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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1939
Page
4
An Alpine Texas item lists an editor and manager role with Fort Davis and Marathon correspondents. It references a month outside the county and a $125 matter at the Post Office, filed under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The excerpt ends with a rerun notation.
A long discussion argues that government land grants to railroads funded by taxpayers were repaid through reduced transport costs and services. It contrasts railroads paying their way with highways and waterways funded by public money, and notes continued global political exchanges in the Americas.
National Safety Council reports 39 percent of traffic deaths are pedestrians with two of three fatalies occurring to those on foot in cities. Women show lower fatalities, as 22 percent of fatalities and 33 percent of nonfatal injuries involve female walkers. Nighttime exposure and driver vigilance remain key issues.
The Rivers and Harbors Committee in Washington invites requests to widen Polecat Creek and other waterways. The committee has allocated millions of dollars for new and ongoing waterway projects and 6 million more for waterway maintenance, promising oversight and redistribution to worthy channels.
A compilation of humorous exchanges involving a guest, clerk, and motorist contrasts with a formal probate citation from Brewster County Texas. The spoof dialogue includes Napoleon era musings and crocodiles while the legal section commands summons for multiple heirs in a land dispute over Survey Five, Block 245, T. and St. L. Ry. Co. lands.
A village housewife challenges a salesman who touts a vacuum cleaner. He demonstrates by scattering soot and ashes, then claims to show its real power, only to reveal the gas heating era misunderstanding. The episode is set amid other notes on quirky marketing and manners.
Froelich, Iowa, will erect a marker at the junction of Highways 18 and 2 to commemorate John Froelich building the first gasoline tractor. The bronze plate notes the vehicle powered itself forward and backward, inspired by a steam threshing engine, and Froelich’s pursuit of a practical tractor, leading to manufacturing at Waterloo.
The record lists J. W. Frazer District Clerk Brewster County Texas with Jane Gee Deputy and Elmer Taylor Sheriff Brewster County Texas with Pink Phelps Deputy.
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