Amarillo Mayor asks wage scale raise in WPA plan
Washington reports Amarillo Mayor Ross D. Rogers urged the Works Progress Administration to raise the city minimum wage from 21 to 32 dollars per month aligning with Region 2. He pressed for speeding WPA projects including a 65000 street repair program creating about 200 jobs for nine months while noting ongoing unemployment. Rogers attended the mayors' conference.
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Washington
Ross D. Rogers
Amarillo
Tex
Works Progress Administration
Rogers
Conference of Mayors
La Guardia Chosen To Lead Mayors Conference
Washington officials report the United States conference of mayors elected Fiorello La Guardia of New York as president in a unanimous vote. Edward J. Kelly of Chicago was named vice president, with trustees Frederick Mansfield Boston Angelo Rossi San Francisco T Walmsley New Orleans and Nevil Lee Miller Louisville. Daniel W. Hoan Milwaukee retired president was named honorary president.
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Washington
U. S. Conference of Mayors
Pioretto la Guardia
New York
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Frederick W. Mansfield
Boston
Angelo Rossi
San Francisco
T. Walmsley
New Orleans
Nevillee Miller
Louisville
Daniel W. Hoan
Milwaukee
CARE FOR CHILDREN SEEKING LAID BACK TACK CARE FOR CHILDREN
Dear Tack two refined women offer to care for children in homes near Bivins Wolfin and Country Club. They promise educational games and stories, provide references and a phone dial 2-2046.
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Bivins
Wolfin
Country Club
Tack
Coupe
Blanco
Pastor Nearly Victim in Hunting Regulation Incident
A hunting regulation scare involved Rev EF Foster of the Assembly of God Church near Amarillo. Game Warden Buck Harris noted missing duck stamp and a plugged gun magazine, though Foster hadn’t fired a duck and had already started home. He has two witnesses, A C Sullivan and Ralph Roush, who confirm the trip.
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Assembly of God Church
EF. R. Foster
Buck Harris
Amarillo
Bill Lampe
Foster
A. C. Sullivan
Ralph Roush
Radio Schedule Highlights A Busy KGNC Lineup
KGNC air list details Wednesday and Thursday morning programs. Programs include Auto Talk, Album of Familiar Tunes, Rudy Vallee, Troy Laundrys Around the World Club, Lane Prescott Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Phil Duey, De Witt Landis sports, Dell Leonard, Waltz Time, Fred Waring, United Press News, Lloyd Snyder Orchestra, and various times for news, fashion, grain quotes, markets, and concert hours across daytime and evening slots.
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Rudy Valice
Troy Laundrys
Around the World Club
Lane Prescott
Orchestra
WBS
Bing Crosby
Phil Duey
DeWitt Landis
Dell Leonard
Wes
Fred Waring
United Press News
Lloyd Snyder
Nat
Micro News
Sky Pilot
0. S. Farm Flash
The
Missouri Hillbillies
John Josey and Company
WRS
Hal Stuart
Jane Walker
Home Economist
Victor Arden
Larry Bradford
Radio
Kansas City
Betty
Bob
Salivation Army
Mary Louise Broomer
Jack Armstrong
General Strike Proclaimed in Cairo Protest
In Cairo on November 20 1939 students proclaimed a general strike for the next day to denounce British influence in government. They planned to march to bazaars and force dissenters to close while thirty Arabic newspapers vowed not to publish in protest against press restrictions tied to student riots.
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Cairo
Egypt
Death on Holiday Crash Not Fatal at Polk and Seventh
Early morning collision at Seventh Avenue and Polk Street involved Walter Deason’s car and a Yellow Cab. Two cars wrecked and one overturned, but police records show no injuries. The incident occurred shortly before 7 o’clock.
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Seventh Avenue
Polk Street
Walter Deason
Foreign trade reform urged by New Orleans economist
Walter Parker told the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Houston that sweeping tariff cuts trade promotion and credit facilities are needed to revive the southern cotton industry. He blamed 1929 upheaval U.S. lending withdrawal and tariffs for the slump and criticized Farm Board and AAA for worsening conditions. Parker urged cooperative government action and a non political trade promotion machinery for mutual benefit of nations and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy J. Forrest Houston
Walter Parker
New Orleans
Parker
National Foreign Trade Council
United States
Federal Farm Board
AAA
America
Grapple Card Seeks Funds for Amarillo College Band Uniforms
Patrons Club and Amarillo College students sell tickets to a Thursday wrestling match to raise money for 24 band uniforms by December 31. Proceeds from all tickets go to the uniform fund via Cal Farley. A display uniform is on view at the college for inspection by friends of the college.
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Amarillo College
Patrons Club
Cal Farley
Friends of the
Amarillo
Drunken Driving Fined $50 in Potter County Court
Frank Wood pleaded guilty to drunken driving in 47th District Court. Judge E C Nelson imposed a $50 fine and costs totaling $67.35 as part of his one man campaign to curb traffic accidents. Wood was arrested about two weeks prior and indicted the next day by the Potter County grand jury.
