Texas Retail Sales Continue Increase
The Bureau of Business Research reports Texas retailers showed strong growth in May with sales up 12 percent from April and a five month total near the 1957 level. Durable goods rose 1 percent and nondurable goods 11 percent. jewelry and furniture led gains while motor vehicle and service stations also rose.
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Austin (Ap
Bureau of Business Research
Texas
Temple
Port Arthur
Lockhart
Brownwood
Bryan
Texarkana
Paris
Sherman
Eat-Rite Honey Health Food Product Promoted
Eat-Rite Health Foods at 3201 W 6th markets Cuban honey tied to wild flowers in Cuba and Cuban government certification. The ad touts honey as a dietary supplement and remedy for stomach nerves skin burns cough colic breathing issues and emphasizes liquid honey with comb sold at Eat-Rite or by Mrs Annie E Litle.
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Maestra
Cuba
Aguinaldo
Roverillo
Vermont
Eat-Rite Health
Annie E. Litle
Ventsulator Storm Sash and Door Ad
A sales notice for the Ventsulator door and storm window from Venisulator Storm Sash Door Manufacturing Co in Amarillo. Features include neoprene door seals, dust and rain protection, a hydraulic closer, a ventilating screen, optional Kaiser shade, and a lock. Demonstrations available by Pat Dailey. contact Drake 4-7401.
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Kaiser
Venisulator Storm Sash & Door Manufacturing Company
S. Taylor
Amarillo
Drake
Pat Dailey
No-Roach insecticide advertised with malathion claims
An advertisement touts Johnston's No-Roach as a colorless quick drying insecticide that kills roaches including a so called super race. It coats surfaces and remains effective for months while ant barriers deter pests and jokes about a new Handa Bug aerosol are offered for mosquitoes.
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Johnston
Furr Foots
Safeway
Panhandle
A. G
Puddy's
Dierly Wieck
Cretner's
Skaces
Herbert's
Ines! Drug Or
Furr Foods
A.G
Buddy's
Piggly Wiggly
Cretney
Skagg's
S&m Stores
Ventsulator storm window advertises hidden exterior screen
The ad describes a storm window that shields the screen from view on the outside and keeps dust and rain out. It emphasizes cooling in summer and heating in winter with neoprene sealing and an exterior screen hidden from the road.
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Pat
Radar Controlled Signals Installed
The International City Managers association reports radar controlled traffic signals have been installed in several U S cities including Coral Gables Florida and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Radar observing mechanisms feed information to a computer that adjusts stop light timing according to traffic volume.
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Chicago
International City Managers Association
U. S
Coral Gables, Fla
Pittsburgh, Pa
Electric Beater Sparks Startup at Unican Co Inc
Joseph C. O'Donnell, a self taught chemist and inventor, started with his wife's electric beater to mix plastic auto body filler. Now employing 40 workers, the firm posted a million dollar sales last year and plans to double volume this year while building a new plant. Unican Co Inc is the largest supplier of plastic auto body filler in the United States and Canada.
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Northboro
Mass
Joseph C. O'Donnell
O'Donnell
Unican Co., Inc
United States
Canada
Waddy Week Specials at McCandless Jewelers
McCandless Jewelers offers Waddy Week deals including western leather watch bands at 1.50, nylon bands 0.75, stainless steel expansion bands 1.95, and discount on bands over 5.00. Miss Willa Mae McCandless promotes costume jewelry, new Christmas cards, 10 percent off all Waddy Week orders, and watch repair service in Levine's basement with contact DR3-2864 extension 32.
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McCandless Jewelers
Johnston's Hadabug bedroom spray sale ad
A grocery listing promotes Johnston's Hadabug safe bedroom spray for mosquitoes. It claims safety near children and pets and prices Hadabug at 1.98.
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Johnston
Television to show Falls visitors safety view of power project
Niagara Falls plans closed circuit telecasts of work on the Lewiston power plant with transmitting cameras across the Niagara River in Canada. Live telecasts on the American side will be beamed to a visitor’s building in Lewis ton. The project, supported by New York Telephone Co and Uhl Hall and Rich, aims to guide sightseers away from dangerous construction zones.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
Niagara
Lewiston
Niagara River
Canada
Forge
Lewis
New York Telephone Co
Uhl, Hall and Rich
State Power Authority
Chilean nitrate workers pay old prices for essentials
Chilean workers in nitrate plants buy daily goods at prices from twenty years ago while Mexico's La Huerta front deposits hold an estimated 600 million tons in reserves, signaling large but uncertain supply.
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Chile
Mexico
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