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Alpine Avalanche

Location

Alpine, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1932

Page

4

Dollar Passes Through 220 Hands in Year in Go lumbus

A Mississippi town article recounts a secretary’s experiment with circulating dollars. Slip-stamped bills moved through merchants, farmers, teachers, a doctor, a lawyer, and a child’s lesson, returning to the bank after a year. The piece argues income and advertising help keep money in circulation.

Mississippi Golumbus

Hoarder Loses Eight Thousand Hidden in Mattress

Montreal Star reports a Winnipeg style tale of Prank Wojaski, a late day laborer who hid about $8000 in his mattress. After losing his job he sought civic relief, the inspector condemned the mattress as unsanitary and sent it to the incinerator, leaving Wojaski to return to a clean new mattress and no savings.

Woljnski Wojaski United States Stevens Godteas Montreal Star

Fragmentary Speech of The Times on Aged Consonants

Fragmented chat-like excerpt captures voices of mixed eras and did not form a coherent news item. It mentions a storm, a drowning, a yacht, a professor, and a historical allusion to Louis and a mob, but no clear event, date, or identifiable individuals beyond vague references.

Oddities and anecdotes from a cottage humor page

A jumble of misquoted songs and rustic vignettes, including a rough doggerel about Mike Huntry and a hunter, a butcher joke about a 25 pound piece of beer, and a Chinese job applicant's letter noting typing noise and self reliance amid translation gaps.

Tam Wong

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Parson Jones Deacon Smith Deacon Eze France Louis Tommy Mike Huntry Tommy Tt Mike ‘Huntry Maria Miles Nervine Miss Glivar First National Bank Casner Motor Company America BUICK Alpine Drug Store Rae Rexall Chevrolet State National Bank Gillett-Brown Co. Inc Alpine Telephone Company Storey-Whiteside Lumber Co Alpine Hoover Forchheimer Morrison Big Bend Grocery J. Sonnier Hard & Williams Cash Grocery The Chamber OF Commerce
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