Casualty Messages and Amatillo Dances Draw Reader Letters
Readable fragments show letters urging better handling of casualty telegrams from the War Department for families in Amatillo. A Delivery Manager from Western Union requests writers mail present addresses to speed notices, while readers share dance hall mishaps and weight gain anecdotes reflecting home life during wartime.
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Amatillo
War Department
Washington, D. C
Amarillo
Western Union Tele. Co
Diet Struggles Prompt Mrs Cooper to Quit Diets
A Portales New Mexico housewife laments diet failures and heavy feet causing a cycle of temptation and lapses. She notes the urge to drink or smoke as a reaction to dieting while craving weight loss.
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M. M. Cooper
Portales
N. M
Pet notices and personal ads clutter Amarillo short items
A collection of brief notices seeks a lost cocker spaniel a billfold finder calls a reward and offers services. Messages include a widow seeking work and companionship a yard man sought and farm cat and dogs up for adoption or return plus a family returning from Dallas.
The Road To Berlin Front Distances Charted
The Associated Press lists progress toward Berlin with Russian front at 322 miles from Warsaw suburbs and Northern France 495 miles from near Chateau Thierry and Troyes. Southern France stands 545 miles from Perly and Italy 600 miles from the northern outskirts of Florence.
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The
Associated Press
Warsaw
France
Chateau Thierry
Troyes
Perly
Italy
Florence
Dallas Woman Reoffends With Knife In Third Murder Attempt
Dallas, Aug 23 AP Mrs Anna Bell Gans Williamson Barrow Medford is jailed again charged with assault to murder using a knife. Earlier she shot and wounded her husband, avoided prosecution, and faced a 35000 peace bond after aiming at Dora Turner of Garland. Her latest victim Betty Melton of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was wounded in a night spot. Police say motive remains undetermined.
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Dallas
Anna Bell Gans Williamson Barrow Medford
Dora Turner
Garland
Betty Melton
Shawnee
Okla
Armistice terms reportedly sent to Sofia via Istanbul
London reports that German troop withdrawals from Bulgaria align with word that Allied armistice terms have reached Istanbul for relay to Sofia. Moscow says Bulgarian news agency confirms German exit from Bulgaria, to be completed within days.
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London
Bulgaria
Istanbul
Slush Fund Probe Opens By House Campaign Committee
The House campaign expenses committee began a drive to uncover slush funds and probe who donates to campaigns for the November elections. Sidney Hillman defended the CIO PAC as non partisan while signaling support for a progressive Congress and possible backing for Democrats or Republicans as applicable. The panel plans to question NAM officials next, with regular PAC funding reports promised.
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Washington
House Campaign Expenses Committee
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Political Action Committee
PAC
Progressive Congress
Democratic National Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Hillman
Rep. Anderson
DNM
National Association of Manufacturers
One Quadruplet Dies Three Survive In Army Family
Pvt Charles E Lee rushed from Camp Blanding to Gainesville Florida after a quadruplet birth. The firstborn son died from a faulty heart. the other three infants, about three pounds each, survive in incubators with good chances to live. Mother Mabel Lawson Lee expected October birth.
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Gainesville
U.P
Charles E. Lee
Camp Blanding
Fla
Slender Mabel Lawson Lee
Naval Surgeon Finishes Operation Begun by Jap
An American naval surgeon recounts taking over during a fight for a Japanese held island aboard a Coast Guard ship in the Pacific. He describes finding a civilian patient on the table and completing the operation after a Japanese doctor handed him the needle and signaled three minutes.
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Coast Guard
Pacific
U.pi
New Rise Threatens Towns Along Rio Grande River
The lower Rio Grande watershed is discharging heavily into the swollen river as a larger-than-expected rise moves downstream from Laredo. Laredo reports the river at 20 feet with irrigation pumping pits slowly being inundated and total rain since Aug 21 reaching 3.25 inches.
