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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1940
Page
4
One year subscription price set at 2.00 with six months outside county at 1.35. This notice is filed as second class matter at the Alpine Texas post office under the Act of March 3 1879.
After a decade and 2 243 contributors, the tenth volume of the Dictionary of American Biography has been issued. It totals 12 665 pages with 13 633 biographies, largely funded by Adolph S. Ochs and edited first by Allen Johnson then by Dumas Malone. The project aims to add a supplemental volume every five to ten years.
Gliding, a motorless flying sport, grows in popularity as a training step for pilots. Glider schools report hundreds of flights yearly with minimal risk, using hill launches and tethered starts to reach safe altitudes.
The article states the United States has the world’s largest navy with 395 combat vessels totaling 1,337,030 tons ready for action. It discusses Britain as the second-largest with 313 ships and 1,377,168 tons.
The article warns of a severe European food shortage this winter tied to wartime conscription, poor weather, and damaged farms. It notes grain crops may fall below two thirds of normal while conquered lands face seizure, and Germany may force access to scarce resources. England could rely on dominions and the Americas for food, but sea control remains crucial.
A historical note recalls Aaron Burr’s alleged maneuver to secure a bank charter by inserting a clause into a water company charter allowing “other necessary business.” The Bank of Manhattan grew on Wall Street beside Federal Hall and the sub-treasury site, while Burr, once vice president, faded from public life after the Hamilton duel.
Health department report lists death causes such as nervousness from gunshot and an auto accident complicated with hookworm, certified by local authorities across counties. The item notes these as part of official records in a Southern state.
Scene in a small restaurant as a diner objects to a steak described as burned black. The staff reveal the head waiter died yesterday, framing the remark as a mark of respect.
A playful exchange, a visitor asks if a father preaches the same sermon twice and his son replies that he does yet crowds don’t notice because the preacher shouts from different spots. The humor rests on delivery over content.
A wife confronts a husband who explains his tardiness by saying he has been sitting up with a sit down striker, revealing a domestic dispute framed around a labor metaphor. The exchange hints at strain over time and priorities within a household.
In a frontier exchange, a punchline about a tenderfoot brushing teeth with new toothpaste leads to a fatal misunderstanding as a local gunner kills him, fearing rabies. The incident reflects rough humor and danger in frontier towns.
Fair Jennie of Kennebunk Maine proclaims a diet to shed weight yet gains twenty pounds and grows more chins. She quips that the more she abstains the more weight she gains, a humorous verse on self restraint.
The judge overrules an objection and allows the witness to answer. The questioning concerned what Mrs. Murphy said on June 11, but the witness testified she gave no statement because she was out at the time.
In Montana near Pittsburgh the Flint Creek Camp hosts Eastern youths from New York and New Jersey with Deer Lodge National Forest staff noting the thrill of spotting diverse wildlife. Foremen identify animals and explain differences among deer elk and moose.
Leon Roemer a building engineer from Memphis Tennessee had his social security number tattooed on his left arm authorities report the unusual personal marking drawing attention to identity detail and privacy concerns.
A distinguished visitor at a lunatic asylum attempts to reach the phone operator. He demands to know his own identity, but the operator calmly replies she knows where he is.
The regional game manager estimates muskrats could yield up to 2 million dollars annually with marsh management in Chambers Jefferson and Orange counties. Yet trapping occurs beyond the coast with the Panhandle reporting 600 pelts from a single ranch last year per Game department records.
Mrs. B D Woodson of Poteau Oklahoma is listed for remittance soon in a notice from the Avalanche Honor Roll. The brief market item references a forthcoming payment and a local reader.
Papering dispute cited as Robert Kelly refuses to pay a workman who crossed wallpaper in three rooms of the wrong house in Alten fil. The incident highlights a mix up over property and workmanship in the local area.
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