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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
1
Low round trip fares offered by the Southern Pacific Sunset Route from all points on its main line and branches to many states and to key Mexican centers. Tickets go on sale December 27 22 and 23 for 30 days from sale date. Inquiries via any agent or F F Morse, O T M Houston.
A London physician reports that two English aristocratic women demonstrated a divining rod’s ability to locate underground water, suggesting heightened sensitivity and possible telepathic or psychic connections. The piece also recounts a Pecos man losing a $900 diamond to thieves aboard a Texas train, leading to a police pursuit and arrest.
A hysterical health claim asserts the world’s misery from stomach and liver trouble, listing symptoms such as sour stomach headaches heart palpitation and yellow skin. It advertises August Flower for 75 cents with two doses said to relieve, sold by Dr L J Shelden and other local vendors.
Lou Buttrill and family spent days in Alpine this week after returning from Austin where state officials sought full lease payments on pasture land. Officials argued a drift fence enclosed the land so the entire tract was liable, but a compromise settled at 5 acres leased for 3 cents per cattle head.
Cautionary note warns against cheap remedies and promotes Grandma's Diarrhoea Cure as a widely endorsed, pleasant tasting remedy. It claims to cure many stomach ailments including cholera morbus and dysentery with prompt results.
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