Alpine Avalanche notice and rates from Brewster county paper
Publication statement from Alpine Avalanche describing newspaper scope in Alpine Texas and Davis Mountains area. It lists corrections policy, classified notice rates per line, subscription prices, and mailing details, including second class mail designation and post office filing.
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Brewster County
Alpine
Davis Montains
Tig Bend
Tocal
C.D. Wood Society
Aln
Alkire
CS Walker
muMagh
Texas
Power War Critique of Government Private Electric Sector
A 1981 officeholder recounts how private electric utilities fueled the nation’s war readiness. He argues government control and public ownership hinder private power development, noting private producers supplied a large share of electricity and that wartime needs would have faltered without private involvement.
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Analiomme Magazine
Score
Interior
Tekex
Ely Aneidental
Veterans Demobilization Plan Aims At Easing Return Home
A proposed program for demobilization would give veterans three weeks furlough and transport home, 100 stipend on discharge, and base pay during a three month transition. Former employers would restore jobs or offer comparable ones with a 40 day acceptance window. Selective Service help would assist veterans in finding new positions. The plan focuses on keeping morale and easing peacetime reintegration.
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Wasisum
Selective Service Bureau
Texas Oil Ad Warns of Severe Gasoline Shortage
A Texas industry sponsored ad cites a drop of over 7 million barrels in stocks, warns gasoline demand by armed services is rising to 600000 barrels daily, and urges Texans to conserve. It notes refiners can yield only 11 gallons per 42 gallon crude, calls for efficient use, essential trips, slow driving, and use of government couponed fuel only.
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Texas
Texas Petroleum Industry
Texas Oil Companies
No Utopia for Railroads After War, Warns Norris
Ernest E. Norris of the Southern Railway System cautions that railroads face harsher postwar conditions than after World War I. He cites heavy repair needs, taxes, high wages, strict labor rules, and intense ongoing demand as burdens, while predicting stronger financial structures and public support will help railroads rise to new levels of usefulness.
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Ernest E. Norris
Southern Railway System
Norris
Don’t Start This Chain Warns Telegraph Chain Message
A Lansing Illinois Journal note urges readers not to spread rumors or pass along information through chains. It warns that a chain can reach the enemy, who will not care about the source or hand, and could cost lives. It emphasizes stopping rumors started by others and not aiding the enemy.
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Lansing
Ill
What I Am Fighting For by a Soldier's Voice
A raw, personal manifesto insisting on rights and freedoms in America. The author argues for free expression, religious liberty, self-education, political participation, and the dream of the American way, contrasting with coercion and censorship. The piece blends staunch individualism with a call to resist oppression and uphold citizen power.
Humorous Fragments From Rural Life and Cooking Missteps
A collection of brief rural sketches and jokes describes odd kitchen mishaps and comic misunderstandings. A farmer battles an oathful habit, a new cook misreads a salt brand, and a ranch sale gag ends with a buyer noting the horse’s coat but not its pants.
That 18 A Relief Mrs Murphy In Australia Jeep Joke
In a humorous exchange Mrs Murphy asks about what Mike wears, while Mrs Clancy reports bad news about him running around with a jeep in Australia. Mrs Murphy dismisses it as an army vehicle and the women react with mock relief joking about a jeep being a female jay.
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Mrs. Murphy
Mike
Australia
Mrs. Clancy
Japs Seize Minerals Cited at Texas Science Meeting
A Texas Academy of Science speaker at the University of Texas cites Japanese gains since Pearl Harbor as seizing minerals essential to the war effort. He lists supplies including aluminum iron alloys chromium vanadium coal petroleum natural gas and tin. The message urges support for war bonds.
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Japan
Earl Harbor
Texas Academy of Science
University of Texas
Jared
Livestock Prices Improve Amid Harvest of Receipts
Beef prices rose on lighter receipts with high grade fed steers at 15.00 to 15.25, good to fair steers 13.50 to 14.50, common steers 10.50 to 12.75. Heifers and cows firm, bulls 9 to 11.50, stockers 11 to 12.35, stock cows 6.50 to 7.65, lambs 14 to 14.50, ewes 5 to 4.25. Also notes a rear wheel blowout hazard and tire inspection reminder.
States In WAC Class Number 6
Twenty nine star Distr of Colon Indiana Louisiane es of the union WAC class No at Sul Ross Ethel L Hougeson Newton Tex.
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WAC
Star Distr. of
Colon
Indiana
Louisiane
Union Wac
Sul Ross
Ethel L. Hougeson
Newton, Tex
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