Whiteway Stores in Amarillo Promote Fresh Goods and Low Prices
Six Whiteway Grocery locations in Amarillo advertise a wide range of vegetables fruits cereals spices coffee and tea with top quality merchandise and low prices. Store managers Lester Prein and Jewell Wilkins announce well stocked departments and friendly service at sites including 1200 East Tenth 302 B West Sixth 401 North Buchanan 2405 South Fillmore 110 North East Fifth and 606 Taylor.
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Whiteway
Amarillo
Lester Prein
Jewell Wilkins
East Tenth
West Sixth
Buchanan
South Fillmore
North East Fighth
Taylor
Modern Office Furniture Here
The Western Business Supply at 208 West Tenth Street lists an in stock range of desks tables chairs and accessories for immediate delivery. It invites customers to call 28333 for a representative to visit their office and assist with purchases.
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Western Business Supply
West Tenth Street
Vaughan Family Attends Dallas Gift Show for New Stock
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Vaughan of Amarillo Bookbindery and Gift Shop returned from the Dallas Gift Show with many new and beautiful items for their store. They noted immediate delivery on several pieces and showcased a wide range from hand hammered trays to Chico and Elena story sets, leather belts, stationery, and Valentines.
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H. B. Vaughan
Amarillo
West Sixth Street
Dallas
Chico
Elena
Peter
Charlotte
Adrian
Katrina
Bell
Robert
Marion
New Vacuum Cleaners Arrive at Amarillo Store
Western Vacuum Cleaner and Sewing Machine Supply at 606 West Sixth Street in Amarillo announces new vacuum cleaners with complete attachment sets in stock. W. R. Byers offers guaranteed repairs, rental of vacuums and polishers, and one day service for out of town customers. Also available are sewing machines, rebuilt vacuums with attachments, automatic toasters, waffle irons, and cabinet kits for modern electric sewing machines.
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Western Vacuum Cleaner
West Sixth Street
Amarillo
W. R. Byers
Western
Singer
Arived
Byers
Mead's Introduces One Pound Raisin Loaf
Mead's Bakery announces a new one pound raisin loaf now sold in Panhandle grocery stores. Odie Karr says the loaf is light and raisin filled, with fresh daily deliveries to every Panhandle county.
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Mead’s
Odie Karr
Panhandle
Mead
Eagle Receives New Wallpaper and Supplies
Eagle Paint Company at Sixth and Tyler in Amarillo showcases thousands of new wallpaper rolls for 1947 in varied styles and prices. Interior decorator Mrs. Wallie C. Hall leads the paper department and can advise on room specific choices while the store offers cleaning, decorating, and painting supplies plus a new floor sanding machine. Call 4291 for referrals to top painters or paperhangers.
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Eagle Paint Company
Sixth
Tyler
Amarillo
Wallie C. Hall
Eagle
J. R. McDowell
Frank Wardle
H. I. Stephenson
Sparks Assigned to Transport Surgeons Branch
First Lt. Tom C. Sparks Jr. of Amarillo reported to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation and was assigned to the Transport Surgeons Branch after six months on army medical duty. A Texas A&M and Southwestern Medical Foundation graduate, he previously served at Fort Sam Houston and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Sparks.
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Tom C. Sparks, Jr
Amarillo
San Francisco Port of Embarkation
T. C. Sparks
Sunset
Texas A. & M
Southwestern Medical Foundation
Sparks
Fort Sam Houston
German raid at Regensburg camp nets papers and currency
German authorities announced a raid on a Regensburg civilian internment camp housing about 8,000 suspected Nazis. Large quantities of identification papers and German currency were seized as part of the operation.
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Munich
Regensburg
Aggies Meet Tonight in Blackstone Hotel
Amarillo A. M. Club members plan a weekly meeting tonight at 7 o clock in the Blackstone Hotel with attendance expected from club officers and members.
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Aggies
Amarillo A. & M
Blackstone Hotel
Bearden Service Best in Town
Clyde Bearden's Service Station at Washington and Twenty-Second offers Phillips Petroleum products and wide auto needs including Thor appliances. The shop sells motors, washers, radios, irons, travel iron, and automotive accessories while emphasizing washing, lubrication, and economical, courteous service.
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Clyde Bearden
Washington
Twenty-Second
Phillips Petroleum Company
Clyde Bearden's
Clyde
Thor
Greyhound
Andy Clyde
Bearden
Office Help Needed at Amarillo Secretarial School
Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer of the Amarillo Secretarial School says office help is scarce and well trained personnel are in demand. The school at 800 Jefferson Street trains stenographers, bookkeepers and machine operators and offers brush-up courses. Call 2-3594 for an appointment. The school trains many veterans and is approved to give instruction under GI Bill provisions.
