Help to Build Texas Guide Book Consultants Named
A 12 member committee guides the Amarillo section of the Texas guidebook project under WPA Writers’ Program supervision Laura V. Hamner leads the Panhandle Plains effort with consultants from Canyon Amarillo Dalhart Vega Clarendon Hereford and more. Bremen police require traffic violators to attend early Sunday lectures to curb road rule infractions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Works Progress Administration
Laura V. Hamner
Panhandle Plains
L. F. Sheffy
Canyon
Guy A. Callander
Alvert H. Law
Dalhart
R. E. Lucey
G. H. Bryant
Texline
P. C. Bennett
Vega
Harold Bugbee
Clarendon
Mary Moss Richardson
Ralph Smith
Hereford
L. A. Wells
B. M. Primer
Gene A. Howe
A. A. Meredith
WPA
J. Frank Davis
Writers’ Project
Bremen
Germany
Positive Relief For Itchy Skin Soothing Blue Star Ointment
The Blue Star Ointment soothes skin by melting into pores to treat itch, tetter, rash, eczema, foot itch, and ringworm. Money back on first jar if it fails to relieve the condition.
Amarillo News Roundup Highlights Local Notices
Amarillo readers receive a variety of items including a traffic squad Valentine prank, building permit for D W Gouldy to erect an eight room two story home at 1703 Ong Street with March 20 completion, a San Jacinto liquor burglary, visits from Mrs. S B Sanford of Webb City Oklahoma, Doris Ellingslea visiting Dallas, and local students facing first semester exams. Additional notes cover moves of R Douglas Smith to Amarillo, veterans' hospital news, a divorce in Hartford, and multiple Fort Worth and Denver railway personnel updates. Theater and event listings detail Tobacco Road at Municipal Auditorium, Whipsaw at Paramount, A Notorious Gentleman at Texas, Front Page Woman at Rex, Dante’s Inferno at Rialto, and Nat Dine and Dance Palace Swing Night with Lloyd Snyder's orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Auctorium
Tobacco Road
Broad Way
Paramount
Foreign War Vets Will Meet Tonight at Legion Hall
A regular meeting of the John B. Golding Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will convene at 8 PM in the American Legion Hall at the Municipal Auditorium. Dr J F Bromert the magician will perform after a short business session. Also noted is a historical remark about a blind basketball team organized in 1929 at the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind Talladega guided by bells on players and goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Golding Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion Hall
Municipal Auditorium
J. F. Bromert
Alabama Institute For Deaf and Blind
Talladega
They Believe the Post Office Is Headquarters
Local postmaster W. D. DeGrassi notes public belief that the post office handles federal matters. He reports over one hundred job applicants for the new local resettlement bureau have visited since its creation and about ten people daily seek loans, jobs, relief, or related information. The office provides only information found in newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. DeGrassi
Amarillo
DeGrassi
Post Office
Bureau of Information
German Tobacco Cartel Head Predicts Shift to Brazil Leaf
Hermann Neuerburgh, a director of the German tobacco cartel, said after a trip to Brazil that starting in 1936 half of Germany's tobacco consumption would use Brazil leaf. The plan signals a major shift in supply sources and trade ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermann Neuerburgh
German Tobacco Cartel
Brazil
Germany
Brinkley says he does not own XER station in Mexico
Dr John Brinkley admits he still has access to the Villa Acuna station once known as XER after losing ownership amid Mexican health department trouble. He says his role is only as a purchaser of airtime and that the owners may sell time to any party while FCC considers wiring Mexico for broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. D. Elder
Georgia
Talmadge
Mexico
Timadge
Federal Communications Commission
Roosevelt
Special Lunch Treats and Baking Tips Highlighted
A guide suggests giving children a home iced cracker treat instead of candy. It also notes methods for smooth custard and slow-oven baking. Additional facts claim Clyde, Britain, suffered a 70 percent drop in 1931, while Mongolian plains hold far more camels than the Sahara.
Sallie Cox Uses Crying Act for Cash in Radio Prank
Sallie Belle Cox, a 20-something performer born in Parkersburg West Virginia now based in New York, fields complaints from irate mothers who accuse broadcasters of provoking tears. Her act began as playful crying for company and has become a money making routine. She has taught at an Cleveland orphanage and helps at a New England girls camp, while her trade spans romance and radio pranks. The Kei Islands in the Dutch East Indies trade copra timber trepang and tortoise shell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sallie Belle Cox
Miss Cox
Parkersburg
W. Va
Cleveland
New England
New York
Kei Islands
Moluecag
Dutch East Indies
Carter's Little Liver Pills Adverts Claim Bile Flow Relief
An 19th century style advertisement urges readers to take Carter's Little Liver Pills to stimulate two pounds of bile flow daily. It warns laxatives are insufficient and promises gentle, effective relief to improve digestion, energy, and mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Girl Killed When She Is Hit by Car
In Fort Worth an inquest was to be held into the death of Bertha McIntire 35 who was killed when she stepped into the path of a speeding automobile on a downtown street as she prepared to buy fruit. C R Pressley Jr driver said he saw her but could not avoid the impact. The death was the sixth automobile fatality in Fort Worth in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
U.P
Bertha McIntire
C. R. Pressley, Jr
Port Worth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Book OF Texas
Schilling Coffee
Capitol Hotel
Amarillo Barber and Beauty College
R. R
Carrie) Nation
Herbert Hughes
Barber College
E. R. Cox
D. W. Gouldy
Ong Street
Kidd
San Jacinto
S. B. Sanford
Doris Ellingslea
H. E. Billingslea
Fillmore Street
Dallas
R. Douglas Smith
Bobby
Montgomery
Ala
McMillen Apartments
Smith
Rural Resettlement Administration
William C. Branam
Veterans’ Hospital
Sawtelle
Calif
Hartford
Conn
Alice
Kenyon Rockwell
Sam Elkins
John Smithee
Tucumcari, N. M
B. B. Burton
Denver
Harry Warner
City Engineering
J. B. Mitchell
Lincoln Street
Richard Cocke
Claude McKinney
Wellington
Jo Prances Fain
Winney Morton
M. G. Monaghan
J. K. McCann
Childress
George Baker
Frank Banner
the Elks
Jeeter Lester
Tulsa
Oklo
Jack Kirkland
Erskine Caldwell
the Panhandle
Richard Macauley
Saturday Evening Post
Rex Theater
Bette Davis
George Brent
Nat Dine and Dance Palace
Lloyd Snyder
Wayne Bldg
S. Harrison Street
Sixth and Harrison Streets
E. A. Regal Company
Insurors Realtors
Auditors
Box J-24
Care Globe-News
XER
Clyde
Britain
Sahara Desert
Seagram
Distillers
Seagrans
Bond
Joseph E Seagram & Sons
Ontario
Canada
Seagram’s “Vy. O
Ottled
Seagram-Dutchillers Corp
N.Y
House of Seagram
Seagraw
Faineain Street
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