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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1940
Page
11
Alpha Iota Alumnae dance drew an estimated 500 attendees with about 150 stags at the Nat. Decorations cost under ten dollars featuring pastel sweet peas on lattice and blue and white sorority letters. Amarillo College hosts the active chapter with Helen Immel as president.
The item lists true false geography questions and then profiles social events at the Lubbock Country Club including the German Shipwreck Dance and K K K Club banquet. It mentions Harriet Holman as club president, officers elected, and reader mail from Bill about a Sigma girl. Also notes Don Schomburg's tennis outing and Braniff rep’s activities.
In a dramatic late scene Cecily and Philip Callen confess their feelings after a perilous night. Rawlins triggers a fire to cover a theft of jewels from Madame Darrell, but Callen intervenes and subdues him. He then pledges to a shared future amid danger and romance.
Prof Tenney L Davis of MIT told Boylston Chemical Club that gunpowder’s use in mining and engineering shaped civilization more than America. He demonstrated safety by placing powders on his hand and detonating them without harm.
In Portland Maine a $2 purchase brought John R. Cameron a fortune as collectors bid for a sheet of John Adams 2 cent stamps described as error laden. The sheet lacks mucilage and shows color variation with a printer’s roll misalignment and overlapping stamps.
Cambridge Massachusetts U P reports that despite the European war 95 percent of the world explosive agents are being used for peaceful purposes. The dispatch notes a shift toward civilian and industrial applications amid global conflict.
An advertisement urges flushing kidneys of poisons to stop night-time urination and backache. It promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Capsules as a diuretic and kidney stimulant that supposedly removes uric acid and reduces bladder irritation, with a claim of rapid relief and a genuine Haarlem product from Holland.
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