Alpine Avalanche notes and publication details
The Alpine Avalanche announces its mission to upbuild Alpine and the Davis Mountains Big Bend region and to disseminate local and state news. It lists correction policy, advertising rates, editor roles, Fort Davis correspondent, subscription pricing, and postal registration details.
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Armament Delays and World War II Production Struggles
The piece argues US war output lags Britain's despite greater population and resources. It cites factional defense politics, bureaucratic inertia, and strikes threatening heavy industry. It links Japan’s Tojo rise and Hitler’s influence to strategic risks, including two-ocean navy limits and Pacific theater strains.
What Is The Answer To Our War Time Labor Strain
The piece argues the A8 hour week for coal miners as essential to defense and questions fairness in asking labor and capital to boost efforts. It notes coal reserves are constrained yet miners labor a 39 hour week, urging a modest increase to maintain industrial output. It highlights the value of Christmas Seals in fighting tuberculosis as part of wartime sacrifices.
Vote No or Don't Kick Defense Tax Burden Warning
A political appeal argues Americans will pay heavy taxes next year for defense and government luxuries while claiming many programs could be cut. It urges voter action at polls to force economy and curb waste in federal spending. Names and dates are not provided in the readable text.
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Japan
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Tojo
Pacific
Atlantic
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Russia
Vladivostok
Europe
Congress
Marks of Simplicity in the Draper Inmate Note
Marks of simplicity arise from inner qualities rather than outward life. The essay argues simplicity rests on openness, generous service, clear spirit, fearlessness in love, trust, and sincere speech, presenting a peaceful, straightforward life as the true mark of simplicity inside the inmate at Draper State Prison.
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Fragmented Dialogue Teases Wartime Mood Menu
A chaotic exchange shows a group of characters delivering stilted lines about a burglar, meals, languages, and a silver wedding anniversary. The thread hints at a military or hotel setting with officers, clerks, and a boss reacting to odd questions and requests.
Autoist detained over Hull street drive violation
A constable arrests a motorist after denying knowledge of the exact law but asserting the driver cannot travel the full length of Main Street in town without breaking at least one rule. The autoist challenges the charge while awaiting a judge’s review.
Plumper laments lazy assistant in workplace quarrel
A plumper, usually mild, confronts his lazy assistant. He bursts out at Bill for standing with both hands in pockets and urges him to take one hand out, expressing audible exasperation.
Wasted Effort as Father Resorted to Sterner Measures
The father punished his child Bernard for crying after being eaten. A neighbor observed Bernard showed no outward pain, and when asked why he did not cry, he replied that the old man was deaf and thus could not hear.
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Bernard
Glacier on Mount Rainier Melting Fast, May Disappear Soon
Glacier Stevens on Mount Rainier, named for Gen Hazard Stevens who first summited in 1870, has split 200 yards from its parent ice and now a quarter mile long remnant remains. Light snow and high temperatures last year accelerated its end on the South Face. Alpine trading note appears unrelated.
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Washington
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Hazard Stevens
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Teachers Strive to View Slow Pupils’ Challenges in Texas
AUSTIN. Miss Mriam Dozier of the University of Texas Teachers' Appointment bureau says teachers who themselves are strong scholars may miss the slow learner’s viewpoint. She urges understanding of children and patience, alongside subject mastery, humor, fairness, and teaching techniques as essential for good instruction.
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Austin
Texas
Mriam Dozier
University of Texas Teachers’ Apointment Bureau
Bureau
Notable Texas quail variety boom reported by game warden
A Texas regional game manager reports blue quail and other species such as scaled, Mearns and Gambel quail are plentiful this year. A game warden driving along a county line counted 105 blue quail along a 14 mile stretch, indicating strong quail populations across the region.
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Austin
Texas
Lone Star State
Southwest Texas
McMullen- LaSalle County
Love and danger in early Texas frontier tales
University of Texas Library researchers note that love in old Texas faced many obstacles. A Wilbarger tale tells of Saunders the schoolmaster pursued by an admirer, nearly attacked by mounted Indians, and using a black sumac root as a stand‑in pistol to flee into a timber. The piece ends with a tease of continuation on page 7.
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Charles 0. Hucker
University of Texas Library
Shakespeare
Old
Texas
Universty of Texas Library
J. W. Wilbargers
Saunders
Tay
Erath County
Airl
Wilbarger
Defense Savings Stamps For Children Open to All
Hundreds of thousands of American children buy Defense Savings Stamps as part of the national savings program. Children may own or have registered Defense Savings Bonds and stamps, and parents frequently register bonds in a child’s name for education savings. Purchase options include post offices banks savings and loan associations and some retail stores with guidance from the U S Treasury.
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Savings Loan Association
United States
Washington, D. C
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