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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1937
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a pricing notice referencing renewal rates and a price of 200 for one year, 1.25 for six months outside county, with dates around March 3, 1570, in Alpine Texas. The text mentions a council or congress and appears to be an old public notice.
A scattered, fragmentary report blends warnings about a hypothetical daily death lottery with praise for American railroads. It recounts Wright brothers’ first flights, early aviation feats, and the origin of the name America while noting large fire losses and a push to memorialize the Barcin house in Saint Die. References to trains, horsepower, and rapid progress appear alongside cautionary notes about road danger and public policy.
A jumble of comic bits and banter ranges from a flirtatious Alpine gal and a ludicrous shoe tale to a London flower seller and a Scout breakfast joke. The mix includes a wedding shoe count, playful lovers, a moth joke, and a politician heckler, all in a collage of vintage quips.
Sheriff sale notice issued by the Denton County District Court in the case First State Bank of Denton vs P T N Oil Company. On the first Tuesday in March 1937 at Alpine Brewster County courthouse door, property blocks and sections totaling 40 acres described under several railroad company surveys will be sold to satisfy judgment.
Notice records levy on P T N Oil Company property to satisfy a $1,248 judgment plus costs. Sheriff Elmer Taylor of Brewster County Texas signs the writ on February 1, 1987. The document includes a 1907 Department of the Interior General Land Office notice about eight lots in the Fort Davis Military Reserve under the July 5 1904 act provisions.
A public sale begins at 10:00 a m on April 10, 1997 with bids offered to the highest bidder at not less than the appraised price. Further information may be obtained from the General Land Office in Washington D C. Antoinette Funk Assistant Committe.
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