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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
2
Daily notes cover Panhandle weather with showers and forecasts, army draft plans including single-men calls, and projected training of 400000 in October and 600000 more in 1941. Also reported are oil leases near Claude, a leader’s death, Olton festival, starling pests, Willkie and Roosevelt cinema, and assorted local observations from Plainview.
Charleston residents lament the missing Rhett Butler grave among local burials. The city notes many Rhetts and Butlers, but the character is fictional. The Chamber of Commerce mentions a plan to create a lasting attraction by hoping a real Rhett Butler will be born and buried in Charleston within 170 years.
SILAS Ala Fire protection and wise use of the axe on 15 acres of cut over timberland netted its owners 5100 in seven years. G G and Sime Singley of Silas bought the tract in 1933 for 900. They posted the land kept out for est fires and cut out defective timber. Last year they said no tract for 4500 for a net profit of 3600. Today the new owner sold the timber to a sawmill for 6000 for a profit of 1500.
A reader solicits work as a waitress or cook, another seeks yard work or general labor, and a woman with a baby offers housework child care or cleaning services. Address partials shown as Cleveland Street and a contact note.
AMBRIDGE Pa UP a 45 year promise to exchange two letters weekly bonds three sisters in a long running round robin The trio from Jeannette Donora and Marion started in 1894 and daughters joined 17 years ago They say they have not missed a post time and have exchanged about fifteen thousand seven hundred seventy six pieces of mail.
In Dravesburg Pennsylvania the police department enforces a time clock for all officers including the chief to curb idle talk about being absent from duty. The article notes the distance 4 536 miles from Yokohama to San Francisco.
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