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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1936
Page
4
Alpine Texas publication urges accuracy and asks readers to report statements about individuals for corrections. It lists charges for resolutions cards of thanks and reading notices and notes special rates for notices running longer than four issues. Subscription rates are stated for one year six months outside county and standard second class entry.
A nostalgic look at nineteenth century campaign parades with torchlit banners led by brass bands, contrasted with later humorous anecdotes from Crawfordsville and Massachusetts. The piece notes rival papers boosting their side, plus a human interest quip about a new curved shovel for WPA workers to lean on or sit, framed as a mock relief invention.
Dayton dispatch reflects on how mechanization shaped employment from 1900 to 1990. It cites a 300 percent jobs rise despite 200 percent population growth, notes eighteen new industries since 1880, and reports invention creating over 2.25 million jobs while some occupations declined. It contrasts this with slander and gossip, quoting Edwin Booth and urging careful speech.
Excerpted lines urge the individual to maintain independence from government and the mob, teaching youth that the state is the unit of government and the citizen's loyalty lies with the republic. It emphasizes personal integrity, responsibility, and uprightness rooted in freemen's tradition.
A compact reflection on slander as an attack on character. The fragment condemns mean, cowardly sins and frames reputation as a valuable social asset, warned against by ethical consideration and communal honor.
The Riverside Church tower in New York houses the world’s largest carillon with 72 bells spanning six octaves. The biggest bell weighs about 20 tons, and the tower stands 360 feet high. Its bells were installed by electricity using steel, part of a grand project tied to John D. Rockefeller Jr and his father.
A string of humorous vignettes and sharp classroom quips unfolds through street corner encounters and mock legal banter. The set pieces include a traffic light argued at a busy intersection, a dean named a fish, a job inquiry at a million dollar firm, and a dramatic courtroom aside. Riverside Church and Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick are referenced as part of the city’s religious landmarks.
A judge challenges a witness with a three by three by three inkstand and the man quips it would be a very big inkstand. In a separate East Side saloon, two stevedores discuss a married coworker who has become a “softie” since tying the knot, noting his wife’s training.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a black man asking a friend about prosperity and a "dressed-up" figure explaining an orator. The exchange hints at social ambition and class differences in a terse, era-voiced street scene. The incomplete text leaves key terms and outcomes unreadable.
The speaker contrasts simple questions to a shopkeeper with the orator’s systematic reply. He asserts that in discussing human events the numeral second generation added to the figure two yields the result. The quip ends with a confident verdict.
A downtown Alpine resident joked about performing a simple act of kindness by sharing food, saying the gesture made a hundred people cheerful as his hat blew away in the wind.
An old advertisement urges households to keep a reliable laxative on hand to prevent constipation. It promotes Thedford’s Black-Draught as a long trusted remedy, with Mrs. Perry Hicks of Betton Texas cited praising its usefulness for biliousness and constipation. The product is advertised in 25 cent packages.
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