New Firm Opens Gyn and Key Shop at Dutch Lunch Site
Harry Gray joins J B Mac McGee to run the State Gyn and Key Shop at 108 East Fifth Street reporting immediate success. The shop handles rod and reel service for fishing season, lock and gun work, and small parts turning with modern machinery. Phone 2 1522 for on site service. McGee guarantees satisfaction. Arthur Chapman wrote the poem Out Where the West Begins in ten minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Gray
East Fifth Street
Harry
J. B
Mac) McGee
New Mexico
McGee
Love and Picket Line End in Quiet Arbitration
Alicia Butler and Elvin Hanback settled a dispute after Alicia paraded with a picket sign before his home demanding arbitration. The couple, now reunited, says the sign is retired and the quarrel is resolved. The note adds a statistic on United States share of world silk production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alicia Butler
Elvin Hanback
Alicia
Elvin
Juliet
Romeo
Fivnn Hanback
United States
Long lasting floor beauty for your home
Better Homes Week highlights hardwood floor refinishing by Amarillo Floor Company. R A Owens explains a two finish system gives deep penetrating durability and a uniform beauty finish. Lab tests and field experience across Texas support this method. Call 2 5060 for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Owens
Amarillo Floor Company
Owens
American
Texas
New Improved Corona Showcased by Elliott-Greer Company
The Elliott-Greer Company at 508 Taylor Street markets the Corona portable typewriter highlighting its Floating Shift Touch Selector all around frame piano-key action and carriage centering lever. The ad touts adjustable tension seven settings standard keyboard and one-stroke ribbon reverse praising durability ease of use and reduced wear. It urges readers to visit or call 2 2236 to try the new Corona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corona
Elliott-Greer Company
Taylor Street
Amarillo Beauty School At 2715 West Sixth Street
San Jacinto Beauty School in Amarillo offers a 1000 hour course completing in six to eighteen months with daytime and evening options. The program costs about 125 dollars and includes ongoing graduate employment support led by Mrs. M Hancher. New class forms around June 1.
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Amarillo
West Sixth Street
M. Hancher
San Jacinto
Safety Year Pays Dividends in Colusa County
Colusa County reports a year with no accidents earning praise from the State board of compensation and a bonus earned premium of 831.59. The notice highlights safety gains and a monetary reward reflecting improved claims performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colusa, Cal
U.2
State Board of Compensation
Spode Iris china and Amarillo Secretarial School ads
Spode Iris china described with Chelsea moulding and pre Victorian styling offered at the Brown House Shop 816 Polk Street. Amarillo Secretarial School at 800 Jefferson advertises business courses and placement with Civil Service and private firms, urging early enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown House
POLK
Spode
China
Chelsea
Chippendale
Sheraton
Duncan Phyte
Polk Street
Amarillo
Jefferson
Amarillo Secretarial School
Jefferson, Amarillo
Texas
River Telephones Aid TVA River Stage Reports
In Tennessee the TVA uses remote river gauges with floats and drums to read stages. A keyer sends dot-dash readings by phone at set times, allowing engineers to call the river and hear its readings. In Knoxville the public phone number for the river readings caused many curious callers.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley
Water Control Division
TVA
Tennessee
Ol’ Man
Chinese Discovery of Gunpowder as Toy to Military Use
The article notes that Chinese inventors discovered gunpowder around 600 A D but initially treated it as a toy rather than a weapon. It highlights early curiosity about explosive mixtures and the shift toward military applications later in history.
Toes Win Kitten Adoption Of 80 Million US Motor Vehicles
The report notes that 80,000,000 vehicles have been produced in the United States since 1900 and that 37 percent, or 29,600,000, remained licensed and in use last year.
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United States
From Child's Play Sparked South African Diamond Industry
While playing along the Orange and Vaal rivers Boer children gathered stones including carnelian jasper garnet agate and rock crystal some of which were real diamonds. The stones marked the start of the profitable South African diamond mining industry.
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Orange
Vaal
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Arthur Chapman
State Gun & Key Shop
Jansonius Nursery Co
Monroe
Amarillo Floor CO
Ammon
Dwight Newby CO
Amarillo Shade & Equipment Co
Tent & Awning Co
LONG
Harrison Phone
Parker
Peggy Ann Beauty Shop
Tyler Ph
Jack Phillips
Your Gift and
J. F. Bromert
Coloni
Taylor Sr
Nash
D. L. Brooks
Nat. Bank
Duncan Hines
Madsen
Highway 66
Gatlin Glass & Paint CO
Stewart
Sewing Machine & Vacuum Co
Sales & Service
Marie Doane
Fillmore
Tri-State Audit & Tax Service
Johnson
D. B. Boone
Met
U. S. Treasury Dept
Speed Ravey
E. E. Finkler, Inc
Typewriter Service Co
Victor Adding Machines
M. Kidwell
East
San Jacinto School of Beauty Culture
Beauty
Southwest
W. 6Th
Hiway
Bess Orr Foringer
Mgr
Jefferson Ph
Ramsey Carpet & Linoleum Shop
Minute School of Beauty
Dresden
Meissen
Vestd P
Alice Paul
Moorestown
N. J
N. Y
Geneva
Switzerland
Lisbon
World Women’s Party For Equal Rights
FHA Loans
The
Panhandle
H.L. Biggs
J. FE. Foster & Son, Inc
Fisk
Harrison
Olaf M. Hustvedt
North Carolina
Decorah
Worland
Wyo. U.P
Arnold Yelle
Johnson-Price Co
C. H. Wileman
Best Chemical CO
Proctor & Gamble and Solvay Process Co
N. Fillmore St
Frank
Barber & Beauty
the Panhandle
L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters
Taylor
Pine Ridge
Courthouse
Phillips 66
LEE Tires
City Sign CO
Fort Worth and
Denver
Rock Island
Santa Fe Railroads
Acme
Freight
Carloading
Arthur ST
Child's Play
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