Unusual Amarillo consignment store draws wide cross‑region interest
Mrs Emma Huckabey operates a home-store at 1107 North Johnston Street Amarillo offering clean pressed used and new clothing for men women and children on consignment. Her ads reach Panhandle Oklahoma and Eastern New Mexico drawing customers from Dallas Missouri and beyond. Local shoppers are urged to call 27888 to view or consign clothing while noting a Rhodesian tale of a fire spreading across 47 acres after burning grass to recover six pence and a hotel lease near Dalhart.
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Amarivo
Panhandle
South Plains
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Emma Huckabey
North Johnston Street
Amarillo
Western Electric Aid the Answer to Hearing Aid Size
The article explains the trade off between size and performance in hearing aids. Western Electric and Bell Labs aim for high acoustical excellence, with the Super 68 model highlighted. Maynard Drake in Amarillo offers hearing tests and demonstrations with no obligation to buy.
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
Western Electric
Modernize Your Sewing Machine at Western Vacuum
The Western Vacuum Cleaner and Sewing Machine Supply at 606 West Sixth offers treadle to electric modernization and cabinet or table models. Owner W. R. Byers, with 20 years’ experience, repairs and rebuilds sewing machines and vacuums, with new portable electric machines and rebuilt treadle and electric models in stock. Additional items include buttonhole attachments, Stitchmasters, and pinking shears.
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West Sixth
W. R. Byers
Ebuilding
Electrc
Arived
Pinking Hears
Came
Ardar
Mead's Presher-ized Bread and Hat Rebuilding Ad Blitz
Mead's Presher-ized bread promises freshness and multi loaf purchases with a new process. An Amarillo hat rebuilder promotes Grady's service offering rebuilt hats with new lining and materials guaranteeing quick turnaround. Prewar nostalgia hints at St Clairsville Ohio rental sign scene in old house.
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Grady Nutt
Panhandle
Grady's
Polk
Amarillo
Odie Karr
Mead’s
Shuddes
Houston
Grady
ST. Clairsville, O.ur
Butler St. House
Be Well Trained And Be Prepared Amarillo Secretarial School Ad
Amarillo Secretarial School in Jefferson, owned by Mrs Bess Orr Foringer, reports daily calls from people seeking well trained secretaries and bookkeepers. The school offers bookkeeping, secretarial courses, accounting, court reporting and comptometry, plus refresher brushup courses for inactive professionals. Call 2 3904 for details.
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Amarillo
Freedom From Worry Offered Health and accident policy ad
An insurance ad promotes Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association policies for hospital bills and disability coverage for families. It cites 34,000 annual car crash deaths and 950,000 injuries, urging immediate inquiry. District Manager A J Kelly, Barfield Building Amarillo Texas.
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United States
Canada
Hawai
Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association
A. J. Kelly
Barfield Building
Amarillo
Texas
Nichols-Gibson Bargain Offers for Paint and Felt
Nichols-Gibson Paint & Wallpaper Store advertises special deals on deadening felt rolls for insulation at 450 square feet, priced at 2.95 per roll, down from 6.50. Also promotes Luminall paint with Ultra Luminall at 3.49 per gallon or 1.17 per quart and regular Luminall at 2.95 per gallon or 1.00 per quart, in multiple shades.
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Nichols-Gibson Paint & Wallpaper Store, Inc
West Sixth
Cretney's
Ted Nichols
Nichols Gibson
The Prescription Laboratory Offers Personalized Prescription Service
The Prescription Laboratory at 912 Polk and 512 Polk Amarillo advertises exclusive pharmacy and sickroom supplies. Owned by Bill McClendon, it emphasizes pharmacist filled prescriptions, fresh potent ingredients, and adherence to doctor orders with free delivery and a white front with a green cross.
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Polk
White & Kirk
Amarillo
Bill McClendon
Free Philco 1948 Football Guide At Finklea’s
Finklea Electric Co at 512 West Fifth offers a large shipment of Philco 1948 football guides free with no purchase or sign up. The booklet catalogs every college team last season scores, 1948 all America prospects, pro league schedules, and tips to follow and score games. Also advertised Philco radios refrigerators and freezers in multiple models.
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Finklea Electric Co
West Fifth
Philco
United States
Footall
Pinklea’s
Raveys Sale of Radios and Watches at Cost
Speed Ravey the watchmaker at Fourth and Taylor Streets plans a big sale this week offering radios at cost across sizes and types plus Bulova wrist watches at half price. A shipment of dog tag chains arrives for neckwear, while his watch repair service with the Watch master guarantees proper repairs and rechecks for perfect running order.
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Speed Ravey
Fourth
Taylor Streets
Speed
Ravey’s
Ravey
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Bulawayo
Dan Welland
Oxford
Dalhart
Frankland
Gatlin Glass Company
B. M. Goff Company
Seine Panhandie
Prive
Tom
Bencen
Irinovedic
Rowley
Earl Wyatt
Vanden Bogaert
London
England
Vaughan
Western & Sewing Machine Supply
He Norman Cosmetics
Lady Faire Beauty Salon
Taylor Street
Boston Greenhouse
Fillmore
C.E. Kity
MACE
Tri-State
Lamar
Twchots Pnt & Wallpaper Inc
Amarillo Secretarial School
Maynard Drake
Western Electric Aid
the Answer
Thrift Shop
Jackson
Star Drug Store
N. Filmore
Conard
Drake
Travis
Paone
NEON
W. M. Rippey
Mead
Ntrieven Insurance Man
A.J. Kelly
Tagier St
Dannon Storage
Pierce
Erring
Mad
Tascosa
Peal Hamrick
Delbert Dalby
Nichols-Gibson
Bill McClendon Ee
BINK
Sid L. Veazey
Georgia
Finklea’s
Collier's
Cosmopolitan
Good Housekeeping
Newsweek
Harper's Bazaar
Marshall Deaton
Your Magazine Man
N. Woodland
CLYDE
Ips
Phillips
LEE Tires & Tubes Auto Accessories
Clyde’s
Phillips Service
Washington
Martin, Buescher and
Selmer
Guitars
Epiphore
Dial
Western Business Supply
Wilson Battery & Electric Service
Buttonnoles
N. Jobson
Ree Methol
M. Billion
WHITE
N. Fillmore
Finkler’s
Electrical HeaDquArters
W. 5Th
Raef Bros
Amarillo, RT. 3
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