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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1946
Page
6
The Alpine Avalanche reports pricing for notices and rate card details for first and subsequent insertions. It notes a 50 year history serving Brewster County including Alpine and the Davis Mountains and announces new subscriptions outside the immediate area until further notice.
Real estate ad listing multiple properties for sale and lease in Fort Davis Alpine Marta and nearby areas. Describes houses, rental income bets, business parcels, and storage or warehouse sites. Mentions loans on city property, contact M. L. Mopson, manager, office phone.
A scrambled text fragment describes odd exchanges about a new owl and a convulsion of words. A barber, a lady, and a sailor exchange brief lines about meals wounds and shells. A sanitarium patient complains of his room. The doctor explains the only room, a noisy inmate, and a fire scare ends with a husband rushing to the oven.
A long haired man accosts a dirty boy and offers a dime if he washes his face. The boy agrees, fetches water at a fountain, returns cleaner, and the man hands him a coin, revealing the encounter as a patient trick. The scene ends with the ruse completed.
The Southern Pacific president said orders for nearly 24 million dollars worth of freight cars were placed in late 1945, up 32.8 percent. The railroad plans streamlined coaches and sleeping cars for the Larks and City of San Francisco trains to boost passenger service, with announcements tied to actual orders and supplier conditions. The company has reduced its debt over the last six years.
The article notes Southern Pacific faced the largest postwar passenger task as military moves surged. By year end 1945 its passenger traffic ran about six times prewar levels with more army and navy personnel than ever, despite limited new cars and only 1200 troop sleepers from government.
Petroleum output in Venezuela for a recent month reached 3,200,000 tons while officials urged investors to put funds into government securities to curb inflation.
Farmers increased output with 10 percent fewer workers by longer hours and wired help, aided by electricity powering water pumps, grain processing and silos. Electricity boosted dairy, poultry and beef, eased housework, and drove rural growth. Today 1.85 million farms and over 4 million rural customers are served, but work remains.
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