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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1932
Page
8
Budget trimmed by city commission removes 250 for rent and 50 for anticipated trips from boards. Mayor Ernest O. Thompson notes chamber thrived at city hall before and supports moving headquarters there. Appropriation set at 3,365, down 300 from request.
Four children pass exams and need new supplies or risk quitting. A widow seeks steady wash-and-dry work at $1 for 20 pounds rough dry. Also a plea for a brown-eyed companion for a 59-year-old woman. Herbert Lewis, 15, missing since January 24 near Liberal, Kansas, last seen in Hooker, Oklahoma. description and parents seek information.
Lost a bundle Thursday around 5 p m on Fillmore Street containing blue and red printed fabrics and socks. Return to Mrs Dickey 211 North East Sixth Avenue or Mrs M A 909 Jackson Street. Also notices seeking work and trade offers from various residents and a cryptic political poem by Hubert L Dye.
An 87 year old woman, Mrs. M. Batdorf, praises Vincl iron tonic for energy. She says she attends church and parties, eats well, sleeps well, and never tires. Fox Drug Co. promotes the product with her testimonial.
A reader requests a Chevrolet or Ford coupe for cash and also wishes to buy a carpet sweeper. Telephone contact is 4259.
A crowded row of help wanted requests and personal notices seeks skilled labor, cooks, nurses, and artisans. Individuals offer services, housing trades, and marriage inquiries, with contact details and urges to place names before the Globe News switchboard.
A local request asks for assistance for a Brummett family living east of Panhandle Texas. The mother describes caring for two children and managing the home and family while all three are in school. Readers are asked to print the appeal.
A reader complains about trash dumped near Amarillo’s incinerator and city park. She urges officials to enforce cleanup, warning visitors see the mess as the city’s poor housekeeping and a growing problem if not addressed.
A person found a white gold wristwatch Tuesday morning on East Tenth Avenue and plans to leave it at the office for the owner to retrieve. The note also asks for help finding a good home for a four month old kitten and mentions a missing white Persian cat last seen three weeks ago, with contact details provided.
A widow with three children pleads for employment, stressing she can do any work and will provide good references. She fears losing her stores without work and offers to share her address via phone number 20873.
Mrs Resa Gold Davis thanks the union painters for awarding her a prize for an essay on why she would employ a union painter. She states the work is complete and satisfactory and signs with her address at 729 North Buchanan Street.
A seasoned reader praises a sarcastic editorial on European repudiation of debts. The letter, signed by an A. E. F. veteran, argues repudiation harms future generations and criticizes editors aligned with financial groups and Mellon J P Morgan and Federal Reserve banks.
A veteran writes from France describing welcome by locals and U S made supplies, noting the shift as a member of the second division of the A E F returning. He criticizes European nations as cowardly and slacking, urging clearer U S policy and reparations.
A man contemplates killing his mother in law to spare a warm climate drastic plan. An older Pennsylvania German man marries late for quiet life only to find a vixen wife. A friend asks about the new marriage, and the man laments wishing to be in hell.
A reader offers honest help and seeks employment in nursing, light office work, childcare, or house work for working couples. References available. Also contains lost purse report near Magnolia Cafe Ninth Avenue with items and reward for return. Also lost car license tags number 184415 in Panhandle area. A widow and son seek dairy and farming work and can relocate. contact 2004 Arthur Street or Route 2 Box 82.
Teen writer offers to correspond with girls aged 17 to 20. He promises to reply to all who send photos. He mentions a good car and income and states he lives near Palo Duro Creek. He says he is a happy-go-lucky boy.
Sunday in Amarillo brings cold, snow and a reader asks Tack about the season. A poor working woman notes she cannot stay sick and wonders if the big snow of 1932 is ending winter.
A letter to the Amarillo paper urges the editor to drop matrimonial notices and lost-pet requests. The writer, who has read the paper for nearly two decades, asks for a more inclusive, distraction-free edition and promises to keep reading if silly letters are discarded.
Mrs R B Masterson of 1619 Polk Street commends Colonel Thompson for congressman at large and urges action on domestic needs. She praises his platform, calls for prosperity through working people, notes shoe movement aid, and encloses a donation to support local relief efforts.
The Amarillo Globe comments on Babson and Frank Glenn's editorial, praising Glenn for diagnosing chaos in the distribution sector of production and criticizing Babson's blame on white collar workers for high living standards, arguing workers' service to industry justifies benefits.
Molly Kelly rebukes Babson’s seven sins of the so called intelligent group and argues workers and unskilled labor should share in prosperity. She criticizes monopoly growth and government interference while urging budgets balance and criticizing old misers.
A speaker laments money worries and wealth inequality and claims a discovery classifies people as sponges who take in and give out all, versus tight wads who take in everything and give out nothing. He jokes about earning a 1932 Nobel Prize for this humorous theory.
A long reader letter blasts conditions, politics, and business interests. It criticizes the auto brake law, the Eighteenth Amendment, elevator and grain men, and Farm Board policy. The piece argues railroads keep high freight rates while cutting wages and questions government spending amid flood relief concerns. The author attacks corporate influence and defends farmers and national symbols.
A Plainview Texas letter blasts overproduction and party failures, criticizes Democrats and Republicans, promotes Alfalfa Bill as the hour's man, urges readers to ignore Russia fears, and endorses readings from The Redbook and a Grand Duke Alexander piece.
Claiming modern ideas fail, the ad promotes Hill's Cascara Quinine tablets for quick cold relief. Take two now and follow box directions, drink water, and expect a rapid return to work as the product promises to knock out a cold. Money back guarantee if it fails.
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