Weather notes and local issues in December era column
A breezy weather column discusses cooler, dry days and looming rain or snow for wheat. It critiques a Washington fuel ration policy sending coal to Liberal Kansas from Illinois, flags restaurant closures in Los Angeles, and jokes about Scottish overcoats and Tennessee hillbillies. It also mentions a Dalhart knife gift to a fighter, Tunisia battles, and a cow in town advisory.
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Washington
Government
Liberal
Kansas
Illinois
C. C. Dinwiddie
Dalhart
Orient
Dinwiddie
Headlines and Humors from a Wartime World
A wide variety of short items and quips cover military life and home front topics. Observations range from military training debates and loyal service to humorous anecdotes about public figures, fashion, marriages, and social trends, with notes on shipping, music sales, and PX purchases.
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Boston
Athens
America
OPA
Chicago
American Medical Association
United States
Elmer Davis
George Ade
Rickenbacker
Eddie
Rick
Fort Logan
Colo
O'Hara
O’h Eadhradh
O’haras
Castlerough
Menlough
Leyney
Sligo
Nash-Kelvinator Ad Theme Dramatized on Cantor Show
Eddie Cantor on NBC KGNC program dramatizes the Nash-Kelvinator ad When You Come Back to Me. Cantor won permission to dedicate the advertisement to the loved ones of America's fighting men. Ad to appear in Sunday News-Globe February 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Cantor
NBC
KGNC
Nash-Kelvinator
Traffic fines total for city court and police actions
Fines collected by the corporation court at city hall totaled 167 dollars, with 12 dollars from traffic penalties. In Washington, Secretary Knox said negotiations were under way for the French fleet demilitarized at Alexandria to join the Allied effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Frank Knox
Alexandria
Egypt
Hollywood Celebrity News and Studio Gossip
Hollywood gossip item compiling star dating rumors army service notes and production snips. Patricia Dane keeps a 100 carat topaz from Tommy Dorsey despite a split, while Diana Barrymore dates Sgt. Stork. Frances Florence Shirley signs with Paramount and Franchot Tone cooks at home as help is scarce.
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Hollywood
Jon Hall
Patricia Dane
Tommy Dorsey
Olivia de Havilland
Ida Lupino
Martha O'Driscoll
Maureen O'Hara
RKO
Hays Office
Diana
Bramwell Fletcher
Barrymore
Sgt. Stork
Rand Brooks
Army Air Corps
Glenda Farrell
Tom
Jean Hersholt
Dr. Christian
Motion Picture Relief Fund
Paramount
Florence Shirley
New York
Franchot Tone
Robert Montgomery
Franchot
Robert Preston
Lodse
Anne Shirley
Eddie Albert
Tom Connelly
Buck Jones
Mussett’ Beery
Lost Dixie the brindle bulldog offered for reward
Advertisements seek the return of a small brindle Bos ton screwtail bulldog named Dixie with a liberal reward offered by Bernice and Maxine. Separate notices request garden help at 218 Madison Street, a 39 year old crippled man seeks a female correspondent, and two men request pen pals and introductions in Texas cities Big Spring Amarillo.
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Boston
Dixie
Bernice
Maxine
Tack
D. Kinard
4Th Ave
Big Spring
Texas
Man seeks refined partner for correspondence near Indio
Middle aged man of good character seeks a mature woman aged 35 to 40 who is refined and of good character. Address: J. BE. RAY, Hotel Travelers, 424 Fargo Avenue, Indio, California.
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P. O. Box
Amarillo
Texas
Tack
J. BE. Ray
Hotel Travelers
Fargo Avenue
Indio
California
Amarillo to Open Bids on Water Works Contract
Amarillo city commission plans a busy session to open bids on two water works contracts. Proposals cover drilling wells on Bush estate land southwest of Amarillo and constructing a 30 inch reinforced spun concrete water line about 33 000 feet long. Project cost about 420 000 dollars with a 102 000 dollar government grant. Mayor Jenkins notes multiple contractors present. A fire department petition for civil service voting may also be presented for the April 6 city election.
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Amarillo
Bush
Federal Works Agency
Joe A. Jenkins
Fire Department
Civil Service
Romberg concert tickets go fast at Globe-News office
Advance sales for Sigmund Romberg and his 50 musician company open tomorrow at the Globe News office Amarillo and run daily until the March 7 show at 8 45 PM in the USO Municipal Auditorium. Tickets range 1 20 to 3.00 with boxes at 3.00 and table shows sold first come first served.
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Globe-News
Sigmund Romberg
Globe News
Amarillo
Denver
Oklahoma City
Romberg
USO
New York
Marie Nash
Grace Panvini
Gene Marvey
Victor Herbert
Frank Lehar
Franz Schubert
Johann Strauss
Tschaikowski
Boy offers blood for soldiers at donor booth
In San Francisco a child with a nosebleed asks to donate blood for soldiers at the American Women's Volunteer Service booth. Mrs. Lawrence Anderson says the boy should obtain parental consent and if his blood type matches it may be used. In Columbus a restaurant notes signs urging kindness to employers amid staffing issues.
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Darling
London
Middle West
John
Clark Gable
Clark
Howe
California
Peggy Kent
Manhattan
Ferdinand
Detroit
Dean
San Francisco
Lawrence Anderson
American Women’s Volunteer Service
Columbus, O
U.P
the Times
Columbus
Center Plans Garden School Amarillo Victory Garden Course
Amarillo Center expands its Victory Garden program to an eight week short course taught by Spencer Whippo from West Texas State College. Tuition drops to five dollars as residents learn week by week how to prepare soil plant seed irrigate and cultivate for a first harvest.
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Amarillo Center
R. C. Boger
Spencer Whippo
West Texas State College Agricultural Department
Amarillo
Harrison
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Tennessee
Uncle Sam
Wes Izzard
Franco
Hitler
Tunisia
Berlin
Dionne Quints
Jo Ann Capell
Plemons
JoEd Capell
R. M. Williams
Hartley
E. E. Williams
Metropolitan Opera Company
Lloyd Otten
W. 12Th
Jimmie Fiddler
Universal
William Desmond
Maurice Costello
Hank Mann
Grace Cunard
Eddie Polo
Pay Holderness
Fritzi Brunette
Howard Hughes
Betty Grable
Grauman
Kay Kyser
Omaha
Benedict
William Holden
Eddie Bracken
Susan Hayward
Buddy
Dick Forai
Harriet Hilliard
France
Tommy ‘Trinder
Constance Cummings
England
Republic
Idaho
Roy Rogers
John Hubbard
Virginia Grey
Monogram
Cosmo Jones
Prc
Barton MacLane
Charlotte Winters
Ann Harding
John Gilbert
Alexander Pantages
Carole Lombard
Norman Fosters
Sally Blane
Doc Stork
Will Hays
Sinclair Lewis
Mussolini
Bert Wheeler
Hank Ladd
Sam
Ladd
Whit Tack
Madison Street
Hunsley’s
Hunsley
House OF Color
China
Chungking
Salween River
Yunnan Province
Kuiting
Sumner Welles
Finland
Russia
Reveille
Stardust
D. M. Gallagher
Albertson
N. Y
Navy
New Caledonia
Hugh Sticksel
Center
New Mexico
Gene’s Cafe
Calvert
Archibald Goat
Angera
Calvert Distillers Corp
New York City
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