Alpine Avalanche Brewster County Notice Rates and Staff
Page from Alpine newspaper lists publication in Brewster County for the Alpine and Davis Mountains Big Bend region. Contains policy on corrections, classifieds rates per line, and staff credits including publisher Bennett Alter, Mrs C D Wood as Society Editor, and various correspondents with subscription prices for different regions.
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Brewster County
Davis Mountains
Big Bend
Bennett Alter
C.D. Wood Society
Barry
Fort Davis
Marie Simpson
Marathon
PHICR
Inine
Texas
Conarens
What Makes a Newspaper
A short essay argues that a newspaper is a community asset not a personal venture. It stresses service to the public, financial support from local business and readers, and the editor’s role within a broader communal purpose. The piece ends noting Van Alstyne.
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Focal
van Alstyne
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Run Through Science Era
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes heightened disease outbreak risks with mechanization speed. Typhus and other diseases threaten public health, while medical research aims to shield 10 million Americans. USDA cites a color technique illustrating research value, boosting Florida and California crop values by about 4 million dollars annually.
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Journal of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Florida
California
Henry G. Knight
Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineer
How Much a Large Ship Carries in Goods Trains
The article explains that to fill a 9,000 ton steamship two freight trains are needed, each with 50 cars of 80 tons per car. It cites the Normandie with 83,000 ton capacity, noting it could hold the contents of about 1,660 freight cars or more than 88 full trains.
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Normandie
Fasul
New Navy Engine Boosts Bomber Range in Mass Production
The article highlights a compact new aircraft engine by Charles J. Lawrence that will extend bomber range and enter mass production for the Navy. It notes Lawrence's prior engine work that set records, his low public profile, and a tribute to American industrial research and the unnamed engineers behind national security and progress.
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Navy
Charles J. Lawrence
Lawrence
Seek World Order Only The Churchill Roosevelt Declaration
The joint policy declaration by Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt after their sea meeting aims to assure all nations including Germany that the Allies seek no conquest. Instead they seek a world order where nations live in peace with equal trade terms and disarmament of aggressors until a broader world security is achieved. It notes a key difference from Wilson’s 14 points, as the policy is backed by both England and the United States.
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Churchill
Roosevelt
Germany
Jon
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Roosevelt
England
United
America Is A Beautiful Word In The Clarion
A Nebraska Clarion opinion piece reads America is a beautiful word made of seven letters. It assigns symbolic meanings to each letter A M E R I C A, describing mountains plains and figures like Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill, and ends noting a nation praying to recognize its Creator and give thanks.
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America
Cow Plains
Kit Carson
Buffalo Bill
Ameri
Taylor
Still a Democracy: A Call to Civic Duty and Free Enterprise
The text argues for remaining a democracy and fulfilling citizen responsibilities. It links industries like farms ranches and factories to free enterprise and representative government. It stresses competing under totalitarian pressure and quotes a wallflower metaphor as a caution.
Uvalde and Northern railroad to be removed after 20 years
The Uvalde and Northern railroad, spanning 45 miles from Uvalde to Camp Wood, will soon be memory as track removal proceeds. Flood damage and irregular recent service led to a request to abandon the line, approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Rails sold to a Fort Worth firm, removal under way from Camp Wood southward, rails stored near North Uvalde for shipment.
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Uvalde & Northern Read
Uvalde
Uvalde & Northern Railroad
Camp + Wood
Camp Wood
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fort Worth
Southern Pacific
North Uvalde
Wordplay and witticisms echo in quick kitchen table quips
A string of quick spoken gibes and puns features a doctor patient exchange about coughing after a night of practice, a mistress teasing a new maid with a name pun, a quip about fat poison, and a druggist offering to send rats after a purchase.
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Minnie
Home of the swallow given as answer in class
A natural history lesson ends in a joke as Robert declares the swallow’s home is in the stomach after the teacher asks for the home of the swallow. The moment spurs a long silence before the class moves on.
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Stovert
Robert
Street collision injures man. intern prescribed stitches
A speeding car struck a man on the street. Ten minutes later an ambulance arrived and a young intern examined him. The intern noted a head wound requiring six to seven stitches and the man asked for a vest button to be sewn.
Speculation on Medical Specialization in a Small Town
An old physician questions the trend toward narrow specialization in medicine. In a town hospital he meets a medical student about to graduate who plans to specialize in nose diseases, prompting the veteran to scoff at such narrow focus and hint at broader practice.
Hitch hiking scissor-tail flycatcher spooks horned owl
In Austin two Game Department biologists reported a scissor-tail flycatcher chasing a great horned owl from a tree. The lively bird pursued the larger foe as it flew, landing on the owl’s back twice and feather pulling each time.
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Austin
Game Department
Early-Day Texas Editor Debunks Indian Menace Myth
University of Texas Library preserves Francis Moore Jr.’s 1840 view denying a Texas Indian menace. Moore estimates Comanche strength at about 11,000 with later cohesion not beyond a thousand warri ors. other tribes are described as weak or peaceful. He argues settlers despise rather than fear them and that frontier expansion would not be halted.
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Texas
Republic
Charles 0
Hucker
University of Texas Library
United States
Texas Republic
Francis Moore Jr
Houston Telegraph
Texas Register
Philadelphia
New York
Moore
Red River
Rio Grande
Blind Quail Dies After Long Blindness Mystery
An exhausted Texas game warden recounts a blind quail that survived for weeks, fat despite two eye holes, feeding somehow yet unable to avoid danger. It ultimately died after striking the warden’s parked car, a puzzling case of a bird’s hidden endurance.
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Austin
North Texas
Defense Savings Posters Promote War Bond Drive
A public notice urges readers to buy Defense Savings Posters and Savings Bonds at the post office. It frames them as vital to national defense and urges participation in the war effort. The message promotes patriotic duty through savings during wartime.
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Bopatioent
America
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