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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
6
Official city and county paper of Brewster County outlines rates for corrections and notices. Includes editors and correspondents, subscription prices, and post office filing details.
A reflective piece urges Americans to adopt stronger home fire safety. It compares wartime fire threats in England with domestic fire risks in the United States, urging citizens to take responsibility, reduce fires, and support fire prevention as essential to national defense and economic efficiency.
A narrative describes a young man who begins to see value where others miss it after finding a five dollar bill. It contrasts two mindsets among business people, urging future-focused growth over narrow profit. The piece laments missed beauty and community progress amid endless pinpricks of daily gain.
A letter from a local soldier calls out home for sabotaging war effort through strikes and high wage demands. He notes soldiers give up comforts and time for barracks and duty while many at home critique hours and threaten to strike. He questions how long Americans will tolerate such opposition to defense production.
A Keeley Institute report led by C D Cunningham finds Monday absenteeism rises due to alcohol use, harming national productivity. The study, done with the Greensboro and Dwight Keeley Institutes, argues alcohol is a disease and calls for medical treatment over punishment, noting long term data on chronic alcoholism.
Dr Ian Parran urges public acknowledgment of syphilis as a major killer, claiming ten million Americans affected and highlighting its transmission, including heredity. He notes detection by common tests and curable treatment if early, stressing ignorance as the cause of the disease’s devastation and calling for education and wartime public-health mobilization.
An American evangelist Dow who toured Ireland in 1790 writes a guarded marriage proposal to a damsel, claiming a year of patience and land grants as potential dowry. The correspondence hints at a breach of promise risk if the lover fails to wed, illustrating social norms around betrothal and property in the era.
The text appears as a fragmented poem or aphorism about confidence and advertising. It does not present a clear event, person, place, or organization to form a factual news summary. No identifiable entities or actions are available to craft a proper record.
A chaotic streetcar scene features a laughingly evasive exchange about a police cordon and a dog chasing the express as a wry joke. The passage then shifts to a historical digression on early Texas independence, Long, Lafitte, and Fredericksburg era events, mixing fiction with archival notes and travelogue style details.
A quick tale recalls a bus speeding to regain time, a lady showing a dog in a birthplace house, and a joke about eggs. A country lad features in a buzzard egg prank, ending with a lunch pail twist. A railway station dog chases the Northern express, the stationsmaster’s dog tearing along the track.
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