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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1902
Page
1
A new car of canned goods arrives this week offering vegetables fruits meats fish and more. Officials promise better quality than ever and no old stock will be carried in this market. All items are newly stocked and ready for sale.
The message touts expanding stock levels, larger cash purchases, and continuous customer care. It notes a markets watcher and adherence to the slogan Up To Now while promising the best goods in the shop.
The Galveston News argues country papers, despite faults, sustain towns by promoting citizenship, good laws, and better infrastructure. Merchants benefit from newspaper-led improvement, though some ads show inconsistent support. A town without a newspaper would lack a name beyond its precinct.
Superintendent T Yates Walsh arrived from the Orient construction camp sixteen miles north of the city to report rapid grading progress. About half a mile of dirt is broken and after a mile of grade the stakes will be set and leveling begun. Contractor Atkinson plans to finish northward work in sixty days to connect with the southward force, completing grade to the Red River.
The first two years of the Mining Engineering program mirror Civil Engineering. After year two, students choose between civil and mining tracks, with mine students proceeding to the Engineer of Mines degree and including field work, geology, metallurgy, and a senior thesis in their syllabus.
A Sanderson News excerpt recounts Jim Finley, once a west Texas Justice of the Peace, describing his inaugural case. A Mexican charged with horse theft faced a forty cent fine, a handsaw, and banishment from Texas with twenty four hours to cross about forty miles to the river.
The Northwest states report widespread snow and slowed cattle and sheep shipments. One to two inches of snow fall in South Dakota while Colorado and neighboring states are buried under snow. mild temperatures limit range damage. The storm began off Oregon on the 6th and moved slowly eastward through Idaho Wyoming Montana and the Dakotas, prompting traders to anticipate a contraction in the livestock’s shipping pattern.
West Texas Stockman urges adaptation to new grazing laws and improved stock farms while praising progress in the cattle industry. Dr Glover warns against sorghum poisoning from green or stunted plants, Kaffir corn turning harmless when cured. J C Loving longtime Texas cattle Raisers secretary dies at Fort Worth home, mourned by livestock community.
The piece argues that legislators will fight over land policy, predict adjournments, and suggests cutting the number of representatives while increasing pay to attract capable minds. It cites Mark Hanna and echoes debates on trusts and political reform, referencing figures like Geo. J. Gould and ideas about leadership in Austin Statesman origins.
Southern Pacific announces holiday ticket rates to the old states with round trip options to the northeast and southeast at a special rate plus 2 dollars. Tickets allow return within a set period from sale and include double Pullman service, buffet and sleeping cars, free chair car, and day coach. For quotes contact M. L. Robbing at Houston Texas.
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