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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1931
Page
9
A collection of personal help wanted notices and a lost item notice appears. Women seek work including housework and sewing, a reader looks for daily or hourly work, a widow seeks housekeeping, a caller reports a found Masonic pin, and a motorist requests recovery of a lost tire tube and rim.
A terse plea from a person seeking any kind of work including store clerk beauty work or hotel clerk duties with willingness to relocate from the city. Also offering quilts for sale and a three room house for rent with a note to contact Tack at Western Hotel Room 219.
A widow with six children under fourteen appeals for linoleum aid to cover floors and provide safer living conditions. Neighbors and charitable groups are urged to contribute materials or funds to help improve the family's home.
Advertises Nurita as a quick safe relief for neuritis rheumatism sciatica lumbago and neuralgia. Claims fast effect and no narcotics with a money back guarantee if the first three powders fail. Urges helpless pain sufferers to try Nurita from their druggist today.
A 28 year old man from 1502 Johnson Street appeals for any job to support his wife who soon faces hospital bills. He has experience in farming and dairying and will take any available work, offering references for both trades. He emphasizes willingness to endure hard labor to establish a home.
A collage of tiny advertisements and notices appears. Residents seek linen donations for a sick woman with rough floors, look for a Collie or Shepherd puppy, a young man posts for any honest work, someone offers a black and white puppy, and a new nursery school advertises starting July 27 with hours and pricing.
A local appeal asks readers to donate clothing and sheets for a young married woman expecting a baby. The note from MRS L asks neighbors to help with any amount or item, praising the recipient’s appreciation.
A series of classified pleas from individuals seeking work and assistance. Estelle Decourcy Scott asks for child care chances at 812 West Thirteenth Avenue, while M Cravens offers housework cooking or child care at 1017 Arthur Street. Lillie Morgan seeks any home or cafe work and Ernest Hamilton promotes hand painted score pads. A widow seeks housing with her 12 year old daughter in a motherless home or family setting near a school. Telephone numbers included.
A widow aged 44, 5'5" tall with brown hair asks readers to help her find a good husband. She weighs 120 pounds and describes herself as good looking. She wishes to meet men aged 48 to 65 and asks interested suitors to write to Mrs. Lapiner 8 in care of Tack.
A single, unencumbered applicant seeks an indoor housekeeping role. She offers to perform house chores and requests job help or guidance in securing employment.
A reader from Amarillo says listening to the radio program led to personal blame and claims of selling the radio, whipping his wife, cussing Henry Ansley and President Hoover, and noting the depression. He offers no apology and reflects on being a long-time Amarillo resident.
The message requests help with local references and offers thanks. It includes a phone number 4481 as a contact detail and expresses appreciation for any possible assistance.
Oran Kelly of Spearman Texas argues wheat prices near production cost justify town farmers buying and storing their anticipated next year output. The move would reduce acreage, rest the land, and save machinery wear and tear. He believes the idea has merit.
Young man seeks ride sharing toward Denver Colorado within days and offers to exchange local reference. A W lists 205 South Lincoln Street and phone numbers 20155 9761 7536 offering beauty work light housework or clerk duties with references.
Plans for a new air mail route connect Amarillo with Fort Worth and Pueblo with Cheyenne to El Paso. The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will send greetings to chambers along the landing cities as thousands of letters flood the post office. Many letters are held for first planes, with some returned as souvenirs. others are redirected to postmasters en route.
The Chamber of Commerce highway department surveys all highway construction projects in the Texas Panhandle Oklahoma and New Mexico. Results will be handed to automobile associations to press an emergency highway construction bill at the December session. The program would expand jobs without hindering state or county projects.
Light rains in Amarillo and Hereford failed to ease a heat wave that peaked at 105 degrees. Amarillo received about .09 inches of rain around 4:30 am while Hereford measured about one eighth of an inch. The Weather Bureau forecast continued fair and warmer conditions for Amarillo and surrounding areas tonight and Tuesday.
In San Antonio Texas on July 27 the United Press reports bids for construction of engineering shops and other units at Duncan Field will be opened August 24 at Fort Sam Houston. The total construction program costs about 440000 dollars. Bids for a gasoline field station at the field will be opened August 19.
Amarillo county officers logged 63 entries at Potter County Sheriff W N Thompson office over the weekend. One release was recorded three cases went to federal authorities for violation of the national prohibition act and the rest were booked for Potter County. Violations included liquor laws gaming vagrancy disturbing the peace and other minor offenses with several pleas of guilty and a few swindling charges referred to the grand jury.
W. G. Airhart, a local poultryman, was gored by an enraged bull yesterday in Greenville Texas while crossing a pasture. He sustained a broken shoulder and severe bruises from the attack.
An advertisement claims Nadinda Bleaching Cream gives smooth white skin by bedtime, banishing tan, freckles, pimples, and blackheads while you sleep. It offers full directions and a money back guarantee with packages priced at 90 cents and $1 at toilet counters.
Aminer Melster urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve the Groveton Lufkin and Northern Railway abandonment of its 22 mile line between Groveton and Vair.
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