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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1939
Page
4
Fort Davis correspondent Marathon correspondent and society editor note subscription price one year 20 dollars six months outside county 1.25. second class matter at Alpine Texas post office under act of Congress of March 3.
The article notes President Roosevelt may move Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November to an earlier date, provoking concerns about football schedules, gate receipts, and traditions dating back to 1862. It discusses legality, public sentiment, and potential clashes with sports events and social rituals.
A Texas emergency warns that traffic fatalities rose after a stretch of improvement. The Texas Safety Association calls for decisive punishment for drunken driving as patrol disarmament and budget cuts threaten safety amid a wartime climate.
Albert Graesinski, once Berlin police chief, claims Hitler fears only one man Heinrich Himmler head of the Gestapo and SS, wielding power to intimidate and control. The article asserts Himmler directs the feared police state, with mass recruitment, coercive laws, and ideological fanaticism guiding Nazi rule.
In business success the ability to take orders and to lead others matters as much as original ideas. Young employers must study business principles and understand departmental operations to gain promotion. Original conceptions alone rarely drive advancement. effort and familiarity with operations are essential.
A Victorian era home guide notes conveniences for modern houses. Features include a telephone booth, laundry chutes delivering clothes from upper floors, and noiseless front areas. It highlights savings, sanitation, and time for the busy household with emphasis on refrigerators stoves vacuums and ample lighting. It also mentions a decorative kitchen sink and over stove card display ideas from The Avalanche.
A collage of vintage humor lines shows family banter about fire and clocks, a worker negotiating for raises against rival utilities, a lunch counter exchange about wait times, a barber quip on Italian politics, and a teacher dinner misstep. The humor hinges on misdirection and casual boastfulness with light social satire.
PASCO Wash Mrs Dowd owns a flag with 13 five pointed stars and seven stripes of red and white believed from the Revolutionary War period. The homespun bunting flag was handed down to Mrs Dowd by her father Allen Rithal of Weston Oregon who recalled its long history and pride among family. The exact provenance remains a mystery.
Muscatine Iowa blind for eight years David Holliday uses corn kernels to record his weekly walking miles. Wires strung around his farm seven miles southwest of town guide his daily back and forth along a 10 rod path. He moves kernels between pockets every five trips then tallies weekly mileage from the right pocket, saying the yard wires help both exercise and time.
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