Amarillo Seeks Big League Edge in Regional Trade
Amarillo business leaders push beyond bush league status as they discuss expanding into major city competition. The steady shift to a regional center aims to secure four state trade, with Dallas Oklahoma City and Denver cited as encroaching rivals and local firms adopting metropolitan tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Dallas
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Denver
New Mexico
Childress
Borger
Lubbock
Polk Street
Poppy Honors Dead Of All Wars In Amarillo Drive
Hanson Post American Legion urges all veterans to wear a poppy on Saturday to honor fallen comrades from World Wars one and two and those injured or ill. Poppies sold in Amarillo are made by disabled veterans at the government hospital. The drive is led under Mrs. Bid directing general sale in the city near Sixth and Polk.
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Dallas
Amarillo
Kraft Food Co
Fillmore
Kraft Food
del E. Webb Co
Texas Bankers Association
Rice Hotel
Houston
R. C. Ware
Amarillo National
Frank Butler
Charles A. Fisk
First National
Ray Brock
B. M. Mason
Texas Master Plumber
Mason
Senate
Jim Hudson
US Rubber Company
Floyd Cooper
Cooper & Melin
Chesterfield
Perry Como
Bobby
F. H. McGregor
Hanson Post
American Legion
Tlefields
Sixth
Polk
Gregor
Legion. Tex
Bid
SSS Tonic
Lincoln boots donated to Ford Theater Museum
Lynn Mass Miss Ruth Hatch a Lynn high school teacher presented boots believed worn by President Abraham Lincoln at his 1865 assassination to the Ford Theater Museum in Washington. She inherited them from her grandmother.
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Lynn
Mass
U.P
Abraham Lincoln
Ford Theater Museum
Washington
Ruth Hatch
Salem ordinance bans uncovered coal trucks
Salem Massachusetts enacts a new ordinance prohibiting uncovered trucks to stop dust and ashes from coal and refuse washing homeowners’ properties. The measure aims to protect residential cleanliness and curb spills during collection.
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Salem
Mass
U.P
Maxwell Poppy Day drive led by Hanson Post auxiliary
Die Maxwell serves as Poppy Day chairman for the Hanson Post auxiliary with Mrs Charles A Putnam directing the drive in North Amarillo. Headquarters are at S M Drug as Mrs Tex Thornton leads San Jacinto division and Mrs Nell Pollard manages sales in the Sixteenth Avenue area.
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Die Maxwell
Hanson Post
Charles A. Putnam
Amarillo
S&m Drug
Tex Thornton
San Jacinto
Nell Pollard
Sixteenth Avenue
Vermont’s First Hanging Captured in Black Snake Skirmish
Cyrus Dean, a smuggler aboard the Black Snake, was executed in Burlington on November 11 1808. About 10000 people witnessed the hanging after a skirmish with authorities.
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Burlington
Vermont
Cyrus Dean
Dean
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By Thomas Thompson
Mr. Brock
NY Journal of Commerce
The
Wall Street Journal
Buddy Poppy
FP. H. McGrfgor
Museum
Lincoln
Cummins
Sacha
LEL
Sates Co
Amaauto
Texas
DuPont Cordura
Ray
Ward Price
Walker
Griff
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
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