Lumpkin ruling on glider insurance case featured by magazine
Judge James G. Lumpkin notes in a Seventh Court opinion affirming a Lubbock district court ruling denying insurance benefits to Marion I. Hall in a glider crash case. The article, in the Saturday Evening Post, discusses the interpretation of powered aircraft terms and finds no technical meaning.
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James G. Lumpkin
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Saturday Evening Post
W. M. Stokes
E. L. Pitts
Lubbock
Marion I. Hall
Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Company
Hall
Daniel A. Blair
Lumpkin
Supreme Court
Appellant
Memphis 1842 rally calls for Texas wolf hunt
In 1842 Memphis organizers led by Col Latham form a 20 man volunteer company to march to aid the Texas republic. About $300 in cash is raised as they vow to hunt down Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande. The US government seeks neutrality as Arkansas authorities cite lacking power to stop frontier raiders.
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Memphis
Tenn
Texas
Colonel Latham
Ekagle
Rio Grande
Lone Star Republic
United States
Mexico
Arkansas
Reagan Defends Hollywood Against Hitchcock and Johnson
SAG president Ronald Reagan criticizes Alfred Hitchcock for calling actors children while defending the craft and condemning Senator Johnson’s film licensing proposal. He warns about over-publicity and notes actors’ hard work and discipline, arguing Hollywood balances flaws with virtues.
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Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
Hardy
Alfred Hitchcock
Senator Johnson
Hitchcock
Reagan
Screen Actors Guild
Notice to the Public From The Ens Glebe Board
Publication notice lists censors including Igzard Paul Allingham WN Db and others. Names read like a roster of board members or officials. The text records a notice to publish names and roles associated with the board and individuals named.
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Theens-Glebe Board of Censors
Igzard
Paul Allingham
WN. Db
Zeroes
Prety Camp
Sarah Win
Bob Babb
Lewis Nordyke
Joe Hess
Chariey Underwood
Life and aging thoughts from a restless narrator
A reflective monologue on aging, aging, and the persistence of struggle. The speaker questions whether carefree youth exists and notes ongoing ambitions, disappointments, and a constant search for happiness. He reflects that true happiness comes from simple steadiness, claiming little change since youth and noting contentment only with emotional stillness after sixty.
Birthday Joy and Nuts How Etiquette Shapes a Dinner Tray
A reflective piece on birthdays as ideal joyful days with social warmth. The narrator muses on nut trays at gatherings, preferring almonds and hazelnuts over peanuts and pecans, and notes etiquette from Emily Post forbids selective nut eating when others present. The piece blends social custom with personal appetite and restraint.
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Emily Post
Birthday bowls held almonds and hazel nuts
On my birthday yesterday I found bowls in our home and sorted them. I carefully separated the almonds and hazel nuts, though there were few in total. I removed all the nuts from three separate bowls.
Surprise gifts and quiet wishes on birthdays
A bridge club member notes yearly gifts, secret expectations, and the mix of delight and practicality. He recalls receiving silverware instead of his wish for an aluminum boat and jokes about how gifts reflect gendered expectations and hidden tensions in social circles.
Birthday Tales and Hidden Keepsakes from Amarillo
Tack proudly recounts receiving 19 presents with three opened at the door while grandchildren chased new gifts on the porch. A miniature pistol lighter delights, roses arrive from Ernest Thompson, and a portable typewriter gift to them sparks playful repayment. Don Harrington comments on a gangster's funeral as gifts pour in. Mrs Rip Underwood plans a big art gallery, balancing modern and western tastes.
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Tack
Rip Underwood
Rip
Ernest Thompson
Ernest
Don Harrington
Don
Birthday Plea for Kindness and Gifts to Others
A speaker reflects on a celebratory mood, wishing for universal daily kindness. The speaker advocates giving meaningful gifts such as boats and wrist watches instead of silver to men, imagining a kinder world each day.
Four Month Old Brown Male Pup Seeks Loving Home
A reader advertises a well behaved four month old brown male puppy. House trained and a good watchdog, needing a caring owner who understands dogs. Call mornings, A READER, 2304 Cleveland.
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Tack
Cleveland
SEEKS JOB I am a colored girl seeking non light housework
Classified want ad from a colored girl seeking employment not involving light housework. Contact byPhone 27146 for arrangements.
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Tack
Lonely widow seeks refined gentleman companion
A solitary widow describes herself as brunette, educated, and fond of shows riding and dancing. She does not drink and seeks correspondence with a well mannered man aged 40 to 45 for refined companionship.
