Local Notes and Advertisements From Amarillo April 26 1938
Guest visitors include Mrs J Virgil Moore of Fort Worth and Mrs Walter Mount of Amarillo. Mrs Stephen Dow of East Taunton visits her brother George W Brownell. Brownell family mourns Miss Mary Morgan Brown, West Texas State College teacher, with flowers and telegrams from across the country. Welcome arrivals include Mrs Ruth R Franklin and mother from Hoquiam and Jack B Richards from Pampa with son. Richards works at Moore and Smith Body Works. Various weekend visits around Amarillo noted. health trips to Mineral Wells. clean-up campaign ad for Roberts Olver Lumber Co. Population growth noted with a birth at St Anthony’s Hospital. Airline news lists several crew and destination changes for TWA and Braniff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Virgil Moore
Fort Worth
W. M. Hall
Alabama Street
Walter Mount
Hughes Street
Stephen Dow
East Tauton
Mass
George W. Brownell
Brownell
Fairmont Street
B. F. Brownell
Clovis
Geo. W
Alabama
Mary Morgan Brown
West Texas State College
Canyon
Sears
AATT
Ruth R. Franklin
Prospect Street
Hoquiam
Wash
Texas
Jack B. Richards
North Pierce Street
Pampa
Richards
Moore and Smith Body Works
O. E. Price
Richard Keith
Jaquin
Missouri
Price
Sears Roebuck and Company
Joyce McDaniels
Altus
Okla
George Barton
West Fifteenth Avenue
J. E. McClurkin
van Buren Street
Hospital notes list patients and operations in Albuquerque area
An itemized hospital bulletin from St. Anthony's lists numerous patients by name and location across Vega Dumas Hereford Erick and other towns. It notes major operations medical treatments injuries and a patient dismissed after emergency care. Mention of Mount Everest is included as a separate trivia line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. N. Ivy
Vega
D. A. Harrell
Lark
Patrick Weems Hurley
A. L. Hurley
Tucumcari
Sam McDade
Dumas
T. F. Ballard
Monroe Street
E. F. Ballard
Harold F. C. Tutcher
Tyler Street
W. L. Stice
Pampa
W. B. Haile
Clarendon
I. H. Spratt
Hereford
G. E. Harris
Erick
Okla
Margaret Crandall
North van Buren
J. E. Robinson
English Field
Curtis Sears
Logan
N. M
P. Moody
Fillmore Street
N. O. Apperson
Holliday
Pierce Street
J. W. Pope
R. R. Sanford
Sanford
O. H. Rahifs
Happy
O. R. Looney
J. N. Burgin
Groom
Bridge contest and local notices in a busy column
The column invites readers to submit five bridge hands with bids for a $5 prize and notes contestants and addresses. It includes local society items, ads for pianos and clothing, an engraved quote, motherhood reminders, and community notices about residents, a Girl Scouts ask, and a plumbing ad, all in a busy daily page style.
Birthday Wishes for Notable Local Figures
A list of local names reaches celebratory note for birthdays including R. A. Ford R. Clyde Smith Eiinser V. Willis and others. The items reflect a community roster of residents and several honorees with titled Mr and Mrs prefixes appearing alongside given surnames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Ford
R. Clyde Smith Eiinser V. Willis
Robert Billingston
Floyd T, Jones Kirby James Barrett
Robert Cooper
Bedford Gibson Earl Shelton, Jr
Jane Rutherford
C. B. Johnson
Ice Box Rolls Recipe Card From Mrs Coffee
A home bread recipe from a newspaper card details ice box rolls. It lists ingredients including yeast sugar water egg flour salt and shortening with step by step mixing and rising directions. The method instructs dissolving yeast then combining with sugar salt and water, beating in egg, adding flour and shortening, kneading if needed, and allowing the dough to rise to double bulk before shaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Jack Coffee
Louisiana Street
Wisdom Cometh With The Years Poem by Countee Cullen
A compact poem reflecting youth and sensibility, contrasting quick heartache with later wisdom. The speaker laments credulity and longing, revealing early love and idealized attraction, as a brown girl passes by inspiring tears and dreams. The piece ends noting wisdom arrives with years, yet barren days also come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Countee
Cullen
Henry Sears Returns on Sunday as Gold Chain Flour Noted
The passage notes a recommendation to cover tightly and refrigerate dough for at least one hour before use, bake in a medium oven, and mentions Gold Chain Flour. It ends with the line Henry Sears returned Sunday, indicating a personal update amid a cooking context from the era.
