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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
1
A local retailer touts new fall and winter stock with a guarantee on barbed wire and other goods. The firm claims to offer best goods, cash savings, upright service, and a commitment to trade, though no specific prices or dates are given.
A poem exposes cruelty toward a helpless girl with harsh social judgment and public gossip. It condemns stone throwing and verbal abuse as vile, urging reflection on moral responsibility and the hollowness of righteous prayer.
A fragmentary poem recalls a beloved name that awakens the heart with life and longing. The speaker notes how strangers praise or blame can stir deepest thrills and tremor when that name is spoken.
The Association of County Judges held its annual meeting in San Antonio, discussing insanity policy. Superintendent Turner urged abolishing jury trials in insanity cases and proposed a three-member board with two physicians. He favored separate facilities for acute and chronic, innocent and criminal, and epileptics. Increased insane asylum accommodations were accepted by all. Probate law revisions were discussed and a conclusion reached.
The article notes proposals to appoint public administrators for estates lacking executors, calls to treat perjury as crime, and abolition of the grand jury with DA taking its duties. It also covers progress on the Orient railroad from Kansas City to San Angelo, including grading, bridges, rails, and plans for a port at Stilwell with a dry dock and jetties.
The Abilene Reporter notes the Canadian fever wanes as stockmen face Texas style lease sales. Leases in both regions are set to be sold with a 20 percent duty, risking loss after fencing lands and improvements. The piece casts Canada as not a paradise for stockmen.
The Literary Bureau of the Southern Pacific and Houston and Texas Central R R urge rapid establishment of technical schools in Texas. They argue universities and colleges overlook the poor, calling for institutions teaching useful arts and hands on trades to prepare youth for future factories and new commerce opportunities in the state.
The National Livestock Sanitary Board voted to rename the disease formerly called Texas fever to tick fever. The change removes Texas from the disease’s title and establishes tick fever as the official designation.
The big international fair in San Antonio opens Saturday morning October 18 with every exhibit space filled. Livestock pens will house thousands of cattle horses sheep and swine while machinery and implement halls overflow. Amusements include races bands vaudeville by the National Theater Company free to visitors and a grand firework show The Last Days of Pompeii. Reduced railroad rates encourage visits to the Alamo and Missions.
A Carlsbad Current note divides town-killers into eight groups: those who shop elsewhere, oppose improvements, prefer quiet towns, imagine ownership, deride public-spirited men, oppose independent movements, oppose moves not benefiting themselves, and seek to protect reputations. It adds a final line about valuing cattle over people.
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