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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
6
The Brewster county and city newspaper continues its 32nd year of publication, serving as the sole local paper for the county area with news, notices, and community updates for residents.
The Avalanche announces its management including Dy Jackson as President and W Livingston as Vice President with Ian J. W. Phelps as Secretary and directors. Subscription prices per year six months and three months are listed along with advertising rates on application. The notice states corrections will be made if brought to management’s attention.
A reflective column contrasts crime and public morals with wartime recovery and the Washington peace conference. It notes Russia’s experiment with communism and lessons on incentives, then analyzes political machines, leadership, and Senator Penrose’s enduring influence amid changing voter engagement.
The text reflects on how history should move past a mere list of battles and dates. It argues that understanding social and economic trends gives deeper insight into people’s lives than a simple chronology of 1921 events.
Europe endured an era where old hostilities and class tensions receded yet peace hopes waned. A year produced few genuine peace prospects and economic illusions collapsed, marking a historical chapter remembered for its paradoxes and unrealized promises.
Merchants fault distant patronage to department stores and mail order houses in cities. Big city stores drive sales through aggressive, persistent advertising, with higher volume in 1921 despite tough general business conditions. Federal data show department stores maintaining sales, aided by lower prices and continued ad campaigns.
A patchwork of quips and witticisms on life, reading, procrastination, and society appears as a humorous collage. It includes reflections on experience, subscription habits, libraries, misquoted proverbs, and social observations from a bygone era.
A fragment discusses devoting a similar proportion of receipts to promotion work by publicity, suggesting any store can achieve comparable results with targeted advertising efforts.
A report to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science notes many universal languages exist but few people adopt them. Leaders agree a single common tongue could ease conflict and trade, yet nations cling to their own languages rich in history. Encouraging youth to study foreign languages remains the practical step.
The State of Texas notifies all interested in the estate of J W Rixon that Mrs. Raychel Rixon filed for probate of the last will and for letters testamentary. The hearing is set for February 20, 1922, at the county court in Alpine. Readers may appear and contest the application.
A tar pool six miles from Los Angeles yields an extraordinary fossil site with sabre toothed tiger remains, extinct elephants, mastodons, camels, antelopes with spiral horns, and eagles. The soft center traps and preserves animals for study, while locals warn of strangers offering help or souvenirs.
A garbled OCR snippet shows names and titles of county officers including a judge district attorney sheriff treasurer tax assessor and justices of the peace. It also enumerates precinct commissioners and other county roles with many misspellings and broken lines.
Justice Court Precinct No 1 meets the Fourth Monday each month. County Court convenes on the Third Monday in February May August and November. Commissioners' Court meets on the second Monday in February May Magnst and November. Probate Court sits the Wednesday of the first week. District Court 63rd District meets the Sixth Monday after First Monday in January and July.
The city commission lists Mayor Benj. I. Berkeley and commissioners F. FE. Gillett Geo. W. Baines with Nay Bowles as city marshal. Meetings are on the first Monday each month at the Masonic Building. The Avalanche motto appears as a local slogan.
Warning from manager H. T. Fletcher states that any person taking wood water or grass in the O2 pastures will be prosecuted for trespass.
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