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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1934
Page
2
Alpine Texas official city and county paper lists rates for notices including corrections and reading notices. It notes staff members and columns with names and positions in Brewster County as part of a local publication history.
The page notes Flag Day June 14 marking the 150th anniversary of the Stars and Stripes and recounts its history from 1777 adoption to 1810 stripe rules and 1818 star addition. It lists political candidates for county, district, and precinct offices and includes a feature on war absurdities contrasting generals and troops with a pacifist tone.
The piece traces how vamp becomes a seductive modern term, contrasting its grim origins as a risen dead feared for bloodthirst and warded by stakes and severed heads with its later association to bloodsucking bats and evolving popular myths across cultures. It notes shifts from fear to allure in contemporary usage.
The will of 8. Davies Warfield, late president of Seaboard Air Line and banker, leaves five to ten million dollars to fund a home for dependent widowed women. The Anna Emory Warfield Home will be built on his Glen Farm near Monckton, Maryland, in memory of his mother. Warfield rose from clerk to industrial leader, shaping southern development.
The article discusses how the ingle letter difference between homoousion and homoi ousion altered the Nicene Creed and helped divide early Christianity. It notes the 325 Nicea council adoption of one substance with the Father and reflects on subsequent creed revisions by general councils. The piece includes a fragmentary report on local accidents and political campaign expenses as marginal notes.
A new antiseptic touted as a major medical breakthrough is said to be 70 times as effective as carbolic acid and harmless enough for a baby to drink. Dr Zeader Leonard of Johns Hopkins University uncovered the product, described as a synthetic organic chemical derived from goat glands and both a pain reliever and antiseptic. The report notes the remarkable origin and properties of the compound.
The text describes Marsingh of Kashmir showing tolerance yet humor toward Hindu customs. It mentions Sir Hart's fest honoring a deceased leader and a 19 day mourning period. Each evening the ruler walks barefoot to a funeral pyre and sleeps on the ground with nuts eaten only at set times.
A historical note describes a maharajah on a sparse fast diet turning to potatoes and sweet potatoes after priests, cautious and diplomatic, deemed the idea of a potato nut humorous. The ruler’s diet was adjusted for the remainder of his stay, reflecting novelty and official tolerance.
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