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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1903
Page
1
We have bought an elegant line of the most fashionable ladies wear and children’s suits and overcoats. Inviting every lady to come see the goods with promises to save money. Groceries hardware and home furnishings offered. best fresh goods claimed.
The Marfa New Era recounts in full the Halbert episode with L N Herbert Alpine County Attorney and local squatters. Reports describe conflicting views on whether Halbert was forcibly escorted out, with debate over right and wrong motives and the town’s hospitality.
The piece cites figures on Southern wealth from 1860 through the 1890s, noting wealth declined after the Civil War, then rose to about fourteen billion dollars by 1892. It compares individual fortunes, highlights disparities with the East West and Northwest, and argues the South is forging ahead at a steady pace.
The San Antonio Express reports a box of peaches from Fort Avis shows Texas poised to become a premier peach state. The fruit is large uniform flawless and sweet with red centers fading to creamy yellow. The shipment, about five dozen peaches, is described as superior to any seen in this market and hailed as a sign of Texas peach growing future.
Mrs. Miles Bozarth, wife of Edwards County Sheriff, visited sister near Sonora. Her three year old wandered from the ranch house Tuesday morning and, after days of searching, was found four and a half miles away in Sam Marks pasture. The child had died from exhaustion and thirst.
Virginia chooses George Washington and Robert E. Lee as two BiOAtRe BoE members to place statues in the National Statuary Hall in Washington.
Reports describe swarms across Red Lodge Mourne and Montana to Nebraska disrupting rail service as grasshoppers devour ranges and feed on crops. The text notes a transportation and economic impact, with mentions of local attorney Tollwell Johnson traveling from Port Stockton and speculation on road extension raising town aversion.
A young woman proudly shows handmade Indian baskets to a friend in Arizona who dismisses them as not real Indian work. The maker, Mrs Sawyer, insists she made them herself, defending her craft against the skeptical remark.
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