Alpine Avalanche Local Notices and Subscription Details
The Alpine Avalanche details publishing location in Brewster County and the paper’s fifty first year. It lists correction requests, charged Cards of Thanks and Reading Notices, and per line rates for notices, along with staff and subscription pricing including a Fort Davis correspondent and external county pricing.
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Brewster County
Errere
Apoee
Sete Mountains
Bennett
Texans Guard Aims To Stand On State Expense
Ex Governor and supporters praise the Texas State Guard as a sovereign force ready to operate without salary. They argue it would defend state jurisdiction against federal overreach and emergency martial law, highlighting discipline, independence, and patriotism as core values.
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Texas
How Rich Are You A brief reflection on inner wealth
A short, reflective piece from The Silver Lining encouraging readers to measure riches not by money but by daily acts of kindness cheerfulness forgiveness and noticing the good in others and in everyday life. It highlights gratitude and personal growth as true wealth.
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Tims
God
Men of Finance and the builders of a nation
In this reflective piece the role of bankers is praised as essential to American expansion and survival. It argues that private financial institutions backed settlers during westward growth, likening bankers to sheriffs with bold risk and asserting the nation’s future depends on continued finance.
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United States
Oklahoma
Cherokee Strip
Prairies
Prophets Face Red Faces Over Front Line Realities
Dispatches report Russian troops often drive back crack German divisions in disorder with swift retreats. Reich commanders, used to easy conquests, show shock as German losses appear heavier and prestige erodes in Spain, Turkey, and Japan. Allies winning could leave Stalin with growing power at peace talks.
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Reich
Russia
Thea
Spain
Turkey
Japan
Stalin
Getting People Out of Debt 3 Porter Says Credit Philosophy Emerges
Porter notes credit terms reflect more than debt control and point to a new philosophy among financial leaders. He cites American Bankers Association framing self regulation of banking as a valuable consumer aid amid rising consumer borrowing.
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Porter
Bankers Association
What was few can Lomo here in Berl bomber raids
The text contrasts civilian suffering in German cities with sympathy for war victims, questioning who ordered the raids and who now cries out against them. It reflects on the moral ambiguity of civilians bearing the consequences of leaders and war.
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Berl
Germany
Britain
Rman
Blite
Royal Air Force
Ber
Alout
New York
Soldier Religions in US Census Show Catholic Majority
The army and 53 million church members are broken down by faith. Protestants make up 38 percent, Catholics 87 percent, Jews a small share. The text urges Americans to heed the emergency declaration and buy Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.
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United Tes
United States
Fragmentary Early 20th Century Quips and Fatal News
A garbled mixture of crusty family complaints about a sermon and organist, a child’s cheeky remark about a nickel show, a man digging a mudhole with a near ear question, a polite man explains his car stalled as Tim digs a grave, and a circus death where a manager asks a widow for disposal of her husband John who died suddenly. the widow’s reply follows.
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Tim
John
Portable Type ARCONS and a Sunday prayer miscue
A fragment from a 19th century scene depicts a lounging Negro dandy asking about a hand laundry while a minister offers prayers for Anna Bell. A church member declines a repeat of the prayers, noting she won a race at seven to one last Wednesday.
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Anna Bell
Imaginary pitches amuse patient in asylum yard
An observed patient in an asylum began winding up and throwing imaginary pitches despite lacking a baseball. An inquiring visitor learned the man was a farmer under strain, and the visitor quipped that if his own crop failed he would be catching for the patient.
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Bbad Times
Student Haggles Over Room Price in Boarding Home
A college town student called a boarding house to ask rates. The landlady quoted five dollars for rooms and, after noting the student’s status, adjusted the offer with a discount for Tim and a four percent concession, citing experience.
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College Town
Tim
Relics Found As Workmen Uncover Civil War Ordnance
Workmen repairing a road to Fort Macon State Park in Morehead City discover numerous Civil War cannon balls and shell fragments from the battle at the fort.
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Fort Macon State Park
Morehead City
N.C
Skull Found In Panhandle Last June Believed To Be That of An Indian Hunter
Moore county murder probe to be dropped after skull found last June on Coon ranch is identified by Texas University anthropologists as belonging to a middle aged Indian who died about 1900. The case began when rains washed the skull from the site and Assam reports noted a jagged hole. Wiley Fox recalls Indian buffalo hunters near Bone Lake and Adobe Walls era history. The mystery deepens despite the halted investigation.
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Panhandle
Dumas
Moore County
Coon
Department of Public Safety
Austin
Texas University
Wiley Fox
Borger
Bone Lake
Monahans Lawyer Aids Forming First Defense Guard
Monahans lawyer Earl V. Earp, a distant kinsman of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp, helps organize Texas Defense Guard units in Monahans Kermit Wink Wickett and Grand Falls. He advocates per diem drill pay uniforms and expenses, while crews drill with wooden rifles and seek funding and equipment including motorcycles for operations and police use.
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Monahans
Wyatt Earp
West Texas
Earl Earp
Texas Defense Guard
Earp
W. Lee O'Daniel
Morris Shepperd
National Guard
Adjutant General
Ward
Winkjer
Eetor County
Texas
Battal
Fon
Kermit
Wink
Wickett
Grandfalls
Defense Guard
Defense Bond drive encourages small weekly savings
Retail stores banks and savings and loan associations offer their facilities to sell Defense Bonds. Instruct employers or banks to withhold a small fraction of salary, even 10 cents a day, to accumulate toward a $50 Bond. Purchases can be made at banks savings associations or via the Treasury, with stamps now sold at retail stores.
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A. No
of Savings Loan Association
Treassurer
United States
Washington, D. C
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Las Veway
Ion Sehich
Tex
Patrotiam
Pate
Pocketbook of
Sister
Billy
Gover
Earl V. Earp
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