Amarillo City Faces Broad Agenda For Next Year
City officials led by Mayor Lawrence Hagy and Commissioners Bud Curtis and Ira Stephenson begin a second year of duties amid heavy burdens and weathered setbacks. Key tasks include revenue sources, sewer expansion, a $2 million water project, highway improvements, street signs, city offices, jail and fire facilities, and better police recruitment. The group also created a city manager and director of public works, expanded English Field, extended city limits, and enacted eight charter amendments with a new municipal tax and a street repair program.
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Cat Brumley
Lawrence Hagy
Com
Bud Curtis
Ira
Hagy
Stephenson
Hay
Amarillo
Hagg
Ira Stephenson
N. V. Moss
Water Department
H.R. Smith
Amarillo Army Air Field
English Field
Grave markers vanish at Boot Hill in Dodge City
Visitors to Boot Hill have taken the grave markers of Toothless Nell Spider Bane and two others from the hilltop. Roy Hardin, custodian of the Boot Hill Museum, blames souvenir hunters for the losses and warns that more markers may disappear.
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Boot Hill
Dodge City
Kan
Toothless Nell
Dodgery
Spider Bane
Roy Hardin
Tolerance and Free Speech at Andy's Garden Tavern
A reader reflects on public opinion gathering in Andy's Garden Tavern. The piece extols American habit of sharing views on shifts in culture and politics, praising individual liberty, voting, speech, and the right to enjoy beer amid differing opinions.
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Andy
Triplets Faith Hope and Charity Capture Local Attention
In Amarillo Texas and Marlboro Massachusetts readers recall Faith Hope and Charity triplets famed for mixing up dates at a ball. Eighty year old widows Mrs Annie Faith MacDonell Mrs Ellen Hope Daniels and Mrs Nora Charity Murphy describe marriage as their only true bond and humor about past confusions remains.
Three Triplets Charm Ball with Surprising Date Escape
The white-haired bespectacled triplets Paith Hope and Charity won baby show prizes at a state contest in Boston. They shared a tale of dressing for a date, hiding the beau’s name, and slipping downstairs to meet him with two escorts after he recovered from a scare. They kept partners switched throughout the ball, while officials note the trio’s charm.
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West
Boston
Mechanics Building
Paith
Hope
Charity
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Attala County
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Gaymode Hosiery
Penney’s
Batiste
Penneys
Calomel
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Amarillo Globe
Texas
Faith
Holmes School of Shorthand
Nichols
Panhandle
Paint & Body Works
Canyon Highway
Harry Reimers
Hans Reimers
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