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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1940
Page
3
Vacation time strains budgets but safe tires save money. Hawkinson treading via Simpson Tire Company in Amarillo offers time payment and free examinations for auto and tractor tires with no obligation. Bring tires in to assess retreading viability.
The Fl Hott Greer Company at 508 Taylor Street promotes the Super Speed L C Smith typewriter praising its margin setting and touch selector. Elliott Greer also sells the Corona portable. The ad invites demonstrations by calling 2 2236. Also featuring Sons of the West Panhandle orchestra at the Rainbow with Old Time Dance night and a Roundup Dance on Saturday. Admission is 40 cents per couple.
Dr T M Montgomery of Montgomery and Leach optometrists urges yearly complete optometric visual analyses. He argues eye health reflects general bodily well being and cautions against casual eye care and indiscriminate glasses purchases.
In Dresden Tennessee Guy Smith shows a two legged mule that stands upright after help and can walk unaided. Officials note a statistic that 80 percent of fatal motor accidents occur from 6 PM to 6 AM, though traffic is lighter then.
Johnson-Price Company displays the Round Oak Oneida gas range at 611 Fillmore offering butane compatibility and features such as multi speed burners, automatic heat control, smokeless broiler and divided top with storage cabinets. An on display showroom presentation invites in house viewing today.
Amarillo Dairy Products Company urges summer sanitation and notes all sources supplying their milk are Grade A dairies. The firm, at 421 East Fourth Avenue, highlights pasteurized Milk Chocolate and Oregold drinks, distributed city wide or available at grocers, with delivery by calling 7378.
Dr J F Bromert explains neuritis as nerve inflammation affecting feet legs hands and arms with possible facial nerve involvement. He notes acute cases linger weeks while chronic cases involve toxins and nerve degeneration leading to muscle wastage and paralysis.
Nell Kidd’s Beauty Shop at 710 Tyler Street offers half price electrolysis for a month with free confidential consultations. The ad promotes permanent hair removal as safer than tweezing or chemicals and urges calling 5504 for information. The rest of the text discusses neuritis causes and chiropractic care, not related to the beauty offer.
McComb Mississippi resident Sybil Williams found 61 four leaf clovers in a one foot square patch of her lawn signaling good fortune to the owner as she counts the lucky plants on her property.
In Memphis a humorous note describes 20 males in a pasture forming a line to swat flies as a playful mutual aid scene. It mentions Benjamin Franklin as the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence and cites an average signer age of 45 with Franklin at 70.
Advertises pattern 6752 for a lacy baby robe suitable for outdoor or indoor wear. Includes instructions materials and illustration. Requests ten cents and name address pattern number to Amarillo Daily News Household Arts Dept New York NY.
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