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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
3
The Avalanche notes complaints about Alpine auto drivers speeding and reckless driving. Sheriff Walton will enforce state speed laws. the editorial urges safer, more preventive behavior to protect the public and prevent injuries or deaths.
News notes warn a potential strike by engineers and firemen on the Southern Pacific branch could halt passenger and freight traffic for days, crippling food shipments and mail. Local items include sewing services by Mrs Theresa Pafford, a bridge crew on 13th street, Mesquite Wood at $7 a card, school supplies, El Paso officer W D Loutham visiting relatives, and lodging at Mrs Ed Linn's with Hord and Co groceries.
The notice urges ordering meals early on Sundays and promotes Maspay & Co. Acorn flour from Hord & Co. It touts The Best quality, mentions Rep. Trent’s El Paso visit, Mrs. Holloway’s return from Marathon, and William Baines’s new firm. It also notes Measday & Co. keeping prime beef, and advises property owners in Alpine to plant trees. Dispatches report the death of Harry Cottam in an automobile accident in San Antonio and burial in New Orleans.
The text advertises The Texas Steam Laundry of San Antonio with Roy Trent as agent and a guarantee of work. It notes Jackson & Harmon shipped seven cattle cars to Fort Worth and New Orleans and plans many more shipments this month. Also promotes Herd & Company for food cures and Sumner & Measday for prompt, satisfying grocery and feed orders with phone number 45.
For rent a well ventilated and newly furnished upstairs bedroom. Apply at Avalanche office for information.
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