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Mcallen
Rio Grande
Laredo
Attack Victim Out of Hospital After Robbery Beating
Woodrow Robinson, 29, of 1308 East Sixth Avenue, beaten by two unidentified men who robbed him of 80 dollars, a billfold and a wrist watch. He recovered enough to leave hospital after being found unconscious beside a car at Eleventh Avenue and Wilson Street about five hours after the 2 a.m. attack.
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Woodrow Robinson
East Sixth Avenue
Eleventh Avenue
Wilson Street
Amarillo Chamber to Meet After Markets Report
Markets show hogs steady at Chicago and Kansas City lists with cattle and sheep varied. Amarillo Chamber of Commerce committee to hold breakfast meeting at 8 am Thursday in the Amarillo Hotel red and gold room chaired by Bill Gilstrap.
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Catholic State League
Castroville
Laurence FitzSimon
Amarillo
Henri Castro
Kansas City
WFRA
Colorado
WPB Chief Krug Drives Unity Amid Dissent
Julius A. Krug, 37, chief of the War Production Board, declares a single WPB team and threatens dismissal for trouble makers as Sidney Weinberg resigns in protest. He testifies before the senate war investigating committee while Nelson heads to China on a confidential mission.
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Washington
Julius A. Krug
Krug
Senate War Investigating Committee
Sidney J. Weinberg
WPB
Weinberg
Roosevelt
Donald M. Nelson
China
Senate
Navy
Army
Nelson
Amarillo Retail Liquor Permit Notice for S M Drug Co
The undersigned apply for a Retail Liquor Permit from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The permit will be used at 800 N Fillmore Street Amarillo Texas. S M Drug Co owners H Ernest Smith and H Herman Smith notice by publication per law.
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Texas Liquor Control Board
N. Fillmore Street
Amarillo
Texas
S&m Drug CO
H. Ernest Smith
H. Herman Smith
Few Reservations Left For Philharmonic Orchestra Season
After 5 pm this evening members of the Philharmonic Orchestral Association must call Mrs. Howard Lynch at home 4999 to reserve. Downtown HQ in Southwestern Public Service Building closes tonight. Mrs. Lynch says the season is virtually a sell out with no lower floor seats left though a few balcony locations remain available.
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Philharmonic Orchestral Association
Howard Lynch
Southwestern Public Service Company
New Officers Ordered To Show No Race Discrimination
CAMP LEE VA Aug 29 Brig Gen Arthur G Trudeau charged over 200 newly commissioned officers at the quartermaster school with the responsibility of showing no discrimination to men under them because of race creed color or class. He reminded officers they all wear the same uniform and must recognize this fact. Four Texans were among those addressed. The general is deputy director of training at Army Service Forces headquarters.
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Camp Lee
Arthur G. Trudeau
Texas
Headquarters
Army Service Forces
Courthouse Records List of Marriage Licenses
Courthouse records show multiple marriage licenses issued to couples including Samuel E Patterson and Betty Jo Jones Anton Hollenstein and Leta Mae Sexton H G Maxfield and Tralla Belle Winterscheid John H Byington and Patricia Ann LaBuska Herbert F E Lewis and Helen Flo Baldwin.
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Samuel E. Patterson and
Betty Jo Jones
Anton Hollenstein
Leta Mae Sexton
H. G. Maxfield
Tralla Belle
Exiled Polish Premier Asked To Lead Unified Government
In Lublin on August 29, the Soviet supported Polish committee of National Liberation asked Stanislau Miklayczyk, premier of the exiled Polish regime in London, to head a unified provisional Polish government. Miklayczyk has not yet replied.
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Lublin
Poland
Polish Committee of National Liberation
Stanislau Miklayczyk
London
Edward Boleslaw Osubka- Morawski
Mikolajczyk
Barcel Your Figure Restore Youthful Curves
An inexpensive home remedy promises weight loss using Barcelel Concentrate mixed with grapefruit juice to one pint. The ad claims two tablespoons twice daily and offers money back if results are not shown. It urges purchase from druggists and Post Office drug stores.
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Ce Drug Store
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