Secretary Day Draft Speeches and Amarillo Breakfast Parade
A humorous Amarillo Chronicle column urges flowers for secretaries ahead of Secretary Day. It recounts a city event schedule at the Paramount and Amarillo Hotel, with breakfast, talks by local officials, and a broad roundup of local lore and wartime notes reflecting daily life and economy.
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Joy Nee
Amarillo
Paramount
Byack King
Intertate
Joe Jenkins
Old Town
Red Cross Nurse Aide Program Stresses Volunteer Basis
Minnis Hall argues in Amarillo letters that Red Cross aides will be volunteers, not paid nurses, with 80 hours training under a nurse supervisor. She compares roles to Junior Welfare League workers and frames hospital nursing as war work benefiting soldiers, babies, and the wealthy alike.
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American Red Cross
Aurae
Amarillo
Red Cross
Nuurse
Junior Welfare League
Minnis Hall
Amarillo Sells Two Used Air Compressors
Amarillo sold two obsolete air compressors once used to lift water from Word Ranch wells now shipped to Houston to polish naval castings. WPB froze the equipment briefly before a permit allowed the sale to Texas Electric Steel Casting Company, yielding 8500 dollars for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
United States Navy
Word Ranch
WPB
Texas Electric Steel Casting Company
Houston
Slightly Cooler Weather Forecast For Today
The weather bureau predicts a slightly cooler afternoon and night with strong winds, especially in the afternoon. Yesterday’s high reached 97 degrees and the low this morning was 71.
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Bureau
Hitler
Musso
The
German Bombers Sink Merchant Ship in Arctic Raid
German bombers sank a 4,000 ton merchant ship and badly damaged two others while shooting down seven Russian planes in yesterday’s raid on the Arctic Soviet port of Murmansk, military circles said today.
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Merlin
Neadly
Murmansk
Colored woman seeks half day or hourly work
A reader at 212 Madison Street offers services as a good cook with cafe experience and willingness to work by the hour day or week or for a ranch or harvest crew. CONTACT 313 N. W. 2nd Street. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5)
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Madison Street
Tack
N. W
2Nd Street
City Land Sold At Word Ranch Near Amarillo
Six sections totaling 3864 acres at the Word Ranch, 20 miles southwest of Amarillo, were sold by the city to J Paul Craig for 15 75 an acre. Two other bids were considered including Bill Me Spadden at 1541 an acre. The city retains water rights and three and a half sections of the original ranch. Proceeds go to bond purchases or water works funds. The sale followed a May 26 bid process and earlier sale of 20 nearby acres to the American Smelting plant for 522 50.
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Kiwanis
Amarillo
Denver
R. V. Marcus
Salinas
Cal
J. Paul Craig
Bill MeSpadden
Tom Cotten
Homer Wheeler
McSpadden
J. R. Lawrence
Cameron Nesbitt
Craig
R. L. Pond
Lindsay Nunn
Toney Chisum
Pond
Bet Renfro
Nunn
Mr. Chisum
Eleventh Avenue
Polk Street
Water Works Department
American Smelting & Refining Companies
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