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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1928
Page
7
Real estate list notes several Alpine Texas properties with five room houses, baths, and extensive ground. Listings include prices, cash options, and installment terms, plus parcels near Brewster County towns with acreage, mineral rights, and pasture land. Opportunities advertise quick sales and bargain pricing.
A Jackson Mississippi clergyman and writer, EK Means, is profiled as a truthful author whose darky stories resonate beyond the parish. A friend recalls Means recounting a Louisiana village incident where a farmer misreads a published portrait and laments missing his own spectacles.
Judge Sutton ruled the substitution of the word party for primary on the ballot pledge invalidated the Upton county sheriff and tax collector election. The ruling opens a potential special nomination primary by October 10 with any number of candidates. Barfield’s nomination was declared illegal and no run-off decision was made.
Arthur E. Stilwell, 68, former president of the Kansas City Pittsburgh Gulf rail line, died of apoplexy in New York after six years of ill health. He retired from active business in 1916. He built the Kansas City Belt Line and planned a Kansas City to Gulf of Mexico railroad inspired by spirits who warned him about a terminal at Galveston.
A storm warning describes the city’s devastation after a sheltering road away from Galveston. Four days post completion of the Port Arthur terminal, Galveston endured a hurricane and tidal wave, reshaping the coast.
Arthur E Stilwell, founder of the Kansas City Mexico and Orient Railway, died before his vision of a great road connecting the United States to the Orient was realized. He pursued years of work to build the line, faced losses of control, and watched the project finally gain some life after war.
The text notes new machinery and improved equipment for the Avalanche job department. It questions why to print elsewhere when current facilities are capable and cost effective, emphasizing modernization this year.
Fragmented passages describe a fire incident at a state prison and a vulnerable inmate’s recollections. Vague narrator lines imply tension between progress and regression, with unclear sequence and many garbled phrases.
Seanne Hewett chief steward at the court of special session in New York faces a chaotic scene amid charitable institutions as an officer recalls the day’s events. The narrative references a crowd, a guard, and vague dialogue about formal orders and attendance at the arena.
A real estate listing describes No 1079ang a five room home with bath, pictorial lot of 81 feet, shading and fruit trees, lawn, strong well, steel windmill tower, presented as an affordable buy at 3600 dollars with easy payment terms.
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