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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1951
Page
14
A local ad announces all over spraying products for crawling insects with eight ounce bottles at 89 cents, one pint for 1.69, and a quart for 2.98. The sale is at White and Kim on the fourth floor in Amarillo.
A Meads loaf for breakfast to toast golden brown for lunch a famous sandwich loaf and for dinner a butterable loaf, plus golden brown bread. Any one of the three can be used for breakfast lunch or dinner. Mead's bread is Fresher-ized with a secret ingredient.
New shipments arrive daily at Vaughan's Gift Shop 3119 West Sixth. Air conditioned shop offers lingerie crepe slips gowns and pajama sets, nylon gowns slips and hosiery. Luncheon cloths napkins and embroidered pillow cases plus Madeira doilies and tablecloths. Italian pottery vases figurines planters brass copper items Swiss handkerchiefs and more with discounts on chafing dishes and rugs. Personalizing and monograming available in one day.
Gray hair can be enhanced using Reggie's Slate a rinse that leaves no pink blue orchid or yellow tint. Slate is available only at salons or from Franks Barber & Beauty Supply Amarillo 1015 Polk St. It forms tiny mirror like deposits on hair shafts reflecting light giving a moonlit glow across any shade.
Groen's Boot and Shoe Shop at 5007 West Sixth in San Jacinto advertises shoe repairing and extension work. Mr. Groen, with 37 years in Amarillo, promises quick, courteous service, high quality leather, and custom correctional footwear, plus western boots and children's moccasins.
Hamilton dispatch notes John Edward Mackay of Toronto, 24, who escaped by pounding a hole through his cell wall after being jailed for a $9,000 armed robbery. Police pursued him after the weekend confinement began Saturday night.
More than 14,400,900 kroner has been raised for Norway's first cancer hospital to be built soon in Oslo. The drive signals strong public support and secures the project’s early momentum.
With demand for trained office staff rising after the war Amarillo Secretarial School run by Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer offers a brushup course praised by former stenographers bookkeepers and secretaries. Visit 800 Jefferson Street or call 23594 to enroll for a brushup or full course including civil service exam prep.
The Wyatts announce a four day summer sale at Earl Wyatts Studio 1500 Jefferson with items at cost including frames prints marble top table chafing dishes brass pieces silver and more. Studio hours 9 to 5 daily or by appointment with many pieces offered at attractive reductions before the stock is rearranged and new stock unpacked beginning Friday.
Date of origin traces to prehistoric eras when societies formed rules from flint flakes with sharp jagged edges. The description links early legal concepts to crude toolmaking practices and the emergence of order.
The Osgood Monument Company at 2701 Buchanan enlarges plant space and stock, doubling equipment including a high speed polishing mill and diamond tooth saw. It offers exclusive Georgia Crystalline marble, Rock of Ages Granite, and Rainbow granite plus new sand blasting services and curbside memorials. Arthur Osgood founded the firm 45 years ago. C E Osgood is office manager. Charlie Lutz takes active management. Ruel Nichols joins as memorial design expert.
Petroleum era ad details Nurilizer Service offered by Perfect Circle and Cowie Electric Company in Amarillo. It claims pistons stabilize in cylinders through Nurilized design, increasing stability, load capacity, and reducing clearance for quieter, more economical, and powerful engines. Also promotes improved starting and reduced fuel drain with prescribed installation via local garages.
In Delhi India a single room houses control of nine hundred clocks. Technicians monitor synchronization and ensure uniform timekeeping across city public clocks and institutions. The centralized system highlights advanced urban time management and precision maintenance by local authorities.
The Amarillo Plating Works at 1004 Arthur Street is under new management. Jimmy Walcher purchases the business with brother Leroy as new manager and 67665 as the phone number. The firm, promising quick service by expert craftsmen, offers chrome nickel gold zinc and electro plating of silver copper and brass.
Johnston's No-Roach promises to end pantry ants and outdoor insects with an odorless colorless coating. A single application lasts months and is easy to apply on window sills door sills cabinets sinks and around iceboxes to paralyze and kill crawling insects.
Pauline Battenfield Webb and Leah Kay partner to run Shop Elan offering retail and custom dressmaking alterations in the Bray Building at Sixth and Hayden. Office in room 16, phone 93 6739, 3 to 10 day service, ready to wear denim and ped al pushers, Can-Can petticoats, power machines, air conditioned fitting rooms, and a Pauline line in development. Webb brings 18 years of dressmaking experience and 20 years Amarillo residency, with alterations by a skilled staff.
A beginners square dancing class begins tonight at Fowlkes Studio 1516 Tyler. Advanced sessions run Friday nights with Noble Fowlkes directing dances at Palo Duro Canyon Saturdays. Herb Greggerson of El Paso will lecture here for five nights starting September 10.
A new synthetic painkilling drug from coal tar derivatives has been developed in Switzerland. Dromoran reportedly provides stronger, longer lasting relief than morphine with fewer side effects, including less nausea.
The bread brand Mead's Bread remains on nearly every grocery store shelf in the Panhandle with fresh daily delivery ensuring long lasting quality and availability for shoppers across the region.
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