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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1938
Page
3
A section critiques fire hazards from kerosene and furnaces, urges safety to prevent deaths, and contrasts with calls for business government cooperation. It recounts William the Conqueror’s life, battles, and death, noting the 100th anniversary ceremonies in England and France.
Weatherford is described as one of the most interesting towns in Texas. It was home to Governor Lanham the last Confederate veteran to serve as Texas chief elective official. His son Fritz Lanham a congressman from West Worth is noted. Ann Patrick of the Daily Herald is praised for short stories. G A Holland a banker and former mayor built a famous double log-cable display attracting thousands.
A parade of scraps shows street humor and small miracles. A tramp gets clothes from a kind housewife, a cinema patron searches for a lost caramel, and a duck hunter learns a joke about the bird. A circus worker dies on the road, a traffic officer hears a wise city proverb, and two shipwrecked sailors improvise a prayer collection.
A 1900 UT leaflet found in Mrs Helen Marr Kirbys papers shows strict dean of women rules for boarding houses for girls. Dormitories were unknown then and callers were limited to Saturday and Sunday evenings from 8 to 10 30. Present rules allow guests in 118 dormitories and boarding houses after 4 pm on weekdays.
Archaeologists from Harvard and nearby institutions report two Indian houses unearthed five miles south and west of Casa Piedra. Finds include two cloud blowers pipes, spear heads, a grinding stone, pigment, and a buried child with olive shell beads. Pottery suggests occupation ca 1250 to 1480 A.D.
The La Junta peoples of the Presidio region were noted, with W. J. Shiner of Presidio Texas credited for discovering the richite. No further excavation or work is planned at the site in the near future.
A cryptic notice reports a gas pressure issue affecting residents in Alpine. The Avalanche office lists a charge of 500 for S8c and mentions a cee peered at a ee, indicating a misleading or coded local incident.
In folk taxonomy Lana is described as a female demon linked to the Ragetian vampire archetype. The fragment notes a lite le fa mate role, aligning with familiar gendered demon figures in Jewish folklore.
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