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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1944
Page
9
Young Don Holmes tries to call Santa to apologize for misbehavior as Christmas nears. The column lists numerous local birth announcements, visits, hospital notices, and holiday travel plans for Amarillo area residents, detailing names addresses hospitals and dates through mid December.
A home cough syrup guide using sugar syrup corn syrup or honey with Pinex added to make a pint of medicine. It promises savings lasting shelf life and child friendly use while claiming quick relief from coughs due to colds and soothing throat membranes.
Marriage licenses issued include Gordon H. Williams and Jewell Tucker Joseph Bowen and Betty A. Cook Joe M. Pratt and Ada Mae na e Clayton and Lois Wallis Dwight E. Carnahan and Mary M. Bennett Asa Gibson Peary and Dorothy Amy Wooworth Travis R. Blankenship and Ernes tine C. O'Dell Cecil N. Green and Mary M. McKeand James E. Webb and Mrs. Henrietta Jones Robert L. Hall and Peggy M. Woodson.
Australia became the first nation to treat capital and labor relations as a matter for special arbitration courts. The move signals a formal mechanism to resolve industrial disputes and maintain wage and work condition standards through dedicated judicial channels.
Louis travels with Santa to rescue Princess Ruth of Cameroon by Christmas using a magic box. In a bottomless pit, he descends tied to a witch’s leg with a magic rope, finds the box among rose petals, and climbs out with the box claiming the prize. The witches admit they cannot keep their word.
Charles Ellicott, the twelfth newcomer to pass Sixth and Polk yesterday, settles at the Pioneer Hotel while seeking a permanent home. A Kansas-born barber by trade, he moved from Leavenworth on medical advice for a drier climate, with family remaining in Kansas and dreams of farming, fishing, and retirement in his new city.
The item lists ration stamps valid indefinitely for meats fats processed foods sugar shoes and gasoline with new dates. The text shifts to a fiction excerpt where Louis seizes a box threatening to enter a tunnel while witches plot to release waquitoes to coerce him, foreshadowing a next installment.
Washington dispatch notes poet Archibald MacLeish, librarian of Congress since 1939, is facing a Senate battle over a proposed assistant secretary of state role to handle public information. Critics including Senator Clark of Missouri doubt his qualifications, while references are made to John Hay and other writers who held government posts.
German agents of French nationality parachuted into a town southeast of Limoges on a sabotage mission. One killed himself when captured, two attempted the same. All carried large sums in French, American and British currency and bore weapons and poison capsules.
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