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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1934
Page
2
The Alpine Avalanche prints a mix of local notices and community chatter. It notes publishing staff, a then-current telegraph and post office context, and mentions a deer hunting open season with many hunters from surrounding counties in the Davis Mountains.
An aluminum double door system and thirty four windows were installed at the McDonald Observatory. The project, led by William Bailey Company of Springfield Mass with O J Miller and T Bailey of Dallas supervising, features four doors two inches thick and hollow, designed to close quietly.
Alpine residents may view McDonald Observatory about 20 metres away without traveling far from Fort Davis. The sighting could be from Alpine near the Fort Brockton road as U S Highway 90 passes.
The Avalanche reports renewed appeal for subscriptions with many locals paying since last week. Names like J C Langford Hot Springs and E Gorgiein Alpine appear among those who remitted, while notices urge those in arrears to remit promptly. Also noted are public notices about highway construction bids and property postings.
The document outlines wage requirements for intermediate, skilled, and unskilled labor under House Bill 43 and the Forty-Third Series. It sets prevailing minimum hourly wages, per diem rates based on a five hour workday, and specifies overtime pay at the regular governing rates to ensure contract compliance.
For sale items include a Hot Blast heater ten dollars, an oil heater one dollar, a sewing machine five dollars, and a slicer ten dollars. Land owned by Mrs C W Cope and phone number listed. For rent four rooms and bath partly furnished one mile from town fifteen dollars monthly. Avalanche office for application. Another rental offers four rooms unfurnished fifteen dollars monthly and a five room house with new paint and sash fixtures twenty dollars monthly. Contact John Perkins Holland hotel building. Reward offered for coat sweater. Lost on downtown street Sunday night ladies brown kid gloves. Return to Avalanche office for suitable reward.
The notice outlines per diem and minimum wage terms for five hour days, requires a code compliance certificate per Executive Order No. 4 of March 14, 104, and mandates contractor signoffs from subcontractors and dealers. It designates a local employment agency for worker lists and notes plans are available at A Buchmaier residence engineer in Marathon Texas and the State Highway Department in Austin.
Public notice states pastures leased as hunting preserves for the season and that no trespassing will be allowed. Signed by Mrs W J MeIntyre and Wells MeIntyre.
A note indicates an instruction on contract bridge offered by Mrs A T Swan. The course is described as just starting, inviting beginners to learn the game and its basic rules under her guidance.
Mars 5 G Ramey of nearyetta Oklahoma writes after twenty five years of using Thedford s Black-Draught she finds it very good for sour stomach bitter mouth billows sluggishness and headaches. She says taking Black-Draught ends these spells and makes her feel fine.
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