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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
7
Fredericksburg will host the Minneapolis-Moline Comfortractor on Tuesday December 6 at the local implement dealer showroom. The display promotes a 3 to 4 plow power tractor with luxury cab features and belt work capability and speeds up to 40 MPH.
Next week at the Palace Theatre the RKO release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres as a full length Walt Disney feature with its Grimms tale theme. Also showing are Sonja Henie in My Lucky Star and Tenth Avenue Kid with Bruce Cabot. The Citadel with Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell screens midweek, plus further Republic and other engagements through the period.
Local residents and visitors noted in Harper with numerous trips to nearby towns. Edgar Schumpelt of El Paso and family joined friends in Harper. Felix Kensing and kin visited Fredericksburg with Kensing's sister Mrs Perry Lang from San Antonio.
On November 23 at 1 30 PM Rev W C Poehlmann joined Alma Schaefer and Lee Althaus in marriage at Cave Creek Lutheran church. Attendants were Felix Schaefer Velma Bruns Harvey Althaus and Emilia Eckhardt. The couple will live on the Christian Althaus place in Gold. The Standard extends congratulations.
A historical note describes settlers trading a plug of tobacco for a horse and a piue and a half for a mule in early Texas exchanges with Native peoples.
Dramatic intensity marks the review of the new production. King Vidtor’s direction nears perfection. Fredericksburg Concert Band, under G. A. Hart marin, will give a Wednesday night concert on the theatre stage.
The first German colony established in Texas formed near Bastrop, founded by Baron de Bastrop a Dutch born former Prussian Guardsman of Frederick the Great.
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