Massachusetts Plans Standardized Road Signals Nationwide
The Massachusetts Department of Public Works partners with Harvard's Albert Russell Erskine Bureau for Traffic Research to survey and implement uniform traffic signs signals and boulevard stop routes. Chapter 357 of 1928 authorized a traffic engineering agency to aid local officials in safe, consistent traffic control.
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International News Service
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Department of Public Works
Albert Russel Erskine
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Providence
New Orleans
Knoxville
Commonwealth
National Engineering Conference Committee
Department of Commerce
William F. Williams
Publicers
Department
State
Board Cleans House as City Development Office Clears Files
The Board of City Development conducted a house cleaning yesterday aided by J B Biggs and department heads. Desks were cleared for action despite heat as unnecessary papers and advertising matter were removed. Also noted is a call to back wartime heroine Miss K M G Davis’s efforts to protect soldiers from gas gangrene, based on her self experimentation in 1915 near Neuilly with Dr. Taylor.
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Board of City Development
Colonel Haines
J.B. Biggs
Biggs
Great Britain
K. M. G. Davis
Miss Davis
Punjab
Neuilly
Paris
Taylor
Davis
Brazelton Lumber Co Modernizes Yard and Adds PEERLESS Line
Brazelton Lumber Co at 200 North Fillmore completes yard and office remodeling to boost customer service with top materials. Jas M. Pryor says improvements support financing planning and building services for all projects. The store adds PEERLESS built in furniture and stocks PITTSBURGH paints and lacquers widely used by Amarillo builders under the Proven Service slogan.
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Brazelton Lumber Company
North Fillmore
Jas M. Pryor
Peerless
Pittsburgh
Amarillo
St Anthony's Hospital Opens In Amarillo Southwest
The New St Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, completed at 400000, is praised as one of the region's finest. It features modern sanitation, sunlight, ventila tion, ice water, blanket warmers, all metal furniture, and bright maternity rooms. The building spans five floors with separate zones for consultations, medical cases, and operating rooms, with total equipment cost around 45000.
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Amatilla
St. Anthony's Hospital
Amarillo
Amarilloans Leave No Fishin Stream
Bravis Coe and Dr. R A Duncan return from a week long Gunnison Colorado fishing trip reporting a drastic trout decline after removing more than 250 fish. Local friends deny the tale calling it a fish story and offer no fish from Amarillo.
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Gunnison
Colorado
Bravis Coe
R. A. Duncan
Dr. Duncan
Mr. Coe
Amarillo
Amarillo Laundry Runs Ten Trucks For City Work
Amarillo Laundry, led by general superintendent J B McClure, serves about three thousand customers weekly and handles over 6000 pounds of washing per week with ten delivery cars and 15 employees. It specializes in blanket washing using special machinery and operates the largest cleaning and pressing plant in the city. The firm is part of the National Association Dyers and Cleaners and maintains branch offices in Claude and Duval. Bob Ames, owner manager, started the business thirty years ago, growing from a pioneer shop to a major regional laundry. It aims to lift the burden of blue Monday for Amarillo housewives with complete modern equipment.
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Amarillo
J. B. McClure
Then
National Association Dyers and Cleaners
Claude
Duvis
Bob Ames
Ava Hae
Church House Progress on Tenth Street Methodist Church
Progress continues on the new two story Tenth Street Methodist church at Tenth and Roberts. Most framework is complete and roofing is underway. The building, funded largely by donations and volunteer labor, will include two stories and a basement. The basement is finished and used as a meeting space, aided by a gate from an old church site.
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Tenth Street
Tenth and Roberts Streets
New Resident Hotel Offers Home Comfort
The Resident Hotel at 1417 Harrison street offers 28 rooms with private baths and telephones. Weekly rates are 7 to 8 dollars, monthly 25 to 30 dollars for one or two persons. Managers Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mason run the hotel, favoring quiet, restful atmosphere for transient and permanent guests near Elwood park.
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Harrison Street
Mre
W. W. Mason
Elwood Park
Fain Janitor Supply Expands in Amarillo Growth
The H. B. Fain Janitor Supply Company increases staff to five, moving from East Seventh Street to 100 West Fifth, expanding manufacture of furniture polish floor dressing disinfectants insecticides shampoo liquid soap and other cleaning products to serve the Panhandle Oklahoma and New Mexico. The firm plans further output growth to become a leading local industry.
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H. B. Pain Janitor Supply Company
East Seventh Street
Fain
Tulsa
Weet
Fifth Street
Panhandle
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Amarillo
Girl Scouts Plan Swim Party Near City
Amarillo Girl Scouts will hold a swim party at the scout camp ten miles west of the city at 4 o clock Thursday afternoon. Girls supply their own transportation. The swimming will be directed by Mrs J R Hogue, expert swimmer and instructor.
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Amarillo
Mildred Austell
Mra. J. R. Hogue
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