Old Fiddlers Contest at Municipal Auditorium
The Tri-State Fair Association presents ten Old Time Fiddlers at the Municipal Auditorium on Friday March 27 1931. Eck Robinson Roy Rodgers Hugh Roden and Dr O H Lloyd will perform with a square dance closing the program admission 75 cents on floor 50 cents balcony and half price for children.
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Municipal Auditorium
Nero
Eck Robinson
Borger
Roy Rodgers
Hugh Roden
O. H. Lloyd
Vega
Tri-State Fair Association
Amarillo
Painters Union Meeting Reports and Local Matters
The Painters Union held a regular meeting at Painters Hall noting a 7:30 start time change to 8:00 PM in April. Reports from committees were discharged. a Hollyoke Massachusetts notice warned of spurious printing paper. the Bureau of Labor Statistics requested wage lists for Amarillo trades. Officers and several members attended. illness cases included George Brown and R. B. Russell’s ill mother in New York. The Carpenters Union rented 212 West Seventh Street’s lower floor to Peerless Furniture. An apprentice, Jim Ramsey, was absent for work in Globe News.
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Ular
Z. W. Smith
J. A. Lyons
Hollyoke
Mass
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Austin
Texas
Amarillo
Griffith
W. W. Finch
Sam Norton
C. P. Fischer
Painters Union
Painters Hall
E. Rollins
Jim W. Brown
L. R. Bumstead
George Brown
R. B. Russell
New York
Amusement Committee
Joe Norman
The
Carpenters Union
West Seventh Street
Peerless Furniture Company
Stubborn cough relief promoted by McMullin's Formula
An old advertisement touts McMullin's Formula as a remedy for bronchial troubles and weak lungs. It notes production by Tilden McMullin Co. in Sedalia Missouri and sales through Randal Drug Co. The product has been marketed since 1916.
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Tilden MecMullin Co
Sedalia
Randal Drug Co
Globe News personnel changes and city gas advances
Reports show linotype staff shifts at the Globe News with several operators relieved or absent for illness and personal business. Mayor Ernest Thompson drives a cheaper gas program in Amarillo, hailed as a major city advance. The note cites 594 workers displaced by new labor saving machinery and reflects on life meaning.
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Ernest Thompson
Amarillo
Thompson
Unclear OCR items from a site include unions pensions and industry notes
The readable text references the American Steel and Wire Company billet mill in Donora Pennsylvania with a $5 million investment and high productivity with few workers. It also mentions a Typographical Union pension fund totals, benefits and rolls, Texas gas pipe mileage, union conventions in El Paso, and assorted rhymes about chewing gum and discipline.
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American Steel and Wire Company
Donora
Othine-double strength freckle cream advert
An advertisement touts Othine double strength cream to fade freckles and blemishes. It promises a soft clear complexion after a few nights use and offers money back if no improvement. It notes a small ounce jar suffices and urges purchase at drug or department stores.
San Francisco Receives New Marine Bell
The San Francisco marine exchange installed a new bell to toll whenever a ship is lost at sea. The bell was dedicated at a ceremony with shipping figures in attendance and rung first for the losses of the South Coast and Brooklyn.
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United Press
San Francisco
Lloyd’s
London
San Francisco Marine Exchange
South Coast
Brooklyn
Damp Air Gas Saver Patent Promises Big Mileage Gains
Walter Critchlow of Wheaton Illinois patents a Damp Air Gas Saver claiming dramatic fuel savings for various vehicles including New Ford and old Ford models. He offers $10000 cash prizes for best gains and seeks county state salesmen and agencies with monthly commissions from 250000 to 1000.00. He will send a unit for trial upon request.
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Walter Critchlow
Wheaton
Ill
Dined Luxuriously Then Phoned Cops in Providence
Carl Marr, 23, who claimed to live in Los Angeles, ordered a turkey dinner a portion of strawberry shortcake a bottle of ginger ale and a high priced cigar at a Providence restaurant. After dining Marr called the police from the restaurant saying he was broke. He was placed in a cell and rested on a bench while smoking the cigar.
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Carl Marr
Los Angeles
Marr
Meteorite Found On Raymond Farm By Plowman
A stone meteorite about 10 inches across was unearthed on the Menlo farm of H. F. Scholz while he plowed. The spheroid shows burn marks from atmospheric entry.
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United Press
Raymond
Wash
H. EF. Scholz
Menlo
Canadian scientist contracts monkey fever in New York
Dr Wray Lloyd a Canadian scientist at the Rockefeller Institute contracted a form of monkey fever from monkeys used in experiments. The illness described as a yellow fever type is not necessarily dangerous though he had a near fatal heart stoppage in 1928 during a demonstration of stimulant theories.
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New York
Wray Lloyd
Rockefeller Institute
Lloyd
Hunger Appeal From Bananas Feeds Unemployed Girls
Miss Frances Perks state labor chief appeals for funds after finding ten cents worth bananas kept eight unemployed girls from hunger longer than other foods. They divided four fruits into equal shares for daily meals, with five inches per person.
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New York
Frances Perks
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Central Labor Union
Carpenters Hall
Herb Lytle
C. K. Griffith
J. Urton
Lucky Tiger
Barbers and Druggiste
Ceness Rifle
Moone
Jim Ramsey
Globe News
FE. M. Turner
Globe
W. A. Robertson
Palmer Black
Globe News Linotype
Pampa
Bob Babb
Northwest Texas Hospital
Jackson Street
Mr. Babb
Roy Cline
Globe-News
Fillmore Street
G. A. Gentry
Typographical Union
New Mexico
Sey Nesance Foods
KGRS
Sally
Stokely
the Typographical Union
United States
el Paso
Fderation of Labor
NEW Marine Bell
Toothpick Makers Hall
Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Boulder Dam
United States Employment Service
General Electric
Join Us
Providence, R. I
Farmer
Loti
Union Bus Station
4Th and Fillmore
Securities Service Corp
Elmer J. Scott
Oliver Eakle
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Phoenix
Rinso
Kellogg’s
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Ology
Old
Fiddlers
City Auditorium
Floor
A. E. Rusk Canyon
Jess Morris _Dalhart
Eck Robertson Borger
Jeke Whetcher
W. E. Walling
Lelia Lake
J. O. Howard
Hereford
Pat Hooker
G. J. E. Ware
Clarendon
J. T. Wills
Plainview
J. A. Whitman
Tahoka
Wilbur C. Hawks
Eck Robertson
Family of Five
Rogers
O. H. Loyd
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