Alpine Avalanche notices and postal details
Alpine area community sheet outlines local news sections and policy on corrections and notices. It lists rates for resolutions, cards of thanks, and reading notices, with 1 cent per line and 2 cent line after first, plus special rates for longer notices. Fort Davis and Marathon correspondents noted. Subscription price set at 2 dollars per year, 1.25 outside county six months.
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Alpine
Davis Mountains
Big Bend
Fort Davis
Marie Simpson
Marathon
Texas
Congress
Postwar world duties emerge from wartime restraint
After the war the American people tire of militarism yet face duties as world leader. A large force will be needed abroad to police and rebuild Europe and Japan, with 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 troops overseas. Leaders anticipate costs, concessions on tariffs, and a shift from old empire ideals toward shared global progress. Biographical remarks by Bulwer precede the main discussion.
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United States
Europe
Japan
Roosevelt
Willkie
Ameriaas
Hoover
Wallace
Welles
If Americans Delay Defense Bonds and Stamps Purchases
An exhortation to college students to buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps without delay. It argues delay harms national defense and peace, urging regular, systematic purchases as part of the war effort aligned with ongoing military campaigns and industrial production.
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America
United States Defense
Defense Stout
Sul Ross
United States
Egypt Battle and Tire Rules Across the News
The piece notes Rommel’s Afrikan Korps gaining in Egypt while stressing British air and ground superiority. It warns Hitler’s push toward the Middle East could connect with Italy and Japan, tying to strategic resources and Moscow’s defense in World War II. It also covers stricter tire rules and retread eligibility, urging inspections to avoid blowouts. Dublin Progress.
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Rommel
Afrikan Korps
Egypt
Hitler
Middle East
Japan
Italy
Mediterrane
United Nations
Hospital maid survives cold storage night
Genevieve Raiser, a kitchen attendant at Erlang er Hospital in Ooga Tenn, recounts how she kept warm in a cold storage compartment from Saturday night until she was found early Sunday morning by Chef Victor Jones. She later snuggled under blankets and asked for hot coffee and water with little ice.
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Ooga
Tenn
Genevieve Raiser
Nefro
Erlanger Hospital
Victor Jones
Theological Student Refuses Degree Over Saying Fid dle
A humorous item notes a young theologian named Fiddle declining a degree arguing it is enough to be Fid dle Without being Fiddle DD. Northern and Southern quips appear, a cow farming joke, and a Sunday school anecdote about the meaning of selah with a boy answering what David would say after harp strings break.
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Fiddle
D.D
Boy Shoeshine Victim as 500-Pound Tank Explodes
In Columbia South Carolina, 13 year old shoeshine boy Charles Harmon sat on a midtown sidewalk bench when a buried gasoline storage tank, hidden for 17 years, detonated exploding with a pistol like crack and propelling him and the bench several feet into the air.
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Columbia
S.C
Charles Harmon
Mead divorce case sparks 1000 dollar alimony demand
In Los Angeles Mrs. W. H. Mead seeks divorce and one thousand dollars monthly alimony from her 68 year old millionaire husband. The couple married in 1896 and have lived estranged for ten years, with Mrs. Mead 62 describing cohabitation in the same house. She says he has ordered her from the home.
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Los Angeles
W. H. Mead
Embarrassed Bradford Women Haste to Air-Raid Shelter
Two young women carrying several bottles of beer were escorted by a special policeman to the First Methodist Episcopal church during a practice air raid blackout in Bradford. The officer said it was the only place to shelter them.
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Bradford
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Willing Spirit in Tulsa Judge Faces Bling Case
A whimsical tale from Tulsa Oklahoma recalls Judge Walted I Kimmel calling a bet case. Six men approached the bench, only five charged, and a man of peace urged arbitration. He mediated a dispute by selecting twelve arbitrators, but chaos erupted as the arbitrators gathered.
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Fei Nowa
Skull of a rhinoceros sandaracus found in museum attic
New York’s American Museum of Natural History has long sought the skull of Rhinoceros sandaracus. After years of expeditions in Java and Malaya, the skull is now expected to join the fossil collection, discovered in the museum’s attic and recognized for over seven decades.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History
Java
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Malay States
Clarences Mystery Postponed Dance Told by Marine
Griffin Georgia residents Mr and Mrs T Elliott are puzzled about their son Clarence being stationed with the Marines. A letter recalls a barefoot dance by the Marines and local girls. A campus service honor roll lists 249 Texas Christian University students in the armed forces of the United States Canada and England.
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Rome
Griffin
T. Elliott
Clarence
The
Nativ
Lus
Texas Christian University
United States
Canada
England
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H. L. Kokernot, JR
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