Alaska voyage logs reveal a rising city and wild frontier views
A travel diary from a Juneau to Seward cruise recalls Alaska's capital city, Juneau, its landscape with glaciers, storms, and mossy roofs. The writer notes Aleutian excitement, local attire, coastal towns built on mountains, and deer and salmon. It also covers Stikine Indians, slavery lore, Russian and English fur trade history, witchcraft myths, gossip, and a serendipitous Amarillo connection. In Boston, doctors report hay fever clinic crowding with standing room only.
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Seward
Alaska
Fairbanks
Market summary and Kansas City livestock report
Markets show mixed gains with Dow Jones averages up as investors monitor industrials and utilities. Kansas City livestock report notes hogs selling around 7.10 for 180 to 260 pound animals, with heavier weights scarce. cattle and calves totals listed amid market supply conditions.
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Dow-Jones
Fenner & Beane
Vale
Kansas City
Amarillo Urged to Form Central Children’s Bureau
Miss Rosamond Giles urged the American Business Club to back a centralized Children’s Bureau in Amarillo to coordinate local welfare work. She cited programs like the Preventorium Maverick Club Social Center for Girls and Boys’ Ranch and asked AB C to study Dallas Houston and Austin plans for comparison. E. E. Jordan directed the local child welfare program as music and readings accompanied the Capitol Hotel luncheon. Plans for a district AB C convention in Amarillo were discussed with BE M Blackburn Jr presiding.
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Amarillo
Rosamond Giles
American Business Club
Capitol Hotel
Preventorium
Maverick Club
Social Center
E. E
Gene) Jordan
John Josey
Harry Minor
Theresa Mickle
AB. C
BE. M. Blackburn, Jr
Maybe It Proves Wallie Shouldn't Hoard Pennies
PORTLAND Ore Aug 30 For three years Wallie Trawler hoarded his pennies until he had enough for a bicycle Then he lost
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Wallie
Portland
Ore
Wallie Trawler
Glasses Lost Near Bus Station Asks Clarity From Reader
A reader at Amarillo Inn requests help locating a pair of gold rimmed glasses lost near the bus station. The note specifies daytime work experience in stores or cafes and mentions housework by day or hour but no overnight availability.
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Tack
Amarillo Inn
Sixth
North Fillmore Street
Red Stanley Praises Fort Worth Hospitality On Radio
Red Stanley with Dick Dickerson's orchestra at the Hotel Texas Fort Worth spoke on a radio program originating from a down state cow town and broadcast by KFDA praising Amarillo for its hospitality and its beautiful girls.
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Red Stanley
Dick Dickerson
Texas
Fort Worth
Amarillo
KFDA
Tri-State Fair Budget Approved by Board
Tri-State Fair executives approved this year’s exposition budget at a meeting last night in parlor A of the Amarillo Hotel. The board attended the session and estimated a total cost of 24 500 dollars to stage the fair.
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Amarillo Hotel
German raids and market report in wartime update
Berlin says British raiders struck western Germany and the Ruhr again with limited damage. Markets show slow to steady movement with cattle and calves mixing. fat cows mostly $5.25 to $6.00, grass heifers down from $7.10, dealers paying $9.00 to $10.50 for good to choice. Sheep listings total 1,500 with spring lambs $0.10 lower and trucked-in lambs at $8.50. Texas feeders $8.00. Colorado ewes $3.10.
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Berlin
Germany
Ruhr
Colorado
Texas
Farley Resigns as Postmaster General
James A. Farley bids farewell in Washington as he resigns from the cabinet to enter private business. He declined to name his successor, with the resignation taking effect the following day.
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Washington
James A. Farley
National
Newsboy Leaves Large Estate in Nashville
Ike Hirsch, a longtime street newspaper seller, died in April 1938 and left a probate estate of 25829 dollars. His will divides the estate equally between his sister and a niece, according to court records disclosed today in Nashville Tennessee.
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Nashville
Tenn
Ike Hirsch
Italians Claim Oil Line Bombed and Closed
Il Popolo di Roma reports from Athens that the British Iraq to Haifa oil pipeline was closed due to Italian air bombardments in parts of British Mandate Palestine, and that the pipeline to Tripoli had been closed earlier.
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Rome
Il Popolo di Roma
Athens
Iraq
Haifa
Palestine
Tripoli
Amarillo Detective Leo Yielding Returns From Albuquerque
Captain of detectives Leo Yielding of the Amarillo police testified in federal cases in Albuquerque and returned home this morning. He provided testimony on matters connected to federal docket items.
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Leo Yielding
Amarillo
Albuquerque
Amarillo High Band Tests For A and A1 Membership
Amarillo high school band director Oscar Wise begins tests for students to join the A or advanced musical organization. Tests are scheduled in the band room with appointments via Mr Wise at his home.
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Oscar Wise
Amarillo High School
Mr. Wise
CBS Expects Color TV in Commercial Programs Next Year
New York Aug 30 CBS reports color technique to advance. Paul W. Kesten vice president says CBS expects to be broadcasting color in its commercial programs by January 1.
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New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Paul W. Kesten
Woman’s Knitting Fresh From Back of Sheep
Berlin Virgin Islands report on Eveline Burrows who handles wool from clipping to knitting. She makes clothes for her son and sent pieces to New York for sale using a spinning wheel carding implements and needles.
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Berlin
Eveline Burrows
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Boston Clinic
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Boston Evening Clinic
Associated Press
AL Chem & Dye
Allis
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Avia Corp
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Borden Co
Case J TI Co
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Ir Orest
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Kennecott
Lorillard
Marshall Field
Montgom
Nash Kelvin
S's
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Ohio Ol Q
Pac Gas & el A
Packard Mtr
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WU Tel
Children’s Bureau
ABC
Knox
Yorkshire
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Tri-State Fair
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Newsboy
Emerson
Spans
Polk ST
Firestone Convoy
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Elgin
Bulova
Polk
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