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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1937
Page
3
A large gathering at Pena Colorado Park featured a lively marathon party with 15 attendees. Organizers reported a friendly atmosphere, music, light refreshments, and a successful community bonding event.
Article notes a new surf sled design called Althes Martin shown with Geen woe of curl sled patented by two Los Angeles newspaper men, claiming safety benefits via a streamlined pontoon nose and stabilising shield. Mentions social visits at Gage hotel and weekend guests, with local families traveling to Fort Davis encampment and Sul Ross graduation festivities.
Miss Joyce Phelps of Alpine and Mr. Marco Giles of Alpine celebrate senior class status. Phelps, born April 21, 1919, is active in music and speech. Giles, born September 8, 1918, is Marathon High School graduate planning a teaching career with a speech major.
The West Texas Historical and Scientific Society releases its sixth quarterly bulletin. It features historical pieces on Camp Pena Colorado by Col. M. L. Crimmins, Rangers and Indians in the Big Bend by E. Townsend, and land survey notes by S. A. Thompson. Reprints from Ace-High Magazine include Omar Barker poems and a Dolores tale introduced by Barry Scobee.
Sal Ross Lobos push to sharpen through summer drills as the team eyes the season opener. A fragmentary note hints at practice intensity and readiness ambitions within Milwaukee reporting about local figures and a separate Prien family curiosity across Germany and Sweden.
The fragmentary notes describe a very ancient site with lava covered ruins, a central bole, and mentions of bread remnants. Geelincfeeium and Suwen are noted, with references to avert rose and cautious cottlers in the region, hinting at a cryptic historical scavenging context.
The American Boy introduces six man football created by Stephen Epler Nebraska graduate student of athletics. The compact game reduces injury risk and increases spectator clarity. It gains rapid adoption as schools switch from costly traditional play and an official handbook is available. Subscription prices will rise soon. place orders now for one year.
Scientists describe a prehistoric sea that drenched the northern tip of Mihhigaars lower peninsula and much of the upper peninsula. Neologists identify this ancient shoreline as Lake Algomqui F8 age.
A fragment states a remedy claiming roaming relief by using Black Draught to ease constipation. It mentions the preparation from leaves and implies medicinal use as a tonic or laxative.
Canon City Colorado residents part of a seventh anniversary parade faced a condition from John Cox, the state’s oldest inmate. He said he would march only if allowed to walk beside a wagon carrying the stone he labored on when entering prison 45 years ago.
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