Stewart-Warner Frig Featured at Johnson Price Company
The Johnson Price Company at 611 Fillmore promotes Stewart-Warner electric refrigerators as engineering marvels of 1940 with features like double duty freezing, four ice trays, separate frozen storage, oversized meat chest, drawer style produce and fruit storage, sealed in steel mechanism, five year warranty, automatic interior light and stainless porcelain interior. Visitors can see the models and assess highlights firsthand.
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Stewart-Warner Electric
Johnson-Price Company
Fillmore
Stewart-Warner
Stewart
Johnson Price Company
Master Awning Control Installs at White's Auto
White's Auto Store installs Master Automatic Awning Control at its 905 Polk Street location. Amarillo Tent and Awning Co, 800 West Sixth Avenue, manufactures the unit, which operates by a time clock and eliminates personal handling. Other installs include Heath Furniture and Southwestern Public Service, with a Panhandle wide service and free estimates.
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White
Polk Street
Amarillo Tent and
West Sixth Avenue
Heath Furniture Company
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo Hardware
Skinner Company
Lubbock
A. G. Hall Company
Big Spring
Bud Curtis
Amarillo
Beauty aids and supplies advertised by McCarter Barber and Beauty Supply
Pin Za lotion and NuVello shampoo promotion highlight skin and hair care benefits. Roulac cream enamel touted for variety of shades and long wear. Availability through McCarter Barber and Beauty Supply at 2300-D West Sixth and local operators.
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McCarter Barber and Beauty Supply
West Sixth
Nuvello
Beautician
McCarter
Canine depositor at Casa de Manana Hotel in La Jolla
A Dalmatian named Tug, trained by C. W. Brown, assistant manager, picks up envelopes of daily receipts from the Casa de Manana Hotel in La Jolla. The dog carries the money to the bank each day in his mouth.
Hen nicknamed Catnaper eludes farm cat
A Hartford City Indiana farmer reports a hen has kid napped five kittens from a mother cat on Roy Pruden’s farm and fought off the mother when she tried to reach the kittens. The Prudens are feeding the kittens.
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Hartford City
Ind
Roy Pruden
Prudens
Mrs Van's Beauty Salon Moves to 108 West Seventh
Mrs Carmen Van Duesen known as Mrs Van has moved her Amarillo salon to 108 West Seventh in new, air conditioned quarters. Open since 1926, she specializes in permanent waving facials hair tinting and scalp treatment with a full staff and personalized service. Appointments call 2 2440.
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Carmen van Duesen
Amarillo
Panhandle
Mrs
Van
West Seventh
Taylor
Old London Beauty College
Paul Rilling
Emil Rhode
Marinello
Theo Bender
White & Kirk's
Learn to Type During Summer Vacation
Amarillo Secretarial School offers brush up and specialized courses in typing shorthand English spelling comptometry bookkeeping and more. Rates depend on course time with flexible scheduling and morning sessions from 7 a.m. Mrs Bess Orr Foringer presides and promises individualized instruction and placement in good positions.
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Amarillo
Bess Orr Foringer
Amarillo Secretariat
Amarillo Secretarial School Course Details
Amarillo Secretarial School offers a complete business course with day and night classes and personalized instruction in small classes. Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer promotes flexible start times and reasonable rates from 800 Jefferson. phone 2 3594.
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Bess Orr Foringer
Mer
Jefferson
Airplane Ownership Split Among Private and Public Sectors
The passage notes contact details for Mrs. Foringer at 800 Jefferson Street and cites that private flyers own 54.2 percent of airplanes in the United States excluding military planes, while scheduled airlines own 3.1 percent.
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United States
Old Time Dance at The Rainbow
Dance night returns to the Rainbow at 907 Northeast Eighth Avenue with Schottische Balboa and other old time favorites. The Sons of the West orchestra provides music for Tuesday and Saturday events, admission 40 cents per couple.
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Rainbow
Eighth Avenue
Sons of the West Orchestra
the Rainbow
Sons of the West
Taxi Call The Hammond Number 6284
Hammond Taxi Service operates safely year round providing quick, courteous rides. Call 6284 for Hammond cabs at your front door for shopping golf ball games and other uses.
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Hammond Taxi
Hammond Cabs
Amarillo
Hammond
Longest will on file backs 1902 probate case in Winchester
The longest will on file in circuit court in Winchester is A. H. Anderson’s, drafted in 1902 with 1,400 words plus two codicils. The shortest is Anderson’s widow’s, written on the back of a blank check and leaving “everything I have to my brother.”
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Winchester
A. H. Anderson
Anderson
Boy of AEF Becomes Adena Town Treasurer
James E. Barkhurst, who enlisted at 15 in Wheeling West Virginia, is now Adena town treasurer. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces at the Marne Meuse Argonne St Mihiel and other fronts before returning to civilian life.
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Adena
United States
James E. Barkhurst
Wheeling
W. Va
Marne
Meuse-Argonne
St. Mihiel
Radios Becomes Exact Science for Quick Repairs
Gooch Engineering argues modern radio repair is fast and precise, reducing service time to about 30 minutes with four to six specialized machines. Shops now handle 15 to 20 repairs daily, cutting costs 75 to 80 percent, with authorized service lines and pickup delivery at 1309 Polk Street. In 1929, 3,880,206 new cars were registered. about 44 percent remain in operation.
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Gooch Engineering Company
Polk Street
Good Engineering Company
Oldest Western Hemisphere University San Marcos Peru
The oldest higher learning institution in the western hemisphere is the University of San Marcos in Peru. It is cited as the region's premier historic university reference.
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Western Hemisphere
The
University of San Marcos
Peru
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tri-State
Canine
Sons OF the West Adm
Amarillo Secretarial School
Dr. T. M
Montgomery
Optometrist
Oliver Eakle
Aef
Time Payments
Marie
Woody Electric CO
Harold Brewster
E-Z
Tight Weather Strip & Caulking Company
Los Angeles
Southwest
Tent & Awning Co
G. M. Stone
Harrison
Madsen
Hiway
Amarillo Tent & Awning Company
Bush Drug Co
Max Factor Society
Tyler
Nell Kidd
J. F. Bromert
Taylor ST
L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters
Gatlin Paint & Glass CO
Floorlanders
Amarillo Shade & Equipment CO
Blind Men
W. Tenth
Paidar Barber & Beauty Equipment
E. E. Finkler, Inc
Polk
Refrigeration and Radio Service
Gooch
Ammon
Speed Ravey
417 Polk
Johnson Price Co. Distributors
Amarillo Commercial College
Blackburn Bidg
Mrs. Van's
San Jacinto School of Beauty Culture
Beauty
W. 6Th
Typewriter.Service Co
Victor
R. M. Kidwell
East
Marian Martin Pattern
Amarillo Daily News
West 18Th Street
New York
N. Y
Amarillo Dairy Products CO
Call the Water Co
Call the Electric Co
Call the Gas Co
Call the Telephone Co
Call M & L
Fort Worth
Denver
Rock Island
Santa Fe
M & L & Storage Co. Inc
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