Unknown Alpine Owner and Marathon Lot Listings
A dense OCR fragment lists unknown Alpine owners, multiple lots and bikers, and Marathon lots with varied owners. Frequent 2% ownership notes appear, along with prices and divisional references.
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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
8
A dense OCR fragment lists unknown Alpine owners, multiple lots and bikers, and Marathon lots with varied owners. Frequent 2% ownership notes appear, along with prices and divisional references.
In Caldwell Kansas a young man nicknamed Kid Carr rises from a cowpuncher following Bill Lee to take a volatile post as city marshal. He uses calm authority and threat to discipline Lee's gang, then leaves Caldwell after a year, returning to Missouri to marry Bill Lee’s sister Lucie, who weds him with Lee now a Salvation Army captain performing the ceremony.
Yeats recalls William Morris with affection, noting Morris as a chief of men and praising a singular poetic thought. He compares Morris to Ip Aligo and Titian’s Aristo, describes his grave eyes, vigorous body, and the dreamer’s middle ages aura, while contrasting him with wavering modern figures.
The Indians of Guiana use a curious numeration system. They count by the hand and its four fingers, calling five a hand, six a hand and first finger, seven a hand and second finger, and ten two hands. Twenty becomes a man, forty two men, and forty six a two men a hand and first finger.
Women in France already enjoy municipal suffrage but lack legislative voting rights. Advocates urge extending the franchise to national elections, arguing equal citizenship should include Parliament participation.
Local surgeon Dr. P. J. Haley reports photographing the etheric double of a man’s severed thumb. He says the images show energy crystallization and may inform heredity, neurology, and medical diagnosis while denying spiritualist aims. Further work will be shared with California scientists for verification.
Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New York outlines a one airplane four pilot Arctic voyage starting at Point Barrow Alaska. The route includes a 1200 nautical mile leg to the pole, stops at Spitzbergen Bear Island and North Cape Norway, then onward to London via Scandinavia.
Paris recounts a chef's wartime reminiscence of General Joffre during the Marne battle. The chef says the general ate enough to feed three men and planned a lavish, if improvised, post victory dinner. A British champagne basket arrived marked by a German stamp, prompting caution.
Workmen of Keene-Strunk Coal company in Helenwood Scott county uncover a petrified giant six feet four inches tall. The figure bears a neck chain, perfect fingers, long nails, and two four inch horns beside the head. It weighs about 450 pounds and is on display attracting thousands. Also reported, E Halliday of Semcoe Canada catches a brook trout near five pounds, surpassing James Allgeo’s thirty-two year old record.
A Japanese sportsman described as a wrestling champion in oriental style, noted for a funny topknot and hula-like apron effect. The piece likens him to a Strangler Lewis of the Orient and labels him a regular fan of sport despite his distinctive attire. Silver from sea water deposits on ship hulls are also mentioned in passing.
Mary Haldowanatz aged twenty three reveals her two year courtship with Jack Brown aged twenty one was with a girl. The couple met in Monticello and Mary sought arrest of her pretend fiancé after delays. Brown's mother confessed the masquerade aimed to support herself and six other children.
Sergt. W. Jones of the Marine Corps set what was claimed as a new world record by scoring 182 consecutive bull’s eyes in a 00-yard slow-fire service tournament in Wakefield Massachusetts.
An officer forbade serving champagne to staff, ordering bottles disposed. The chef recalls they were emptied by the next morning, highlighting a strict crackdown and unintended spillover at a corporate gathering.
Wallace Lanning a Milford New Jersey beekeeper took over 100 pounds of honey from his apiaries stored in his garret. A few days later the bees returned and carried the honey back into their hives through a knot hole, leaving empty comb and frames.
London fashion observers reject doom for the dinner jacket. The Manchester Guardian’s London correspondent says the dinner jacket with a black tie remains the smart standard at theaters and clubs, except when ladies join the party. A revival in dressyness in London is noted since King Edward’s era.
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