Oldest professions and wartime odds in Amarillo
In a mixed column, readers hear jokes about doctors and engineers, plus wartime morale notes from Amarillo. Advertisements offer ammunition for predatory animals, a key reward, and local odds and ends from readers and Santa Fe staff.
Weather and theater notes from Amarillo columns
Weather forecast warns of heavy snow in the Panhandle with a Friday night snow start. Homer Rice criticizes modern song and theatre arrangements, urging traditional versions of The Star Spangled Banner at the Paramount. The piece includes social commentary on local audiences and a humorous cowtown joke.
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Mother Goose
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Homer Rice
News-Globe
Homer
Paramount
Fred Waring
Waring
Jack King
Help Wanted and Lost Chow Dog Notice
A reader seeks employment offering comptometer, sales, or grocery work at 409 North Grant Street. A soldier's wife with a baby asks for a live-in housekeeping job with room and board. A Chow dog, large and reddish, disappeared Saturday afternoon. sightings requested.
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North Grant Street
Tack
Elderly Woman Seeks Companion Care at East Fourth Avenue
An elderly woman invites an elderly woman to live as a companion at 609 B East Fourth Avenue. The role involves light work and companionship.
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Tack
East Fourth Avenue
Marquette Player Chooses College Over Cardinals Contract
Bob McIntosh of Des Moines Iowa spurned a St Louis Cardinals offer to attend college. The Marquette third baseman is described as a crackerjack defender and hitter, prioritizing education over a major league deal.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Bob McIntosh
Des Moines
Iowa
Marquette
St. Louis Cardinals
Slovakia Facing Internal Trouble Reported by Nazi Satellite
Berlin radio reported that Slovakia is troubled by internal strife with claims of a systematic cleanup in Bratislava. Police are said to round up disorderly elements and suspects for work camps or asylums amid shortages from battles in Russia.
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Clifton Oliver
The
Santa Fe
George Mather
Dad
Grandpa
America
Poland
Norway
Russia
Apter
Uncle Sam
Can
Tokyo
Vienna
Fortune
National
Milwaukee
Mount Carroll
Mirror-Democrat
Errol Flynn
Associated Press
Berlin
Slovakia
Bratislava
New York
Rumania
Hungary
Long Distance Rates Cut by AT and T
Washington January 21 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company will cut rates on long distance calls over three minutes and reduce charges for leased wire services saving the public 34.7 million dollars annually.
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Toronto
China
United States
Washington
U.P
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Soldiers To Broadcast From England
American fighting men may be heard over the Blue Network from 3 30 to 3 55 pm Friday afternoon. The program will originate from a Red Cross overseas club in England.
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England
Blue Network
Red Cross
Detroit tax official adopts new surname Driver
One of Detroit's longest driving figures in golf, John Driver, deputy collector in the U S Internal Revenue Service, has officially changed his name from John Drabicki to Driver. Friends have called him Driver since youth.
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Detroit
U.D
John Driver
U.S. Internal Revenue Department
John Drabicki
Driver
University of Michigan
Ray Fisher
John
Red Run
Driver Overe
Oakland Hills
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