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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1932
Page
10
A collection of reader missives from Amarillo including requests for holiday work by Yann ie Lucas and chores for a housekeeper at 818 Pierce Street, missing glasses notices from a student and a girl named Bernice Scarborough, a purse loss near downtown with rewards, and a ride request to Wellington for a family with ill children.
Washington report details congressional funeral costs, led by Speaker Nicholas Longworth. It cites train fares totaling over 6 000 dollars and a special trip from Aiken, North Carolina to Cincinnati. The piece notes lavish escort delegations, a brewery aftermath, and modest funerary allowances for widows and staff.
Hereford notice seeks return of two small black pigs that escaped from a trailer Sunday night. Call 5F4 on the North Highway with any information. Rewards offered of 50 cents each for the pigs’ return.
Mrs. Kennedy of 311 East Eighth Avenue offers to share a trip there and back within a day or two, hoping to be allowed to go along since she has no money for the journey.
A reader seeks help finding Snowball, a small white Spitz about eight months old that ran away last week after contact details for Robert Bradley are provided. The letter also offers work help from a middle aged lady experienced in housekeeping and cooking with references. A second letter comments on desertion and unemployment woes and criticizes local vagrancy charges and jail practices.
A letter writer denounces private control of utilities and land for causing poverty while detailing three days of work at one dollar and rising living costs. The plea urges government action to curb degrading practices and relieve workers, with a personal note from T Smith of 109 Buchanan Street. Also a missing person alert seeks help locating Percy Ragland, 20, last heard from in Casper Wyoming, formerly known as Tom Brice.
An advertisement extols Aspironal as a two minute relief for colds and coughs claiming lab tested authority and universal endorsement. It urges purchases at drug stores with a money back guarantee if symptoms do not fade in two minutes and promotes use for adults and children including croup and nighttime congestion.
The column reflects on oil rumors in DeFuniak Springs and Florida, noting a Standard Oil insider’s belief in eastward Gulf deposits. It contrasts oil bets with British goods, reviews Prohibition era crime profits, and recalls Archimedes and a dramatic chase involving a spinning restaurant chair.
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