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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1950
Page
11
Yoes Home Furnishings highlights a bedroom group with curtain canopy and bedspread ideas for the holiday season. The shop offers custom tailoring to size color and taste with permanent organdy or eyelet embroidery options and free estimates via telephone.
The Earl Wyatts announce their annual pre inventory sale of antiques with a large stock suitable for Christmas gifts or home collections. Highlights include lamps, furniture, bisque figurines, copper and brass pieces, a two dollar items table, French fashion prints, Royal Doulton china and other china, glassware, decanters, punch bowls, and many frames. The studio will be open evenings and by appointment on Sundays until Christmas with lay away and ample parking.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Illinois reached 35 degrees below zero at Mt Carroll on January 22, 1930, as reported in contemporaneous weather data.
Wilson Battery and Electric Service owners M. Z. Wilson and his brother urge motorists to have engines properly tuned for winter. Good tuning improves start reliability, smoothness, and fuel efficiency while reducing wear. They boast top south west mechanics and offer guaranteed workmanship and materials. Call 2-4349 for service.
Marshall Deaton promotes Christmas gift magazine subscriptions with gift cards mailed to recipients. He handles new and renewal orders by phone at 32-3061, listing price options for Life, Readers Digest, Children's Digest, and American Magazine plus special rates for titles like Time and Newsweek.
Sir John Ellerman, Britain's richest man with a fortune of 112 million dollars, runs brewery and newspaper interests and owns a fleet of three ships.
Mrs Bess Orr Foringer runs the Amarillo Secretarial School at 800 Jefferson with phone 23594 offering a brush up course for workers returning to business fields. Open enrollment any time, approved under Public Law 346 and the GI Bill, with complete and specialized secretarial and bookkeeping programs available.
S. T. Munhall at 102 East Tenth offers discontinued wool carpet samples 27 by 54 inches priced 4.95 to 7.95. Tone-on-tone Wiltons velvets and Axminsters plus shaggy throws. cotton carpeting growing popular for price and easy care. Call 3-2105 and he will bring samples to your home, avoiding bad weather and parking hassles.
Microscopic mushrooms are now cultivated in broth tanks, offering flavor and nutrition comparable to the customary wild varieties from woods and caves, promising a versatile addition to soups and other foods.
A 1920s car care promotion explains Nurilizing pistons at E. 8 Cowie Electric Co. in Amarillo. It touts permanent sizing to fit cylinders, quieter, more economical engines, and cites racer Johnnie Parsons as a fan who won a 100 mile race after Nurilizing his pistons despite a radiator failure. The ad promotes the Perfect Circle Corporation process and urges consulting a local mechanic for details.
CLARKSVILLE Tenn Dec 11 A 15 year old war widow, Mrs John Lawrence Sullivan, faces tragedy after her 17 year old husband, Army private, died two days after being wounded in Korea on Nov 29. He met his bride in Louisville and they married Sept 29 during a furlough. She is expecting a baby and confined to bed.
Reports indicate Charas, a potent narcotic from the Central Asiatic region beyond Kashmir, is being smuggled into West Bengal amid rising trafficking concerns. Authorities warn of growing cross border networks and urge vigilance by customs and police units.
Don’t risk poor hearing this season. The Audivox 67 by Western Electric offers rich overtones, extended frequency range, and clearer voice tones. A smart Christmas gift for parents with hearing loss, with free hearing tests and a demonstration available from Maynard Drake at 922 Travis Street Amarillo.
A new plant in Lima Peru begins production of cordage from cabuya sisal fiber. The facility aims to expand local textile output and create jobs while leveraging Peru's fiber resources and growing export demand.
Franks Decorations and Gifts at Franks Barber and Beauty Supply 1015 Polk invites viewing shop windows and visiting the store. Stunning items include a red foil cone with green outer cone lights, a 16 inch illuminated red foil candle, a 22 inch aluminum foil tree, four small mantle trees, and assorted Christmas colors. Gift items include Mary Lowell Lane Lotion in a gift box, a musical cake plate, Revion lipstick with mirror, an electric knife sharpener, kitchenware, a coffee maker, clippers and vibrators, gun supplies, Weaver telescope sights, fishing gear, and more.
F R Bell, a designer of the engine for the world s first turbocar, belongs to a third generation engineering family in New Zealand, highlighting a lineage of technical innovation.
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