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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1932
Page
6
A reader argues that this winter will bring more jobs than available workers in roles from factory to clerical and teaching positions. They urge more even distribution of work to avoid reliance on charity, noting personal willingness to seek any job to prevent dependents from hunger while criticizing married women for taking scarce roles.
A reader asks what weather to expect for next Saturday in Dumas, Texas, for a celebration following a football win. The weatherog: next Saturday will be fair and clear with southerly, brisk winds. An Armistice Night Policeman's Ball is planned at the Hotel Hilton, sponsored by American Legion Post No. 260 to fund uniforms and gear.
A collection of reader classified notices seeking work and services. Includes a woman seeking part time housekeeping or stenography work to care for children, a dog for sale at five dollars, a request for a reliable barber in a Panhandle city, and a couple offering any kind of work with a portable Victor unit for sale. Contact details included for each item.
A person seeks a male Boston bull dog puppy. The notice requests contact from owners or sellers with a male Boston bull dog available for sale or adoption. Potential responders should provide details on age, temperament, and price or terms.
A 1900s style advertisement extols Well's syrup pepsin as a safe stimulant to prevent constipation in children. It claims regular use keeps bowels moving, boosts appetite, and avoids habit forming laxatives, urging readers to keep a bottle for family health and ward off colds.
Classified brief listing a black Eskimo Spitz dog and a New Zealand buck rabbit for sale near Pleasant Valley school. Also notes a young job seeker, a 28 year old woman seeking any work including hotel cafe clerking, and a widow seeking cafe work with box contact, plus a 20 year old seeking any job at 1607 West Seventh Avenue.
Miss Delynn Fancher asks where to sell two old half-dimes dated 1858 and 1847 and requests guidance on value while E R T doubts their worth. A reader suggests consulting a banker. Also a reader reports stolen boys clothes from 409 North Grant Street and requests assistance for clothing three boys aged 7, 4, and 1.
A reader named J H Allison from Rails Texas seeks ranch work for winter with cattle feeding and milking duties in exchange for a small salary and crop prospects next year. He mentions a six member family including two able sons and offers good references plus a movable plan.
A six year old asks for help finding his five month old orange kitten named Troubles. Seen Thursday night on Lincoln Street. neighbors report two cats matching description. Contact 1812 Fillmore Street or call 20736 for reward. owner Willard Harmon at Wilson School offers 50 cent reward.
Mrs E R Reeves of Jericho Texas reports a purse and contents were dropped from a car near Frazier's Fruit Market between 8:00 and 8:30 last Sunday night. She asks the public to contact her with any information.
Fragmented notice list includes a lost brown leather purse with a door key and wrist watch, a plea for return and reward. Also features poems praising Amarillo, plus community classifieds seeking a housekeeper, a baby bed, and local comments about a basketball game with Hillsboro Junior College.
Lady Nancy Astor arrives in New York en route to Virginia for a visit. She comments on her son John Jacob Astor IV, joking that he was raised in the gutter and adds she is proud of him.
Nashville Memphis Birmingham New Orleans Vicksburg Houston and Dallas pool reports on itinerant youths aged 12 to 20 roaming the South. Welfare groups estimate 200000 youths circulate. Aimed at stopping wanderings, feeding, sheltering and interviewing, with plans to return boys home or place in community work projects under Children’s Bureau guidance. Prof. Walter L. Stone leads the YMCA effort.
A reader offers to haul up to 100 pounds of freight to Houston in a Ford truck. They will customize route through Clarendon, Wichita Falls, San Antonio, and Houston or other intermediate points. The driver seeks shipments along the route and will arrange necessary stops.
A home cough remedy widely advertised using Pinex and sugar syrup. Instructions describe mixing 244 ounces of Pinex with sugar syrup to a pint, yielding a cheap, thorough remedy that soothes throat membranes, clears air passages, and promises quick relief with a money back guarantee.
A Nashville organization reports a survey showing 33 vagabond children were sent home from Nashville Juvenile Court in one month to Kentucky Virginia Indiana and Kansas. The Salvation Army of Birmingham notes 130 transient boys under 20 sought aid in the same period.
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