Merry Christmas Visits Amarillo Shoppers as Santa Myth
Globe-News staff impersonates Merry Christmas to surprise Amarillo shoppers paying for gifts. Mrs. Tolk at 1303 Washington Street learns the clothes hamper is bought, prompting belief in Santa Claus. Other patrons at Gordon's, Killough and Davies, Regent's, Levine's and Stubblefield's receive gifts as clerks watch, with children asking if the helper is Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Tolk
Washington Street
Merry Christmas
Mrs. Tolk
Globe-News
Amarillo
Raymon Faulkner
Western Avenue
Gordon’s
Missionary Society
Carl Stultz
Roberts Street
Perky
Douglas
Marjorie
Santa Claus
Scouts Aid War Effort With Volunteer Work
More than 10 000 adults volunteered to aid Girl Scouting in the months after Pearl Harbor. In Amarillo over 50 troop leaders are needed now. The local group donated 168 handmade baby garments to the Red Cross in October as part of the wartime effort.
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Pearl Harbor
Amarillo
Red Cross
Lost and Found and Housework Ad Roundup
A collection of notices offers rewards for a three month old dog named Joey missing with a leather collar, a papering brush found on a Fillmore Street bus, and a request to place a capable woman for housework. Several small ads seek a local contact, a rat terrier for adoption, and a nurse or housekeeper. also an order form for a Marian Martin pattern and fashion booklet.
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Joey
C. R. Warren
Lincoln Street
Lost items and help wanted notices from local classifieds
A collection of small notices seeking the return of lost items and a help wanted ad. Details include Dolores Bailey’s lost identification and purse with contact numbers, yellow pigskin gloves near Fisk Building, a brown leather billfold with $39.90 and papers, and a help wanted for live‑in child care with room, board, and wages.
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Fisk
Wife of service man seeks room and board in Amarillo
Mrs TALFUNN appeals for a place to stay near Amarillo Field to work in exchange for room and board. She requests return of clothes, $275, and luggage taken from her apartment Saturday night, noting she can’t work while clothes are missing. She provides contact number 4341 at Amarillo Hotel.
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Amarillo Field
Lost items and personal notices in Amarillo and Clovis ads
A collection of short personal requests includes lost items such as a tan camel hair coat belt, a black kid glove, and general job offers for housework. Notices ask for returns to downtown locations or to contact owners in Clovis New Mexico, Amarillo and Fritch Texas.
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Tack
321 North East 3Rd Avenue
Ann Lee
General Delivery
Clovis
New Mexico
Missing crochet thread and cosmetics found at Kress store
Shopper reports four balls of crochet thread along with face powder and face cream taken by error during shopping. If found, please return to Kress' or call 4582 to arrange return.
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Kress
4582
Refined Christian Man Sought for Correspondence
Globe-News reports items turned in at the paper’s office in Monahans Texas. A color pink suede shoe pair, gloves, hotel keys, a green CCD cap, a billfold and other odds are awaiting owners to identify them at the Globe- News switchboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe News
Rosslyn
Denton E Carter
Globe- News
Globe-News Pub
Help Wanted and Lost Item Notices
A sequence of small help wanted and lost item notices. A woman seeks part time work on Wednesdays at a location near Walgreen's or on the street, contact J. K. Moore. A black purse with money watch and papers is lost near Grand Silver office, reward offered for return of papers and watch. A teddy bear is lost in Polk block areas 600 700 or 800. A middle aged woman seeks half day work at home nights and babysitting duties. address 1514 Pierce Street. A blue book titled Studying the Short Story by Esenwein lost between Senior High School and 2408 Hughes Street. call 26095.
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Walgreen
J. K. Moore
Kentucky Street
Grand Silver
Tack
Polk
Pierce Street
Esenwein
Hughes Street
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Son
St. Anthony's Hospital
Fort Worth
H. W. Prentis, Jr
National Association of Manufacturers
Texas State Manufacturers Association
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Prospect Bus
Fillmore Street
Cecil Callen
Rule Street
Hayden Street
L. A. Bohannon
Channing, Texas
East Ninth Avenue
America
TOTS
Furr Food No
Fillmore
Furr Food
Libby
Haven
Furr
Furr's
Marian Martin
Amarillo News
W. 18Th
N. Y
10Th & Fillmore Store
Campbell
Bonnet
Farr
Bu, K
Wilson
Swift
Assort
Dolores Bailey
North
Billfold
Buchanan Street
Amarillo Baking Company
W. F. Lankford
Fourth Avenue
Taylor
Louis H. Smith
J. C. Wilkinson Fritch
Texas
St. Joseph
M. C. Box
Monohans
Teddy Bear
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Order OF the Golden Rule
Blackburn Shaw
Pierce
Johnson & Johnson
Johnsons Red Cross
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