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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
4
The piece cites cases noted by Robert Cantwell showing suspects who confessed to murders were later found alive. It notes 129 documented instances where confessions led to execution despite victims turning up alive, stressing jurors and judges face heavy responsibility and the danger of lynching.
The poem urges forgetting slander and snubs while recalling kindness, upheld promises, gratitude, and happiness. It counsels hopeful forgiveness and truth, noting that such memory fosters love from many hearts across age and youth.
President Roosevelt selects Brigadier General George C Marshall to be United States Army chief of staff, succeeding General Malin Craig next August. Marshall, 58, enters the role from deputy chief of staff and will hold the four star rank as head of the army. He rose from private in 1902 and is a Virginia Military Institute graduate with World War I service and later command in China.
The passage condemns Hitler and Mussolini for harmful governances harming their peoples and economies. It notes their aggression, bankrupt nations, and diversion of resources to war while warning that oppression and persecution alienate even powerful rulers from liberty loving nations. It argues such policies invite collective resistance and potential disaster.
Leading processors announce big increases in elevator space to handle a forecast large soybean crop. Archer Daniels Midland plans a five million bushel facility at Decatur, with Swift & Company enlarging Champaign storage and E. E. Staley possibly adding Decatur capacity. Glidden & Co. mentioned for new construction. Firms argue permanent storage cuts costs versus renting. The expansion boosts industry confidence.
A compact reflection on business faults and pitfalls describing debt to the tax collector, phantom prosperity after years without earnings, misrepresenting work to a rival, risk in securing a big job, and creating barriers to salespeople and internal sales access. It ends with a wry note that business can be fun if one enjoys it.
A philosophy of practical service urges a nation to prove value through deeds. The piece argues that usefulness drives global regard and national standing, urging collective effort toward tangible results.
A quip about a secretary replying why they quit. The boss’s bow legged stance leads to an absurd image of falling through the boss’s lap. The line plays on workplace tensions with grim humor.
A dialogue shows Annabelle and another kangaroo searching for a missing joey while a second kangaroo laments having his pocket picked. The scene mixes concern for the infant with a petty theft incident.
A professor asks why no one works when he leaves briefly. A student quips that it is because the professor wears rubber heels, delivering a light, overheard classroom pun.
Dialogue notes a patient whose foot pain eased after a brass rail was removed during surgery. The exchange highlights surprise at the operation and the relief from years of pressure. The item reads as a light medical anecdote in a newspaper column.
In dim Africa, two natives observe a leopard pursuing a fat man fleeing toward a tree. One asks to spot the winner and the other quips that the winner is spotted.
A weary diner complains after receiving horse meat instead of steak. He asks the waiter to remove the harness before serving next time, underscoring his fatigue and frustration with the misprepared order.
Jane Rogers reports on a new product called orange butter, a preserves style spread made from orange juice and pulp cooked with sugar. It uses orange pectin and a touch of lemon juice, packaged in glass jars and sealed by vapor vacuum to lock in freshness and flavor.
D A Green as administrator of the Charles Green estate in Brewster County Texas urges all debtors to settle and all creditors to present claims within legal time at Marathon Texas. Court appointment by Judge R B Slight dated April 3 1939. This notice dated May 2 1939.
Canberra hosts a moving plan for Austra lite te te to establish a full glove making concern. The operation will transfer its board of directors skilled technicians and equipment along with the latest gadgets, installing entirely in Australia using local materials and supplies.
A firm named Vince of POE See Experts first examined Australian leather and tanning supplies and found them satisfactory. The note mentions saving money on hotel bills by buying scrip from the Avalanche with a 25 percent discount.
A gum machine company assigns a collector a master key to empty penny boxes. Three weeks later he returns asking for another key claiming to have lost one. The manager asks where he has been as the cashier reports late Friday nights with the collector absent.
Grace Tucker a schoolteacher from Southampton New Hampshire mails letters to her parents in Wakefield Massachusetts using carrier pigeons for delivery.
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