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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1901
Page
8
Daily notes from Marathon to Marfa include visits, travels, and church events. Mentions of Miss Rhodes, Mr and Mrs Chastain, Kokernot, and Hatbert show social rounds. Local ads promote cold melons at Alpine Ice Works, lawn suppers, and business cards.
Mr and Mrs Marston depart Alpine to begin a new field of labor. They were highly esteemed by all and will be greatly missed, leaving a vacancy hard to fill and best wishes for divine blessing on their new venture.
Several grazing blocks offered in Brewster County Texas. One block about 11000 acres adjoining AS Gage Francis Smith Co pasture at 30 cents per acre. Another block about 11000 acres in a locality with water at no cents per acre. 4000 acres miscellaneous grazing land at 75 cents per acre. Two surveys near Marathon Texas at $1.00 per acre. One valley survey 13 miles south of Marathon on Reynolds Creek at 1.00 per acre. Also agent for AB Frank watered lands. Call LW Dorrell Alpine Texas.
Episcopal Church Convention in San Francisco invites travel by the Sunset Route Convention Special. Depart New Orleans September 25 via Houston San Antonio El Paso arriving Los Angeles with stopovers. Fares from Houston 8.45, Galveston 6.75, San Antonio 8.45. sales dates September till November 16. For literature write Morse Parks GP&T A Houston Texas.
An old advert promotes Boshee's German Syrup as the only remedy for severe lung troubles claiming universal success. It urges readers to try one bottle and notes it heals, relieves inflammation, aids expectoration, and improves sleep. Available at Sharp bros Alpine Texas for Green's Prize Almanac.
An extensive description touts Cloudcroft on the Sacramento mountains as a healthful high altitude retreat near El Paso. It highlights pure pine air, rejuvenation from commercial monotony, scenic forests and mountain vistas, and new amenities including The Lodge hotel for about 200 guests with a dancing pavilion, golf, and tennis. It notes the Sunset Route as a convenient rail link and provides contact for rates via a local agent or S F Morse.
Advertisers claim Grandma's Diarrhoea Cure has curative qualities endorsed by others. The copy stresses rapid relief from stomach troubles and asserts the product cleanses the system to a healthier condition.
The line is now complete and WM Larkin Co central office phone is active. Stockholders have received phones but not mounted them yet. Within a week the entire line should be in working order.
A 1909 Standart Texas letter from W Standar to Park Laboratory Co New York commends the Jersey Screw Worm Killer. The writer says it kills the worm heals the wound and praises the patent stopper as a great convenience.
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