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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1926
Page
13
A flood of solicitations seeks agents and sales staff for various products and territories. Listings include shoe manufacturing reps in Taetan Masa, Magzie Gas cans, candy and mints reps, hose and knitting company roles, auto valve caps, and truck sales positions. Widespread pay promises, bonuses, and no investment offers appear, with many calling for quick responses from interested applicants.
A jumble of job ads and contact notes appears including meat cutter, married man for work, clerical, bookkeeper, stemographer, accountant, and farm or firm positions. Scattered phone numbers and addresses accompany scattered employment leads.
Classifieds describe multiple help wanted ads for outdoor distribution of samples and advertising materiel. Positions include reliable individuals in cities to distribute free samples, no experience needed, good pay, daily pay promises, and contract opportunities. Also mentions a car sales role for auto tires and tubes with exclusive territory and a $300 monthly salary.
A collection of classified style notices seeking women for home work stenography sales and at home crafts. Some entries offer home embroidery, dress and girdle sales with stated earnings and mail options. Multiple firms listed include Premier Art Co Hicks Rubber Co Consolidated Card Co Denison Franklyn Products Grace Ember and others.
Classified listing of poultry and pets for sale including setting eggs Rhode Island Reds Barred Rocks and White Leghorn pullets. German Police puppies and pups. baby chicks hatching eggs Tancred White Leghorn strain. various contact names and phones. rentals and notices mixed in.
The Wembley exposition closure in 1924 affected 3400 waitresses. The ad mentions Dixon Creek oil stock and Dixon Drug Co in New Mexico with Curry and Lea County and Clovis references, and a willingness to buy a few hundred shares at a fair price.
The notice highlights a 4 000 acre oil lease area between White Deer and Pampa with additional 10 000 acres available in the same territory. Texas Co and an Oklahoma partner are tied to a potential well. Leases royalties and drilling contracts are offered as specialty services.
A brief contact line lists Dunaway and Patterson with the phone number 1005 and a room designation 7 in the Nunn Building, indicating an office or business listing.
Mrs. Margaret C. Atkins died at 1920 Lincoln Street Thursday night. Funeral services were held at the Griggs Undertaking chapel at 8 o clock with Rev J C Sisemore officiating. Burial followed under the Security Benefit association. Pallbearers were J M Gifford D D Burrow D Grantham Jack Parks M F Taylor and I J Cobb.
A reflective piece on following one’s personal gleam to the end. It argues true success lies in loyalty to one’s standards, not in wealth or fashion, and cautions against disloyalty as the common community failure.
Kansas City church leaders and pastors clash after Dr. Evans and Rev. Gregory demand resignations of two ministers who criticized parts of the Old Testament as unfit for teaching children. Evans defends stance while supporters say much of the OT is unnecessary and overly long for practical use.
In Mountain View Oklahoma on March 15 14 year old Donald Kodaseet avoided a school bus at his father's Sedan farm home. As the bus arrived the boy entered a room seized a shotgun and shot himself in the front yard in view of classmates. Death was sudden.
The Business and Professional Women's Club will not meet at 6 15 o'clock Tuesday evening at the Amarillo hotel. It will instead meet next Tuesday evening at the Amarillo hotel for a dinner business session.
A distorted account notes anger over Western plains rabbit slaughter and hunting limits affecting locals from the East Side New Yorker to Kantener. Western states react with frustration as legal limits on bunny hunting collide with long standing fare.
Readers hear snippets from community figures about current schedules and mentoring ideas. Walter Mieckinsen praises the board’s announced plan, noting it could work with the precinct mentors, while a local business man references a Sunday News story about a Pampas pusher joke and public response.
In Kane Pennsylvania a mother Mittie Towner and her four sons John 12 Leonard 10 Clinton 6 George 2 died when the home of Samuel Towner near Simpson burned. The father and three other children were seriously injured as walls collapsed during the blaze believed caused by an overheated stove.
In the first spring primary Republicans in South Dakota vote March 23 to pick US Senate candidate between Senator Peter Norbeck and Sioux Falls attorney George J. Danforth. The general election pits Gunderson and Platt against the winner. Norbeck supports rural credit defense. Danforth champions private enterprise limits and rural credit issues.
Chicago reports a major survey of farm wives. About 14 000 representatives will inventory home conditions and working environments through monthly postcards and local demonstrations led by Mrs Mary Puncke.
A contentious session in the capital sees Representatives and Senators debating temperance laws and proposed modifications. Pro and anti prohibition factions clash as a committee weighs public hearings and accountable leadership amid calls to curb perceived alcohol permit abuses and ensure confidence in government.
Askew tells Kiwanis Amarillo must secure a union station in months or drop the idea. He says two railroads back the project and calls for immediate work. Agkeon notes a Rock Island line subway and Port Worth and Denver route on Ilimore street. Virginia Krug and Irvin Wolzien with Mrs Wolffram perform violin duets.
H Lott owner and C G Anderson manager of the Overland Knight company at Tenth and Taylor streets plan a large crowd for the formal opening tomorrow. Souvenirs will be given, an orchestra will entertain, and the newly completed garage building houses auto service and sales with a full service station. The large repair room in the rear is among the biggest in Amarillo.
Five bodies were identified after the Creswell hotel blaze in Shreveport on Sunday, with no additional victims expected. Names include Tom W. Hoskins aged 12, August Beeheim 65, Jack Hutte from Escanaba, D. H. West from Nashville, and Martin Lester 24, an employee of a Louisiana firm. Investigation into the blaze began, origin undetermined.
A fragmented OCR reads like notes about directors and film plans, mentioning names such as Mary Jane and John, with references to cameras, money, and plans. The garbled text suggests a discussion of production details and company actions, but contains many illegible portions.
Fragmented text from a historical page yields no clear events, names, or places. The legible portions show scattered letters and broken words, preventing a coherent summary or identification of individuals or actions.
Readable fragments show dairy and poultry market notes, cattle and hog prices, and Tuesday March 25 livestock figures from Chicago and Oklahoma City markets. Details include fat steers around 8.35, cows near 8.00, hogs at 10.40 to 12.00, and mixed poultry prices with eggs and turkeys referenced.
East St Louis buyers report hogs and cattle prices with totals for hogs 11 500 and cattle 3 000 beef steers and cows totals. Kansas City market notes corn oats and wheat futures with grain price figures across No 4 white No 2 yellow and No 2 hard wheat.
In London and New York trading, exchange rates show irregular demand with Britain at 4.851-15, cables 1.551-16, and 60 day bills 4.818. France sees 3.5 on cables, Germany at 20.80, Tokyo at 5 and other currencies varied.
Market notes list fat cows at 4.50 to 6.00, top veal 50, bull prices around 4.00, hogs steady near 12 to 12.50, packing sows 10 to 11.25, sheep around 4.25 to 12.00, cattle totals 2 760 with calves noted. Packing and stock cattle price ranges appear for Wichita and Fort Worth markets with fluctuating bids.
A cryptic New York notice from March 15 details an auction of a medical device related items with bidding terms and technical references. It lists a number of codes and figures, indicating the sale time and conditions and mentions accounts and access terms for interested bidders.
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