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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
4
Resolutions Cards of Thanks and Reading Notices are charged at seven cents per line per insertion. Special rate on notices longer than four lines. Subscription price one year six months outside county. Post Office matter at Al and Act of Congress March 3 1899.
Thousands of passengers who rode between Birmingham and Atlanta remember Capt Sidney W. Baxter, veteran Southern Airways conductor, for unmatched courtesy. Known as Capt Sid, he greeted travelers warmly, helped every passenger, and bid farewell with kind words. His retirement drew praise from Dorothy Thompson and Clyde Ennis, noting his thoughtful service and the joy he brought to aging passengers, families, and homesick youths.
Report notes state governments ended 1987-88 in better financial shape despite lower revenues and higher relief costs. It credits tax base expansion and a move toward pay-as-you-go budgeting with less reliance on real property taxes. Alpine Roy defeats Arthur J. Jenks in New Hampshire’s First District race, replacing the longtime Republican incumbent. Roy will receive Jenks's former pay and allowances for the period served.
The article notes Americans hold about 29,850,400 cars as of 1980 and that the United States leads global ownership due to industrial freedom, high living standards, and job creation. It contrasts international ratios such as Germany one car per 18 people, Italy per 105, Japan per 38, and Soviet Russia per 8, with Canada one per nine, Australia one per ten, and the UK one per 22.
The article argues railroads are vital to moving farm products and sustaining farmers amid reduced traffic and operating cuts. It highlights prompt dependable service for fruits and year round foods, citing President Downs of the Illinois Central on broadening food supply and living standards.
At a banquet closing a tent convention at the Edison Electric Institute Consumers Power Company of Michigan received the Thomas W. Martin Award for outstanding rural electrification in 1997. The bronze plaque honors its plan to extend electric service to rural areas, in cooperation with State College and farm organizations. The annual award honors efforts to promote rural electrification nationwide.
A jumble of witty lines and vignettes appears in this quirky page, featuring misfired English phrases, a genteel divorce quip, a jester’s quip about a flood victim, and a pompous restaurant owner debating soup. The snapshot captures a late 19th or early 20th century street humor panel with names and streets implied but largely obscured.
The text explains vitamin D protects against rickets and aids calcium use for bones. It lists sunlight and UV lamps as sources and notes foods like cod liver oil milk and eggs as providers. It includes excerpts about Tom Jones praising horses and soldiers.
An advertisement touts relief from headache caused by constipation by taking Black-Draught. It emphasizes a purely vegetable remedy made from leaves and roots, free of minerals or synthetic chemicals, and urges readers to try it.
A collection of brief verse and prose snippets echoes of rain comfort, memory, and affection from readers in Austin Houston and Henrietta. The page closes with a border poet line and a prompt to read the classified ads.
Fragmentary OCR line references de Eon and a group on bas lines near Goldie with an unclear, mused mind phrase. No coherent event, names, or dates extractable for a proper news card.
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