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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1947
Page
4
Local items list visitors and travels across Texas and New Mexico. Names include Kokernot Stambaugh Wilson Ed Bynum Nations Anspach Perry and Wade relations, with hospital visits in Dallas San Antonio Houston Graham and El Paso. A polio case in Dallas treated at Southwestern General Hospital shows mild improvement.
A playful exchange about where to dine arises with a banter on asphalt versus street dining. The dialogue hints at casual urban life and casual food choices.
A contractor tests a wall by asking if the foreman on the other side can be seen or heard. The foreman answers yes but not seen, prompting the contractor to call it a good wall. A minister finishes a prodigal son lesson with a pupil blurting the fatted calf as the one who was sorry.
A humorous, rambling line about approaching heaven’s gates repeats opening and closing the door until Saint Peter loses patience and urges entrance. The speaker named Mike jests about fate and entry.
Two County Cork boys in a follow up party find 10 to 12 Germans asleep in a shell hole. They debate whether to shoot or wake them and decide to wake them for a quick night fight. The exchange shows a casual wartime mood as dawn breaks.
A clothing dealer leaves the shop in charge of his son Abie to handle price marks. He instructs Abie on the marking system with five dots for 25 dollars and six dots for 30 dollars, outlining the pricing scheme.
An Irishman fond of strong drink is asked by the parish priest how to enter heaven. The Irishman replies Shure, he plans to drink his way there.
A tale of a haberdasher’s son Abie who sells clothing but learns the misprint of prices while a solemn reaction from the father. A safety note warns that a single stray fire from a dropped match can devastate, urging two breaks and childproof storage. Baton Rouge’s 1817 incorporation is noted as one of Louisiana’s earliest French settlements.
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