Wheat and hunger debates stir rural readers amid storage cash
A letter to Tack argues the Farm Board should disburse 1930 wheat stocks, proposing equal shares for Americans and feeding programs. It questions storage costs, praises cooking wheat as staple food, and calls for schools and churches to help distribute the grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Board
United States
Mr. Stone
Tack
Capt. John Smith
Montana
Pahandle
Hoover
Call for Civil Service Reform to Aid School Teachers
A writer argues for extending civil service reform to the teaching profession to improve pay and status. The piece highlights low salaries, anxiety over elections, and rising costs, noting college graduates now earn only a fraction of former monthly wages. It urges better prepared teachers and adequate compensation to cover living expenses.
Teachers seek lifelong commitment to secure gifted staff
A letter to Tack urges a plan to recruit and retain outstanding teachers beyond a single year, arguing the profession needs sustained satisfaction and clear goals to attract capable educators. A signer from O'Donnell, Texas, shares the stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Tack
K. D. Watson
O'Donnell
Tex
Couple seeks housing and work after layoffs
A young, childless couple asks for a house to rent and shared farming work. They recently lost jobs in Amarillo and seek a place near Lubbock, Lelia Lake, or Clarendon, willing to work on shares to support themselves. They provide 519 North Taylor Street as contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
North Taylor Street
Amarillo
Lubbock
Lelia Lake
Clarendon
Ferguson Appointed Agency Manager at American Central Life
The American Central Life Insurance Company announces the appointment of Mr. Ferguson as Agency Manager. He resides in Amarillo Texas and has ten years with McDonald Auto Supply Co. His long residence and business connections in Northwest Texas bring him wide acquaintance. He is described as a conscientious capable life underwriter and worthy of confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson
American Central Life Insurance Company
Amarillo Building
Amarillo
Texas
McDonald Auto Supply Co
Rent offer from Mrs. B. L. R. seeks housing and work
Mrs. B. L. R. seeks a place to rent and work in return for hogs, chickens, and a cow for milk. She can work in the fields and her two boys aged eight and ten will help. They must find housing soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Seeking crop share farm in Panhandle or New Mexico area
anxious couple seeks a crop share lease farm in Amarillo Panhandle or New Mexico with stock to rent. experienced in farming and stock, willing to commit for multiple years if work is satisfactory. also mentions home remedy for hair color using Barbo Compound and bay rum solution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Amarillo
Panhandle
New Mexico
Reader seeks work and aid. purse found and reward offered
A reader asks for work or aid from the Welfare Ass'n while noting willingness to work. A lost purse in Amarillo is described with contents two dollars a green fountain pin and two stamp pictures. Mrs Norma Lockart of Claude Texas offers a reward for its return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
NORMA LOCK@ART
Claude
Texas
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Mr. Tack
Dee Howard
Portales
Thase
F. M. Montgomery
Wheeler, Texas
Jones Bros
van Buren
Civil Service
J. A. Clinkenbeard
Dallam Street
Dalhart, Texas
Mrs. Dobson
Floyd V. Studer
Ted L. Ferguson
RED & White
Coney Island
Nao
Want Farm Lease
PURSE
Dial
Post Office Drug CO
Brer
Gatsup
Heinz
O Campbell
Schillings
Crisp
California
Nancy Hall
Brown
Rinso
Ralston
Walker's
Texas Marsh
Med
Msystem
Piggly Wiggly
Pele
Rael Il Celt
Re Mats Kell
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