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Frank Wood
47Th District
E. C. Nelson
Wood
Potter County
Grand
Fragmentary OCR Clues on Cloth and Table Misreadings
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions CLO SLUD and names Dan Thomas, MBOWE HEI, and BHF with garbled phrases about cloth, table, veto, and Aten. No coherent event or clear entities emerge to define a factual item or outcome.
Police Judge's Lively Debate Ends In Fines
A humorous column portrays Police Judge W. G. Fly lecturing at the station on traffic discipline while a writer argues with him about double parking. The piece weaves in reflections on reformers and cites philosophers and Dorothy Dix. It notes unrelated notes from El Paso on the TC-13 dirigible and a governor appointment in Austin.
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W. G. Fly
Socrates
Plato
Voltaire
Pascal
Scopenhauer
Spinoza
Frogenes
Epictetus
Aristotle
Abelard
Dorothy Dix
Livestock and Cotton Markets Report From Kansas City and New Orleans
Kansas City market notes show cattle and hogs steady to strong with various classes priced from 8.00 to 11.00 per hundredweight and lambs higher, while New Orleans cotton futures rose with December near 11.91 as other months moved higher. Separate Spain bread poisoning incident reports in Madrid and health responses describe thousands ill from flour with lead additive, with legal action against the flour supplier and ongoing casualty tallies.
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Kansas City
Dr A
New Orleans
Beiter
Acreage cuts and livestock trends forecast 1936 40
The report notes acreage about 23 percent below 1929 levels but near 1935, with a slight drop in cattle and sheep in the semi arid region. Hay increases are seen, predicting cattle production from 1936 to 1940 at 126 million hundredweight versus 130 million in the normal period.
Baking soda danger warns after family illness
Report from Dr Geiger notes bicarbonate of soda used in pancake batter caused violent illness in a family and a neighbor child. He warns against medicinal use without physician advice as it can cause gastric ulcers or fatal outcomes.
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Salvage Company
Geiger
Ernest St. Louis
Geiger Taok
Unclear corporate list features major U S firms
A fragmented OCR style snippet lists numerous corporations across industries including Natl Steel, North American Aviation, Northern Pacific RR, Paramount, Remington Rand, Republic Steel, Reynolds Tobacco, Seaboard, Sperry Corp, Studebaker, Texas Gulf Sulfur, Timken, United Aircraft, United Airlines, and others. No coherent event or narrative.
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New York
Vierre & Cn
Amarilla
Alaska Hunean Geld
Allin Chalmers
Americem Can
Amer Com Aleshal
Amer Taco
Amer Smelt
TAOS
Amer
Armour Co ' O Terres
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnedall Ou
Fiavdwin Lorely Aty
Hendix Aviation
Hethliehem Steel
Eane
Kerden
Boeing
Burroughs
Canada Dry Care
Chrysler Wees
Amy Columb Gas
Klee
Curtias Wright Sane
Amn
del Lackawanna Dome
Douglas
Deere & Co Btm
Eaton Mig
Ais Gen Kler See
Gen Foods
RAT
Gen Motors
Ethene Cen Pub Gillette Ravor
Ity Goodrich
Northern
Hupp Motors
Houdaille Hershey
Hudson Motors
Internat Harvester
Internat Nickel Peewee
International Shoe
Bisoe
Jenna
Mo Kan
Texas RR
Kan
Texas
Montgomery
Ward Wee
Cicicsccrtsvecaevns —— Ravin Oo
Remington Rand
Bse
Tvace
Republic Steel A
Reynolds Tobaers
St Joseph Tendvisseesevees
Seaboard Oi Schulte United Beara Roeburk Socony-Vacuum South Pac RR
Southern Railway Standard Brande
Stand Gas & Elec
Rervel
Sperry Corp c
Cececereoves
Stewart-Warner
Studehalter
Cseee Swift CO
Orcs
Texas Corp
Cevcsures
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Texas Pac Com & Eee
Tinion Carbide
Inken
United Aircraft
Teteee Linited Air Lines
United Corp
Penetro Drops Promise Quick Cold Prevention
Stops colds where they start by addressing early head symptoms. Nature warns with sniffles or sneezes, and Penetro Drops with ephedrine and balanced medication are promoted to fight off colds. Available in 25¢ 50¢ and $1 bottles at all druggists.
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Nature
Modern Bayer aspirin gargle for colds claimed fastest relief
An advertisement touts a two tablet internal dose with water and a three tablet gargle dissolved in a glass of water to soothe throat membranes. It claims rapid relief by combining systemic aspirin action with a local anesthetic gargle and urges doctor approval.
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Charles Barnes
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Warner Broa Weer
Woeetern Union
Weetinghouse Flee
Gay Woelworth
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