Amarillo Car Service Expands to Rail and Air Travelers
The company began as the local rep for Train-Auto Service of Chicago, offering auto transport for railway passengers arriving in Amarillo. In the last nine months it expanded to serve salesmen executives arriving by plane and local firms needing rental cars, reflecting Amarillo’s geography and cost benefits of flying or rail travel to the Panhandle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Extension, Inc
Chicago
Amarillo
Panhandle
Southwest Bell Telephone Company
American Telephone and Telegraph
Auto rental service offers cheaper alternative to ownership
The Autmobile Rental Service plans a Chicago St Louis Tulsa model using a monthly rental with maintenance storage insurance and upkeep except gas and oil for a fixed rate plus one cent per mile New cars are substituted as models change They start with two cars and aim to meet normal demand A Capitol Hotel call may reveal lower costs as renting cars becomes cheaper than owning one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automobile Rental Service
Chicago
St. Louis
Tulsa
Oklo
Capitol Hotel
Talmage Beauty Salon Offers Complete Expert Beauty Service
Amarillo’s Talmage Beauty Salon in the Talmage Apartments offers a quiet atmosphere with experts delivering machineless and machine permanents. Owner Billy Ross Bateman, with six years’ experience, runs the shop at 1401 Van Buren with Operators Dora Miller Bruce Eva Dahlgren and more. Full range of services includes Parker Herbex and eucalyptus oil treatments, manicures, and hot oil shampoos.Appointments via phone at 8195.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Talmage Beauty Salon
Talmage
van Buren
Billy Ross Bateman
C. R. Colpitt
L. E. Eyler
Milady
Colpitt
Parker
Call 8195
Talmage Apts
van Buren PH
Sproles Noon Freight Schedule Serves Amarillo to Wichita Falls
The Sproles Motor Freight Line offers a double daily freight service between Amarillo and Wichita Falls as a noon and night schedule addition. Merchants in intermediate towns gain quicker ordered deliveries with morning calls and evening arrivals, while through overnight trucks continue to Houston. Warehouses in each town enable same night or next morning pickup and delivery, with the Amarillo facility at 113 West First Street, phone 25515. Glenn A. Foy is division manager and Ben Andis traffic representative for the territory.
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Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Sproles Motor Freight Line, Inc
Houston
Mer
Clarendon
Amarillo J
Sproles
West First Street
Glenn A. Foy
Ben Andis
Potts Cleaners Slashes Prices On Cleaning and Pressing
Potts Cleaners and Overs at 221 West Seventh Avenue announces lower cleaning and pressing rates with cash and carry. Free pickup and delivery on orders of $100 or more. Suits and dresses now 25 cents. coats 50 cents. trousers skirts blouses 20 cents.
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Potts Cleaners and Overs
West Seventh Avenue
John Potts
Uni
Cissel
Hoffman
Belgiums four major unions merge into single confederation
Belgium unties its four large unions into one body to pursue workers' economic gains without political squabbles. The merger consolidates bargaining strength across sectors while ending inter union disputes. Henry Clay reference appears as a historical aside noting The Millboy of the Slashes.
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Brussels
Belgium
Nu Way Upholstery Opens in Amarillo for Quality Refurbishing
Nu Way Upholstery Company opens at 208 West Sixth Avenue Amarillo owned by Vick Guyer and G Pipes with 12 years in furniture service. They offer refinishing and upholstery for homes and offices plus woodwork, cabinets and antique rebuilding with guaranteed quality and free on site estimates. Also notes Grumman fighter first Britain bound powered by 1200 horsepower reaching 37000 feet and 350 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle
Nu-Way
West Sixth Avenue
Rose Bowl
Vick Guyer
G. Pipes
Guyer
Kay Furniture Company
Houston
Pipes
National Life and Accident Insurance Company
Grumman
Britain
Botts Display Service Presents Complete Sign Work in Amarillo
Botts Display Service offers cut all displays screen processing track lettering and decorations for Amarillo trade area with outlying shops in Odessa and Midland. Union shop in Angelus Hotel Building 323 West Sixth Avenue phone 5062. C A Botts owner notes color screen processing capability and invites estimates or bids. Population data on car occupancy follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Botts Display
Angelus Hotel
West Sixth Avenue
Odessa
Midland
Botts Display Service
C. A. Botts
Super-Filers Answer To All Filing Needs
An advertisement for the Super-Filer by General Fireproofing Company via Elliott-Greer Company in the Panhandle promotes dramatic savings in office overheads and faster filing. It claims four steps replace eight, with better space use, faster reference, reduced errors, and energized by mechanical motion replacing manual actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Fireproofing Company
Panhandle
Elliott-Greer Company
Taylor Street
Super-Filer promises savings through mechanized filing
A promotional note touts a mechanized filing system named Super-Filer. It claims reduced manual effort, lower office overhead, and quick self-payment through aggregated savings. Contact Elliott Greer near the courthouse or call 2-2236 for a salesman.
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Elliott Greer
Frozen Sleep Now Offers New Care
Oklahoma City story describes George the cat sneaking into a grocery freezer on a Saturday. The door slammed, and on Monday he woke in a frosty state with frost on his tail. A warm radiator restored him, ending his ice box raiding habit.
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Oklahoma City
George
Almost Lasting Impression DETROIT
Finis B Grimes sought a name change telling a deputy clerk that he was born late in a large family. He claimed his father was over 70 when he was born, and that the name Finis reflected the intended meaning, noting he turned out to be the youngest child.
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Detroit
Finis B Grimes
Finis
Engineers Create Purdue Yell With Motion Sub Structure
Purdue University students devise a new engineeryell for a locomotive sub structure mounted on an automobile chassis as the official mascot. The chant blends math terms with cheers and ends with a chant buoyed by Purdue. Data also notes US airlines flying 101,172,222 passenger miles in June 1940, up 50.14 percent from June 1939.
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Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University Studen
Purdue
United States
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W. 10Th
J. F. Bromert
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E. E. Finkler, Inc
Polk
Gladys
Typewriter Service Co
Victor Adding Machines
M. Kidwell
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Frozen Sleep
Amarillo Secretarial School
Bess Orr Foringer
Jefferson
Potts Cleaners & Dyers
W. 7Th
Guns—Keys
TOM & Roy
GUN & Key
M. T. Robertson
Roy F. McGee
Tyler
Hammond
Dwight Newby CO
Amarillo Shade Equipment Co
Western Tent & Awning Co
Harrison
N. E
Madsen
Hiway
Pierce
C. H. Wileman
Pres
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Soft Water Service CO
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Glenn A. Foy Division
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China
Brown House Shop
Petk
Speed Ravey
Nu-Way Upholstering Co
Jack Phillips
MARSH
L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters
Stewart-Warner
Johnson-Price Co
Fillmore
Hold Arts, Inc
Alice. Brooks
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