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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
2
Local news notes the Alpine high school grads drawing attention from Swift & Company, a major firm seeking graduates for Packers division roles. The item reflects rising school efficiency and community response to national educational improvements, with references to local directors and editors.
The Kaiser offers an Iron Cross, AM marks, and three weeks leave to the first German who captures an American soldier, dead or alive. A Tabor organization of Chicago joins the effort, placing a $109 bounty and promising cooperation in the search for the American serviceman.
An unclear note mentions Hibee and Dirk with a death reference involving a person who divulged secrets. The fragment hints at a betrayal or disclosure linked to a fatal outcome, but details and identities remain obscured.
A fragmented dispatch mentions Leky and Alpine Ment hone in a wartime context with references to artillery and paper delivery. The notice hints at subscription delinquency and offers to mail the newspaper without extra postage, urging readers to call to arrange service. The garbled text blends local towns with war era imagery and a subscription reminder.
Fragmentary OCR records a 1917 Alpine Texas bank statement notice from Alpine Avalanche. It mentions Alpine State Bank, Sept 1917 filing, deposits, reserves, liabilities, and checks, with garbled names and figures. The readable text confirms a financial notice embedded in a local paper, lacking complete details.
Public notice describes incorporation of Alpine under Commission form, detailing property bounds, parcels, and survey references. Includes legal text on land tracts, surveys 44 43 42 101, and directions to hold an election with appointed clerks. Also warns trespass prohibition on property.
Sunday school 9:48. Sermon and communion 11. No services tonight due to sacred concert by Choral Club at the evangelical church. Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 o'clock. Pastor Pols grove invites fellowship and mutual help. Practice Wednesday, Sunday School 9 oclock. Preaching Sunday 11 on The Patriarch Jacob. Methodist church welcomes all. Pastor H Messer.
Readable fragments outline Alpine City voters considering mayoral contender and two council seats. Mentions candidates and local officials including Turney, County Judge Brewster, amid a Texas county context.
In Caldwell Caldwell ay local schools will organize junior Red Cross units in response to a national move by Presid America. The children's branch will offer relief effort training for community benefit and to aid suffering children elsewhere, promoting what is described as the best work in support of freedom.
Baptist church announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 led by Pastor Williamson. Sunday school again at 10 and Sunday evening teaching at unspecified time.
Compressed block salt rain and sulphur feed at W. E dwell. Just what your milk cows need. Hides: Get prices from me before selling hides. 14 rear, Geo. R. Shannon, Marfa Texas, sides. Have been bus Mi well, hay, grain and feed.
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