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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1936
Page
4
The Alpine Avalanche outlines subscription rates and city county duties, includes a long discourse on literature trends and world affairs, and features a health public service note crediting Dr Bloodgood on cancer prevention and dental care, urging regular checkups.
A Trans Pecos roundup reports a missed rainfall hope tied to Baptist encampments, later rainfall arriving, rattler increases blamed on fencing and goat herders, a tire shop nails contest yields several barrels of tacks, roadbed work on the Old Spanish Trail cut off drive with Fort Stockton paving, a Goodnight Loving trail monument near Pecos Mentone, and a Woodlawn California tombstone angel statue stolen.
A fragmented report notes high country fatalities in homes and a lower tally in industry. It credits improved machinery guarding and a shift toward safety culture in workplaces, while urging vigilance against carelessness that causes thousands of injuries annually.
Department of vulture researchers examine the hardy dog tick noting it can live three years without food or drink and withstand freezing. They warn it spreads Rocky Mountain spotted fever to eastern states and seek eradicating methods. The piece recounts an asylum inmate’s remark when asked how he ended up there.
A 1910s speculation describes airplanes reaching speeds of 1000 times slower Earth rotation, enabling nonstop world travel. Westward flights would keep pace with the sun, eastward paths would meet the sun twice in a day, and very fast flights could rise in the west after sunset and overtake the sun, confusing timekeeping aboard.
Legion officials won a bonus fight in Congress and captured the flag that flew over the national capitol during the debates on the measure. They requested the flag as a memento of their victory and it was granted. They reportedly sought the pen with which the President wrote his veto message.
A miscellany of jokes and anecdotes from a past era includes a nut shop quip, a seven year old’s wed ding definition, a fur spelling gag, and a humorous hotel escape tale. Also recapped are a lawyer tracing Louisiana’s purchase chain to 1808, a tongue in cheek critique of grammar, and a parable of a professor and a coal cellar miscue.
The readable parts describe a boy’s complaint about a spelling mistake by a teacher and reference remedies for sore gums and pyorrhea. It mentions Alpine Drug Store and a promotion urging readers to advertise in the Home Paper for local trade. The note remains fragmentary and non coherent.
The proposed amendment to Article XVI Section 20 would prohibit open saloon sales and regulate spirituous liquors, allowing only state wholesale purchases and retail sales in unbroken packages, with private sale limited to medical and scientific uses. It would enable local option votes to permit or prohibit intoxicating liquors, preserve existing prohibitions in some areas, and authorize state dispensaries with laws to govern sale, possession, and transport. The measure also authorizes a separate provision on Workmen's Compensation for state employees and outlines the election process and funding for publication and the ballot.
A joint resolution proposes amending the constitution to authorize the Legislature to provide for Workmen's Compensation Insurance for state employees and to allow payment of insurance premiums. It stipulates that premiums shall not be required to purchase insurance for any employee and outlines the necessary provisions.
Mrs Jo G Roberts of Portersville Alabama reports a friend’s recommendation of Black-Draught after long use. She says it proves its worth and helps prevent billious headaches, noting it as a purely vegetable medicine for constipation and biliousness.
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