City Postpones Buying Machine Guns for Police
Amarillo city commission delayed the purchase of two machine guns for the police amid emergency use only and bank protection plans. The guns cost 200 dollars each. An emergency ordinance requires garbage collectors to obtain a health department permit and pay a 50 dollar license. The measure follows contract disputes with Panhandle Trading. Three thousand feet of fire hose will be bought and a fire truck repair estimated at 500 dollars.
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Amarillo
H. L. Gaither
Gaither
Health Department
Panhandle Trading Company
60 Days With Pay To Make Paris Trip
Cook county employees may take sixty days off with full pay to attend the Paris convention of The American Legion in September. The county board unanimously adopted the resolution aligning with New York City’s one month paid leave for the same purpose. About fifty Cook county workers and nearly one hundred Chicago city employees are expected to join, swelling the delegation to over five hundred. Many businesses nationwide have also granted such paid leave to ex service members.
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International News Service
Chicago
Cook County
The
American Legion
New York
Louis Nettlehorst
United States
Michigan Botanist Heads to Greenland Arctic Study
Professor William Herbert Hobbs of the University of Michigan travels to Greenland with Carl O. Erlanson to lead a U M botany department expedition studying atmospheric conditions. Joining are Prof. J. E. Church of Nevada, R. L. Belknap, C. R. Calquist, Fred Hers, and P. C. Oscayan. most return after summer, with Church and Oscayan staying through winter.
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B International News Service
Ann Arbor
Mich
William Herbert Hobbs
University of Michigan
Greenland
Carl O. Erlanson
University University Botany Department
Arctic
J. E. Church
University of Nevada
R. L. Belknap
C. R. Calquist
United States Weather Bureau
Fred Hers
Reno
Nevada
P. C. Oscayan
New York
Church
Osecanyan
East Indies Specimens Arrive at Peabody Museum
Cambridge Massachusetts June 1 The Peabody Museum at Harvard receives a valuable Papua New Guinea collection gathered by Harvard 25 P T L Putman during a three month stay. Native weapons drums clothing and other items from Dutch New Guinea are now on display. Putman bartered with brass wire ten cent store knives and sheg tobacco to acquire the artifacts.
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International News Service
Cambridge
Mass
Papua
East Indies
Peabody Museum
Harvard University
P. T. L. Putman
Harvard
Dutch New Guinea
Putman
Gordon's Medicine Claimed To Work Miracles For Stomach Ailments
Thousands of former sufferers praise Gordon's discovery by a Dallas pharmacist as a near miracle for stomach and bowel troubles. It relieves constipation gas dyspepsia heartburn bloating and excess acid. Sold at $1.50 for 64 doses with a money back guarantee if no benefit.
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Gordon
Dallas
Local society and business trips fill weekend
Bessie P Saunders sues for divorce from William E Saunders in district court. Miss Fisher Bonds and sisters Mollie and Nona Bonds of Tucumcari New Mexico and Dr Daisy Pennock spend the week in the Ozarks. Mrs C Homer Wiseman leaves for Dallas with friends for a week. Mrs P L Keller joins husband in Dalhart then trips to Taos and Eagle Nest New Mexico. Frieda Richman of Midwest Exploration visits Denver with parents while colleagues travel to Taos and Santa Fe. R S Macmillan arrives in Amarillo from California on business. The season’s first car of American Beauty cantaloupes arrives via Draper-Ross and Dawson Produce. Mrs F Q Kelleam leaves tomorrow for Oklahoma relatives. Dr Stevenson and Mr Rittenberry reportedly caught seventy fish Sunday at the Canyon. Mrs Harry Schwartz and son Jimmie Manatt return from Chickasha Oklahoma after visit with her mother. Miss Jack Richards and Henrietta Sutton travel to Santa Fe New Mexico for a short visit. Dr P Seay of Morrow-Thomas Hardware to return from Roswell New Mexico. Charles Whittenberg back from Oklahoma City after a few days. Miss Catherine Sutton returns from Olustee Oklahoma.
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Bessie P. Saunders
William E. Saunders
Miss Fisher Bonds
Mollie
Nona Bonds
Tucumcari
New Mexico
Daisy Pennock
Ozarks
C. Homer Wiseman
Overland
T. L. Calloway
Floydada
Dallas
P. L. Keller
Dalhart
L. L. Rector
Taos
Eagle Nest
Frieda Richman
Midwest Exploration Company
Denver
Colorado
M. Richman
W. G. Baker
C. R. Cohagan
Santa Fe
R. S. Macmillan
Macmillan Refining Company
Amarillo
California
Draper-Ross and
Dawson
F. Q. Kelleam
Oklahoma
Stevenson
Rittenberry
Canyon
Harry Schwartz
Schwartz Dress Shop
Jimmie Manatt
Chickasha
Calotabs Purification Promises Health Boost
An advertisement urges readers to purify the body with Calotabs as Nature's foundation of health. It recommends a thorough cleansing course, taken once or twice weekly for several weeks, and notes a family package with directions priced at 35 cents in drug stores.
Local Social and Construction Notes From Amarillo Area
The item notes visits by Dorothy Adkins and Major Rutherford in Amarillo, a Polk Street church shower for Leland and Leland Breckenridge, and bid openings for Miami high school construction with Guy A. Carlander as architect. Also mentions a three pound bass caught near Hereford, travels to Carlsbad Cavern, and plans for a trip to Clovis New Mexico along with a Dalhart visit by Dr and Mrs Charlie Deets.
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Dorothy Adkins
Alabama Avenue
Nancy J. Adkins
R. C. Rutherford
Ft. Sill
Oklahoma
Amarillo
Epworth League
Polk Street Methodist Church
Elder
Taylor Street
Leland Breckenridge
Clarendon
Miami
Guy A. Carlander
H. H. Johnson
Valentine Ranch
Hereford
Prince of Wales Horse Runs Away in Hunt
The Prince of Wales had an exciting encounter with one of his hunters at Craven Lodge Melton Mowbray. Just as he was to mount the horse it broke loose galloped along the main road pursued but outdistanced. The horse was stopped several miles away.
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International News Service
Melton Mowbray
Eng
Prince of Wales
Craven Lodge
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Charles Whittenberg
Oklahoma City
Catherine Sutton
Amarillo Business College
Olustee
J. W. Clifton
J.l.summers
West 6Th St
Heman
Just
Amarillo Hardware Co
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Mrs. la Faber
Carlsbad
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Bertha van Osdel
Rush Center
Kansas
Holmes and Edwards
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Smith Bros
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