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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1941
Page
4
Analysis of water supply adequacy for fire fighting and lessons from the National Board leaflet. Commentary on public attitudes toward new ideas, the need for efficient fire apparatus, and London NY firemen experiences during wartime. Includes subscription rates and local notices.
A quirky paragraph lists daily human metrics such as heartbeats, blood travel, breaths, air inhaled, food and liquid intake, waste loss, perspiration, heat, energy, speech, movement, muscle use, and minor body growth figures. It ends with a quotation about truth and timing attributed to B. White from Lilliput Bog.
The Christian Science Monitor notes Middlebury College in Vermont is rehearsing a winter carnival musical comedy with the working title Fleecing the Greeks, underscoring its long history and antiquated phrasing.
Alpine Cemetery Association offers monuments and markers with profits benefiting the cemetery fund for upkeep and improvement. They guarantee material and installation and invite inquiries by phone. Includes contact details for Georgia Stroud Dallman.
A strolling parson comments that players with low scores do not swear as a golf crowd debates morals. A funny exchange follows about wisdom, a Pullman ladder, a cinnamon joke, and a porter offering a spare berth. A station guard questions Mike Flaherty about duties guarding a powder magazine and contemplates explosive risk.
A fragment describes an elf man addressing someone and tsking about travel time to the next village, leaving the action incomplete and unresolved.
In Bend Sentinel an article by Brad Warrington details Captain James B. Gillett’s early life, the retired Texas Ranger who lived in the area years before his death. The piece, illustrated from the N. H. Rose collection, notes Mrs. Gillett and son M. E. Gillett, with daughter Mrs. Lee Wilson in Ozona.
Two men rooming in a top floor apartment could not sleep on Sunday morning as the sun shone through the windows. They painted the windows black and slept again, only to wake at seven fifteen. They rushed to work and were questioned by the foreman who asked where they were earlier in the week.
Del Rio residents visited and traveled last weekend. Mrs Earl Young attended her father’s funeral in San Marcos and was buried at West Point. Mrs Jack Jolley of Toyah arrived to support her mother. Joe Ray suffered burns frying fish. John Martin returned from San Antonio. Mr and Mrs Jack Busey of Phoenix visited Mrs Busey’s grandmother. Loyd Wade is bedridden with a severe illness. Mary Alice Wade spent the weekend with her parents. John Martin announces the marriage of Marguerite Patterson to Dan Cowherd of Birmingham on Feb 15. Mrs Jim Worthington and son Jim Dick moved to Brownwood where Capt Worthington is stationed.
Tucson officials say more than 200 so called fifth columnists have been uncovered amid a 690 acre site where rattlesnakes are present, sabotaging efforts to enlarge the city ports to meet U S defense needs.
Sheriff Clarence Hord of Brewster County announces a forced sale by execution of a Texas court against W L Thomas and wives. The 1941 case in Tom Green County bank foreclosure lists San Angelo National Bank as plaintiff. Real estate in Brewster County is levied upon as described, with the sale conducted per court decree.
Ginger Rogers stars in Kitty Foyle, based on Christopher Morley’s novel. Set in today’s world, Kitty leaves secretarial school for a socialite’s magazine, marries, seeks independence after annulment, faces pregnancy, and weighs two men as she creates her own future. Dennis Morgan and James Craig lead a strong supporting cast under Sam Wood’s direction.
In Brewster County on the first Tuesday in April 1941 at the Court House in Alpine between 10 am and 4 pm a levy and execution require sale of real estate for cash to the highest bidder. W L Thom and wife Alice Thomas and Cora La Thomas are named as owners. notice is published for three consecutive weeks in The Alpine Avalanche. Clarence Hord, deputy. Brewster County official. The Avalanche offers hotel savings via scrip.
Fragmentary note describes an ear spot in fourteen rail lines labeled Contalt with unclear context. No dates, places, or named entities are legible enough to identify specific events or affiliations. Further readable details are needed to form a precise card.
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