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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1948
Page
28
Reminiscence by Hamilton Wright reveals 1890s grocery commerce with unboxed staples, molasses barrels tapped for samples, and customers using jugs for pourovers. Stores stocked Duke’s and Bull Durham tobacco, 15 cent coffee, rat cheese, and bulk crackers, while travelers bought sardines and oysters for quick meals.
A sketch of a rural shop life contrasts sugar types, candy offerings, and cheap trinkets with workaday goods. It notes sugar varieties, preservation use, bread trends, and the shift to dry goods like overalls and shirts. The scene evokes a growing country store economy and changing daily life.
In earlier times a wood burning stove with a rusty pipe dominated the rear of the store surrounded by wooden boxes for sweaters and a sand base to spit amber. Those days are gone as the shop shifted to quick pickup and go service in the grocery.
Funeral rites for Milton Owens aged 72 will be held at Crowell at 10 tomorrow. The body lies in state at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home until 1 p.m. then transported to Crowell. Owens died yesterday at his home after a period of good health earlier in the day. He had resided in Amarillo for two years. his son Lloyd Owens of the Amarillo Police Department made the remarks.
Plans by Art Bralley and Frank Harrison for moving a barracks from Amarillo Army Air Field to the Tri-State Fair Park result in a 20 by 100 foot building to serve as Boy Scout meeting space when not used for Four-H sleeping quarters during the fair. A shower room, bunk room, lounge and rustic porch are included in remodels with location in the southeast corner of the grounds.
Ray M Bailey, 34, driver of The Amarillo Globe-News Red Streak circulation truck, was injured when the 1948 Ford panel overturned four to five times about six miles west of Clovis New Mexico. He was treated in Amarillo for a gash above the right eye and bruises after being thrown 30 feet from the wreck. The vehicle, which served Texas and New Mexico southwest of Amarillo, is nearly totaled.
Former Ambassador William C. Bullitt returns to Washington after an inspection trip to China.
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