Real estate and land listings with varied terms and prices
Fragments of a historical real estate ad listing frame houses S rooms land and ranch tracts. Prices range from 1800 to 7500 per acre with notes on terms and mortgage assumptions. Includes Jeff Davis County Davis Mountains properties and large 20 acre tracts. Some items mention wells reservoirs modern plumbing gas heating and adobe houses.
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Jeff Davis County
Davis Mountains
Rama
Jeff da
Jeff Davis
Joan
Goats Invade Parlor Then Parlor Takes Center Stage
In Butte Montana a resident detained four goats in her yard after notifying city officials and asking them to collect the animals. The poundmaster later found the goats corraled in the woman’s parlor. The report also notes tests on cooling brake drums and rims for trucks and buses conducted by a leading fire company.
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Butte, Mont
Butte
Civil suit summons in Brewster County Texas
The state commands summons for Bernadino Gamboa Adolfo Yharte Camelio Celeya Domingo Ontiveras and Tuan Marcios and unknown heirs and spouses for the next regular term of the Brewster County Court in Alpine Texas. The summons covers property dispute, unlawful entry and possession, rent damages and court relief, with publication required in a local newspaper prior to the term. Witness J W Frazer Clerk. July 10 1941.
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State OF Texas
Brewster County
Bernadino’ Gamboa
Adolfo Yharte
Camelio
Celeya
Domingo Ontiveras
Tuan Marcios
Beigne
Tech
Texas
Apine
Tom Fay
Gemboe
Adolfo
Yharte
Camelia Caley
Bntiveras
Suan Marenan
Pervons
Helen Davies
Ana
Piniuft
Aid
Fest
J. W. Frazer
Alpine
A. Shea
Brewster
Fort Davis Cadet Finishes Basic Flying Training
Fort Davis Texas youth Charles H Bird 23 completes basic flying at Moffett Field and heads to an Army Air Corps advanced school. He will receive wings and join a tactical unit or train as a flight instructor after final ten weeks. Bird is a Fort Davis High School graduate who attended Texas Tech and previously logged 95 flying hours under the CAA program. He came to Moffett from Santa Maria California after ten weeks at Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics.
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Moffety Risiv
Charles H. Bird
Fort Davis
Texas
Moffett Field
Army Air Corps
Air Corps Reserve
C. H. Bird
Fort Davis High School
Texas Technological College
CAA
Bird
Santa Maria
Calif
Allan-Hancock College of Aeronautics
Air Corps
Army Flying School
Bull Rescued From Well After 19 Days
Calvin Pearson of Camp Verde owns Ferdinand a two year old registered foreford bull that survived 19 days underground with little water. The bull vanished July 7 and was found last Friday wedged in a brush covered 12 foot well. A trench was dug to free him and Ferdinand weighs about 900 pounds, down 200 pounds from captivity.
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Userrville
Calvin Pearson
Camp Verde
Pearson
Ferdinand
Avalanche Honor Roll notices and subscriber renewals
This week’s Honor Roll lists subscription renewals from loyal readers and eight new subscriptions, noting the Avalanche’s growing reader base since the boom days of 1927–29. Several named individuals from Alpine and surrounding areas are thanked, with a final note urging prompt renewal. A separate item reports $750 vanished from George Costas’s Lynchburg restaurant cash register, later found neatly stacked the next morning.
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Avalanche
R. C. Mitchell
Alpine
New
J.T. Mullenix
Pumpvile
Pat Taliaferro
J. C. Colley
Ned A. McKinney
Louis A. Miller
Frankfort
Ind
Roy Jones
AR. Stambaugh
J. R. Brady
George Costas
Lynchburg, Va
Former Brewster Girl to Join Husband in N York
Arthur D. Lewis, who will receive two degrees from the university at the August commencement, leaves for New York City to research in the executive office of American Airlines. Mrs. Lewis will fly from Austin to join him next week, home at 140 30 Sanford Avenue, Flushing. Mrs. Lewis is Nancy Cartledge, daughter of Robert Cartledge and granddaughter of Judge and Mrs. Ellene Cartledge of Austin.
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Austin American
Arthur D. Lewis
New York City
American Airlines
University of Texas
Lewis
Nancy Cartledge
Robert Cartledge
Ellene Cartledge
Austin
More Men Needed in U S Border Patrol 1941
The U S Civil Service Commission seeks additional border patrol personnel with a salary of 2.00 per day or year as applicable. Examinations cover Southwest districts including California Arizona New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma with postings for near the Mexican border. Applications must be filed with the Washington office by September 11 1941. obtain full requirements and forms from C A Lease secretary of the Board of U S Civil Service Examiners at the post office.
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U. S. Civil Service
Border Patrol
Department of Ju
Southwest
Californi
Reva
Utah
Wall
Arizona
Joy Nansen
New Mexico
Texa
Oklahoma
Commission
Washington
C. A. Lease
Board of
U. S. Civil Service Examiners
Post Office
Gary Cooper Stars in Meet John Doe Portrait of a Migrant
Gary Cooper portrays an average American who loses his livelihood and becomes a modern wanderer in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe. The Granada program notes the film as part of a gallery of beloved figures who symbolize the American wage earner and the economic dispossessed.
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Gary Cooper
America
John
John Doe
Frank Capra
Granada
Vivonds
Warner Bros. Studio
Cooper
Licenses Expire August 3 for Texas Game Department
The Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission warns that all licenses expire August 31 for the 1941 42 fiscal year. Licenses are mailed to deputies statewide and will be obtainable during the last week in August by sportsmen commercial fishermen fur dealers and others required to purchase licenses.
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Austin
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Commission
Brewster County Budget Hearing Schedule Published
The Commiennese ulitt of Brewster County will meet Thursday August 21 1941 at 10 am for a budget hearing. Any taxpayer may attend and participate. J W Prazer County Clerk. Cooper adds another portrait to the gallery of beloved vagabonds reflecting on displaced men of economic status and radical ideas.
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Commiennese
Ulitt
Brewster County
J. W. Prazer
Muick Cooper
Howard Well In Crockett County Indian Rendezvous
An Ozona Stockman piece recounts an early Crockett County tale around Howard Well also known as Howard Spring. Supposedly a flowing spring hidden beneath dirt and gravel, it allegedly let Indians water horses before concealing the source again as white pursuers rode hot on their trail toward Devil's River. The water reappeared when pursuers found the ground still wet.
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Howard Well
Howard Spring
Crockett County
Devil's River
Card of Thanks for Sorrowful Hours
We express sincere appreciation to all who remembered us with cards powers and kind words in our hours of sorrow. Special thanks to Mr and Mrs A R Stambaugh Mrs Stella McDonald and Mrs E M Thornton and her family May God remember you when sorrow comes your way from Mr and Mrs Edwin McCollum Buy Defense Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Stambaugh
Stella McDonald
E. M. Thornton
Edwin McCollum
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I-A. Way
Central Ward School
North Add
M. L. Hopson
West Ave
Trans-Pecos Abstract Company
Ft. Davis
Bull
L. G. Kokernot
Los Angeles
Asa A. Jones
Sue B. Mann
Hadley
Tex
W. R. Long
A. N. Southall
Engle
N. M
W. J. Newell
Architectural Record
Dallas
Akers
Guy S. Dunbar
el Paso
Mae Starr
Marathon
Cas Edwards
Jas. A. Fry
Now
N. York
U. S
Jo-wells
State Game Department
Budget
Howard
Ozona
Duco
Storey-Whiteside Lbr. Co
LotToho
Central Power and Light Company
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