Railroads activity and personnel changes across western divisions
Railway notices list personnel reassigned between Etter Shattuck Amarillo Wellington and Clinton including conductors brakemen dispatchers and supervisors. Officers join a Wichita Chamber of Commerce tour while others travel for promotions and hospital care. Minor notes mention training visits school programs and a robbery impact reference to 1956 U S incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Briscoe
R. W. Prentice
Clovis
Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Clinton
Railway workers and officials in Amarillo area report
The item lists numerous Railway Express Agency and Rock Island staff in Amarillo and surrounding towns, noting illnesses, visits, and duties. It mentions accidents, convalescence, and travel, with figures on 1936 capital expenditures by Class I railroads and incidents like staff meetings and booster train runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
O. W. Jones
Railway Express Agency
Wichita
Amarillo
Kellogg's Att-Bran Cereal Promises Relief From Constipation
Advertising copy touts Kellogg Att-Bran as a safe, effective cereal to combat constipation. Claims it absorbs twice its weight in water, cleanses the intestines, and provides energy and mood benefits. Recommends two tablespoons daily, three times daily in severe cases, served with milk. Sold by grocers, made in Battle Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kellogg
Battle Creek
French Resorts Now Are Serving American Breakfast
Washington reports that Paris and other French resort cities have adopted the American breakfast custom of orange juice with breakfast. Bars and cafes now offer American fruit juices in individual 12 cent bottles including grapefruit orange and pineapple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Paris
France
Department of Commerce
Sign in Minneapolis drug store mocks Social Security
A Minneapolis drug store sign pokes fun at Social Security with the line For Social Security Eat Our Sandwiches no onions. The note mentions a sweet potato as unrelated to a white potato but a cousin to the morning glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Security
Minneapolis
U.P
Schooner Aims to Sail World From Indiana
Valparaiso youths Robert G. Ryan and Carman Ponader plan a around the world voyage in a two masted schooner under construction near Ponader’s home. They intend to launch on Lake Michigan and sail via the St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic then around Cape Horn toward the Juan Ferdinand Islands. The craft weighs 5200 pounds with a 23 by 7.5 foot deck and 407 square feet of sail, built of white oak with iron keel, Redwood interior and Cypress exterior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valparaiso
Ind
U.P
Robert G. Ryan
Fort Wayne
Carman Ponader
Ponader
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Ryan
St. Lawrence
Indiana Dunes
St. Lawrence River
Atlantic
South America
Cape Horn
Pacific
Juan Ferdinand Islands
Valapariso University
Ball State Teacher's College
Muncie
Ind. His Mother Mrs Leathe Ponder Is An Art Instructor
The article notes Leathe Ponder, mother of the unnamed Indiana subject, works as an art instructor in local schools. It identifies her occupation and ties to the Indiana family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. W. Stitt
Evansville
Ind
Leathe Ponader
Alphabet Agency Is Helping Itself
Washington notes the Securities Commission, described as the federal boss of Wall Street, claims 30 percent self support. It collected over $900000 in fees in 1936 and expects $1155000 in 1937 and $1160000 in 1938 from securities and exchange registrations and copying material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Securities Commission
Federal
Boss
Wall Street
SEC
Securities and Exchanges
University of California Expands Working Poets Program
Berkeley reports rising numbers of working poets as UC courses in verse writing graduate students who have poems accepted published and paid. The university highlights increasing output and recognition for student poets across America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Cal
U.P
Uniersity of
California
America
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W. J. Stitt
Etter
Shattuck
J. ¥. Hamilton
C. E. Warden
Wellington
Pampa
M. C. Sally
Topeka Hospital
P. L. Beyer
Rose Horn
J. W. Horn
Victoria
Miss Horn
Mrs. Horn
St. Anthony's Hospital
D. Trahey
Mr. Trahey
J. R. Skillen
Siaton
B. Kancher
Wee
Ichita Chamber of Commerce
Newton
Dodge City
Trinidad
Las Vegas
Albuquerque
Richard Roberts
White Deer
Canada
W. S. Hammit
C. B. Parkes
Rock Island
J. L. Cogdell
Quanah
Harry Devine
E. E. Brown
Dalhart
C. F. McWilliams
Mr. Hamilton
Chas
O'Kelly
McLean
W.H. Lloyd
Pratt
W. M. Futral
Cri&g Traffic Department
Amarilo
F. B. Gibbs
A. Petersen
St. Anthony's
L. J. Combs
Oklahoma City
William Robertson
H. 8. Pierce
J. H. Grider
W. A. Dale
Paul Pyeatt
W. B. Futral
Hobby
Arthur
Albert
J. M. Ragland
J. H. Steger
M. C. McPartland
Motive Power
Chicago
Charles Scott
Tom Callahan
Dallas
Henry Kinslow
Rail
Way Express Agency
Hedley
R. V. Armstrong
Extraman
Lawton
Arlington Downs
Fort Worth
Schilling's
N. Fillmore
16Th St
Strictly Fresh
Louisiana
Oleo—Banner
Alaska
Med
del Monte
Bologna
Armour
Pinkney
Pure Park
Brookfield
Swift
Pound
Sox
Texas
Florida
Lux
Rinso
Its
Sail World
Alphabet Agency
Fie ‘Domo, Cane Ana
Rue Six Ptakney Packing CO
Mbat Packers
Amarillo, Texas
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