Round Town Notices and Birth Announcements
Round Town lists several residents in medical or post treatment statuses and announces births. Names include Mrs. Roy Craig, Mrs. S. W. Parvin, Mrs. J. F. Keating, Ernest Mason, Mrs. Earl Glasgow, and the Dunns naming their son William Edgar born December 4 at St Anthony’s Hospital. another birth named Philip Warren to Canyon parents born November 29 at St Anthony’s Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Dunn
North Jackson Street
William Edgar
St. Anthony's Hospital
Philip Warren
R. Taylor
Canyon
Courthouse Transactions and Marriage Licenses Listed
Texas deeds record transfers from B and L Assn to D D Murphy and others with amounts from 150 to 4600 dollars. Divorces filed Lula Tennison and L F Tennison and L D Coyle and Mary Coyle. Marriage licenses granted to multiple couples. Canadian potato crop 1942 yields 43,047,000 cwt reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Plains
G&s
H. I. Stephenson
Valley
Beaulah L. Crudgington Et Vir
Stella Romo
Mirror
District Court
Lula Bell Tennison
L. F. Tennison
L. D. Coyle
Mary Louise Coyle
Robert E. Maynard
Mavis E. Favington
Eugene W. Huffstutler
Nell Beck
Kneeland I. Parshley
Lola Mae Roquemore
Ned Lowder
Tara Dees
Otis M. Rude, Jr
Cleanor M. Dickey
Robert Hultquist
Frances Ida Youngdale
H. M. Thompson
Lara Gentry
Buford Nelms Luttrell
Darline Frysmyer Clark
R. P. Hudspeth
Hazel Robnitte Gammon
G. G. Gregory
Frances Hott
Albert Leon Bassett
Phyllis Joan Knox
Ferguson of the Black Watch in the Syria campaign
A vivid profile of Major Ferguson of the Black Watch described as a Hollywood Englishman type. He drives under machine gun fire at high speed and recites Flecker poetry, while coordinating a three‑pronged assault on Damascus near Kisweh. The scene includes Free French officers and Vichy prisoners as General Le Gentilhomme and General Allenby’s historic map glow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Ferguson
Black Watch Regiment
Hollywood
P. G. Wodehouse
Ferguson
James Elroy Flecker
Ferguson—Ferguson
Syria
Beau Geste
Kisweh
Damascus
Paul Louis le Gentilhomme
le Gentilhomme
General Allenby
Only One Cup To Lay Down For Country
A Chicago dining car scene ends with a soldier offering his coffee to a woman after she complains about rationing. The gesture prompts a brief moment of shared patriotism as she accepts. In Allentown, Florence Schlenker becomes the first woman to bowl over 700 this season, carding 288 214 213 for 715, with 288 the season high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Allentown
Florence Schlenker
Jeep ride to hounds shocks English stag hunt
In London December 84 an American Army jeep joined a stag hunt in England. A sergeant driver maneuvered across streams and near trees as two soldiers clad as Robin Hoods urged a chasing pack of hounds into view. An officer halted the impromptu hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Daddy Needs Pair Of New Shoes
Kansas City dispatch recalls a World War II hero story told to a fifth grade audience. G Ward, on leave from North African waters, explained he saved new shoes by removing them before leaping into the sea as his ship sank after being torpedoed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Forrest G. Ward
North African
Forrest G. Ward, Jr
Farmers Vote on Cotton Program Referendum Set
Dixieland farmers will vote on Saturday to decide if cotton production and marketing stay under strict government control for another year. The Agriculture Department will hold a referendum on continuing rigid 1943 marketing quotas directing how much cotton may be sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Nudge Your Lazy Liver Tonight Ad Claim
Nudge Your Lazy Liver Tonight touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to stimulate liver bile with claims of improved bowel movements. Advertisement lists prices 15 20 and 60 cents and directs follow label directions at all drugstores.
Tires Pile Up at Amarillo Fire Station Faces Regulation
Motorists in Amarillo have failed to turn in extra tires at the central fire station. Tires must be taken to Railway Express Agency at 404 Hayes Street. Firefighters need space for a new pumper built from old equipment, and a surplus of at least 200 tires is stored awaiting government appraisal and reimbursement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Central Fire Station
Railway Express Agency Inc
Hayes Street
Uncle Sam
Central Station
Defense Supplies Corporation
Railway Express Agency
Sam
Weights Donated to Scrap Drive by Champion Lifter’s Father
The weights used by the late John Mallo to win the 1932 National Weight Lifting Championship in Chicago were given to a scrap drive by his father George Mallo. He said Johnny would want him to do this as a patriotic act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
O.U
John Mallo
Chicago
George Mallo
Johnny
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G. W. Croom
Hugo H. Loewenstern
Polk
John P. Mathis
Ana
Down Side
Buchanan
J. R. Lawrence CO
Harrison
Askew & Brown
Royce Gaut
Enkle
Pierce
Horace Mann
Getails
W. H. Goforth
E. A. Regal Company
6Th Ave
Powell Realty
Globe News
City
H. N. Wheeler
Spade
Tex
Lee Bruce
Littlefield
Texas
Hereford
W.L. Parton
Jefferson
W. L. Parton
P. O. Box
One
U-153
Globe- News
Fillmore Street
Sam Allbright
Wehoice
Hugo H. Loewenstern Co
Polk Ph
Harvey Southworth
Fillmore
Gulf Service Station
6Th & Fillmore
Frost Motor CO
Tyler
Plains Chevrolet
Bowery Blitzkrieg
Donald M. Barry
Pearl Harbor
East Side
Bowery
Luther Hough
Ese Beautiful
Studebakers
Bob Crudgington
Hudson
Commodore Six
Brougham
Callum Motor CO Tyler
RAY Lloyd Motor Co
Goodyear
Keith
Keith Motor CO. Polk
TRLER
Dryden
Canyon Highway
Pontiac
Good Body King Trailer CO
Arles Elmer Auto Supply
Chevrolet
Taylor
Centennial Cafe
East Tenth
Ellwood Park
Florida
Central Finance
A. G. Eisenberg, JR
Mer
Fisk
Walter Irvin Inc
XMAS
Amarillo Finance Co
J. H. Nichols
Mgr
Anna Neagle
Amy
Jim Mollison
Robert Newton
Neagle
the Capitol
Fay Bainter
Mrs. Wiggs of
The
State Theater
Errol Flynn
James J. Corbitt
Ward Bond
Gentleman Jim
Paramount Theater
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Norway
Vidkun Quisling
Plains Chevrolet Co
Courthouse Records
Cecil Brown
Beirut
Random House Inc
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
International Lady
the Yukon
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Andrews Sisters
Buck
Leon Theater
Champaign
Illinois
Zocene Warris
Panhandle
LPS CO
Liberty
Fast Side
Leo Gorcey
Bobby Jordan
Tyrone Power
Rex
WEST
Virginia
Bela Lugosi
Bowery AT
St. Joseph
St. Joseph Kin
George Brent
Hona Massey
Yukon
Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
Lorry Simms
Bli LA AN Rooney
Ipen
Buck Privates
Preston Foster
John Sutton
Alex Omith
James J. Corbett
Warner Bros
Jack Carson
Alan Hale
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