New Year optimism from Old Tack urges action at Amarillo
Old Tack offers an upbeat New Year message praising renewed courage and a plan to cut unemployment led by Mayor Thompson in Amarillo. He urges residents to join the campaign, support local business, and help others find work while noting a big football game at Butler Stadium and concerns over job seekers in Dumas.
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Thompson
Amarillo
Butler Stadium
Panhandle
Plains Country
Plains
Old Tack
Hidden stills and odor signal in home setup found
Authorities described a covert operation where a large still system was arranged to release odor detectable in the yard. Officials estimated the setup could yield about 1,000 gallons per day from the apparatus.
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Eschvat
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hold New Year Party Night
Veterans of Foreign Wars and their wives gather at the American Legion Hall for a New Year party in the Municipal Auditorium. A game dinner and dance with specialty numbers, dancing, and varied entertainment will echo through the evening.
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American Legion Hall
Municipal Auditorium
Club Women Surrender Auditorium Space to College
The Amarillo city commission accepted a Federated Clubs resolution to give up space in Municipal Auditorium from January 1 to meet Amarillo Junior College needs. A letter of thanks was ordered for the Federated Clubs. The signatories were Mrs. Walter Browne, Mrs. 8. F. Newbold and Mrs. E. E. Finklea. Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic now regularly use motor boats airplanes and wireless sets.
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City Commission
Federated Clubs of
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Lost leather-bound book on machinery instructions
Black leather-bound booklet about sales machinery and instructions, one-inch thick, three inches wide, six inches long. Lost between Amarillo and Borger or in Borger. Reward offered for return to Globe News.
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Salemen
Borger
Amarillo
Globe News
Readers petition to restore Felix the Cat to funny pages
A nine year old girl from Panhandle Texas asks Globe News to bring back Felix the Cat and remove Scorchy Smith, arguing few readers liked the latter. A letter from Amarillo thanks the editor, while a separate note from Erasmus Tack thanks the public for support.
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Felix the Cat
Scorchy Smith
Spain
Shirley Alice Brant
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Erasmus Tack
Care Globe News
New Year Festivities and Chicago Prohibition Raids
New Year celebrations in 1941 include music at the Crystal Ball Room Herring Hotel and dances at Hillcrest Masonic Temple El Taos Nat and other venues. Federal agents raid Lincoln Tavern and Granada Cafe disrupting parties. nine men arrested in a liquor running gang apartment with armed pistols.
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Frank Stone
Texas Tech
Crystal Ball
Herring Hotel
Milt Taggart
Joe Norman
Hillcrest
de Molays
Clyde Damph
Masonic Temple
el Taos
Fair Theater
Ruth Chatterton
All Stars of
Pampa
Amarillo
Butler Field
Associated Press
Chicago
Lincoln Tavern
Granada Cafe
Padock
The Mysterious Universe and cosmology for readers
The piece urges scientists and readers to explore James Jeans books The Mysterious Universe and The Universe Around Us. It highlights nebulae photographed by Mount Wilson's 100 inch telescope, explains light travel, and notes Paris residents neglect Notre Dame. It closes with 1931 optimism versus looming market shifts.
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Jeans
Mount Wilson
Amarillo Job Drive Aims Quick Work With 900 Seeking Jobs
Mayor Ernest O Thompson leads a city wide effort to place hundreds of unemployed Amarillo residents. Mrs Ross urges job offers to be reported to the Chamber of Commerce which acts as a clearing house with 900 plus registered workers. A neighborhood group network and daily coordination with directors will run through winter as WDAG airs the first radio program Thursday night at 9 20.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ross
WDAG
Eleven Die in Colom bian Riots at Capitanejo
Eleven people were killed and twenty injured in political rioting in Capitanejo, Santander, Colombia, as Conservative and Liberal partisans clashed. Federal troops patrolled the village and order was restored.
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Associated Presa
Bogota
Colombia
Capitanejo
Department
Santander
Funeral for J D Sweeney Friday at 10
The body of J D Sweeney 80 pioneer Amarillian former car accountant of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway will arrive here Thursday morning and be in state at Griggs & Sons funeral chapel until Friday morning Funeral services will be held at 10 oclock Friday morning at the Central Presbyterian Church with Rev R Thomson officiating Burial services will be in Llano Mausoleum Masonic rites from Amarillo Lodge No 731 will be held at the burial grounds.
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J. D. Sweeney
Amarillian
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Vie Santa Fe
Griggs & Sons Funeral
Sweeney
Santa Fe
Clovis
Mr. Sweeney
Amarillo
California
Kansas
Inez Sweeney
Kentucky
Arch M Sweeney
Detroit
Paul Sweeney
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
Pioneer
Central Presbyterian Church
Rev. R. Thomson
Llano Mausoleum
Divorces and marriages fall in Potter County in 1930
Potter County divorce filings rose to 168 under Judge W E Gee, while marriages dropped to 219 certificates issued by county clerk Ted Blackburn, a sharp contrast from 1929 and 1928. Clovis New Mexico records show December licenses nearly match Amarillo’s annual total, aided by a new marriage law.
