Real estate lots and land for sale listings mixups
Unclear classified ad fragment offers lots for sale in Amarillo and Trinidad Colorado, including a lot at 2012 enree Powell Reality and a 60 ft front market plot. Listings mention apartment house site at 1601 Ong, Country Club Terrace lot, and farms ranches tracts south of Bushland, plus a Deaf Smith County lease and cabin sites near Monument Lake, with contact numbers and prices. The text also oddly includes a science note about hemispheres and a price range of 595 to 345 dollars.
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Enree Powell
CROOM
Hugo H. Loewenstern Co
Polk
Deaf Smith County
R. J. Peek
Oliver Ebakie
Glen Aspen Park
Monument Lake
Trinidad
Colorado
Free Lake
Municipal Taxes Law In Washington State
Washington cities show wide tax variation from 0 to 45 mills. Milton avoided municipal taxes in 1940 by revenue from state liquor funds, while East Stanwood posted 45 mills. State law limits cities to 40 mills, with many holding elections for higher levies. larger cities average 16 to 18 mills. Soldiers equipped for about $90 per man with 84 items, per minister of supply.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington
Milton
Tacoma
East Stanwood
London
Leslie Burgin
Reichman Brings Banc Here Tonight
Joe Reichman brings his orchestra to the Nat tonight with dancing from 9:30 to 1. Reichman known as the Pagliacci of the Piano performs lively requests from dancers and changes coats four times nightly. Advance tickets cost $1.20. reservations upstairs are 25 cents.
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Joe Reichman
Nat
H. A. Dyer
Reichman
Joe
St. Louis
New York
Hotel New Yorker
New Yorker
Waldorf-Astoria
Pennsylvania Hotel
Cretney
Maxor Drug Stores
Plastic substitutes may make us self sufficient says MIT chemist
Cambridge scientist Dr Robert C Hockett declares the United States could be practically self sufficient even if imports stopped. Plastics would replace rubber wood glass and metal and rayons and acetates are taking over fabrics in all kinds of garments. He says a glam gown fur coat tiles bath fixtures or even false teeth could be made from basic chemicals. Also reported Townsend grows a two ounce nine inch circumference strawberry in Holbrook Massachusetts.
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Cambridge
Mass
U.P
America
Robert C. Hockett
Hockett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Hackett
Tack Letters Cont Return From Sage 2 Notes and Wants
A reader seeks a lost black kid glove with white stitching found in a filling station. The notice from Thelma Green offers housework work half days at 204 Madison Tama, and a Tama boy 16 seeks a print shop job with two years Oklahoma City experience at 905 North Mirror. A gentleman is sought.
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Thelma Green
Madison Street
Tama Boy
Oklahoma City
North Mirror Street
Tack
Texas Courts
Cabin
Loretta Young to marry Tom Lewis amid Roosevelt Jr offer
Loretta Young, 27, proposes to wed Tom Lewis, 38, an advertising executive, within a month with engagement to be announced at a party Monday. Young’s prior elopement to Grant Withers ended in divorce. Lewis has no previous marriages. Also noted: Norman Houston sues Columbia Pictures for 1 million over Mr. Smith Goes to Washington claiming his story inspired the film. Roosevelt Jr. rejected Hecht’s acting job offer.
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Hollywood
Loretta Young
Tom Lewis
Friends
Miss Young
Grant Withers
Lewis
Norman Houston
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Mr. Smith
Washington
Congress
Ben Hecht
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Robert Taylor
Roosevelt
James
Won Up Ads Sparked Won Up News in Southwest
In Edinburg Texas on July 11 G O McDaniel vice president of Engelman Gardens Association credited newspaper advertising for Won Up a novel grapefruit juice drink. Sales rose sevenfold in the first half of 1940 vs 1939 with expectations to double in the second half. The firm plans a 40000 square foot warehouse and adds Tangy Tom tomato juice to meet demand.
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Edinburg
Texas
G O. McDaniel
Engelman Gardens Association
Engelman Gardens
McDaniel
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Promote Kidney Relief
Advert says overburdened kidneys and bladder cause fatigue, irritation, frequent urination and backache. Recommends a 35 cent box of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules from druggists, warning against substitutes and urging the box to bear the Gold Medal mark. May mention puffy eyes nervousness and leg cramps as related symptoms.
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Haarlem
Census Deflates Quip Of Small Missouri Town
King City residents once answered visitors with the line It’s 1101 and I’m the one The 1940 census shows the town’s population as 1100 The joke faded after census takers noted the count and a change was made to stop multiple claimants to being the one
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Missouri
King City
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Country Club Terrace
ESS Property
State Theater
EU Neeee i. A. Regal
West Sixth Phone
van Buren County
Aoe
Harvey Southworth
South
Dewey Gray
Amarillo Used Car CO
Fillmore
10Th & Taylor
Tor
Keith Motor Company
Liberal
Keith Motor CO
Callum Motor CO
Tyler
U.S
Buick
Buic
Frost Motor CO
Tyler Ph
FORD
R. D A Moreau
Polk St
Pierce, Apri. C
Chevrolet
Jim Jenkins
Toney Chisum, Inc
Ilth
Rene Rw
TALER
Barr
North Alaama
King Trailer CO
Madison
CREAT
Willys
Elmer Bros
N. Fillmore
Snes
North Lincoln
Prattia Cte
Rolla Cartwright
Khiva Temple
Mystic Shrine
George F. Olendorf
Springfield
Imperial Potentate
Louis Chackes
Ainad Temple
Washington State
Amarillo Finance CO
Fisk
Wolflin Motor CO
Banc
Mark Hopkins
San Francisco
John Wayne
Claire Trevor
Walter Pidgeon
Roy Rogers
the Capitol
Bali
Fred MacMurray
Madeleine Carroll
Allan Jones
The
Star
Holbrook, Mass
Frederick N. Townsend
SAGE
North Taylor Street
Loretta
Fdr, Jr
Millie
Ethel Franklin
Hazel
Christian
E. M
Call
Edna Jean
van Buren Street
Tennessee
16Th and
Monroe
Ellwood Park
A. W. McKee
Monroe Street
East 14Th Avenue
North East Eighth
North
Harrison Street
Cabin 18
Pleasant Valley Tourist Camp
Rex
Ruth Gordon
Otto Kruger
Donald Crisp
Tom Brown
Constance Moore
A. Louise Dietrich
el Paso
Graduate Nurses’ Association of Texas
Rialto
Robert Young
Helen Gilbert
Florian
Lyri
Carole Lombard
Preston Foster
Taffairs
Liberty Io
Ginger Rogers
Ozark
Hilarity
Cretney and
Maxor Drug
News-Globe
Lana Turner
Joan Blondel
Broadway
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Nancy Kelly
Jon Hall
Joan Davis
Welly Vernon
Vyvyan Donner
Technicolor
John Nesbit Short
Globe-News
M.G
Capitol
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