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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
5
A long critique argues graduation pageantry fuels snobbery and expense. It cites Washington as a cautionary tale where superintendents urged afternoon, separate ceremonies and plain white dresses to curb cost. The piece praises a College of Industrial Arts class achieving uniform, low-cost gowns and handmade touches.
A classroom moment turns humorous as Johnny corrects a board sentence about drinking. The exchange shows slang and errors like drinked and drunked, highlighting a student’s attempt to fix imperfect wording on a lesson.
Senator Gore recounts a fishing trip tale from Oklahoma City about a Northern guest disturbed by mosquitoes yet asleep while a Southern colonel rests. A black cook explains that early night the colonel is full to ignore skeeters, and late night the skeeters are too full to heed the colonel.
Mayor G S Marshall speakers at a Columbus banquet defend judging by appearances as Jackson Wentworth, after 30 years away, revisits his boyhood home. A nose reddened by a skin condition prompts quips from a minister about drinking, with Jackson replying he drinks little.
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