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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
1
The piece notes that cheaper cars now rival the Hudson Super Six in price due to higher material costs. It says iron and other inputs have risen, affecting supply from last year’s contracts, and predicts further price increases when current materials are exhausted. The Hudson Super Six is highlighted as superior in performance and endurance. A phaeton seven passenger model is listed at 1480.
A wartime editorial urges the eradication of venereal disease as a dire national threat to the army and navy. It calls for preaching truth in schools and camps, warns against double standards, and stresses national duty to protect youth and future soldiers. A stray fiction snippet about a man and his worker appears in the text.
A wartime penny press style piece exhorts support for Allied forces with verses about crossing the ocean to reach the Rhine and defeat Kaiser Wilhelm, alongside modern ads promoting magazine subscriptions and a moralizing anti-drinking notice tied to the draft era. The fragment blends patriotic verse with consumer notices and social warnings.
A fragmented piece contrasts the germ threat from unwashed fingers with surgeon efforts to achieve sterile hands through washing, boiling and chemical agents. It then drifts into unrelated ads for loans and stock yard banking services, mentioning National Stock Yards and a Texas representative.
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