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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1938
Page
12
The Furniture Studio at 2914 West Sixth specializes in refinishing and upholstery. They offer double stuffed upholstery, durable slip covers, and guaranteed work. Convenient terms available. call 2-1043 for estimates.
New York reports Louise Campbell, star of Men With Wings, credits dental offices as great classrooms for character. She urges aspirants to Hollywood to learn by teaching and dismisses lengthy drama schools citing her Chicago teaching in St. Michael's School. She criticizes time spent on hair and makeup and favors quick street makeup and simple hair prep. Erosion is noted as a major Earth surface changer.
R M Nash a former Oklahoma auditor offers Nash’s Handy Ledger and Nash’s Daily Cash Book with copyright and patent. He promotes a simple bookkeeping method for small business, with services to keep books or prepare income tax returns for a fee. He cites 50 to 60 Amarillo clients and notes new tax rules require annual reports for businesses with gross receipts over 5000 dollars.
Klamath Falls Oregon reports that local coroner statistics show duck shooting is eight times deadlier than deer hunting. Duck deaths more often result from drowning in lakes rivers and marshes while deer hunters are typically shot by other hunters.
In a survey of National Youth Administration employes, few wanted to go abroad to fight. Twelve percent were indifferent about entering the army or navy. Sixty six percent would enlist if the United States were attacked, and twenty percent would wait for the draft.
The University of Toronto four year old dime date bureau faces possible closure due to collapsing interest. Varsity editors propose a campus survey to decide if romance can be revived, noting a boom in past years but a drop this year. The bureau charged 10 cents and required extensive preference forms.
In Greenwich Connecticut Robert Rahane faced speeding charges after claiming his car could not reach 55 mph. An officer clocked the vehicle at 55 mph on an upgrade and 75 mph on a downgrade. Judge Fred J. Whelan fined Rahane ten dollars.
In England a new industry grows as flea farms produce frozen fleas as fish food. Fleas are kept frozen, then thawed in tanks to feed tropical fish. The product, nicknamed fleas in aspic, costs about six cents for gauze containing thousands of fleas.
Cleveland report says truck driver E H Shelton blew a tire and rammed through a hedge and garden before stopping at a black cat. He quips that bad luck usually follows black cats but this time it did not harm him. The spree included snapping a telephone pole and damaging a clubhouse.
Winchester fire department drivers sped and braked in a near miss incident when a curtain in the second floor old age pension office of the City Building caught fire, the blaze only ten feet from the fire house. The quick actions saved the building from major damage.
Amarillo Shade and Equipment Co offers a New Year sale on National Venetian blinds with guaranteed lifetime hardware and warp resistance. 313 West Sixth promotes custom measurements, wide color range, and free estimates by calling 2-2381.
A buyer guide lists Norge floor furnaces with multi head burners factory sealed heating element aluminum treated shields for air flow durable grilles with permanent finishes thermostatic or manual controls AGA approval no basement installation silent operation removable grilles for cleaning and low cost operation promoting even healthy heat.
The Amarillo Barometer by Foster Peterson notes October 1933 bank clearings totaling 18 030 401 with the claim each dollar circulates 50 times. It reports 1938 clearances through September up 18 percent from 1937 and building permits through October 1938 at 1 789 520, with postal receipts through November 1938 at 338 009.85.
In a Transvaal game reserve near Pilgrim's Rest a sable antelope was found impaling a lion on its horns. Both animals lay dead in a rare battle to the death. Hunters note that lions rarely attack sable antelopes, one of the most dangerous horned game species.
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