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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
3
A collage of gibes and gaffes from a bygone era features a fall into a garbage can, quips about American efficiency, and humorous exchanges among students, couples, and a judge. It also includes a legal notice fragment and a Memphis crime anecdote about a man shooting at a man in a hen coop, finding strange hens next day.
Despite sandstorms and cold the school remains active with students at a livestock exhibit in Junction last Wednesday. Homer Durst won first on a Hampshire pig and GL Hahn took second on a baby beef. Hilmer Fritz showed good sheep and pigs while Bill Bishop visited with a sow. Mr Wheeler plans a future trip to Austin for the school story. A box of books from the state library will be traded for a new set. The Freshman class plans a party at the community hall on Saturday night, March 4. Grace LaRo Winnie Cummins and Orlan Stewart study College extension work 4 to 7 pm Mondays. A visitor from Daniel Baker College at Brownwood teaches a Crane Texas class returning Monday to take Mrs Loma Hicks and a baby to reside with Loma’s husband Clifford who has a position in the oil city. The top spinning squads show the only sign of spring as Junior boys and one white axerior boy join in the sport. Thought: Accuracy comes from sober thought and repeated reflection.
Mrs. Rhea Gable, reportedly the wife of Clark Gable, is said to be nearing eligibility for divorce in Reno tomorrow amid talk of shifts in film and marriage gossip. The fragment references military academy music history and evolving regimental bands as context.
At San Antonio Texas February hogs and cattle market mixed with lighter demand. Hogs steady to select and feeder pigs around six dollars to thirteen dollars per head. Slaughter cattle and calves sold steady to lower with several large fed steer loads around seven eighty five to seven eighty five dollars. Stocker calves mostly eight to nine fifty, plain stockers weaker. Sheep and goats steady with lambs six to six fifty and Angora goats around two to three dollars per head. Receipts hogs 800 cattle unspecified sheep 100 goats 200.
A historical note contrasts early American military bands with modern Marine Army and Navy ensembles in Washington. It recalls the Marine band starting with eight members featuring two oboes two clarinets two French horns and one more instrument, as described by a recent writer.
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