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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
4
The Avalanche apologizes to Lee Reagan and brothers of Tucson for a March 31 1939 clipping from Sul Ross Skyline alleging smuggling and other crimes. Editor D M Bennett states no intent to disparage their reputations and issues a public retraction.
A southern city railroad watch inspector advertised in a local paper stressing railroads' vital role for farmers and manufacturers. He warned that halting rail mileage for 44 hours would paralyze the nation, noting employment, schools, churches, and local businesses rely on rail workers and rail equipment.
A bill to deport aliens who advocate overthrow of the U S government has been debated amid protests from labor groups and agitators. Supporters say it would curb Communism and Fascism while enforcement agencies are urged to enforce existing laws more rigidly.
Columbia University trustees announced the 1938 Pulitzer prizes on recommendation of a newsmen advisory board. The Daily News of Miami won 500 for public service in exposing city irregularities, while Waterbury’s Republican American earned honorable mention for municipal graft. Other winners include Thomas L. Stokes for reporting on voter intimidation and Louis P. Lochner for Berlin dispatches.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker urges building 50 000 airplanes as work horses of the air to defend the nation and sustain factories. He notes training pilots and mechanics, conserving raw materials, and avoiding tariffs that would hurt mining and transportation in wartime.
Nicaragua issued a five stamp air mail series honoring Will Rogers after the 1931 Managua earthquake. Each stamp from one to five centavos bears a different design with the inscription Nicaragua to Will Rogers Homage. The stamps were shown in a Christian Science Monitor issue. The 1931 quake struck Managua for six seconds, causing about 1,000 deaths, thousands injured, and 25,000 left homeless.
West Texas' fairest women will compete June 9 and 10 for the Queen of the Water Carnival title. The winner receives an all expense trip to Treasure Island in San Francisco. The event highlights free year round swimming at Comanche Spring pool in Fort Stockton and an aquatic show by the Ambassador swimming team of Los Angeles.
A fragmented text mix references a wife shooting her husband at close range and mentions powder marks. The piece also parodies nursery rhyme lines and cites a farcical figure of 37 million professors. The tone blends crime and theater-like whimsy in a chaotic OCR fragment.
A man asks what a Kentucky breakfast is and jokes that it is a bulldog with a steak and a quart of whiskey. The punchline: the dog is there to eat the steak, highlighting old time humor about drinking culture.
A humorous exchange shows a clerk asking to use the boss's phone to confirm his wife’s instruction on a raise. The boss invites him to call his own wife to discuss whether the raise can be granted.
A humorous exchange between a doctor and a convalescent centers on seeds and pills. The patient reveals he sowed pills rather than sweet peas, prompting the doctor to note the extraordinary case and its appendix reference. The skit plays on medical quackery and gardening misadventure.
Public auction of land interests in Brewster County Texas for cash. Sheriff Elmer Taylor will sell on May 6, 1999 at Alpine courthouse door all rights of W A Scott in multiple Tex Mex Ry Co parcels totaling about 8860 acres, per 1939 district court judgment Latta Davenport vs Woolf Scott.
A man mildly drunk tries to pass a revolving restaurant door, loops outside each time, then sits to ponder. A passerby enters, the door spins, a young woman exits, leaving the inebriate bemused and wondering where the man’s clothes went.
William T. Doyl, 64, of Louisville, answered a knock and found a brother he had not seen for 39 years. The brief reunion occurred at their shared residence, highlighting a long-awaited family encounter.
Dr. C. P. Boner of the University of Texas reports a seven year survey shows crowds in churches, restaurants, hallways and gyms grow noisier. He notes public address systems must rise in volume and stepping up voices distorts sound. Possible causes include radio, more machines, and post war nerves. A hotel anecdote features Rubinoff.
Harold and Myrtle Potwin offer 30 tons of dry hay maple and beech slab wood as well as oil and gas. They propose washing services while customers wait or delivery. Woodstock Vermont edition of the Vermont Standard.
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