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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1941
Page
2
A guest column by Dudley Sue Dinwiddie reflects on vacations and frontier celebrations like the XIT Reunion at Dalhart. The piece mixes personal history with Panhandle lore, local radio history, and verses about optimism and a moral from a fable.
The Amarillo Globe-News announces a cooperative project to publish a classified and alphabetically arranged 1942 business and professional directory for Amarillo and vicinity. It will include transportation, industry, officials, and points of interest with no display ads and a nominal listing fee. Call 6262 to ensure your listing in the directory.
A preacher explains salvation is free but pipes cost. a parishioner probes the metaphor. The piece recounts hitchhiking club ideas, a miraculous ride exchange between two brothers in the Panhandle, a rainstorm tale of a traveling salesman, and a quip by James Roosevelt on speechmaking.
Executive committeemen of the Tri-State Fair have been invited by president Ray Pinkney to a dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. next Monday in Room 202 at the Herring Hotel in Vv.
Construction of an 11500 dollar NYA workshop has begun on municipal ground near the city barn at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street. Equipment stored at Twelfth Avenue and Jackson Street will be moved to the new facility.
All water wells at Word ranch exceed estimated capacity after turbine pump installation. Tests conducted late yesterday under the direction of H R Smith, retiring city manager, show higher production than forecast.
In Denver the crew of Engine Co. 11 briefly investigated a blaze near the station then admitted the fire and watched. The fire started in a power line transformer behind the station and linemen cut off power before firefighters assisted, avoiding water on live electrical gear.
Classified notice requests a middle aged woman to keep house and do laundry for a family with three school children. Payment unspecified. continuation noted on page 20.
A 450 pound sea lion named Peter wandered along Fifth Avenue from 49th to 50th Street drawing screams and traffic jams. He escaped keepers returning him toward Rockefeller Center, visited perfume shops, and briefly rested under a car before being recaptured. Six other sea lions remained calm during the episode.
The mayor proclaims August 15 1941 as Thumbs Up Texas Week urging Amarillo citizens to view the film at the State Theatre. The proclamation notes the producers depict Texas history resources industries and frontier spirit to audiences across the United States Canada Britain and South America.
Advertise your vacancy now for the coming school year as hundreds of teachers and families need a place to reside before September. Contact Want Ad headquarters at Dial 6262 Rus sell Stationery Company for listings and assistance.
Kansas City Aug 15 livestock report shows hogs 1000 head salable slow and uneven but mostly steady with highs to 11.25 for 170 260 lb hogs. Cattle and calves steady in cleaning sale with feeders in narrow demand. Sheep and lambs steady with native spring lambs top 11.25 and most good to choice 11.00 to 11.25.
Santiago reports wrestling mania as international professionals stage catch as catch can bouts in Caupolican gardens. Spectators pay about 2 pesos for gallery seats while chanting and jeering for favorites such as the Spanish Gorilla and British Fars. Referees oversee the matches as promoters capitalize on the popular sport.
Fort Worth RAF ferry command captain W L Trimble died in a flying accident in the United Kingdom. He was about 25, learned to fly in Fort Worth, later worked as a crop duster and commercial flyer. His mother Mrs C Trimble received the telegram. a cousin of Mrs Dewey Ashcroft, he had hoped to return home after the war.
A Waterbury American feature from Oakville reports a reflective verse on quiet times when no events occur. The village correspondent laments dull days with no parties, arrests, weddings, fires, or public stir, noting the sorrow of stagnant village news.
A 16 year old German youth, Herbert Spiro from Hamburg, visits the United States and finds Texas not filled with Wild West heroes and Indians as German myth. He notes Nazi youths have long favored Western fiction and a German author had written about Texas as a Western locale.
Promoters conclude this year's grunt and groan program with a battle royal featuring the Spanish Gorilla and three other wrestlers. The bout will showcase simultaneous combat as part of the finish to the event.
An old advertisement urges readers to take Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate bile flow and relieve constipation. It promotes vegetable tablets by Dr F M Edwards, claiming improved digestion and elimination, with pricing of 15 30 and 60 cents and availability at all drugstores.
Lancaster volunteers respond to a siren wail that proves to be part of a town band musical number. Fireman Art Gibble, awakened by the siren, rushes to the hall only to discover the percussion of a rehearsal nearby. Weather Bureau forecasts continue with multiple daily updates.
Cousin Jane wavers between using Lipton Tea bags or the package tea as the balder man grows older. The speaker asserts Lipton's rich, Slavory blend from Ceylon gardens remains the same in both forms, insisting the brand matters more than the format.
The War Secretary urged expanding tank and ordnance production as vital to national security. A joint Senate House panel agreed to restore up to 750 million dollars for this purpose, trimming a 1.347 billion dollar bill and cutting civilian police funding and other emergency outlays.
An advertisement touts a home lemon juice recipe to shed up to 10 pounds in five days without drugs. It markets AYDE mixed with lemon juice, claiming rapid fat loss and a money back offer from Cretny Drug Co with low delivery costs.
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