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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1936
Page
3
Alpine residents can obtain Dick Daring Bag of Tricks from grocers or the Avalanche office. Wil Lindhorst, famed magician, authored the book published with Quaker Oats and Avalanche support. The simple guide promises entertaining feats for boys, girls, and adults alike.
Texas A and M botany researchers visited the Chamber of Commerce to map a field trip to the Chisos range. They aim to collect rare wildflowers atop Mt Emory and along the South Rim near the Chisos, as well as study highpoint flora and scenic spots.
Frederickburg reports University of Texas paleontologists remove a colossal elephant skeleton from Barons Creek near town. The 1,000 plus year remains loom above Cretaceous Gillespie Formation, with vertebrae intact. Six months needed to assemble for exhibition in a late museum display.
Maria Valenzuela reports on the final wagon train era in Texas as Felix Valenzuela replaces freight wagons with a large truck. Wagons once hauled quicksilver for the Chisos Mining Co. now rest by his home, signaling end of an era and possible last in the United States. Dr. J. K. Miller and Mrs. Miller just returned from Alabama, while local residents and travelers appear in Terlingua and Alpine.
Residents of Old Lower Town in St Paul awaken to a block long stretch of concrete sidewalk missing from the south side of Olmstead Street. Thieves return the next night and remove the sidewalk on the north side of the same block.
Embers of the Sea Scout Base at Port Gleason Goose Pond near Scranton Pennsylvania learn seamanship under Captain E K Roden who served in the Swedish Navy and later the Argentine Navy and U S Merchant Marine his work as director of navigation texts and school materials aids training for merchant marine Coast Guard and Marine Corps personnel. Sheriff S sale notice in Brewster County Texas describes levy on Alpine properties after judgment in MH Reed vs C A Harvey et al with sale set for first Tuesday in November 1996.
By order of sale under a levy the real estate of Oaks C A Harvey et al will be sold at public vendue for cash to the highest bidder between 10 AM and 4 PM on a date in September 1996 at Alpine Texas as required by law. This notice is published once a week for three consecutive weeks in the Alpine Avalanche. Witness my hand September 1996. Sheriff W N Gourley. Deputy Milton Gilmer.
A old time health ad urges readers to keep Thedford's Black Draught for biliousness and constipation, citing Mrs. Perry Hicks of Belton Texas praising it after 21 years of use. The advertisement touts 25 cent packages and claims it is a reliable family laxative for various digestive discomforts.
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