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Potter County
W. E. Gee
Civil District Court
Ted Blackburn
Clovis
N. M
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Minister Ends Life At Portales New Mexico
Rev. E. C. Ball, pastor at Portales New Mexico, died this morning by his own hand from a pistol shot through the head. The Associated Press reports the death occurred at Portales and names Ball as a local clergyman.
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Portales
N. M
Associated Press
E. C. Ball
Ball
Local Baptist member ends life after family illness
A Baptist church member who had lived in the area for two years faced severe financial and mental distress after his wife stayed in Dallas hospital for six months. He returned from Dallas on Monday night cheerful but left a note saying he was broke financially physically and mentally and could see no other way out. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
Sharper Seeks Tags To Keep Victims Safe In Amarillo
After several names appeared on the Amarillo police blotter the idea of tagging a so called victim to ensure safe return home was floated. A pair claimed a holiday home stay while police noted a roll of bogus money dice and marked cards. A con man linked to a down state youth faced possible tagging as a measure against crime rise.
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Amarillo
New Year Radio Programs From NBC CBS And Local Stations
Radio listings outline New Year Eve programs across NBC WEAF WJZ and CBS WABC networks with concerts sports reviews greetings from figures such as M H Aylesworth and Mussolini. Coast to coast schedules include cross city greetings, orchestras, reading of poems, and a Roses game. Local stations WDAG and KGRS also present holiday programming.
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Weaf Group
Shilkret Concert
Gladys Rice
Douglas Stanbury
Olive Palmer
Revelers
Grandland Rice
New York
Chicago
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
WJZ
Mary McCoy
Reinald Werrenrath
Billy Hughes
Cheerio
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Cuckoos
CBS Chain
WABC
Big Ben
London
Archbishop of Canterbury
Fast Freight
Buenos Aires
Boston
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California Melodies
NBC
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Albany
Mussolini
Aylesworth
Rome
Tombs Prison Oy N. Y
Holland
Alabama
Washington State
CBS
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Explosion震: Electra Tragedy Strikes Oil Field Community
An explosion hurled debris over 200 yards injuring and shocking Electra residents three miles away. The tragedy drew hundreds of curious onlookers to the scene. Three Electra men died, all known for broad oil field activity. Snyder formerly lived in Ranger and is survived by a brother in town. Russell hailed from Pennsylvania and leaves a wife and two children here. A sister, Mrs. Judson Irby, survives Kennsworthy.
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Snyder
Ranger
Russell
Pennsylvania
Judson Irby
Kennsworthy
Chamber officials return from Oklahoma City highway talks
Bill Lampe vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and W W Chilton highway department manager returned from Oklahoma City after a conference with state highway officials on interstate highways. A detailed report on highway problems is being prepared for release by week's end.
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Bill Lampe
Chamber of Commerce
W. W. Chilton
Chamber of Commerce Highway Department
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Chilton
Hoover opposes rail consolidation plan backed by four railroads
A Hoover statement criticizes a proposed four railroad consolidation in non New England territory. He cites Senate resolutions and House actions, calling for further investigation before any decision. He questions the independence of the Interstate Commerce Commission and criticizes the President’s role in the plan.
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Pennsylvania
New Yor Central
Nickel Plate
Baltimore & Ohio
Senate
House
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Congress
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Committee On Interstate
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Schools face funds shortfall with 300000 deficiency warrants due
G G Ordway says the schools need money to operate and 300000 deficiency warrants due February 1. Banks cannot advance more funds and loans cannot be extended. Tax payments dates urged: October 1 for school taxes, February 1 for state and county, July 1 for city. The issue is to provide funds, not to extend time. Also notes court reporters’ return and Canada salmon canning employment of 21 000.
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G. G. Ordway
City Commission
Kansas City Livestock Prices End-Year Market Summary
From Kansas City markets the U S D A reports hogs around 5 000 head steady to 10 cents higher with tops near 7 86 and packers sows around 6 36 10 36. cattle about 2 500 with killing classes steady to slow and stockers scarce. vealers milk fed 6 50 to 11 00. lambs up to 8 00. Fort Worth round reports hogs 600 head top 8 00 and cattle 2 100 with slaughter steers 5 65 to 7 75 and fed cattle 7 35 to 1 16 3.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Deg
New Year Kept by the Poet in Sorrowful Farewell
The speaker laments the passing of a year as a final day dawns. Midnight chimes signal the end and a new year begins with shared sorrow. He reflects on the years of cares joys tasks and minutes spent and dies to the things mortals made him, leaving dawn noon and dusk to judge him.
Market Prices and Cotton News Mixed Across Commodities
Cattle and sheep prices show varied bids with fat cattle around 4500 dollars and stock steer totals near 5767 while lambs and feeder animals fetch mid single to high dollar figures. Cotton opens steady with minor gains in New York and New Orleans as holiday trading slows and pre holiday liquidations appear.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
New Orleans
Pirot
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