24 Nov 1937
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1937
Page
1
Thursday promises perfect football weather as Amarillo Sandies prep for a clash with Lubbock. Thompson’s leg concerns cloud selection while expectations see a 19 to 7 score. fans urged to help shuttle visitors to the Herring Hotel at 1 30 p m.
The column mixes light social observations about Dallas women and regional beauty with reader letters on traffic lights and a string of brief curiosities. It notes Dallas as a source of pretty women, discusses weathered sandstorm effects, and cites varied trivia from flag sizes to flight risks.
Shirley Clark, a deputy in the tax office, counted pennies for two hours as a Joakie farmer paid taxes in 14 000 pennies. The coins were saved over 11 months.
Twenty years after a ship disaster a vanished bride is found. Lawrence Stamm and his wife Joan survive a boiler explosion that injures her severely. After days in the hospital their cautious reunion unfolds as he learns she was saved and kept hidden by fate.
Evelyn Foote, a 17 year old Claude High senior and daughter of Mr and Mrs H J Nave, won the Claude beauty contest. The event awarded paid expenses to the San Antonio state finals and drew a large audience with performances by Kathryn Doak Edith Blackwood Travis Puckett and Caroline Hawthorne.
Dear Tack requests help locating a black and gray corduroy jacket with zipper lost after a kiddies matinee and toy store visits. A 50 cent reward is offered. Contact T784 or bring to Alamo Camp office at 2408 West Sixth Avenue.
Douglas Vickers a former arms manufacturer aged 76 died last night in London. He was known for his role in the arms industry and had long been a public figure in industry circles.
After finishing a task he donned his hat and urged Mr. Eisenberg to guide him to his bride. The woman is described as his pretty young sweetheart from twenty years prior, prompting the question Who am I.
Three Grand Rapids men complained to Sheriff Frank Van Etta about losing money at a gambling concession near Grand Haven. They were charged with violating state gambling law for patronizing a gaming device and fined 3.50 to 5 dollars each after reporting losses totaling 135 dollars.
A Wyoming cowpuncher with a swollen bandaged hand told the district office that a rattlesnake bit him. The sheriff claimed the bite was intentional, but the accident insurance company overruled the sheriff and upheld the claim.
The Brussels conference on the Chinese Japanese conflict adopted in principle a report calling for indefinite suspension of its work. Nineteen governments at the meeting were to continue consultations to seek possible ways to bring peace to the Far East.
In Honolulu waters giant tuna swarmed by the tens of thousands drawn by mil lions of muhee or red sea shrimp. The school spread an estimated 50 square miles and filled boats to capacity in two hours, though fishermen usually are at sea three or four days.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt will dine on their first Thanksgiving turkey in the White House tomorrow The holiday visit to Warm Springs Georgia was postponed until the president fully recovers from a tooth infection He missed last year’s dinner while traveling to the Buenos Aires peace conference
Lincoln Nebraska November 24 Dr Earl H Bell University of Nebraska anthropologist says American women are the most beautiful in the world and notes feet are growing larger with surveys from Vassar and other colleges showing modern girls wear shoes at least two sizes larger than their grandmothers.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that talks between Viscount Halifax and Adolf Hitler on foreign policy were valuable but produced no pledges.
Chairman Mary T. Norton of the House labor committee announced the panel favors a floor amendment substituting a single administrator in the labor department for the five man board now proposed.
The New York Stock Exchange disciplined Nash-Kelvinator stock specialist John J. Phelan for failing to fulfill his duties. The governing committee found him guilty and directed a three month prohibition from acting as a specialist on the exchange floor and a presidential censure.
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