Marathon Marie Simpson Correspor No. 10 items
Real estate and loan notices mix with social notes from Marathon Marie Simpson Correspor. Listings include S-room stucco houses near town and north Add. land blocks, plus several large ranch and Davis Mountains tracts offered for sale or loan. Community news covers school opening plans, rodeo guests, campers, and local family gatherings with names and travels across Del Rio, San Antonio, and Phoenix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cody Wardlaw
North Add
Son
del Rio
Wardlaw
Alpine News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Achievements
Alpine residents and visitors gather for weekly events as Ruby Green travels to Uvalde for a blitz. Carrizo Springs and Uvalde families stay with the Austin and Gage Hotel households. Marfa locals attend C P and L Company affairs and Sul Ross baccalaureate service. August 21 college exercises honor C G Matthews and W A Matthews with advanced degrees.
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Sul Ross
Alpine
C. G. Matthews
W. A. Matthews
Sanderson
Negro's Body Lies in State for 60 Years Attracts Crowd
The body of I. B. Lewis, a Houston colored funeral director who died December 26, 1838, is being clothed anew and relined with a new mattress. It was his wish to lie in state for forty days then be placed in a mausoleum for public viewing sixty years. The gold plated casket and marble bier were bought before his death. Funeral costs exceed fifteen thousand dollars, possibly the South’s costliest. Elizabeth Cotter of Philadelphia had a fish dealer arrested for stuffing fish to gain weight. thousands, black and white, have viewed the spectacle.
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Lewis
Houston
South
Landig
Elizabeth Cotter
Phila
Delphia
Prairie chicken crop loss and a regional contrast in Texas
In Texas reports from Austin say the 1941 Attwater prairie chicken crop on coastal prairies was wiped out by floods, while Lesser prairie chickens in the Panhandle prospered due to rainfall and cover. The Attwater birds face a grim future as more range is cultivated for rice. A five year closed season law remains in effect through 1946.
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Austin
Texas
Panhandle
Texas Game, Fishland Oyster Commission
Texas Plains
Army Aids Save White-wing Doves at Fort Ringgold
In Southwest Texas at Fort Ringgold Colonel McKay of the U S Army cooperates with a state game warden to protect about 2009 white-wing doves nesting in mesquite. Brush-clearing is paused until September to finish the nesting period and maintain the area as a wildlife interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
McKay
United States’ Army
Fort Ringold
Texas
Game Warden Saves Fish From Big Water Moccasin
A Texas game warden working a Temple stream encountered a large water moccasin on the bank after a bass was caught. Unable to reach the snake due to overhanging branches the warden shot it twice causing the bass to be released and swim away. The warden remarked it was the only time he needed his gun in his years with the department.
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Austin
Temple
Game Departement
Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps Drive urged
Amid wartime rhetoric the government calls every citizen to support the war effort by purchasing Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps, urging personal sacrifice and national security through savings.
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America
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