White Christmas Predictions and Local Reflections
Weather outlook hints at snow and cold with a plain, windy Texas high plains mood. Rip Underwood mentions Don Harrington's new house revealing hidden rooms during an exploratory tour. Irrigation expansion and rising ranch land values loom, with debt advised as conditions tighten. A dramatic Arizona ranch feud tale contrasts old frontier peril with health fad notes and German Nazi commentary. A Yale Georgia Tech football anecdote, favorite eggnog desserts, Amarillo storm corrections, and media criticism fill a broad, colorful page of local discourse and recollection.
Random Clippings Highlight Postwar Life and Beliefs
A collage of light anecdotes and societal notes surveys postwar trends. Includes charity appeals, fashion prompts, political tensions, labor stories in Kansas City, and figures like John D. Rockefeller Jr. plus a tidbit on doughnut spending and entertainment trivia.
West Tack Needs Housekeeper For Two Young Boys
Open call seeks a middle aged woman to keep house and care for two boys aged five and six after their mother’s death. Offer is 250 dollars weekly plus room and board, apply after 5 PM at 404 North Lincoln Street. Also includes notices about a missing brown suede purse with 1.75 dollars, a found car keys at 1405 Arthur, a missing class ring with initials D F J J, and a lost dog, all from Amarillo area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Lincoln Street
Lives Depend On Sale of Yale Seals
Mrs J L Scott executive secretary of the Potter County Tuberculosis Association urges the public to buy Christmas Seals to fund the tuberculosis fight. She notes the death toll fell but the disease remains deadly and last year 64 000 Americans died, about 175 daily or one every eight minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Scott
Potter County
Windsors Begin U S Visit With Duchess Returning Home
The Duke of Windsor and the American born Duchess arrived at Miami Beach on the Southern Cross for a brief U S stop to have the duchess's wisdom tooth removed. They greeted officials, spoke of future plans, and noted the warm reception of about 10,000 onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Brach
Fla
Duke of Windsor
United States
Southern Cross
Edward VIII
St. Francis Hospital
Miami Beach
Horace L. Cartee
Miami
Axel Wenner-Gren
New York
Windsors
Half of Linemen Have Gone Home in Amarillo Wires Repaired
Amarillo wires emergency nears end as public service and telegraph linemen depart. More than half of the linemen who occupied the three major hotels have checked out in the last two or three days, though 200 or more remain registered at local hotels. One hotel previously housed over 300 during the worst days of the storm. A stray dog named Boots is missing. reward offered by Billy George and Bobby Welch of 909 Houston Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rocklefeller
Junior Land
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Hitler
British Broadcasting Company
Belgium
Holland
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Reno
Nev
Cupid
California
Nevada
Charley Chaplin
Ace
Quentin Reynolds
London
Dies Committee
United States
George Williams
Boston
New York
Amarillo
Boots
Billy, George
Bobby Welch
Houston Street
Webster's Columbia reference dictionaries offer big word sets
An advertisement lists Webster's Columbia Encyclopedic Dictionary with nine reference sections plus Webster's Columbia Reference Dictionary and Concise Dictionary. Coupon pricing includes 279 with coupon, 1.89 and 0.99 with coupon for regular editions, DeLuxe at 1.39. Present coupon at The Globes News business office 600 Fillmore St. Mail orders add 15e for wrap and postage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Globes News
Fillmore St
Ponce de Leon derailed near Atlanta injuring ten
A Southern Railway passenger train en route from Cincinnati to Florida derailed twelve miles south of Atlanta. Ten persons were injured, seven of ten cars left the tracks, with two severely hurt. Separately in Berlin, Goebbels predicted a swift victory for Germany with a major offensive against Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Southern Railway
Ponce de Leon
Florida
Cincinnati
Lon Sullivan
Georgia State Highway Patrol
Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Britain
Night bombing hits Bremen factory and Lorient base
London reports RAF bombs hit a Bremen aircraft factory, the Nazi Lorient naval base in France, and Boulogne docks last night. A British bomber downed a German fighter. one British plane is missing. Fires along the French coast seen from Kent. hazy dawn reveals smoke columns. German raids over Britain focus on reconnaissance with few attacks. three British planes shot down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bremen
Lorient
France
Boulogne
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Ministry
RAF
Kent
Germany
Britain
Medals Make The Soldier Medals Make The Soldier
Pt-Capt. Clarence Loescher of the 136th Field Artillery at Camp Shelby orders Pvt. Paul Patterson into his tent. Patterson salutes as Loescher’s eyes bug out at the sight of Patterson’s denim overalls nearly covered with medals including sharpshooter and field artillery awards.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Clarence Loescher
Lima
Ohio
136Th Field Artillery
Camp Shelby
Paul Patterson
Pvt. Patterson
Loescher
Keli Sverdloff To Play First In Home Town
Amarillo violinist Keli Sverdloff prepares a Thursday benefit concert in his hometown. He has studied in Los Angeles and chose Amarillo for his debut. Tickets are sold at Tolzien's Music Store Miller's Pharmacy Speer Drug and Star Theater with student 35 cents adult 50 cents and 75 cent reserved seats. The Amarillo Kiwanis Club and News Globe sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keli Sverdloff
Eli Sverdloff
Amarillo
Los Angeles
Tolzien
Miller's Pharmacy
Speer Drug
San Jacinto
Star Theater
North Fillmore Street
Amarillo Kiwanis Club
The
News-Globe
More Reserve Officers Up
The War Department announced that about 20 000 additional reserve officers will be ordered to extended active duty before next June 30. By month end the army expects nearly 30 000 reserve officers on active duty due to the vast expansion of the land forces. Commanders will give as much advance notice as possible but exact call dates cannot be provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Army
Department
Patterson’s Medal Gaffe During War Board Meeting
A quoted army incident shows Patterson boasting medals for peacetime craps winnings. The captain questions the source of medals including a lery, automatic rifle, and machine gunner's and pistol medals. Patterson replies he won them in a craps game and later stops wearing them.
