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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1931
Page
6
Short OCR fragment notes odd Bible facts and references. Mentions the word Lord count and Esther verse length amid garbled text. Contains partial phrases and stray letters.
A garbled page of quips and crosswords shows misread text mixing jokes about ping pong and fleas with Bible trivia. It threads snippets on Psalms, kings and commandments, plus cartoonish ads and lines from an odd dialogue, concluding with a village sage’s remark about sixteen million people.
Sunday services and Sunday school times listed for Churches Christian Science Baptist Presbyterian and First Christian with details on worship, communion and baptisms. Pastor names include Buren Sparks and David J. Murray. Also notes on new equipment and space for classes and a request for recycled rags.
M D Douglas of Chevrolet Motors advises motorists to tune and adjust their engines for winter. Check carburetor and valves, clean ignition timing, service cooling system, drain and refill crankcase, and ensure brakes are adjusted to prevent costly losses in performance and efficiency.
The Lobos will hold practice starting November 1 as returning regulars from last season prepare for a tougher schedule. Reports from over doghouse way say prospects for a winning team are bright with experience back and eager to push toward conference play with Sul Ross Skyline.
Photographs from Sumatra show a python swallowing a deer whole after a post mortem operation. Mrs. Lillian Davidson, visiting East Asia with her husband, preserved the scene for study. The deer died from muscular pressure breaking bones before the head first engulfing, digestion barely marring the carcass.
Judge Duval West signs an agreed judgment awarding to eight property owners 135 1232 for buried bombs at the old Kelly Field bombing range on Leon Creek six miles west. The federal government will pay and acquire title to 1000 acres. The suit began in 1926 after land was damaged by practice bombing by Kelly Field students.
Writer recounts Buffalo Hump as the most feared Comanche chief of the past century. He terrorized northwestern Texas from a Santa Anna Mountains camp, ambushed federal messengers, refused reservation settlement, and died in 1870 after years of resistance on the Wichita reservation.
Miss Betty Keefer of the art department has been invited to display etchings at the National Exhibit of Prints in Cleveland Ohio from November 1 to 28. She was also asked to send works to the Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Printmakers in New York City from November 26 to December 26.
In 1801 during 278 days of three quarters, 254 homicides were recorded in Texas and Dallas violent deaths claimed thirty lives. Thirty men and six women died by various causes including stabbings.
Timetables show Eastbound Sunset Limited times for Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Southbound and Northbound schedules with arrivals and departures at Alpine Presidio and other linked points. Bus routes include Pecos Fort Davis Marta Van Horn and El Paso connections with noted departure times and service days.
No. 162 and No. 1235 listings describe land near a college campus with pitched cash trades. The first advertises a 1st front lot near a paved highway for 150 cash swap and 21 000 loan terms. the second markets 1920 acres of patented land at 2 75 per acre with 15 000 cash, balance in six annual payments at 6 percent.
Mr and Mrs Asperman and their daughter Patricia of Newport News were driving on Tatan Flats road when a bottle dropped from the night sky and smashed in the road. They said the bottle narrowly missed them by several yards as a bright object crossed the sky and an engine roared. Asperman urged a commerce law to curb throwing firewater in the clouds.
The basis of property values is highlighted as the wise investor buys land or city property when values are at rock bottom and sells at peak. Conditions are favorable for real estate gains with many options available for selection.
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