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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1970
Page
10
The text traces aluminum usage in packaging from 1888 when aluminum covers sealed Ball Brothers mason jars to its foil development in 1913 and popularization as household wrap after the 1940s, noting early use for cigarette pack linings.
Community notes from Oak Water list July birthdays including Vernon Jones and several Mrs. names, plus numerous visits and visits by relatives to residents. Obituary sympathy extended to the Oscar Brown family for Sallie Brown’s passing.
The Gulf shrimp season starts July 16 with a daily limit of 100 pounds per sportsman. Size rules require 39 shrimp per pound with heads on or 65 headless, eight and three-fourths inch nets, and a $3 shrimp trawl tag plus a sports fishing license. Night shrimping is banned from 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise. Christmas Day of 1855 notes Royal Canadian Rifles in Kingston clearing snow and initiating a hockey-on-ice game.
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