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Senate
Reagan
Hollywood
Home care and yard work offered by Mrs Jewett and J W McPherson
Mrs Jewett states she will keep children in her home and provide best care, with contact by phone 25. J W McPherson from 2016 Garfield advertises plowing and yard work, notes several years of Amarillo experience, unavailable last year due to illness but ready to work in good weather, contact phone 28258.
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Tack
Amarillo
J. W. McPherson
Garfield
Quilting and Ironing Services Plus Lost Wallet Notice
Elsie Estelle Brown seeks work offering quilting at $1.25 per 100 yards or ironing at $1 per dozen, in home. Also seeks a hospital bed trade or purchase, and offers a reward for a lost brown billfold with license and Social Security card, contact numbers provided.
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Tack
Ladies’ Brown
Elsie Estelle Brown
Sanborn St
Boy’s bicycle offered for trade or sale
Mrs. Howard Walton offers a nearly new boys sidewalk bicycle, unused, for trade toward a large tricycle or for sale at 15 dollars. Contact 33688. Address 3808 Van Buren.
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Tack
Howard Walton
van Buren
Pekinese Lost Help Request Fronted by Neighbor
Dear Mr Tack would you help me find our Pekinese dog reported missing in the neighborhood. The note asks for assistance locating the pet, describing the dog as a small Pekinese with a tan coat and a red collar, the writer offering a reward if found.
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Mr. Tack
Lost brown and black-nosed puppy named Boy
A brown with black nose ingese puppy with a collar and tag went missing Sunday morning March 19. Contact 3-5124 with any sightings. Also seeking ironing work at home. needs six regular customers as several moved away from Amarillo. Call 2-8632.
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Mornig
Tack
Amarillo
Laundry Service Seeks Dress and Shirt Work
A reader advertises washing and ironing services with specialization in dresses and shirts. Pick up and delivery offered. Call 3 9929 or drop items at 1705 North Washington for prompt service.
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Washington
Typist and File Clerk Seeks Real Estate Office Work
Applicant with four years of high school and two years of college training seeks typing and file clerk work in a real estate office or similar business. Experience in abstract, public stenography, and rental departments. Call 2-0254, room 1 for appointment.
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Tack
Execr
Used clothing for sale with varied sizes and stamps
A seller offers a boys blue Palm Beach suit size 12 with khaki shorts and tennis shoes, two ladies dress shoes sizes 5 and 6, new red corduroy crawlers size 1. Stamps accepted include Gunn Brothers or S and H. Call 3-7143.
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Palm Beach
Gunn Brothers
S&h
Mrs Mary Pipes Dies at St Anthony s Hospital
Mrs Mary A Pipes 56 of 811 North Fillmore died at 8:20 this morning at St Anthony s Hospital after two weeks of hospitalization. She operated the Lela Mae Tourist Court and had lived in Amarillo 30 years. Born March 23 1894 in Columbus Ohio she was a Sacred Heart Cathedral Catholic Church member. Funeral arrangements are pending at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Survivors include husband John T Pipes and two brothers Frank and Art Nelson of Columbus.
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Mary A. Pipes
North Fillmore
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Pipes
Lela Mae
Amarillo
Columbus
Ohio
Sacred Heart Cathedral Catholic Church
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
John T. Pipes
Frank
Art Nelson
Mrs Mary Blake Rites in Houston
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary D. Blake 65 of Tanglewood formerly of Amarillo were held in Houston this afternoon. Mrs Blake and her husband P L Blake moved from Amarillo to Tanglewood about six years ago. Survivors include two sisters in law Mrs J H Timmons of Mississippi and Mrs W C Townes of Polk Street.
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Mary D. Blake
Tanglewood
Amarillo
Housa
Houston
Blake
P. L. Blake
J. H. Timmons
Mississippi
W. C. Townes
Polk
Gray Hair Stopper Fails to Prevent Human Graying
AMA consultants report in the current journal that pantothenic acid and para-aminobenzoic acid may halt hair graying in lab rats but have no effect on humans. They note no agent now prevents human hair graying.
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Chivagu
American Medical Association
AMA Journal
India expands jute area by double cropping and reclamation
India increases land under jute by double cropping and reclamation of waste land without diverting land from food crops. The policy aims to boost jute production while preserving food crop areas and improving soil use through waste land reclamation and intensified cultivation practices.
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India
Protestant group splits on hydrogen bomb policy
The Federal Churches of Christ in America executive committee, representing 29 million Protestants, created a 20 member commission to study the issue after debate and a prayer that the hydrogen bomb may never be used.
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New York
Federal Churches of Christ In America
Egypt crop rises four per cent above 1947 record
Egypt reports a 1948 paddy rice harvest 4 percent higher than the 1947 record. The improvement reflects favorable weather and farming conditions across the Nile delta, with officials noting strong yields in major provincial aggregations.
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Egypt
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