Amarillo Plate Glass Pioneer Opens New Plant
The Amarillo Plate Glass and Mirror company founded in 1920 by J. O. Floss has grown from a $3,500 stock to over $35,000 invested. Now at 315 East Fifth Street with 30,000 square feet, it ships glass across the Southwest and specializes in auto windshields. The firm plans a formal opening Friday to showcase its modern plant, loading dock, two trucks, and Desco metal store fronts.
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Amarillo Plate Glass and Mirror Company
East Fifth
J. 0. Floss
Amarillo
Tulsa
Ross
Southwest
Rosa
East Fifth Street
Mr. Ross
Xylophone Tests Brush Quality at Westinghouse Plant
Pittsburgh May 19 The vaudeville xylophone has been repurposed to test carbon brushes used in electric motors. G M Little a Westinghouse research engineer finds tone tests on a xylophone built from brushes best indicate brush quality and strength A rising scale signals higher quality while lower pitches reveal weaker brushes.
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Pittsburgh
G. M. Little
Westinghouse Company
The Palisades To Show Movies Friday Night
The Palisades presents moving pictures during the Ross hotel formal opening Friday night. W B Simmons founder and his group move into the hotel’s ground floor offices and arrange cinema of the Palisades. A panorama of the Playground of the Plains development will be shown with explanations of details.
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The
Palisades
Ross Hotel
W. B. Simmons
Simmons
Plains
Plans Complete for Community Boy Institute Meeting
Plans are complete for the second meeting of the Community Boy Institute at Central Presbyterian Church tonight. Rev. Thomsen will speak on The Emerging Man, an address expected to interest fathers. A first aid demonstration will be included. the public is invited.
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Rev. R. Thomsen
Community Boy Institute
Central Presbyterian Church
BR. Thomsen
Mooring Mast Rises Above Scott Field
An aerial 176 foot high mooring mast nearing completion at Scott Field will enable all light aircraft to access the airport. The tower includes a ladder, elevator, lights, telephones and speaking tubes with storage for helium fuel and water. Its octagonal foundation weighs 68 tons and twelve foot bolts anchor the structure. The steel mast features graduated plate thickness and seven floors for rigidity and will be flood lit with three searchlight beacons.
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Belleville
Scott Field
Soviet Farmers Sell Government's Land
In Tiflis, Soviet farmers struggle to grasp that living and working land belongs to the State. Despite communist instruction, they sell or mortgage farms, causing many arrests. Some transfers arise from gambling losses, with more than 20,000,000 harmonicas noted in the country.
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Associated Press
Idle Foreigners Are Sent From France
Paris reports 25 000 foreign laborers sent home in three months as industry stalls. France has over 1 000 000 immigrant workers mainly in mines and hard trades. Authorities say Frenchmen avoid heavy labor, and only a few immigrants are admitted weekly.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Milk output to rise in Southwest after drought lull
Dr C W Larson head of the Federal Bureau of Dairy Industry reports expected milk production gains in southern New Mexico Arizona and the Imperial Valley after a years long hold in cattle numbers and output. Madagascar plans a new 105 mile railway line to boost transport and development.
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New Mexico
Arizona
Imperial Valley
C. W. Larson
Federal Bureau of Dairy Industry
Madagascar
British Politicians Court Prospective Votes of Girls
London May 19 flattery to young women becomes a campaign tactic as Lloyd George, Snowden, Clynes and Thomas address women about suffrage. Conservatives face resistance from Lord Birkenhead and Lord Hugh Cecil while the Primrose League argues for equal suffrage recalling Beaconsfield. Berlin census shows women outnumber men.
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Associated Press
London
Lloyd George
Bangor
National Council of Women
National League of Young Liberals
Liberal
Labor Party
Philip Snowden
John R. Clynes
J. H. Thomas
Baldwin
Laborites
Primrose League
Lord Beaconsfield
Ross Hotel invites public to inspect new 100-room hostelry
The 100-room Ross Hotel in Amarillo opens Friday evening from 7:30 to 10:30. Owner J W Ross lessee Jack Medley and building tenants invite citizens to visit the three story hotel noted for outside rooms with bath, running water, steam heat and telephones. The lobby features beaded chandeliers and Travetine tinted walls.
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Amarillo and
the Panhandle
Ross Hotel
Fifth and
Pierce Streets
Jack Medley
J. R. Rosa
J. W. Ross
Amarillo
Simmons
Haas
M. Medley
Medley
Skirvin and
Huckina Hotela
Oklahoma City
Tulsa Hotel
Tulsa
Fifth Street
Lambie
Saga
H. G. Persons
Broome Electric Company
Reed Sheet Metal and Heating Company
Penitentiary Large Auto Plate Factory
Auburn prison has become a large car license plate factory with 110 convicts producing 2,600,000 plates for New York motorists in 1988. Under two guards, workers stream 16,000 plates daily from 9 30 to 6 00. Last year they operated day and night to meet a major order, with possible night shifts this year.
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Associated Proms
Auburn
Auburn State Prison
New York State Motorista
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Whew Ross Hotel
Plate Glass Company
NEW Ross Hotel
Berlin
Oliver Eakle
North Texas Terrazo CO
Maryland
Texas
C.S. Lambie & CO
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