Weathering memories with Des Moines guest Errana Leland
The house hosts Mrs. Erana Leland of Des Moines who has visited the Tack family at least twenty times in the past quarter century. Her husband Cy Leland died two years ago. She praises the high plains climate, notes Des Moines as hot in summer and cold in winter, and recalls the couple’s shared history.
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Erana Leland
Des Moines
Iowa
Cy Leland
Leland
Globe News
Small Town Engaged Couple Sparks Local Buzz
In a tight knit town Tack uncovers news of Erana and Cy’s engagement. The discovery stirs curiosity as residents pore over details, eager to be first with the scoop in their shared community.
Engagement Revealed After River Swim In Town
In a small town a crowd watched Erana and Cy, with Erana linked to Joliet, while a men's swimming party covered ten miles from the bridge to Bean Lake outlet. Cy and companions reached a Missouri meeting place before lunch at a summer cottage. Cy phoned Erana to say he was safe, confirming their engagement as Tack revels in the news.
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Erana
Cyran
Joliet I
Bean Lake
Tack
Engagement News Binds Mrs Tack and Mr Tack
Town tale recalls Mrs Tack, who helps in her father’s store, preparing for a wedding with Mr Tack. A plump dog often trotted along, including one day when it dogged Mr Tack out of the shop down Main Street.
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Tack
Small Town News Quips and Letters of Local Life
A reader letter laments small town alertness and mocks big city snobbery while arguing for hometown agents. The piece contrasts courage and discipline in rural life with urban sophistication. It includes a sharing of letters about domestic stability and a critique of a mother praised for her husband though burdened by daily duties.
The Town Without a Heart and the Tack Feud
A Rio Grande letter by a Edinburg Daily Review writer criticizes real estate sellers and pursues Tack across Amarillo after his recent Valley article. The piece promises Tack will return part of his mind with no apologies, accusing local sellers of unfair practices.
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Rio Grande
Tack
Amarillo
Edinburg Daily Review
The Valley Promise and Pitfalls in Agriculture
A cautious view of the Valley highlights strong orchards and vegetable gardens with profitable potential. It warns that overbuying and over-selling have caused many residents to lose their savings, signaling financial risk despite a hopeful future.
Water scarcity and land sale critique on Valley ventures
A Valley water shortage is noted with orchards hurting for irrigation while thousands of new acres are sold yearly to newcomers who expect sufficient water. A local man cites a federal land decision, reports catching seven channel catfish in Buffalo Lake with leeches on gills, and shares a blood bait tip.
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Tack
Buffalo Lake
Sleep With Your Babies Says Mother Dear
A mother writes about night duties with infants in the first years, recounting her husband’s role and how babies slept with mothers. She defends older methods of shared nighttime care, notes breast feeding, and contrasts with modern bottle feeding and separate beds. She recalls relatives who cared for children at night and praises involved parenting.
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Daddy
Mothers Smoke, Family Struggles, and Hard Work in Texas
A Texas mother reflects on raising seven children with a hard working husband who slept at night. She defends mothers who sacrifice for their kids, notes men prefer money over appearances, and recalls discipline, church, and family pride amid rural prairie life. One daughter becomes a mother, others serve in the Air Force, and several pursue college or nursing careers. The piece ends with a candid, lived experience of motherhood and gender roles.
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Tack
Prairie Land
Air Force
Korea
States
Texas
Amarillo
Practical tips for improved catfish fishing bait and hooks
The note advises congealing blood into flavorless gel to make stickier bait that stays on hooks. It recommends three hooks and channel fishing, filing hook points, and using large baits like gelatinized blood shrimp rabbit or worms. Bigger bait and sharp points are said to increase catches.
Rabies Panic Sparks Iowa Dog Control Push
A northern rabies outbreak prompts fears of spread to Oklahoma and Texas. Des Moines enforces strict leash rules with dogs shot if loose, statewide move to bar dogs from streets. Amid urban anxiety, a widow's party draws attention as a social note. Economic pressures hit men over 55, while a call for balance between aging wisdom and younger ambition echoes.
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Oklahoma
Texas
Des Moines
Iowa
Milwaukee man in course loses hat in first night
A Milwaukee man enrolled in a "How to Make Friends and Influence People" course reports his new $20 hat was stolen during the first night of class.
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Milwaukee
Need Baby Bed Offered by Reader
A reader reports a woman requires a baby bed for a needy family. Anyone with a spare bed should call 2 8758. the caller will provide pickup or delivery details.
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Tack
Will Keep Child In My Home Or Board By Week
A person offers to care for a child aged 2 to 5 in daily home care or boarding by the week. Describes a nice home and good care, and provides the contact number 3-2418.
Home childcare preference and contact request
A person states interest in keeping one or two children at home and provides a phone contact of 2 7660 for follow up. The note implies seeking in home child care arrangements and requires direct caller outreach. The message offers no further details on location, schedule, or qualifications.
Wayside Home Demonstra tion Club Seeks Favorite Recipes
The Wayside Home Demonstration Club of Gray County requests readers send favorite recipes with names and addresses for a forthcoming cookbook to be sold later in the summer.
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Wayside Home Demonstration Club
Gray County
Offers kittens for free from A Reader list
Several fluffy kittens available for adoption. Phone 32-1508. A Reader, 615 B West Twenty first.
