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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1904
Page
3
The peacock overhears the nightingale singing and vows to imitate it. A terrible squawk follows as creatures flee in terror. The peacock laments his beauty and wishes to be plain like the great musicians.
A young minister quips about his fashionable congregation requesting non vulgar terms. An old fashioned preacher replies humbly and starts services with a playful misquote about embezzling time. The moment blends humor and faith as the service opens.
Exchange in a humorous dialogue shows a barber revealing past work trimming hedges. The client objects to hair cutting while the barber admits prior hedge trimming experience.
In Real Money Too Mrs Footlight’s gorge ous diamonds sold at a pawnbroker auction today Parker comments they fetched a modest sum. The exchange notes the price as five dollars and ninety cents.
A trio of brief humorous exchanges. A newlywed comments on housekeeping with visitors lingering, a newspaper editor defends a Cleveland elopement report, and a boy explains hiding his cigar from his father. Each piece sketches light domestic irony with plain dialogue and local tone.
A colorful dialogue unfolds with a stern warning on tobacco’s harms from an elder to a younger man. Miss Cayenne jokes that music may prevent hair loss based on violinist photographs. Chumpley laments hope for marriage while Miss Kidder notes a suitor’s fear of marrying the best man alive.
The account praises travelers who return from Africa and Australasia and criticizes Australian bushmen as the lowest order of men, noting they build no huts and instead create large nests from twigs and grass in thick cover, with no rain protection.
Blanke Coffee Co. captures the grand prize and gold medal for coffee at the World’s Fair in St Louis. The company also earns five additional top prizes for Grant Cabin Tea, Quaker Ceylon Tea, China Tea, Shid zuokaken Japan tea, and Formosan Teas, marking the most grand prizes ever awarded to one firm. The Red Cross Society, founded on the Geneva treaty of 1864, serves to relieve suffering from war and disasters of national scale.
Paul Reimers a German decorator admitted stealing repeatedly from his workplace. The foreman seized his Bible during work and found a large quantity of gold leaf between the pages. The note ends with a quotation on smoking from James I.
A mixed fragment shows Texas Typewriter Exchange advertising secondhand typewriters in Galveston. A plan to spread a rumor about a haunted almshouse in Yarmouth seeks to curb tramp influx. Irish farm laborers strike for three meals two pints a day. A schoolgirl in England has walked thousands of miles to school. Various ad blurbs tout remedies and local curiosities including Moedling near Vienna’s 1000th anniversary and a cough syrup claim.
Pillsbury's Best takes three grand prizes at the St. Louis World's Fair for flour grade exhibt and best loaf. A series of ad lines follows praising Defiance starch and a quip about reputation and faith. McCane's Detective Agency promotes itself in Houston Texas with a large detective force.
The Pharmaceutical Era of New York argues prescriptions fuel addiction with doctors refilling, citing experts and cases among the well to do. The piece notes morphine’s rise in society and urges attacking prescription practices, followed by an advertisement touting Defiance Cold Water Starch as a 16 oz package that prevents sticking and saves time and money.
A sewage farm near Bombay city yields thirty six tongs of grass and vegetables per acre, indicating high output from the septic tank system.
Senator Charles A. Culbertson stays at the Hotel Cumberland Broadway and Fifty fourth street while visiting New York with Texas luminaries. He recently spoke in Carnegie Hall in support of the Democratic ticket, and an informal reception greeted him on return to the hotel. He quips that growing old should be a pleasant recreation rather than a tearful occupation.
The text urges forming routines to arrive at work on time and to leave promptly. It stresses economizing time and compelling oneself to maintain punctual habits at both ends of the workday.
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