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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1955
Page
10
Practical home buying and cleaning tips for June brides. Choose washable fabrics, tailor to washing cycles, and select low settings for synthetics. Consider Dynel and Dacron for ease, measure linens, test curtains, and pick stain and burn resistant finishes. Read labels and test before cutting coverings. Use silicone polishes for smoother surfaces.
Postmaster General Summerfield announced twelve subject stamps to be added to the 18 denomination plan. The 18 cent series will feature six presidents six notable Americans and six historic shrines including Roosevelt Wilson Mount Vernon Independence Hall Monticello Franklin Lee Marshall Anthony Henry Hamilton. Existing issues include Washington Jefferson Lincoln Monroe Liberty and Statue of Liberty. Discontinued stamps total 14 denominations and will not be printed after current supplies run out.
Trans World Airlines offers nonstop New York to San Francisco luxury flights using Super G Constellations. Pan American and United expand Europe and Pacific routes with seasonal Miami Lima and Hawaii services. Lufthansa Icelandic and KLM announce schedules and payment plans as Cana da guidebooks expand to America.
The text advises rugs that postpone sailing, Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Strauss offer a product called Dellay. It mentions anti static sprays for carpets and washable dust mops in pastel nylon. It notes floor waxes come in many chemical blends for different woods and tiles to suit homes.
California lists twelve mountains surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation in the Mountain State Sacramento report. The data highlights high alpine summits across the region and underscores the state’s notable topography.
Editorial Projects publishes a scrapbook for travelers with space for photos hotel stickers theater programs addresses and phone numbers priced at 4.95. A 40 page resort and hotel directory for the Poconos is distributed by the Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau. Canadian Pacific Airlines offers Klondike tours from Vancouver or Edmonton to Whitehorse and Dawson City. Scandinavian Airlines System offers a 25 day arts and crafts tour of Scandinavia departing Sept 2 returning Sept 26 priced at 1048.
Thieves looted an office in Milam Italy breaking into a safety vault and locks maker's premises and taking about $3,000 worth of type writers and adding machines. Canada’s 1954 turkey production climbed to a record 3,500,000 birds.
A bottle recovered near Yakutsk in the east Siberian Sea carried a note dated 1913 addressed to the head hydrographic office of St Petersburg. The find, reported by Komsomol Pravda, shows Arctic expeditions tossing bottles to study currents and ice drift.
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