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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1901
Page
4
Alpine daily notes include Guay Combe of Marathon in town, Marfa visitors like A Brown and Sid William, and interest in ranch prospecting by Everstreet Payne. Dentists, preachers, and a harpist performing for quarterly meetings appear, along with local ads for tanks, medicines, and land purchases.
Houston hosts a week of events from December 10 to 11 featuring the Nostga-pagan Flower Parade Street Carnival and a King Nottoe entry. The Bing, Houston Light Guard socials, and a Wire Works Display accompany the parade lineup. Southern Pacific-Sunset Route offers low fare tickets on the line to Orange Inclusive with special excursion rates.
An ad claims Grandma’s Diarshors Cure cures stomach troubles quickly. It touts rice as ideal digestion friendly food and offers a rice cook book with two hundred receipts via a postage paid mail offer. The note also mentions Ozona Christmas carnival dates December 23 to 26 and entertainment value.
The well known evangelist Sid Williams plans a meeting for the Beaver community at Alpine tomorrow morning. Williams is regarded as a leading evangelist in the state and will preach with zeal, aiming to bolster local revival efforts amid skepticism.
An advertisement extols Rosehee's German syrup as a remedy for coughs colds and bronchial troubles. It implies health benefits and urges readers to obtain the product at Sharp Bros. and promotes a special offer. The copy imitates early 20th century marketing with bold claims and persuasive language.
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