Amarillo Debuts Yuletide Decor With VFW Help
Amarillo streets gain holiday garb as VFW volunteers of 25 workers spent six hours decorating Polk Street and Taylor Street with laurel and colored lights for Santa’s visit. Lights to be turned on tonight. VFW sells 2,000 trees at 25 cents to 6.50 with proceeds to charity.
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Amarillo
Santa Claus
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Polk Street
Third
Tenth Avenue
Taylor Street
Sixth
Seventh Avenue
Zane Smith
Sugar train derailment kills eight in Peru
Eight workers died and seven were injured when a freight train loaded with sugar cane derailed on the Casa Grande farm at Trujillo near Lima on Sunday.
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Lima
Peru
Casa Grande
Trujillo
Creomulsion Promises Fast Relief for Coughs and Colds
Advertisers tout Creomulsion as a long trusted creosote based remedy for coughs and colds. They claim it stops lingering illnesses quickly and safely with six other key medicinal elements and offer a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved as directed.
Courthouse Records Transfer and Property Metes Details
City Improvement Co to Geo I Williams conveys E 4 Sec 6 bik 1BS F for 3701.03 dollars. Fred M Seale and others transfer lot 10 bike 798 to H W Stephens for 500 dollars. H L Litchfield to Birdie Cave Part lot 16 bike 9 Country Club Metes for 2238.64 dollars.
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City Improvement Co
Geo. I. Williams
Fred M. Seale
H. W. Stephens
J. H
H. L. Litchfield
Birdie Cave
Metes
No Account David to Aid Student Loan Fund
A comedy drama in three acts will be staged at the High School Auditorium this Friday at 8 15 pm under Fleming Business College. Proceeds will boost the college student loan fund. Amarillo talent including Maurine Nesbitt Alfred Walton Georgia Kirkwright Heral Stephens Bud DeSautell Fred Bartlett Dorris Landers LeRoy Gross and Bobbie Jack Kimp will perform, directed by Miss Landers.
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David
Fleming Business College
Amarillo
Maurine Nesbitt
Alfred Walton
Georgia Kirkwright
Heral Stephens
Bud DeSautell
Fred Bartlett
Dorris Landers
LeRoy Gross
Bobbie Jack Kimp
Miss Landers
Body to Gorman For Burial Rites
Marion B. Comer a 76 year old retired farmer was transported to Gorman Texas by Griggs-Thompson Canyon for funeral services at 4 this afternoon. He died Sunday at his daughter and son in law Rev J L Willis at Happy. He belonged to the Methodist Church and the Woodmen of the World Lodge.
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Marion B. Comer
Gorman
Tex
Griggs-Thompson
Canyon
Mr. Comer
J. L. Willis
Happy
Methodist Church
Woodmen of the World Lodge
Tack Letters Continued From Page Two
A reader requests return of a lost glove left at a store and offers trade items for a milch cow. The note from T W Stanford of 405 Madison St asks for help and explains he is a disabled Spanish American veteran with pension issues and eight children.
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T. W. Stanford
Madison St
Work for Furniture Dear Tack
A reader at 604 North Grant Street asks for furniture and a rug in exchange for laundry work. She seeks a sewing machine and a dresser or chest of drawers to store her children's clothes and notes she cannot pay cash.
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Tack
Help Wanted at 907 North Tyler Street
A reader seeks a temporary worker for two to three weeks with small wages and room and board. Apply at 907 North Tyler Street.
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North Tyler Street
Wanted: Farm Help Including Tractor and Livestock Care
Classified notice seeking a single man to work on a Texas farm. Applicant should drive a tractor and care for chickens and hogs, with preference for someone who will stay and help farm another cotton crop season. Addresses: Clarendon and Mobeetie.
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Tack
Local Notices and Wants From Perryton to Plainview
Readers seek a male Collie pup and exchange for a rocking chair or rug. Mrs Tarter asks for a print. Frazier searches for farm or ranch work with tractor and truck skills. Cozby requests half-share work for a cousin with references. All in Texas towns.
Work for apartment seeks clerical rent deal
A 30 year old educated parent asks for a small modern apartment in exchange for clerical work or a responsible position, other than domestic service. He notes experience in public work and mentions a 12 year old daughter and asks the caller to phone again.
Lost cow with red jersey seeks owner reward
A red jersey cow without horns with a TB test tag in its ear is missing since Sunday night. A $2.00 reward is offered for its location. Contact Harry Hill River Road Route 3 Box 173.
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Tack
Harry Hill
River Road
Route 3
Box 173
Local worker seeks employment help from columnist
A young man under 30 asks the columnist for aid in finding work. He emphasizes he is a good, diligent worker and hopes the paper can help connect him with employment opportunities or guidance.
Farmhand seeks ranch living with animals and garden
The writer, HOLWELL of Caprock New Mexico, seeks a ranch or land to work and live with a few chickens a garden and a milch cow. He notes knowledge of farm machinery and offers references if desired and mentions a monthly pay expectation.
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Holwell
Caprock
New Mexico
Ford’s 1934 Eight Cylinder Car Dazzles at Long Beach Visit
The Ford exhibit at the Long Beach Ford assembly plant showcases the 1934 eight cylinder car. Henry Ford notes production pace, with Johnson from Ford remarks on road hugging handling at 70 plus mph. The piece contrasts the Model T’s legacy with modern progress, praising Standard Oil links and an energetic gas station attendant who embodies postwar American enterprise.
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Henry Ford
Albert H. Johnson
Ford Organization
Ford
America
Florida
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
New 1934 Ford Autos Promised To Shoppers
The advertisement urges browsing trips from Ventura through desert and mountains to Colton for the Southern Pacific Express stop and back. It touts the 1934 Ford eight cylinder car and invites seeing three Ford models plus other cars and planes. It credits Walter Chrysler and local newspaper leaders Barham Young and Lindner as business geniuses and hints at improving times, recalling Winton’s auto pioneer era.
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Desert
Ventura
San Bernardino
Cajon
Southern Pacific Express
Colton
Ocean
Walter Chrysler
Dr. Barham
George G. Young
Clarence Lindner
Winton
Local newspaper column on car prices and hospital note
In a hospital office Thomas M. Storke of the Santa Barbera Morning Press writes of hoping to sell a six cylinder car for two thousand dollars while noting an eight cylinder car can be bought far below one thousand. The column hints at Storke installing a new sex form.
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Wright Brothers
France
England
Mobiling
Thomas M. Storke
Santa Barbera
Southern
California
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Eggnog
Ste Dealers
Courthouse Records
NBC
Louis H.smith
Frevone
Peerin
Miss Whisenand
North Grant Street
Russell Middleton
Certified Public Accountant
Oliver Eakle
G. A. Little
Route 1
Clarendon
Texas
P. A. Clipper
Mobeetie, Texas
S. W. Seventh Street
Perryton
FE. W. Frazier
East Sixth Street
Plainview
Chance
Diel
Miles
Ford Assembly
Long Beach
Johnson
Los Angeles Examiner
Mr. Joy
Rickenbacker
Germany
NRA
Ballard
POLK
Mohave
den Carlton Mea
Ree
DR. T. Gordon
Wilson
Blackburn
Schulte United
7Th St
Mastercraft
Mastercraft Tailoring Co
Bett
The
American Tobacco Co
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