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Patterson
P. S. Pvt
Muralsome Plowing Depicted by Julius Woeltz at Post Office
Soil Conservation Service notes artist Julius Woeltz is painting a small mural in the new post office showing a tractor pulling a plow. The panels depict furrows that appear straight, with crooks beginning just outside the mural edges to suggest broader field patterns. Critics say it should clearly show the type of plowing advocated by the federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Woeltz
New
Post Office
Panhandle
Woeltz
Sam Davis Elected President Of University Fraternity Club
Sam Davis was elected president of the University Fraternity Club at a board meeting in the Amarillo Hotel. The new group includes alumni from national fraternities across colleges and universities. A December 19 smoker at the same hotel is planned, free for any fraternity member in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Davis
University
Amarillo
Davis
David Dodge
Beta Theta Pi
Gordon Morrison
Delta Chi Fraternity
Paul Mullins
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Panhandle
Little Theater Presents Through the Night December 17
The Little Theater will stage Through the Night at the Municipal Auditorium on December 17 directed by Donald Clark who also plays Calvin Driscoll. Cast includes Frank Coulter Mary Stack DeWitt Drury Lucien Upshaw Pat McClarney Jane Woodruff Dean Leete Max Neal and Paul Olson with setting in a country house garden room on the Atlantic coast and noting its 1940 London premiere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Little Theater
Municipal Auditorium
Donald Clark
Calvin Driscoll
Frank Coulter
Bunny
Mary Stack
Kay Stanton
Roberts
DeWitt Drury
Gregory Stanton
Lucien Upshaw
Layre Holbrook
Pat McClarney
Alice Keefe
Jane Woodruff
Mr Collman Sees Possible Light Snow Tonight
Mr Collman says a light snow chance remains late tonight with little moisture or cold to drive significant accumulation. The chilly spell arrives on time with temperatures dipping toward 30 to 32 degrees after a day high in the 50s and winds from the north around 10 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Collman
Gold Medal Haakem Oil Capsules Ad Claim
An old fashioned advertisement promotes Gold Medal Haakem Oil Capsules as a safe stimulant and diuretic to cleanse kidneys and reduce nightly awakenings. It lists symptoms of weak kidneys and irritated bladder such as back ache puffy eyes shifting pains burning or scanty passage and urges readers to buy for 35 cents claiming genuine status by the Gold Medal box mark.
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Rip Underwood
Don Harrington
Johnn
High Plains
Arizona
Dresden
Theodor Pagel
Julius Streicher
Vespasian
Titus
Palestine
Rock Islands
Scotland
Yale
Yankee Land
Georgia Tech
Georgia
Larry Kelley
Kelley
Winchell
Movieville
Joe FE
St. Thomas’ Church
Holwood
Don
Marcelle Edwards
Marcelle
Kansas City
West Tack
MR. Weatherman
PURSE
Tack
Arthur
Garfield
Fast 10Th
Cabin No. 23
Yale Seals
U.S
Webster
Columbia Dictionaries
Globe-News
Fillmore
Miller Printing CO
Plate Glass and Allied
Automobile Financing and
F. H. A. Loans
Plainsman
Chas. A. Guy
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Amarillo Insurance Exchange
Soil Conservation Service Notice
Fred Smith
W. R. Howard
Ben Manning
Polk
Santa
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