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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1934
Page
2
A collage of notes from Alpine and Terlingua area papers includes letters on postal service, subscription notices, and local rates. It also recounts an odd Rooster Counting experiment from University of Chicago with kernels and birds, plus a detailed political candidate list for County offices in Davis County from Worcester era.
A hundred years ago Jeremy Bentham’s dressed skeleton presided at University College Hospital meetings in London. Ripley notes Bentham was precocious, earned an Oxford bachelor at 18, and became a leading writer on jurisprudence and government. His will ordered his body to be preserved with a skull in a glass case and an artificial head to resemble him.
A political ad by RB Slight advocating fiscal restraint in county government. He compares budgets to business, urges the county judge to enforce economy, cites past tax rates and expenditures, and urges a cash basis to cut debt. Also references 1933 figures and a plan for general public expenditure reduction.
A collage of jokes and quips from a vintage issue featuring misheard phrases about flowers and dinners. It moves through quick punchlines from jokes about insects, witnesses, optimists, and diners, with a scatter of dialect humor and light social observations.
Fort Davis prepares for observatory expansion with a five room stone caretaker cottage and a large steel dome. Yantis and Dornberger supervise the building, planned for completion by early September to house a young astronomer and family. Local labor will be used under supervision, not contracted.
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