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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
3
A nostalgic reader laments modern celebrations contrasting with boyhood Fourth of July memory. It recalls Bill Blunt, town cannonader, who fired the canons and rang church bells, shaping local tradition. The piece ends with a plea for simpler tunes and mother songs from bygone days.
A collage of advertisements and brief notes on health cures and remedies. Claims include a Hall’s Catarrh Cure offer with a $100 reward, Hunt’s Lightning Oil, Defiance Starch, Dr Lann’s Home Treatment, and various medical testimonials. Also notes on Porto Rico trade, immigration, railways, and a Swiss lawyer Anna Mackenroth.
A collection of quips on life and death, retail quirks, and a German author’s bamboo book.1 The excerpts mix wry observations about stores, starch brands, and personal admonitions with a line about charity at home and a man who never avoids trouble.
A collage of old notices and ads references medical tonics and tonics for ailments, likens liver remedies to cancer risk, cites price points for Simmons Liver Purifier and Defiance Cold Water starch, mentions Swiss cantonal car bans, humorous social remarks, and a Houston detective agency.
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