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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1929
Page
7
Memphis sees extensive industrial growth with plans for a replica court house style community building, a $20 000 Gate City Creamery plant, and multiple stores and schools. Lubbock high school plans reach $650 000 while Hedley expands with a $50 000 cotton compress and new railway industry track.
Nice reports the rise of a cocktail bar run by a Paris milliner in a tiny summer resort on the Mediterranean. The former hotel bartender operates the bar, attracting fashionable patrons, with the milliner noting cocktails spur demand for new hats and fashion.
Building permits worth 9845 were issued last week, bringing the year total to 1 127 450. The week’s permits include industrial and dwelling work by Allen Construction of Los Angeles, Thomas Cunningham Star Lumber, A T Zion Edwin Batt, and A W Rutledge. Major projects cover a Santa Fe terminal area roof and garage renovations.
Reports of a Bronx chamber of commerce wager race where an ice dealer beat an auto mechanic by 34 days 2 hours and 5 minutes, plus a New Jersey romance theft case and other regional notes from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Italy about unusual events and industrial alcohol extraction.
More than 1500 biologists will attend the seventy eighth meeting of the American Chemical Society at the University of Minneapolis from September 9 to 18. Topics include nutrition vitamins irradiation endocrinology proteins amino acids and enzymes with a symposium on the chemistry of vital process. Dr Irving Langmuir ACS president will discuss modern concepts in physics and their relation to chemistry on September 11. Patrick Garvan of New York City will receive the Priestley medal for distinguished service to chemistry marking the first time a non scientist has earned the honor.
Plainview shows renewed construction with permits totaling 80 170 as Harrison & Smyth win a 11980 contract for 803 Broadway party wall, and Wayland college gymnasium, Knophuizen Boyd Davenport begin a 9500 brick building on Ash for Hillcrest and paving of 20000 for Hillcrest additions. Residences include 807 Milwaukee 2200 809 Raleigh 3000 813 Columbia 990 and 713 Portland 3000.
The school board will accept bids today for a two story office building on the square's south side to house the tax collector superintendent and secretary. Plainview's total building expenditures for the year stand at 827 820 dollars per the building inspector.
Peter Dyna mite Nauta arranged a large protest against the eighteenth amendment in Buffalo. He rented a 10 000 seat hall and handed out circulars, but the venue drew two attendees who admitted drinking. He began at eight, counted the house at nine, and found only two patrons.
A catalog of numerous house designs is being sold by The Newas Globe and Panhandle Lumber company to promote better homes. The book costs 50 cents for in person pickup or 60 cents if mailed to buyers.
Perryton workers rush to finish the Panhandle Lumber Company hotel, costing about 90000 dollars for the structure and over 100000 dollars when furnished. The three story building will hold 40 guest rooms with baths and telephone service, plus first floor shops, lobby, cafe, and dining room. No operator is announced yet.
In July Turkey reports about $76,000 being spent on new buildings and improvements. Phillips Petroleum completed a $14,000 filling station at Main and Fifth Streets. The Ford dealer Roy Russell builds a $20,000 modern display building on Main and Third. Farmers and Merchants State Bank prep work costs about $20,000 with occupancy planned by September. Additional homes and commercial upgrades, including a $5,000–$6,000 brick veneer house for Elbert Hedrick and a $2,500 five room frame home, join ongoing improvements to Cicero Smith Lumber Co. and gin facilities.
In town plans show extensive building with new cotton houses seed houses and sheds totaling about 5 000 for W L Lacy modern frame home on his farm south of town estimates range 5 000 to 4 000 plans underway for brick business houses and several dwellings a 45 000 school building program is slated to begin soon Tom Colvin wrecked his Main Street frame building to make way for a brick business house and the State Telephone Company has drawn plans for a new office building with early construction hoped for.
Fort McClellan in Alabama is redesignated as a permanent fort by order of General Charles P. Summerall, ending its status as a camp. The 19,000 acre military reserve is now recorded as a fort in the War Department records.
The International Stamp Manufacturers Association selects St. Louis for its 1980 convention. President W. Steiner says the meeting will be held in October 1940 and is expected to draw stamp makers from across the United States.
Fort Worth reports that David Wark Griffith plans a large scale motion picture on Texan history from the Alamo to Goliad and San Jacinto. The film will cover Travis line drawing and Bowie's fate with the Texan defenders remembered as epic heroes.
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