Reading notices and notices pricing details
Resolutions Cards of Thanks and Reading Notices are charged at ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents per line for each succeeding insertion Special rates apply to notices that run longer than four issues The subscription price One Year two dollars six months outside county one dollar twenty five cents Ered as second class matter at the Post Office in Alpine Texas under the Act of Congress of March three 1879
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Alpine
Texas
Congress
Willkie on America’s freedom and opportunity
Wendell Willkie extols American liberty to choose government and express views. He asserts equal chance for capable individuals across class and creed to pursue ambition in factory, field, business, or arts, emphasizing dreams and opportunity as core national strengths.
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America
Wendell Willkie
Secret Operation on Grover Cleveland Revealed
The article recounts Grover Cleveland's 1893 cancer surgery on the yacht Oneida to avoid alarming the nation. Part of his left jaw and palate were removed, he recovered in five days, and the public learned of the operation only in 1917. A rubber jaw substitute kept the secret.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Cleveland
W. W. Keen
Oneida
E. C. Benedict
Long Island Sound
Keen
Texas Safety Association petitions change in drunken driving penalties
The Texas Safety Association urges revising the law on drunken driving from a felony to a misdemeanor for a first offense with a mandatory jail term of five to ten days. It also pushes legalized chemical blood tests to prove intoxication, aiming to improve convictions and highway safety, noting prior juries often failed to indict or convict. A separate joke item notes a Brooklyn judge orders a man to sing to his wife daily, labeling him as "lucky" only briefly.
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Texas
Texas Safety Association
The
Safety Association
Honest civic reformer who would not seek fame
A poem about a man who vows tax cuts and economy in government. He fires clerks to run offices efficiently, avoids political self promotion, and treats public business like a private enterprise. Though honest, earnest, and sincere, he fails to last a year as a politician.
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Edgar A. Guest
Railroads Ready to Meet Any Emergency Says War Official
Assistant Secretary of War Johnson says the American railroads are always in a state of national defense and ready to cooperate with government plans. Since 1917 the system has avoided chaos by coordinating shipments, avoiding warehousing of freight, and improving cars, locomotives, and tracks. Shirley Temple reportedly quitting the screen to enjoy a normal youth, aged eleven in April, ends the piece.
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Assisant
Johnson
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Shirley Temple
Shirley
Quips and Quirks From a Bus, Tavern, and Home
A string of humorous vignettes unfolds with a proud wife vowing independence, a plumber arriving late with chatty banter, a tavern manager taunting a Scotsman about water, a tidy boy recalling an orange peel mishap, and a parent remarking on a boy's clever pocketed orange.
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Johnny
Scout's First Aid Answer Sparks Practical Drowning Tips
A Scout earning First Class first aid was asked to name steps to save a drowning man. He answered with a practical, if grim, plan: first remove the man from the water, then remove the water from the man.
Squealer Ends Quiet Bank Account Birthday Mystery
A husband gave his wife a bank account for her birthday. The teller learned the account was overdrawn and the wife offered only a shrug when asked. The next morning the teller received a note from Mrs. Jones reading the single word Squealer.
Return of the Backslider Brightens Sunday Service
A Negro pastor welcomes a long-absent member back to the congregation after a sermon. The man named Rastus explains he has returned to strengthen his faith while working a daytime job painting a chicken coop and building a fence around a watermelon patch.
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Rastus
Quail Nest Delays Roadwork Between Brackettville and Rock Springs
A mother quail and a nest of 21 eggs forced detours on a highway project between Brackettville in Kinney County and Rock Springs in Edwards County. Traffic was redirected until 19 chicks hatched and could leave the nest, per the State Game Department.
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Brackettville
Kinney County
Rock Springs
Edwards County
State Highway Department
Mama Quail
State Game Department
Avalanche Honor Roll Readers Acknowledge Renewals
The Avalanche thanks readers for renewing subscriptions and lists the week’s honor roll. Names include Dr. Frank P. Mathews Alpine H Van Fossan Alpine J M Fraser Rixford Pa and many others across Alpine Morenci San Antonio Grand Saline Marathon and Hamilton Texas. A burglar returned 11 watches and 30 fountain pens to William H Schmidt in Milford Pa.
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Avalanche
Frank P. Mathews
Alpine
H. van Fossan
J. M. Fraser
Rixford
Alan Fraser
William H. Schmidt
Milford
Abandoned Marriage Suit Filed in Brewster County Texas
The State of Texas issues citation by publication against Herbert Zerbel, residence unknown, in a divorce action filed May 31, 1940, by Lorraine Zerbel. The suit alleges abandonment on December 25, 1935, lasting over three years with no children or community property, and that Lorraine has resided in Texas and Brewster County for required periods. The writ commands service before the next term.
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State OF Texas
Brewster Coun
Brewster
Herbert Zerber
Lorraine Zerbel
Chester Herbert Zerbel
State of
Texas
Brewster County
Kittens and Court Notices from Brewster County
A fragment from a Brewster County court record notes the seal of the District Court and an official entry by D. Cheek in Alpine. It mentions a kitten owner Mrs Charlies E Kent of Portland Maine and a May date.
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Cheek
Brewster Coe
Th. W. Frazer
Brewster
Texas
Charlies E. Kent
Portland
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