Readers seek missing fur piece and other requests in Tack column
In letters to the Tack column readers request help finding a lost brown fox fur neck piece on Bellview Street, offer a $5 reward, and publish assorted pleas including wanting a cow for feed, seeking a country-loving companion, trading a leather football helmet for bicycle tires, and a rural piano teaching opportunity. Other notes invite a boy to adopt a small Fox Terrier.
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Bellview Street
Bellview
Roberts Place
Tack
Widow seeks work to support her three children
Mrs. Lucille Coleman, a widow with three children, requests any job offering hours near home. She is experienced in housework, can provide references, and prefers a position allowing her to return to her children at night. She mentions a schoolgoing daughter and day nursery for the two younger children.
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Tack
Lucille Coleman
South
van Buren Street
Stork Coming Soon Helps Needy Country Couple
A letter asks for aid for a young expecting woman and her husband, a poor farming couple struggling against odds and in need of assistance. The writer appeals to readers to help TJ and the couple, noting their farming failure and poverty.
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Tack
Missing saxophone from Hereford Texas seeks return
La Verna Womble reports a silver plated Ault Music Company Fort Worth horn with a gold bell and her name engraved under the emblem was stolen. It was nearly new and she asks for help locating it, hoping anyone who finds it can help recover the instrument.
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Ault Music Company
Fort Worth
Tack
Alone in World Child Seeks Adoptive Family
A 14 year old, with dead mother and father in New Mexico, appeals for a loving family to adopt and send her to school. She offers to work for room and board and asks interested families to contact Palo Duro Apartments, apartment 17.
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Tack
New Mexico
Palo Duro Apartments
Richey Addresses Letter Aim After Pampa Lubbock Comment
A reader identified as Robert Richey from 3506 Tyler Street offers to write and share location details, stating he did not cause Pampa to win over Lubbock and comparing the situation to goats and pigs. He asks for information on where to retrieve it and expresses willingness to travel.
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Tack
Pampa
Lubbock
Billy Goats
Lubbock Amarillo Battle Echoes in Fanide Midseason Hope
Morse Texas letter from Bob Durham praises local fandom and forecasts excitement in the Lubbock Amarillo gridiron clash while hoping for a favorable end result.
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Tack
Dern
Lubbock-Amarillo
Bob Durham
Morse
Texas
WANTS RAT TERRIER
Mrs. L E Motley seeks a Rat Terrier to control rats on a rural property. She prefers a kennel or individual seller and plans to thank the provider with continued gratitude and a Rhode Island Red fryer in the future.
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Tack
Rhode Island
L. E
Motley
Saxophone Stolen. Reward Offered In Letter to Paper
A resident reports a theft of a prized saxophone on Monday night November 2 and asks the newspaper to publish the letter. The owner offers a twenty dollar reward and suspects no neighbor due to lack of practice noise at home.
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Tack
No. Fourth Street
Minneapolis
Minn
Famous pair Kaufman and Connelly write Dulcy at Amarillo
The Amarillo Little Theater opens with Dulcy by George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, a long running comedy from Cort and Frazee theaters. It praises the duo’s career in both dramatic and musical comedy and notes previous hits like The Royal Family and The Cocoanuts.
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Amarillo
Barrymore
Kaufman and Con
Nelly
Helen of Troy
New York
Kaufman and Connelly
Pennsylvania
Daley
Chances Armistice Day Film at Rex Theater
A special Armistice Day feature titled Chances will be shown at the Rex Theater on Wednesday and Thursday under the American Legion. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. heads the cast in his first starring role. An Armistice Day matinee starts Wednesday at 2 o clock with a proceeds share to the Legion.
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Rex Theater
American Legion
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Rex
Kiss Is Reward Enough Says Boy Who Found Purse
Chicago news reports Frances Kane lost a purse containing 285.25 dollars on the street. Joseph Goldblatt aged 19 found the purse and via a newspaper located the owner returned the money. Kane offered a 20 dollar reward which he declined saying your kiss is reward enough.
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Chicago
Frances Kane
Joseph Goldblatt
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East Fourth Avenue
Thomas Lynch
West Third Avenue
Rex Roby
Happy
Veterans of Foreign Wars
W. 8. Birge
John B. Golding
Alton Vary
Stephen C. Parker
Department of New York
Golding Post
LA Verna Womble
Hereford
Robert Richey
Tyler Street
Lillian Ralston
New York City
Park Avenue
Pape
Dulcy
Socony
Magnolia
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Fes
Pancy
THE
National Board OF Fire Underwriters
John Stree
West Adams Street
San Francisco
Merchants Exchange Bld
Buick
F.e.b. Flint
Mich
Fisher
Mente
Frost Motor CO
Tyler
Mesore
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