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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
8
Local events report arrivals and visits in Alpine and nearby towns. Mentions of merchants restocking hardware stock, a scholarship offer in Alamo City Commercial College, church travel plans, and public notices including sheriff resignations and school institute travel. Also notes weather, a barbershop reopening, Woodmen party, and miscellaneous business and transport items.
A letter from Mrs Lorastone King to a friend in Alpine notes the death of the Alpine Baptist Church pastor King after typhoid and lung illness. He died after a train journey and burial beside his mother in Waxahachie, with last prayers and singing of Im Going Home. The widow asks prayers for herself and her orphaned children.
Preparatory record for mandamus to compel Charles Rogan General Land Office to award land under the dollar an acre act. The filing names parties seeking action. D W Gourley returns home Saturday after an extended absence in the southern county.
Dr A Boschee's German Syrup praised as a longstanding medicine that cures coughs colds and serious lung ailments by addressing the cause. Sold worldwide with two million bottles yearly and introduced to the United States in 1868. Three doses claim relief for ordinary coughs, priced at seven cents. Sold by Dr L J Sweeden Get Green's Prize Almanac.
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