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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
7
The page collects numerous Santa Claus requests from local children in Amarillo. Letters from Billie Quinn, Marion Beaver, Laura Clyde Rankin, and others list desired gifts including dolls, toy engines, bicycles, trains, and clothing, often noting family hardship and a plea to remember all the children.
The Elks Club begins Christmas Cheer deliveries to Amarillo programs. Gifts include 22 dozen underwear 5 dozen sweaters 15 dozen stockings 3 dozen dresses 185 dolls 30 pairs shoes school tablets pencils and blankets for 469 854 and 366 children at the smelter Glenwood and Ellwood Presbyterian sites. The club provides fruit candy nuts and toys.
An urustal Christmas gift reaches Wolflin low sixth grade from Delight Murrell daughter of F E Murrell of 1916 Jackson Street Galveston. She sent a large box of Galveston flora including southern smilax oleander leaves long leaf pines cones holly and various palms for classroom decorations as part of her geography project.
Ross S. Sterling governor elect was honored at a Houston dinner attended by over 700. Speakers included Judge W. O. Huggins Dr. William States Jacobs Jesse H. Jones John T. Scott Frank Andrews H. M. Lui John Henry Kirby W. R. Ely W. P. Hobby Thomas H. Ball Joseph W. Evans Cone Johnson and Governor Dan Moody.
Thalian home economics club girls at Senior High School filled a Christmas box with food and clothing for a family of eight. The family will also receive a Christmas tree set up in the home economics dining room.
An old advertisement touts Pinex cough relief as a money saving home remedy. It instructs mixing 2 1/2 ounces Pinex with a pint of sugar syrup or honey, claiming rapid loosening of phlegm and soothing inflamed membranes. It emphasizes direct bronchial action and guarantees relief or refund.
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