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Bess Orr Foringer
Amarillo
Fourth Army Recruiting Area Enlists 146 031 Since Fall of '45
From Fall 1945 to Dec 31 1946 the Fourth Army Recruiting Area comprising Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas recruited 146 031 men. The six areas total was 922 360. Fourth Army led continental regions and exceeded quota at 150.9 percent.
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Fourth Army
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Louisiana
Arkansas
A. C. Smith
Fourth Army Area
Continental Army
Grady's Extends Their Territory
Grady Nutt of Grady's Cleaners and Amarillus Custom-Bilt Hats announces expanded service to Excell Helium Plant Canadian River Gas Co and Dumas. Odell Brown will handle regular trips as demand grows for custom built hats and hat cleaning and rebuilding statewide.
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Grady Nutt
Grady’s Cleaners
Polk
Amarillo
Ezra and
Odell Brown
Excell Helium
Canadian River Gas Company
Dumas
Grady
Stetson
Mallory
Dobbs
Calls for Help After Advertising House for Rent
Mrs. Helen Haight of 808 Prospect posted a want ad in The Sunday News Globe For Rent column. Within thirty minutes she received twenty one rental inquiries by telephone and quipped she might have to leave the receiver off the hook due to the late edition.
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Helen Haight
Prospect
Sunday News Globe
Public Drawing on Surplus Land Sale in Amarillo
First public drawing in Texas to select veterans eligible to buy surplus government land was set for this afternoon at 1 o clock in Amarillo. Four veterans could participate with two winners each purchasing one tract at prewar prices, 640 acres of agricultural land and 160 acres of farm land, under supervision by Fred Cotton of the Federal Land Bank of Houston.
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Texas
Amarillo
McLean Prisoner of War
Mays
Polk
Fred Cotton
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Posture Belts Promote Posture and Health in Amarillo
B M Goff Company in Amarillo promotes a new posture belt that supports the spine and abdomen, claims superior elastic design, and notes the firm also makes custom artificial limbs approved by the government. The business, at 118 East Fourth Street, offers limb fitting and training for disabled veterans and others.
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B. M. Goff Company
Amarillo
W. L. Ewan Co
East Fourth Street
B. M. Goff
Southwest
People’s Recreation Club Offers Comfort and Billiards
The People’s Club in Amarillo Building basement features 14 billiard and snooker tables plus domino tables. A lunch counter serves lunches and drinks, a confectionery dept stocks tobacco and candy, and the warm building is steam heated in winter and air conditioned in summer.
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People’s Recreation Club
Amarillo
Generals Eisenhower and Bradley Lived Across Hall at West Point
The article notes that Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar N. Bradley shared a hall at the United States Military Academy during their West Point years. This close proximity marked an early bond between two future Allied leaders.
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Eisenhower
Bradley
West Point
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Sequin Pharmacal CO
Gatlin
M Killion
West Ilth Apt
Speed Ravey
Taylor's Market
Taylor St
People's Recreation Club
Colman Tool & Mach. Co
North
B. M. Goff Company of
A East 4Th
Panandle
Secretarial School
Mer
Jefferson
Franks
Barber & Beauty Supply
the Panhandle
Pork St
Lester Prevn
China
Europe
Bull Tire CO
Pop” Adams
6Th
Gius
Arvell Meador
Vaughans
Meads
Tom C. Sparks
C. B. Wileman, Pres
Employers Casualty Company Home Office
Henry S. Wilson
E. E
Dick) Holcombe
Blake T Miller
R. PF
Bob) Jackson
Bearden Service
Mrs
Grady's
HATS
Irvice
H. J. Stephenson
Johnson-Price
Fillmore
Jack Phillips
W. Sixth
V. J. Bromert
BINK
Phore
Sole Sev
Snergica
Prescription Laboratory
John Weeks
Insulating CO
Fairman Dee
Dick Dye
P.O. Box
Amarillo, Texas
Auto-Lite Ignition
Wilson Battery & Electric Service
West 6Th
Bush Furn. & Radio
Crosley
Gas and
Otis
Complete Auto Accessories
Clyde's Road Service
Emerson Radios
Thor Washing Machines
22Nd & Wash
Yangoh Research
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Audiphone Co
North Texas
Travis
Hallmark Valentines
W. F. Freeman
My Trucks
Whele Panhandle Plains
P. O
Sunray
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