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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1931
Page
5
London observes Shrove Tuesday with pancake eating across homes and restaurants. Westminster school stage a pancake scramble where students vie for the largest piece, as a chef flips a giant pancake over a crossbar and a winner pockets five dollars.
Soot and dust in the Chicago loop have strained the Art Institute finances. Directors report much of the budget must go to cleaning windows and maintaining the building, leaving little funds for purchasing new pictures.
Railroads argue taxation fairness favors trucks and buses and harms rail workers and local merchants. Amarillo layoffs deepen as highway transport grows, while rail depots, fuel meetings, and a Denver Rock Island expansion loom with new box cars and cabooses.
A Rock Island depot benevolence fund provides regular biweekly supplies to unemployed men of all nationalities and colors. A. P. Fryer supervises distribution from the company store room with a full stock of staples including flour, sugar, coffee, rice, meat, vegetables and more.
C. B. Davis, Rock Island division freight agent, and John Spann traveling freight agent, were reported quite ill at their Memphis home. They flivvered to Borger and back on Monday to transact company business, returning the same afternoon.
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