Around Town News Highlights Amarillo Local Life
Visitors from Retail Merchants Credit Association and Father Daley meet in Amarillo. Travel notes include A. and M. College student T. Davis taking a job in Houston and Frances Robertson and Mary Porterfield touring South to Miami and Havana. Numerous local residents plan trips, returns from vacations, and attendance at Philco dealer convention with about 150 attendees from multiple towns.
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Retail Merchants Credit Association
Childress
Frank Daley
Catholic Church of
Amarillo
Frances Robertson
Mary Porterfield
Phillips Petroleum Company
Southland
Dallas
Galveston
Miami
Fla
Havana
Cuba
Pampa
Borger
Dalhart
Tucumcari
Philco
Canary Room
Amarillo Hotel
Jim Skinner, Jr
Philadelphia
Bob White
Memphis
Southern Division
Curtis
Mike Mathes
Fort Worth
Mathes
Philco Company
Mathes Company
Lamesa
Lubbock
Plainview
Tolia
Clarendon
Brownfield
Sudan
Littlefield
Guymon
Okla
Amarillo's Gold Mine Boom Faded After Tough Start
Amarillo's 1905 Triple Metal Mining venture aimed to yield gold from a shaft west of Field station, near Cliffside. Despite initial copper and trace gold assays, faulty timbering and rising water doomed the project after two years. Only a faint ground mood remains today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Renfroe
Amarillo
Triple Metal Mining Company
Triple Metal
Denver
C. G. Landis
A. E. Brashear
Isaacs Brothers
Fort Worth & Denver
Cliffside
Bank Jones
Kansas
United States Geological Survey
Courthouse Records and News From Amarillo Area
Court deeds list transfers for R. H. Ames to Amarillo Laundry Co. and Woodward to J. M. McCain with dates in July 1937. The text also glances at various car registrations, local shop advertisements, and multiple social notes from Amarillo residents visiting Galveston, Dallas, Houston, and other locales, plus a summer houseguest and family trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H
A. M. Jones
George
Nina Nadine
Alice Ann
Galveston
Mr. Jones
Charles L. Andrews
Longview
Andrews Hotel
Amarillo
Mrs. Jones
Dallas
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Promised Sleep Relief
An old advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a "supremely efficient" diuretic and stimulant to flush kidneys of waste and acids and stop nightly awakenings. It claims to cure weak kidneys and irritated bladder with symptoms like backache puffy eyes leg cramps moist palms and burning or scanty passage. The copy urges readers to buy only the GOLD MEDAL product from Haarlem in Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haarlem
Holland
Galveston Officers Capture Slayer
Galveston Texas officers notify Cummins Prison Farm of the arrest of Roy Stewart a 42 year old life term slayer who escaped from Tucker Prison Farm last August and now is recaptured by Galveston police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Galveston
Tex
Roy Stewart
Tucker Prison Farm
Texas
Stewart Refused Ex Traditions and Murder Conviction Details
Convicted May 13 1935 of murdering Police Chief Burr Robert son at Harrison he escaped 15 months later while working in the field. Governor's office in Little Rock announced Stewart had a 25 year sentence for criminal assault in Adrian County Missouri in 1908. Australians Pagen Sydney A P Reverend Atkin calls Australians pagan noting developing race with independent views yet straying from religion.
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Stewart
Burr Robertson
Harrison
Little Rock
Adrian County
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