Grady's Offers Perfect Service At Polk Street Cleaners
Grady's Dependable Cleaners at 1215 17 Polk Street run by Grady Nutt advertises pickup and delivery with two service levels and three day delivery on delivery orders. Ez ra Brown and G W Hodges lead cleaning staff offering solvent and SEC methods plus hat cleaning and custom hat making with Amarillus style shaping. Just dial 4379 for service and 4397 for hat cleaning.
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Polk Street
Grady’s Dependable Cleaners
Grady Nutt
Righh
Grady’s
Ballard’s
E. C
Ezra” Brown
G. W. Hodges
States Collect Truck Taxes Surpass Highway Spending 1942–45
State governments in the United States gathered 2.272 billion dollars in truck taxes from 1942 through 1945, exceeding the total they spent on highway construction maintenance and administration during the same period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Painting and Roofing Experts in West Texas
Walt Freeman runs a growing West Texas painting and roofing business using Amaspro paints and Tenkote Liquid Asbestos Roofing. His company, with three paint trucks and one roofing truck, serves emergencies and regular jobs from Sunray, offering free estimates.
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Walt Freeman
West Texas
Walt
Amaspro
American Asbestos Company
Southwest
Sunray
Colman Opens New Machine Shop in Amarillo
Amarillo welcomes Colman Tool & Machine Company at 204 North Buchanan Street. M D Colman, a craftsman with ten years in machine shop tool and die work, guarantees quality with modern equipment and skilled staff. He offers precision tool and die work including heat treating, stamping dies jigs fixtures gauges for regional manufacturers.
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Amarillo
Colman Tool & Machine Company
Buchanan Street
M. D. Colman
Colman
Colman Tool and Machine Company
Japan
Korea
Pacific
Prescription Laboratories Expand with San Jacinto Drug Network
Amarillo now hosts three Prescription Laboratories and San Jacinto Drug under one ownership, plus a fourth lab in Carlsbad. Stores list addresses and managers for No 1 Polk Street, No 2 Third and Pork, No 4 West Tenth, and Sixth and Georgia, with boxed candy popular at No 2 No 4 and San Jacinto Drug locations.
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Amarillo
San Jacinto Drug
Carlsbad
Polk
Bill McClendon
Pork
G. F. Miller
West Tenth
G. W. Lindley
Georgia
Carroll Clevenger
San Jacinto
Correct Cause By Chiropractic Practice Changes Hands
Dr. V J Bromert returns from Navy service and takes over his father’s office at 1718 Polk Street. The piece extols Chiropractic for freeing nerve flow and correcting vertebral subluxations to remove disease causes, promising honest assessment if unable to help.
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V. J. Bromert
Navy
J. F. Bromert
Polk Street
World’s Finest Hearing Aid: Western Electric No. 64
An ad discusses ideal hearing aid goals, noting no device can restore perfect hearing. It promotes the Western Electric No. 64 model as approaching this ideal, advising consultation with a physician and a visit to local dealers at 922 Travis or call 6132 for a demonstration.
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Bell Telephone Co
Western Electric Co
Western Electric
Travis
Audiphone CO
North Texas
Amarillo
Compton's Toy Repairs Rebuilds Bicycles and Toys
Compton's Tricycle Shop at 105 North Rusk Street specializes in rebuilding and repairing toys on wheels. For two years they have sourced old parts to fix tricycles wagons scooters and doll beds and now have new parts to restore toys to new condition. Junior bicycles remain in stock and ready for customers east of McMasters Street on a paved road.
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Compton
North Rusk Street
Compton's
McMasters Street
Clyde Bearden s For Appliances And Service Station
Clyde Bearden s Service Station in South Amarillo offers Thor appliances home radios irons and travel iron plus a full line of automotive accessories. The shop emphasizes washing and lubricating services and economical prices with Phillips 66 gasoline and motor oil available.
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Phillips
Amarillo
Clyde Bearden
Clyde Bearden’s
Twenty-Second
Washington
Clyde
Thor
Greyhound
Bearden
Years a Hen House Becomes Home for Schrader
In Chatfield Minnesota Richard Schrader converted a 40 by 40 foot poultry building built in 1906 by the Success Poultry yards into four 10 by 10 foot rooms. He added a cement floor eight windows plastered walls to adapt the roost into living space amid housing shortages.
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Chatfield
Unwanted Hair Removed Safely by Electrolysis Expert
Mrs. M. Killion operates a Ama rillo salon at 1224 West Eleventh Avenue offering electrolysis to remove facial arm and leg hair. A Burn ham's School graduate she uses the Kree system endorsed by medical authorities promising permanent reduction with short painless treatments and reasonable costs. Consultation is free via telephone at 22897.
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M. Killion
West Eleventh Avenue
Amarillo
Burnham’s School
Chicago
Minnesotan University Confers 21 Honorary Degrees Since Founding
The University of Minnesota notes that it has awarded just 21 honorary degrees since its founding. The tally reflects selective honors honoring individuals for notable contributions to society, education, and the arts within the institution’s long history.
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Ota
University of Minnes
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Trena Kelley
June Green
Alleen Moore
Mair Cone As
M Killion
Westith, Apt
Ravey
Taylor's Market
Taylor St
People’s Recreation
Lyler
Tool and Machine Co
Buchanan
B. M. Geff Company of
W. L. Ewan Co
4Th
Panhandle
Secretarial School
Bess Orr Foringer
Mgr
Jefferson
Franks
Barber & Beauty
the Panhandle
Polk St
Tyler
Mrs. Dixon
Mamie Dixon
Arvell Meador
Prescription
Chiropractic
Globe News
Auto-Lite Ignition
Wilson Battery & Electric Service
West 6Th
West
Nyptilot Tag
Taylor
C. A. Wileman, Pres
Employers Casualty Company
OME
Dallas
Willard W. Phillips
E. E
Dick) Holcombe
Henry S. Wilson
Blake T. Miller
R. F
Bob) Jackson
Petom
Clyde Bearden S
404 Taylor
Amarillo Hardware
Bill Folds
Beck Bros
L and L Battery CO
van Buren
LT Hed
Gatlin Glass Company
East
Prescription Laboratory
W. 10Th
John Weeks
Insulating CO
Jack Phillips Drug Store
Service
Phillips Oil & Gas
22Nd & Wash
Grady
Waats
Jrme Dowell
Frank Wardle
WL Stephenson
Ea Srs
Resartivo
Texas
Johnson-Price
Fillmore
H. B. Vaus
W. F. Freeman
Panhandle Plains
Sumray
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