Smile Merchant John Fowler Builds Business On Welcoming Grin
A New York sidewalk entrepreneur, John Joseph Fowler, six days a week at Times Square near 43rd Street, built a thriving paper sales business through warmth and personalized service. Born poor with a wooden leg, he turned early hardship into a life of greeting strangers by name and delivering papers with a memorable flourish.
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John Joseph Fowler
New York
Times Square
43Rd Street
Times Building
West 42nd _ Street
John Joseph
Conway
Lonely Boston pair meet through Mr. Fowler’s kindness
A Boston man and a Boston woman, both lonely, buy papers from Mr. Fowler in Amarillo. He connects them by a phone call, showing how his goodwill helps neighbors find addresses. Mr. Fowler’s kindness accompanies his financial success and a note on New York death-rate stats for single men.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Mr. Fowler
McNaught Lynd
New York State
Campaign damper lifts as government stokers warm New Deal
News Behind the News reports government workers push to revive New Deal amid election debates. Leon Henderson leads the anti monopoly committee's drive, with the interstate commerce commission set as a new target.
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Paul Mallon
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Washington
Leon Henderson
Hopkins Economist
Interstate Commerce Commission
Early eating habits urged for children and college students
A 1938 column urges home based nutrition to form lifelong healthy eating patterns. It highlights regular meals, inclusion of milk fruits and vegetables for children and warns college freshmen neglect these rules as they leave home. It also notes broader policy debates on railroads finance and federal authority.
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McNaught Syndicate
Congress
FDR
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Johnson
Free speech and party darkens with a nightclub tragedy
A political rally criticizes free speech while a party at a club ends in horror as a dancer collapses during a balloon dance. The scene turns tense as emergency crews respond to a woman found dead or gravely injured, with witnesses recalling a night of rivalry and secrecy.
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Bruce Catton
Bailiwick
Hague
New Jersey
Col
Hugh Kelly
Moore
Kelly
Middlewest
Colonel Kelly
Adam
Tubby Shaw
Kay
Kathy
Charlie
Tubby
Barney
Anne
Womens
Doc Moore
Army Post Murders Roots of a North Western Ball
Katherine Cornish visits Elizabeth at a midwestern army post with fiancé Charlie Spencer and friend Adam Drew. The setting shifts from a dance to tense observations of Mrs. Orpington and Ma Wheeler as the Wheelers linger in uneasy solitude. Adam returns, and a playful scene ensues as the narrator contemplates leaving and returning Charlie’s ring.
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Katherine Cornish
Elizabeth
Charlie Spencer
Adam Drew
Wheelers
Wheeler
Mrs. Orpington
Mother
O'Neill
Charlie
Adam
Ma Wheeler
T Rase
Theatrical Producer Puzzle Clue Answers Set
A word puzzle list with across and down clues including actors, terms, and botanical items. Entries span topics from theater to anatomy and geography, with several long word definitions and cryptic hints.
Globe News 1938 November 11 pages by Amarillo Globe
The Amarillo Globe edition includes presidential publishing notes, subscription rates, and service details for The Globe and The Amarillo Daily News. It also contains a serial fiction fragment where Gregory, Tarzan, Captain Lever, and Melen pursue a missing girl amid jungle imagery contrasting civilization and peril.
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Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
Amarillo
Sevnes
Amarillo Globe
Tarzan
Captain Lever
Melen
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Murphy
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Europe
Henry Ford
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Army Post
Virginia Hanson
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Taliarabt
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John McCarty
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News and Business Department
Globe
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MAIL
Wu Pavaneer
Tendawes
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Magra
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Asame
Stone
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Capitan
Moon Mullins
Col. Smithfield-Hamm
COL. Smithfield- Hamm
Chicago Tribune
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