GLOBE WALK bridges Delta and Albert kinfolk in Amarillo visit
Wesley Griffin of Delta Colorado and Delbert Griffin of Albert New Mexico joined their sister Mrs Roy McBride and her son Billy in Amarillo before traveling to Conway for the weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs T W Griffin Mrs Vernie Lowe and daughters Marion and Marjorie of 1706 Jackson Street spent the weekend in Plainview with Mrs Lowe’s mother Mrs D M Thompson Bertha Marie Wolfe Inez Holman Georgiana Mager and Mary Evelyn Herbert leave Amarillo for a 10 day trip to Fort Worth Dallas and College Station to visit friends. Jim Crane supplies bridge prizes and a 5 dollar top prize is offered with a deck of cards as consolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Griffin
Delta
Colo
Delbert Griffin
Albert, N. M
Amarillo
Roy McBride
Billy
Conway
T. W. Griffin
Vernie Lowe
Marion
Marjorie
Jackson Street
Plainview
Lowe
D. M. Thompson
Bertha Marie Wolfe
Inez Holman
Georgiana Mager
Mary Evelyn Herbert
Fort Worth
Dallas
College Station
Also Mentioned on This Page
Amarillo Globe
Paws
Leroy McQueen
Memphis
Buck McQueen
Arthur Street
D. O. Kretz
Nineteenth Avenue
Shattuck
Oklo
John Gilkerson
West
H. R. Landers
Higgins
T. L. Andrews
Marlin
Roberts & Olver Lumber Co
Ted Evans
Kentucky Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
TWA
Braniff
A. F. Merrill
Albuquerque
C. Owens
Los Angeles
Norma W. Mills
L. N. Moore
O. Todd
J. F. Reed
Cleveland
Asbury
Ruby Hays
Harrisburg
M. W. Bell
RK. J. McCanna
E. G. Elliott
W. F. Knight
Homer Kelley
Paul Jordan
Kansas City
St. Louis
R. M. Parr
Chicago
Buquerque
Ray Sanderson
ST. Anthony’s Hospital
Everest
Portales
Jenkins Music Co
Sir P. Sidney
Troy Laundry
C. A. Jinks
West Eighth Avenue
J. T. Brown
Lyman Betty
Dalhart
James Williams
Fourteenth Avenue
C. V. Wood
Hayden Street
Cunningham Floral Co. South
Spades
K. Q
Hearts
Irwin M. Crotty
Buchanan Street
Oklahoma City
Wright's
North
A. B. Stewart
Wichita Falls
J. H. Cureton
Manor Apartments
Owensboro
Kentucky
Jas. Smock
West Twentieth Avenue
Griggs
Girl Scouts
Girl Scout Office
Porter R. Underwood
The
Law
Underwood & Strickland
Washington, D. C
L. J. Smith
Washington
Stuart Browning
Travis Street
San Antonio
Texas State Dental Society
Hammond
Phillips Petroleum Co
Ned Pryor
Scott Webster
North Fillmore Street
Spur
J. A. Abney
W. R. Haynes
Texline
Guy Bateman
Washington Street
Baker Planing Mill
W. Sixth
East
the Plains Plumbing Co
Pierce
South, Diamonds
Buck Britt
Sammie
Wheeler
Walter Lill
Panhandle
Harris Landon
J. R. McDowell
Carl Baker
W. G. Baker
Wade Holman, Jr
Oscar Holman
Texas A. & M
Howard Brosamale
Enid
James Hunter
Remington
J. J. Eckert
Taylor Street
First Cavalry Division
Fort Bliss
Tex
Essick
Meretter Tag
Essick Machinery Company
Nunn Electric CO
Essex
POLK
Henry Sears
J. M. Sears
Blackstone Cleaners
Russell
Panhandle Plains
Matthew “Bones” Hooks
Ramona Hamblen
Can
Gilbey's Gin
Gilbeys
National Distillers Products Corp
Gilbey
H.V. Robertson&Co
Oliver Eakle
Southwestern Printing CO
Telephone Company
Western Electric
Bell System Supply Unit
Arkansas
D 1
Oklahomenes
Atly
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
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