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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1931
Page
3
At the national business show New York unveils 2000 robots designed to replace thousands of workers. Devices include multifunction desks with concealed radios, drawers, waste baskets, and telephones. multilingual typewriters. automated stock quotes. and a scale system measuring bolts, fabric, and even molecules.
Austin Texas shipments of all classes of livestock in September were down from September 1890, while calves and sheep rose from August this year. Total September shipments fell 49 percent from a year ago and third quarter 1931 rail shipments totaled 11,612 cars, 25 percent below 1930. Cattle and other class totals appear in the report with noted shifts.
Rudolf Hecht of the American Bankers Association warns that expanded branch systems will create large banks and demand new administrative methods and economic views. He urges education, public service, and safeguards against monopolies while stressing competition, initiative, and local community service as banks grow larger.
The Warner school in Brazoria county Texas will receive 1 923 869 dollars from the estate of the late William C Hoge. The funds fund a vocational department teaching rural avocations and may be allocated to Texas University for a social science lecture foundation. Memorial scholarships worth 120 000 dollars were also provided to the University. William Hoge was a grandson of former Texas Governor Stephen S Hore. The estate valued at 3 000 000 dollars.
Last hunting season I lent a prized rifle once owned by a late car dealer to a close friend and now after the season ends I request its return. I am also asking for a ham of venison and reimbursement of this advertisement to E. E. Townsend.
Wool consumption in the United States during the first eight months of 1931 rose by 51,771,201 pounds from the same period a year earlier, based on 424 manufacturers across 460 mills. By September 1, total use reached 21,583,899 pounds, with August alone consuming 42,099,237 pounds, a rise of 9,777,017 pounds from the prior year, while imports of foreign wool declined and domestic wool rose sharply. Deliveries and production dipped slightly in July but unfilled orders remain large and fall and early winter prospects look favorable for mills.
Jane Addams founder of Hull House in Chicago, honored as the woman contributing most to national welfare in letters, art, science, philanthropy, or social welfare. She will use the money to aid Chicago's unemployed, though plans are not yet defined.
A compact notice notes Miss Addams, long seen as America’s romantic figure, living and working in Little Italy in a quiet, austere style. Also advertised is a rag drive seeking clean cotton rags minus buttons, with 1b offered per pound. A separate brief reports a missing 19 month old child of RW Callan from Jamestown North Dakota has been found in a laundry basket after a day and a half.
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