Feed Loans Available for Potter County Farmers in 1940
Emergency crop and feed loans for 1940 are now available to farmers in Potter County. Applications are received at Amarillo by Harold D. Timmel, field supervisor of the Farm Credit Administration. Loans target small cash needs, with security a first lien on the financed crop or livestock, and are limited to essential cash for crops or feed.
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Potter County
Amarillo
Harold D. Timmel
Farm Credit Administration
Mr. Himmel
Post Office
Tragic murder suicide in Middlefield husband kills children
Alden G. Schlosser, 36, shot his two children Jeanette, 3, and Alice, five months, then set a fire and killed himself in Middlefield. Mrs. Schlosser, 34, bound and gagged with tape, was dumped in the backyard but not injured. Police say the couple had marital strife and financial troubles recently.
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Middlefield
Conn
Alden G. Schlosser
Diaper Care Ad Promotes Cuticura Ointment Use
An advertisement urges parents to use Cuticura Ointment at first signs of diaper rash or irritation. It notes gentle action that promotes healing and directs readers to buy at druggists with a free sample offer by writing to Cuticura Dept.30 Malden MA.
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Malden
Mass
William Tell style farmer shoots killer in rural Ohio
Oscar Ball, 48, described a dramatic self defense at his Oakwood area farm after Louis Strake, 23, and an accomplice allegedly tried to extort money and threaten Ball's son Richard. Ball shot Strake from a porch window as the assailant aimed at the boy. Strake later died. In Bucharest, London and Paris reportedly warned Romania over selling oil to Germany, tying oil from Romania to Allied assurances and warning of possible breach in economic relations.
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William Tell
Oscar Ball
Ball
Louis Strake
Richard
Frank Wallar
Strake
Young Ball
Ball Farm
Oakwood
Defiance
Wallar
Richard Ball
Ney
Robert B. Parker
Bucharest
Great Britain
France
Romania
Germany
Rumania
Reich
United States
London
Barrymore Returns to Broadway in New Play
John Barrymore arrives in New York after 18 years for the premiere of My Dear Children following a Chicago run. Pierce Power-Waters, his manager, keeps him secluded on Long Island until the official New York opening, while Barrymore flirts with Patricia Power-Waters and a reporter, signs autographs, and poses with a dog before heading to Bayside.
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New York
Pierce Power-Waters
John Barrymore
Broadway
Long Island
Barrymore
Chicago
Mid- West
Power Waters
Midtown Manhattan
My Dear Children
Detroit
Patricia
Miss Power Waters
Zeppo
Bayside
Two Die in Oklahoma Coal Mine Blast
Two workers were killed in a gas explosion 2000 feet underground at the Greenwood Coal Company mine on the state penitentiary grounds in McAlester Oklahoma. James Harris and Frank Donahue were drilling when a spark from an electric machine ignited a gas pocket. Roy Davis reported the bodies found about 6 AM during a morning inspection before 80 day crew workers arrived.
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Mcalester
Okla
Greenwood Coal Company
State Penitentiary
James Harris
Frank Donahue
Roy Davis
Davis
Harris
Donahue
Urges Dance at Ball Then Attaches Benefit Proceeds
A Yreka businessman placarded the town urging a dance at the President's Birthday Ball. He attached the infantile paralysis benefit proceeds to cover an old debt owed by the man who led the orchestra, adding a note of local drama to the event.
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Yreka, Cal
Yreka
Missouri Baby Born With Two Teeth
St Joseph Missouri infant Glenn Robert Ross eight days old already has two teeth visible at birth. Parents are Mr and Mrs T N Ross. The unusual birth occurred in a local hospital with no immediate complications reported.
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Missouri
ST. Joseph
Glenn Robert Ross
T. N. Ross
Amarillo Bands Represent City at Texas Music Convention
Amarillo public school bands will be represented at the Texas Music Educators Association annual convention in Mineral Wells. Oscar Wise of Amarillo High and S. M. Bagwell of Sam Houston Junior High lead local groups with others from the Amarillo High School Band in a clinic band. Noted national directors such as H. E. Nutt, Henry Sopkin, and Noble Cain appear on the program.
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Amarillo
Texas Music Educators Association
Mineral Wells
Oscar Wise
S. M. Bagwell
Sam Houston
Clinic
United States
H. E. Nutt
Vandercook School of Music
Chicago
Henry Sopkin
American Conservatory of Music
Noble Cain
National Broadcasting Company
Triangle of Sparrows Rush Construction of Nest
Three sparrows labor to rebuild a nest in a Chinese elm on Kentucky Street after wintry winds. they reuse material from a prior mockingbird nest and complete most of the superstructure despite a wary starling observer from the courthouse lawn nearby.
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Kentucky Street
Northwest Texas Hospital
Starling
Dance kills soldier in New York Knickerbocker Club event
Capt. Richard Peters aged 92, believed to be the allied powers most senior World War veteran, died from injuries sustained two weeks earlier during a dance at a ladies day entertainment hosted by the Knickerbocker Club.
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New York
Richard Peters
Knickerbocker Club
Quick Cough Relief Syrup From Home Remedy
An old home remedy describes mixing 2 cups sugar with 1 cup water to dissolve, then adding 214 ounces Pinex to a pint bottle for a full pint of cough medicine. It claims quick action to loosen phlegm ease breathing and aid sleep, with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory.
German Freight Train Wreck Reported in Switzerland
Workers crossing into Switzerland report a freight train wreck on the German line linking Saeckingen and Loerrach. Traffic was halted and 28 cars were destroyed in the incident near Basel on January 29.
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Basse
Switzerland
U.P
Saeckingen
Loerrach
Nazi Raiders Driven Off Near Tyne by British Air Defence
British fighters and anti-aircraft guns drove a German raiding squadron from the northeast coast after a wave of alarms. A lone raider was seen 2,000 feet over the Tyne area and dropped two bombs without damage. Mines exploded on a southeast coast shore, breaching a sea wall and shattering hundreds of windows.
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London
Tyne
Air Ministry
Bavarian Sisters Honored For High Birth Rate
In Schloberg Bavaria six sisters received the Nazi Golden Mother's Cross of Honor for bearing a total of 82 children. One sister alone has 21 offspring, reflecting the regime's promotion of large families.
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Berlin
U.P
Schloberg
Bavaria
Former AMA President William D. Haggard Dies
Dr. William D. Haggard of Nashville Tennessee former president of the American Medical Association died of a heart attack in a Palm Beach Florida hotel yesterday. He sponsored the have health examination on your birth day movement.
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Palm Beach, Fla
William D. Haggard
Nashville, Tenn
American Medical Association
Tonic boosts appetite and energy for vital blood health
Countless people report stronger appetite and energy from Tonic. It claims to restore precious red blood cells and improve digestion, with a two week 20 oz bottle sold at drug stores and ethical dealers only.
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S.8.s
S.5.s.co
Bread price hike not justified by raw material costs
The national price committee reports bread price increases are not justified by rising raw material costs. The rise widens the processor spread between raw inputs and consumer prices, despite lower wheat and flour cost increases. The panel notes numerous complaints over bread pricing in recent weeks. Scotland Yard had 12 unsolved homicides in 1936.
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Washington
National Monopoly Committee
Roosevelt
Scotland Yard
French Pill Boxes Bombard Germans With Propaganda
Paris Jan 29 French pill boxes along the Rhine used loud speaker broadcasts to spread propaganda across the river. German replies with trench fire prompted French mortar batteries to open. Patrol activity rose on the western front and a 20-man German raid was repulsed in the Vosges Mountains sector.
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Paris
Rhine
Vosges Mountains
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