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Tack
West
4WANTS TOYS Dear Talk. I know there are lots of toys
A brief note expressing an interest in toys and acknowledging a wide variety.
Child's Rocker for Mission Beginners Department
A reader seeks to buy a child's rocker and a toy store for the Beginners Department of a mission church. Any offers should contact via phone 3-1580.
Sewing and ironing services with buttonholes offered
Person advertises ironing and sewing, including making buttonholes, and offers babysitting at home. Provides contact via phone 2 9948 and address 908 North Buchanan.
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Tack
North
Buchanan
Launders Curtains At Reasonable Rates
Will wash and stretch curtains. Large double panels 70 cents each or small panels 35 cents each. Phone 3-4085.
DOES IRONING I will do ironing in my home
A local ironing service offers home ironing at 65 cents per hour with contact by phone 3-6740 or by visiting 405 Arthur St. to arrange services.
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Arthur St
Mrs. Bradshaw Seeks Furnished House Care Job
Mrs Bradshaw offers to take a permanent position caring for an apartment house or furnished apartments and courts with salary. She is willing to work in a private home for a furnished apartment and salary. With two school age boys, she aims to start after school closes. References available. Phone 6-5960. 2314 North West Fifth.
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Bradshaw
North West Fifth
Ironing Help Request From Spruce Street Home
A reader seeks ironing assistance at 2601 Spruce Street. Contact via phone 3-8877 to arrange help.
Practical Nurse Seeks Convalescing Patients at Pioneer Hotel
A practical nursing advertisement seeks work with convalescing patients aged a year and older. The nurse has five years of experience and invites calls to room 211 at the Pioneer Hotel, phone 6-6331, or existing patients to contact via 6-7476.
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Pioneer Hotel
Children and Money Plea Prompts Call for Help
A brief plea states the writer hopes to keep children with limited rags and money and urges a call to 7575 for assistance. The note lacks identifying details and context.
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Tack
Lost blue rhinestone glasses near Yellow Cab stand
A resident requests help locating lost blue frame glasses with rhinestones found near the Yellow Cab stand on Saturday May 19. The owner urgently needs them and asks for any sightings or returns.
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Tack
Fish Rodeo Adds Tagged Bass Winners at Buffalo Lake
The Buffalo Lake fish rodeo continues as anglers prize tagged fish. James E. Anderson Jr. won $10 in tackle with Tag 44 for a bass at 4006 Hayden, while Bill Winsett earned a steak dinner for Tag 49 on a bass over 3 pounds. Other winners received prizes from local merchants for Tags 101 105 and 4 across bass and blue gill sunfish.
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Buffalo Lake
James E. Anderson, Jr
Hayden
Amarillo
Fllls-Ford Hardware Company
East Fourth
Norman Crisp
Parker
James P. Rodgers
Buck’s Sporting Goods
Polk
American Sporting Goods
Walter Baird
North Manhattan
Panhandle
Louis L. Walker
Swift
Brooks Drug Store
Big Foot
Canyon Highway
Borden Company
Ward offered and contact line seeks caller
A reader note at 1004 Van Buren offers a ward and invites calls to 2-6189. Another reader asks to contact a woman for hand quilting, requesting interested parties call 2-2042.
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van Buren
Tack
Colored woman seeks day work in three days
Katherine Mays, a colored woman, seeks day work on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. She provides phone contact 3-8422 for arrangements.
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Tack
Katherine Mays
Trade for a small adding machine using rotary duplicator
Brand new seventy five dollar rotary duplicator offered for trade for a small adding machine. Phone 3 8891.
Child care seek on east side with yard space
Advertiser seeks one or two children to care for in home. They offer a pleasant back yard and request light iron work. Located on the east side of town. Call 3-2096 for details.
Tired, Tearful Wife Reformed, Is Happy
A young mother from Clovis NM shares how deliberate routines and swapped night duties transformed exhaustion into family harmony. She details scheduling, limited social activity, and teamwork with her husband to create a happier home for their two children and themselves.
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Tack
Clovis
WBAP Traffic Chief Is Taken by Death
Fort Worth May 31 Miss Eileen Hazel Flake 45 year old head of the traffic department at radio station WBAP died last night in a Fort Worth hospital of a heart ailment She had been with the station 28 years joining it only a year after it went on the air She became traffic chief in 1938.
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Fort Worth
WUP
Eileen Hazel Flake
WBAP
Soap Giant Dominates Panama’s Laundry Soap Market
One firm controls about 90 percent of Panama’s soap output, producing slightly under 4 million pounds, including laundry soap, highlighting a near monopoly in the local market.
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Panama
Loving caregiver seeks to keep two children at home
Individual states desire to care for two children in home and expresses extensive experience and affection. Provides contact number 6-6460 for interested parties to reach out.
Houston Reports 29th Polio Case This Year
Houston recorded its 29th polio case of the year, a 13 year old girl from the southeast section. The tally includes one death, compared with 34 cases and two deaths at the same point last year.
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Houston
U.P
Shilling of 1555 Found at Hatfield Peverel England
A dated shilling from 1555 was discovered recently in Hatfield Peverel England. The find highlights item value and age, with no associated artifacts or reported context.
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Hatfield Peverel
England
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Clarendon
Channing
Carbine
MR. Giggleheimer
Florida
River Front
Michael
Sawpits
Tain
Annie
Jack
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