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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1947
Page
15
Mrs. E. Parker of 308 North Lincoln reports a slick front porch continues to danger. Four people have fallen recently as warm weather failed to melt the ice. She plans a fence to reduce injuries and asks for caution until it is completed.
A fence was built around a slick spot injuring E. B. Custer a milk delivery man who suffered a hand gash. Others, including Anna Parker 14 and Gertrude Nicholson, felt aches and bruises. Mayor Joe Jenkins presided as master of ceremonies for the evening's entertainment by Amarillo High School A Cappella Choir directed by Julia Dean Evans and a quartet Three Bees and a Honey with Paul Mathis on piano. The report also notes the whale shark as the biggest fish, about 50 feet long and weighing several tons with the whale weighing up to 150 tons.
The article reflects on American attitudes toward business size, noting that many thrive with small operations, while some grow into large enterprises requiring strong organization and delegation. It contrasts intimate, family runs with grand, lonely executive life and recalls enduring small New York cafes and personal pride in modest origins. It also muses on hosiery tech as a wartime deficit.
A narrator muses on the need for a durable inexpensive sock that flatters the male ankle, resists wear, and serves as a disposable item like tissues. The imagined sock would ease domestic friction caused by ill fitting hosiery and a lagging apparel industry.
The piece contrasts syndicated columnists with average writers, noting readers gain little insider detail from daily papers. It praises the intimate epistolary style as elevating a writer above ordinary columnists and far above the writer.
PILES hurt like sin but now grin with a doctors formula for relief. Sept druggists noted Thorn ton Minor Clinic promise quick relief of pain itch and irritation, swelling softening and shrinking. Get Thornton Minor’s Rectal Ointment today follow label directions or buy at Cretney Drug in Amarillo and Walgreens.
The Methodist Episcopal Church will ordain no one to its ministry who will not agree to abstain from the use of tobacco. The policy reinforces discipline within the clergy and sets clear standards for candidate conduct.
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