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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
1
Depositors are urged to feel they help build the bank by bringing business. The bank promotes growth with phrases like Grow with Us and invites customers to open accounts and use their financial services. Safe deposit boxes are available for rent.
Charbon, a deadly cattle disease, has spread from Cameron Parish into eight people in Leesburg with no deaths yet. Government experts advise cremation of infected carcasses and vaccination of others to halt spread as Calcasieu reports heavy cattle losses and ground contamination from dying animals.
Reports from Mexico City describe a devastating earthquake that struck the southern republic at 4 o clock this morning. Damage includes a condemned cathedral and severely reduced water supply. hundreds feared dead in Guerrero and Acapulco with a tidal wave adding to the destruction.
Readable items include paints oils roofing wire screens wire fencing barb wire cedar posts and related hardware offerings. Prices or brands not specified. This fragment suggests a general hardware shop catalog or ad listing common construction materials.
An enthusiastic mass meeting at the courthouse led to preliminary plans for welcoming delegates to the first Texas State Dry Farming Congress on September 1 and 2. Committees were appointed for finances, arrangements, and programs with local clubs contributing, and a bandstand fund noted.
Hon. W. C. Douglas and family depart Friday for Fort Davis to open district court. Mrs. Douglas and Miss Constance will enjoy an outing in the climate. They will later visit Alpine until the judge completes district court in October.
Advertisement urges readers to get in on an illustrated edition to be issued during the dry farm Congress in Alpine on September 1 and 2. It emphasizes taking action now.
Dry farming in Poverty Flats near Billings Montana yields alfalfa two and a half feet high for first cutting and promises record second cutting Wheat oats corn and other grains ripening well Farmers plan to exhibit crops at the International Exposition of Dry Farm Products in Billings October 25 29 1909 and share successes at the Dry Farming Congress there
A broad dispatch reports on Port Arthur dairy cattle, Velasco storm damage, and New Orleans seeking the G A R convention. It notes Taft Diaz talks in Texas, irrigation work in Del Rio, and the Texas Farmers Congress in College Station. Also covered are Missouri Senator Stone's arrest, Moroccan fighting, Blériot's Channel flight, bond votes in Orange and Jefferson County, Barcelona unrest, Acapulco quake casualties, and a series of personal calamities including Evans and Willis incidents and Tulsa editor Bassett's death.
Gov Hadley telephoned Trenton Mayor Williams asking if food clothing or aid was needed. The reply joked about needing beer, yet a carload of beer arrived from Quincy despite the flood, illustrating relief efforts mixed with humor.
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