Weather and highway talk swirl in Amarillo diary
A long, rambling Amarillo column blends weather hopes of rain with forecasts by Miles Bivins, grudging praise for Dorrance Roderick in El Paso and a proposed Alcan Highway through Amarillo, plus a readers note about a missing rabbit and a flirtatious call from a young woman.
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Miles Bivins
Polk Street
Bivins
Alaska
Cape Horn
Amarillo
United States
South America
Canada
Texas
el Paso
Dorrance Roderick
el Paso Times
Mexico
Mr. Roderick
Roderick
United States Treasury
Smoking During Pregnancy A Physician Warns Abstain
A doctor advises expectant mothers who smoke to cease until after birth and recovery. He cites evidence that nicotine increases the baby's heart rate between six and eight months, though he cannot prove harm. He emphasizes taking precautions during this critical period. Charley Pryor farms 36 acres southwest of town supplying hogs chickens milk cream and vegetables to the Amarillo Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Pryor
Amarillo
Readers weigh in on farming, love, and modern life in Plains county
The piece surveys farmers Newt Griggs and Pryor with crop woes from wind and bugs. It notes a lighthearted snap shot program offering a $5 reward, and features Elma Curlin and Thelma misnaming, marriage career talk, and a reader dispatch about divorce trends among war workers.
Don’t Neglect Slipping False Teeth
Don’t neglect slipping false teeth when you talk eat laugh or sneeze. FASTEETH an alkaline powder sprinkles on plates to keep teeth more firmly set. It gives confidence and comfort with no gummy taste or feeling sold at drug stores.
El Haren the Astrologer Appears at Cretney's Amarillo
Famous astrologer El Haren will appear in person at Cretney's in Amarillo Saturday at 4:00 PM. He offers private interviews with courtesy cards earned by a dollar purchase. Cards, for the week, enable submissions for broadcasts via KFDA and El Haren's daily radio program.
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el Haren
Cretney
America
Cretney’s
Amarillo
Panhandle
KFDA
Texas
Missing Wives Record Sparks Social Insight
A Berkeley Red Cross unit completed its 1,000,000th surgical dressing for the armed forces, produced in 22 days by 2,000 volunteers. In Chicago a 78 year old man married a 78 year old woman after meeting at a dance, while talk turns to wartime financial security and marriage.
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Japan
Abraham Lincoln Woolrey
Chicago
Margaret Stammers
Berkeley
Calif
U.P
The
Red Cross
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Tack
Yavonne Baker
News-Globe
Lou Baker
Alexander Robert Parmelee
Kenneth C. Parmelee
Walter E. Parmelee
Dombey
Okla
W. B. Miller
Canyon
Alma W. Gladney
New York
Naval Air Station
Trinidad
British West Indies
Heart OF the
Danhandle
Ceres
Mr. Pryor
Newt Griggs
Tennessee
Elma Curkin
Thelma
Elma
Curling
Dispatch
Kansas City
6Th
Polk
H. V. Robertson & CO
Oliver-Eakle
J. J. Freid Ee
Zale
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Ren
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Sencar
Polk St
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Maurney
Acon Ring
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