Potter Paving Northeast on 136 Awarded Big Texas Highway Jobs
Austin May 1 U P Texas announced one of its largest highway contract awards totaling over 1.2 million dollars across 29 projects. Notable awards include Potter County 17.4 miles of bituminous seal coat on Highway 136 from 73 miles north of Amarillo to the south line, and several grading drainage and bridge contracts on Highways 112 22 7 and 1 in Gonzales Freestone Anderson Dallas and Rusk counties awarded to multiple firms with sums ranging from 9 767 to 194 829 dollars.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
Potter County
Amarillo
Public Construction Co
Denton
Gonzales
Cage Bros
J. C. Ruby
Bishop
Turkey
D. H. Buchanan Construction Co
Temple
Freestone and
Anderson
Navarro County
Trinity River
E. W. Hable
Corsicana
Bonners Ferry
Elkhart
Moore & Sons
Lufkin
Mansons Creek
W. S. Crawford Co
Dallas
Texas and New Orleans Railway
Central Bitulithie Co
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Austin Bridge Co
Austin Road Co
Highway
Cherokee County
P. B Keller
Joint Highway Session Opens to Discuss Gaps
Highway officials from three major routes touched by the Panhandle met at 2 pm at the Herring Hotel to discuss funding for paving gaps and building underpasses. Supporters from U S 66 U S 60 and Colorado to Gulf Highway State Highway No 5 Texas attended.
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Panhandle
Herring Hotel
Colorado
Texas
Services Held For Mrs Hutson In Happy
Last rites for Mrs Fannie Hutson 77 were set for 3 pm at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home with Rev T D Sumrall officiating. Her body was to be sent to Celina Texas for burial after dying yesterday morning in a local hospital.
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Fannie Hutson
Blackburn-Shaw
T. D. Sumrall
Fundamentalist Baptist Church
Celina
Tex
Mrs. Sara Jane Martin Rites Set In Anson
The body of 80 year old Mrs. Sara Jane Martin who died yesterday at her son's home 2114 Lincoln Street was sent to Anson for burial by Blackburn Shaw. Survivors include four other sons Jeff Martin Rotan Bud Martin Anson Leander Martin Hoodville Ore Horace Martin Tenaha and two daughters Mrs Ollie McDugald Rule and Mrs S R Isabel Lubbock.
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Sara Jane Martin
R. T. Martin
Lincoln Street
Anson
Blackburn Shaw
Rule
S. R. Isabel
Lubbock
Amarillo Social Workers name nominating committee
A nominating committee to elect permanent officers was appointed at a meeting of the Amarillo Council of Social Workers in the Amarillo Hotel. Named to the panel were Mrs. J. K. Scott, Mrs. E. E. Finklea and Bishop R. E. Lucey. A May 7 meeting will complete the permanent organization.
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Amarillo
Insurance Certificate For Aetna Issued By Texas Officials
notice confirms Aetna Insurance Company Hartford Connecticut has met Texas laws to operate and a Certificate of Authority is issued for year ending February 28 1936. signed by R L Daniel chairman of the board with official seal. April 24 1935. Reagan Thomson Company Amarillo Texas agents. Then a zoning hearing notice for 1500 to 1510 South Fillmore Street Amarillo Texas May 7 1935 at 8:00 PM before City Commission to change Lot 1 Block 210 Plemons Addition from D Apartment District to C Retail District city secretary Leverne Calhoun confirms.
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Board of Insurance Commissioners
State of Texas
Austin
Texas
Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford
Connecticut
Tex
R. L. Daniel
Department of Insurance
Reagan- Thomson Company
Amarillo
Fillmore Street
City Commission
Council Chamber
Plemons
Leverne Calhoun
Casey Jones and railroad life from a bygone era
The column recalls Casey Jones born John Luther Jones of Cayce Kentucky and his heroic final run from Memphis to Vaughn Mississippi on April 30 1900. It notes his whistle and air brake actions saving others in a wreck, the widow’s lawsuit over a film, and nearby railroad personnel and unions amid 1930s industry updates.
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Casey Jones
Illinois Central Railroad
Jackson, Tenn
Casey
John Luther Jones
Cayce
Kentucky
Memphis
Tenn
Canton
Miss
Vaughn
Hollywood Moving Picture Company
Earle Brewer
Mississippi
William Gibbs McAdoo
Janie Brad
Jackson
H. A
Dad) Norton
Hinton Returns to Washington for Amarillo Fund Drive
Carl Hinton secretary of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce returns to Washington on April 22 to boost a 30 000 budget campaign. He helped secure a federal emergency grant for wind erosion aid in 46 counties and obtained five CCC camps for the region as the Conchas Dam project in northeast New Mexico awaits inclusion in the President’s program.
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Washington
Amarillo
Panhandle
Carl Hinton
CCC
Conchas
New Mexico
Hinton
From log cabin schooling to Congress and medicine to law
A biographical vignette spans the rise of a self made public figure from Parker County notes to New York politics, highlighting a million dollar fee earned in law and a shift to national prominence. It then recounts Walter P Chrysler’s early railroad work and later car manufacture, noting a 57 305 December 1934 sales figure and a stray remark on opportunity. The Texas Centennial plans include invitations to President Roosevelt and other leaders in 1936.
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Parker County
New York
Congress
Walter P. Chrysler
Texas Press Association
Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
National Congress
Texas
Sambo the Chef Cross Stitched Towel Motifs Gift Idea
A playful Sambo character cross stitched as a kitchen companion to Mammy towels pattern 5250. It suggests gifting a Sambo and Mammy towel set for a June wedding and includes transfer pattern 5328 with seven motifs and stitch instructions. Pattern order requires 10 cents, send to Amarillo Globe Household Arts Dept. New York. A train itinerary lists stops from Houston to Dallas.
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Sambo
Amarillo Globe Household Arte Dept
W. 14Th Street
New York
N. Y
Mrs. M. J. Denning of Ralls Passes Away
Death notice from Ralls reports Mrs. M. J. Denning aunt of three Ama- til la women. Survivors in town are Mrs. B. W. Trice Mrs. Meota Oden and Mrs. John B. Gilvin. She had lived with Mrs. Dollie M. Ralls in Ralls and previously in California. The body will be sent to Henrietta Texas for burial with services there at 2 PM tomorrow.
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M. J. Denning
Ralls
B. W. Trice
Lincoln
Meota Oden
Harrison
John B. Gilvin
Buchanan
Henrietta
Tex
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