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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1931
Page
9
A collage of reader notices asks for lost items and jobs in Amarillo and Borger Texas. Seekers offer services from mending clothing to farm work and governess placements seeking employment and references.
A note requests a Fort Worth ride with a woman who is seeking passengers and asks for a callback. The writer cannot reach her and provides the Blackstone Hotel room number 319 and phone 22274. Additionally a laundress seeks work offering wash by the pound or piece with shirts 15 cents and sheets 10 cents.
A reader complains about ice prices not dropping despite wages falling. She notes her ice man’s wage cut from five to four dollars daily and contrasts with Amarillo and Sanford, Texas, urging Tack to publish for possible relief. She ends with a personal note about her roses at 1321 East Fifth Avenue and signs as Mrs. R. F. Smith.
A grotesque satirical verse laments a man’s life from birth to death. It portrays oppression by traffic cops envy of others wealth and a widow’s frivolous afterlife as critics note the futility of worldly gains. The speaker mocks mortality and material desire with biting irony.
Mrs. Iva Britton of 1303 South Johnson Street asks for laundry work to support five children. She lists pricing by weight for wet wash five cents per pound, starched and dried eight cents, and flat work ten cents per pound, requesting any available work.
Mrs Perry offers three young canary singers and one canary hen at very cheap prices with trade possible. She also seeks a ranch family in need of a governess to teach children, citing good education and years of teaching experience.
A 28 year old applicant offers to travel to a ranch on the plains to instruct a small group. He can teach any grade and all high school subjects including domestic science and art and Spanish. Proper placement for a year is requested, with Tack listed as contact.
Classified request from H. B. McCown of Hotel Scott Amarillo seeking 100 to 160 acres of good row crop land on a fifty fifty crop share basis and willing to provide qualification references. Also requests listings of farms and banks. Also a widow seeks telephone operator job with three years experience and references.
A widow with two children seeks employment. she will work any hour or day and asks for help placing an ad. Mrs Eithel Plant at 204 South Pierce requests help. Also a husband and wife seek ranch or farm work with references at 1303 South Johnson. The Long, Long Trail reflects on labor and toil with cotton farming imagery.
A note notes several letters sent to Mrs G M G at P O Box 371 went to the wrong box. The switchboard girl in Editorial Rooms will hand them over to her upon request.
A distressed farmer sinks deeper in debt buying pork and molasses as his family drinks, smokes, and shirks labor. His son and daughter pursue divergent fates, while a wife’s infidelity culminates in a shooting. A jitney crash and alcohol add to his woes as he wanders toward the city.
The Board of Trustees of Amarillo Independent School District and Amarillo Junior College District will receive bids on August 17, 1931 at 8 p.m. for a depository for all school funds in the district for the biennium from September 1, 1931 to August 31, 1933. GEO M. WADDILL, Secretary.
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