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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
1
President Hall of Clark University in Chicago claims slang helps boys and girls ages 14 to 19 gain fluency. The advice contrasts with formal rhetoric and urges embracing casual speech as a path to learning, echoing pleas to commercial or popular culture for better education.
Legislative focus shifts to the public land question with proposals to remove the need for actual settlement before sale and to end the first applicant award system. Supporters argue current settlement rules deter improvements and favor land pirates. a system of universal equity is urged to replace the existing, impracticable requirements.
R. G. Smith of Colorado City argues the 1901 land sale provision breeds courthouse battles as dozens gather to aid one applicant. He urges abolition and favors auctioning lands to the highest bidder to curb violence and favoritism witnessed in Schleicher, Irion, Borden, Midland, Martin, and Lubbock counties.
A psychologist defends the Sabbath as a universal human institution guiding rest and mental refreshment. He argues the day should be sacred to leisure and inner peace, with varied personal practices like church, family time, or quiet study, to ease tension in American society.
W T Millington, engineer for the Kansas City Mexico and Orient road, arrived for the Rio Concho permanent survey. He says lines near Concho river are located but praving choice between Pueblito or Rancho Viejo rests with chief engineer Paret. The outfit sits at Pueblito awaiting his return to run further lines toward the Rio Grande.
The article suggests the next president could be Johnson the Second and posits he may prove a greater president than Johnson the First. It weighs potential leadership and legacy in historical context.
W D Kincaid Co invites inspection of rifles carbines and shotguns including Colt pistols with a selection of standard makes available for buyer review and purchase.
A shop advertises a broad Crockery selection with the nicest line of items including Agate, Tin and Iron cooking utensils for kitchen use.
A note states a carload of the genuine Baker's Perfect Barbed Wire will arrive here next week for local buyers and installations.
An old issue presents a grocery line praising bacon and beans, flour brands, and lumber supplies alongside a town guide’s call for peace amid factional fights. It then discusses Texas progress, rail propaganda, immigration boosts, and praises Southern Pacific efforts in promoting state prosperity.
The discovery of fuel oil boosts Texas industry and wealth as rail travel becomes smoother. On the Southern Pacific and H. & T. C. lines in the state nearly every passenger locomotive now uses oil burning apparatus, pulling long trains with ease, reducing smoke and cinders, and eliminating travel inconveniences.
A Goliad man writes from Hunt County complaining the heat is so intense he must feed his hens on cracked ice to prevent laying hard boiled eggs, reflecting the oddities of frontier weather reports.
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