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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1940
Page
8
ST LOUIS July 24 two men fined for appearing in too short shorts. Park Commissioner Joseph Mestres orders police to a male bare hunt while contrasting women’s proper dress. He says men would turn parks into a nudist camp. He will devote time to managing the Springfield club of the Inter American League.
A collage of notices from Amarillo includes travel and visiting updates among residents, birthday wishes, birth announcements, a hospital list, and a charity call. The page lists moves, vacations to California and New Mexico, and local society notes with many names and addresses.
The report lists railway staff including O H Denman colleagues in Charleston with the Rock Island water service, A R Mays and O C Lee and F G Crandell on layoff, R W Simmons on temporary leave, and others traveling or resting. It notes fishing trips, transfers, hospital stay for Pat Patterson, illnesses, and rotating duties at Fort Worth and Denver, Santa Fe, Rock Island, and Waynoka facilities.
A new ice cream plant will open at 212 East Tenth Avenue under E. E. Ransom with capacity for 3000 pints daily or 240 gallons bulk. Ice cream features 16 butterfat, 13 cent pints and 25 cent quarts. Owned by W. F. Cretney, supplies Doherty and Cretney Drug stores in Amarillo Pampa and Borger and 20 Panhandle retailers.
The 150th anniversary display in Washington contrasted a 1914 electric refrigerator with a modern 1940 Frigidaire. The old unit used a top ice box with an air cooled condenser and many belts and switches. The 1940 model features a one piece steel cabinet, moist cold storage, combined switch, meat tender, Quickube trays, adjustable shelves, and the Cold Wall system for longer food preservation. A note adds that about 40 men named Harry hold an annual Harry Breakfast in Fullerton, California.
C F O'Donnell, president, said Southwestern Life wrote more business in the first half of 1940 than any six month period in five years, with insurance in force rising over 11 million to exceed 372 million. Amarillo territory manager G W Mills added first six months 1940 sales surpassed 1939 by over 32 percent, the largest six month total in ten years.
Dr. E M Roberts Jr dentist formerly H H Ball and Roberts announces practice at 308 Blackburn Building with telephone number 5111.
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