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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1933
Page
3
A jumbled OCR page fragment blends jokes, a car crash description, and stray dialogue. It includes a boxing instructor, a crying scene, a wife’s reaction, a pupil asking about a course, and a train crash with a couple escaping. Scattered snippets feature comic vignettes about a Spaniard, American, and Scot, plus a hotel lobby shooting joke and stray classroom banter.
Western Union officials announced completion of repairs along 10 miles west of Del Rio after last summer floods. The project cost about $13,000 and began in October, with temporary wiring laid along the right of way before permanent restoration.
Readings from Seminole caverns reveal a 2 000 year old lifeway of shellfish eaters called basket weavers. Findings include six skeletons hundreds of arrows flint knives and ornaments showing clothing made from fibers and hides and tools for grinding food in rock basins. The expedition team led by A T Jackson examined caverns with holes and mortars and produced a detailed reconstruction of daily life and hunting practices in the prehistoric Valley.
Albuquerque reports revived tales of Indian witchcraft after a body theft at Mountain View cemetery. The grave tentatively identified is Lola Ortiz, who died in 1924 at age 18, sparking accusations tied to local superstitions in Martinestown near the village.
Court records in Cooke County detail mortgages and livestock assets including horses mules cattle hogs and wagons. One entry lists four horses two cows fifty acres of cotton twenty acres of corn and a mortgage of four hundred dollars. Another notes fifty-four head of cattle and assorted equipment with proceeds of ninety one dollars and seventy four cents.
Ferral M Roark of Brewster County Texas conveyed land to Dus J Groos trustee for Aetna Life Insurance Company Hartford CT to secure a note for 14700 dated July 3 1990 due July 1 1938 with 6 14 percent interest. Due to default on July 1 1952 the holder will sell 4913 acres in Alpine and surrounding tracts at public sale on a specified day to satisfy the debt plus costs and interest.
See our line of genuine pocket Knives, butcher knives, sell... Alpine Lumber Co Haw. Dept. tte.
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