Weather notes and personal notices from Old Tack column
A column by Lewis Nordyke reports a milder mid February on the plains while warning against sensational forecasts. It includes animal notices, a five dollar dog reward for Pluto the brown pup, a missing cocker spaniel Snuffy, and a rural marriage-seeking notice describing a 41 year old country man seeking a 35 to 38 year old non-smoker wife with strong work ethic and cash in the bank.
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Lewis Nordyke
News-Globe
High Plains
Mr. Nordyke
Papa Winburn
Weather Bureau
War talk and light gossip from a wartime column
The piece offers broad, humorous observations on wartime morale and civilian life. It mentions prisoners of war, reports of improved treatment, and speculation that Japan may fear reckoning ahead. It includes quips about news, personalities, and social notes from Amarillo and New York.
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Tojo
Japan
Women at Work and Society Notes From wartime issue
A New Jersey reader asks how to work with women without conflict and how to gain respect without subjugation. A Detroit note urges husbands to improve appearance and fitness to restore romance. The piece also covers magazine circulation drops, fuel oil coupon use, dehydrated foods, lighting affecting vote recounts, and salt money origins. The OWT previews a film to educate servicemen about life in France ahead of invasion.
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Darling
Detroit
London
England
Eleanor
New Jersey
Daphne Drake
Better Vision Institute
France
Dear Tack Want Ad Seeks 30s Single Men for Correspondence
A 30 year old single woman requests pen pals aged 30 to 38 or a man in service. She can provide references and asks interested men to respond via K. E. &., Care of Tack.
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Tack
East Eighth Avenue
K. E
Hollywood Gossip and Romance Heads to June
A roundup of Hollywood headlines notes Veronica Lake marriage rumors around Jean Negulesco, romances for Betty Hutton, Aileen Whelan’s ex D Arcy, and Lt. Robert Sterling overseas. Frank Sinatra enjoys Bond Rally music, Sophie Tucker life-story talks, and Freddie Bartholomew signs with MGM amid star chatter.
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Hollywood
Veronica Lake
Jean Negulesco
Veronica Negulesco
James Browns
Paramount
White Hope
Doc Stork
Gwynn Vanderbilt
P. T
South Pacific
Frank Sinatra
Phonograph
Carmen Miranda
Betty Hutton
Alex
Aileen Whelan
D'Arcy
Ann Sothern
Robert Sterling
Phyllis Brooks
Army
Truman Davis
New York
RKO
Eddie Cantor
Sophie Tucker
Sophie
Wotz
Loretta Young
Rubinoff
la Vegas
Last Frontier
Nevada
Jeanette MacDonald
Freddie Bartholomew
MGM
Maria Manton
Mama Marlene Dietrich
Frank Capra
Lost Horizon
Judy
Ann
Rutherford
San Bernardino
Cal
Louis Hayward
U. S. Marines
Tarawa
Nazis Escape McLean Camp
Amarillo police were told four German prisoners of war have escaped from the McLean camp. One English-speaking escapee, Luck Heinz Werner, 23, six feet tall, 174 pounds, blue eyes and black hair, is identified. Karl Mueller, 27, five feet seven and a half inches, 135 pounds, is also missing.
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McLean
Amarillo
Luck Heinz Werner
Karl Mueller
Mueller
Three Questions About Laxatives From a Southwest Ad
A vintage ad advises laxative use with three questions and answers. It promotes Black‑Draught as a dependable remedy, claiming four generations of use and a yellow box offering 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents, with a caution to follow directions.
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Southwest
Four men missing after 7:30 check. PW markings on blue denim
Four men identified as Jacob Schulmeyer aged 21 and Kasche Gert aged 22 plus two others. Schulmeyer is 5'7.5" and 138 pounds. Gert 5'4.5" and 138 pounds. They wore blue denim with PW on back and some had tan German Afrika Corps uniform parts. Brown eyes and olive complexion noted.
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Jacob Schulmeyer
Kasche Gert
Schulmeyer
Gert
German Afrika Corps
Freighter Crew Lost After Ledge Collision Off Maine
Twenty five of the forty five crew members aboard a 7244 ton British freighter are missing after the vessel struck Boon Island Ledge twelve miles off York Maine during a blizzard Friday.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Boon Island Ledge
York
Itching First Application Promises Fast Relief
Advertising copy promotes a blue star ointment offering immediate relief for eczema ringworm pimples scabies and itching. Claims a single application aids healing and offers a money back guarantee if the first jar fails to satisfy.
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Nordyke
Nordyke-Winburn
Pluto
E. M. Turner
Western Street
Turners
Snuffy
Patsy Roberts
Gus Roberts
Travis Street
Globe-News
Washington
Western Union
Winchell
Greenwich Village
Lower East Side
Adolf Hitler
Chinatown
Eighth Avenue
Bryant Park
Pete Reynard
Reader's Digest
Bob Hope
Bones
Wm. Entley
Taylor Southwestern
Frank J. Dean
Directo
Kansas Chy
Jimmie Fidler
Frances Langford
Laird Cregar
Mickey Rooney
Santa Claus
Marguerite Chapman
Joan Crawford
William Wellman
Lawrence Tibbett
Barlara LeMarr
Malibu Beach Colony
Mary Pickford
Ginger Rogers
Ray Milland
Jon Hall
Danny Kaye
Dinah Shore
20Th Century-Fox
Thomas Mitchell
Anne Baxter
America
Columbia
Joan Davis
John Hubbard
Duniven
First National Bank
Hitler
Adolph
Oughness
Seagram
Borns
Seagram Distillers Corp
N.Y
McLean Camp
Universal
Martha O’driscoll
Noah Beery, Jr
Angela Green
Powers
Warner Brothers
Pictures
Benjamin Moore
Painter’s
Amarillo Paint
910 Polk
F. C. Gayne
Printing & Letter Service
Bozeman
Blackburn
Anthony's
Anthony
Bryan Hall
Bryan
Poy
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