, and Dallas. Several travel to attend events in San Antonio and to meet relatives in Marta and El Paso, while others return from trips or await new assignments and medical updates.
Notice to candidates in the Democratic primary dated July 22, 1944 lists candidates for sheriff, assessor and tax collector, county judge, county attorney, county surveyor, and commissioners. Names include J C. Epperson of Alpine, B Gerron, J W Frazer, Clarence Hord, Harold Wynne, R B Slight, C F Patterson, H K Gard, Hernanez, Werd Prue tt, Warl Clark, and R A Ray Ogle with re election notes and advance payment policy.
A wartime diary recounts a trio of officers in Cairo visiting Sieurel’s department store and the Musky market, describing lipstick purchases, perfumes, and exotic street life. The author grins at bustling crowds, observes a coffee shop terrace view of uniforms, and notes an exhausting seven day postwar travel spree ending with rest.
Joe Marsh and Silas Clay debate a wife's hat costing more than a bull calf. The group argues small joys matter more than price, noting a hat’s lift to mood, a flower in a buttonhole, a kind word, or a mellow beer with friends as morale boosters in hard times.
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