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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1950
Page
2
Dear Tack seeks a practical nurse for a sick man on a farm 40 miles east of Amarillo. Male candidates preferred, must have clean character, with modern themed facilities. Contact Mrs G A Blankenship Northwest Hospital Room 301 Amarillo Texas.
Local notice announces the Amarillo Little Theater presenting Born Yesterday at Municipal Auditorium with 8 15 curtain time for three performances tomorrow and the next two nights. Includes local event snippets and ads for area businesses and public notices.
The writer seeks a home for a healthy eight month old collie. Unable to keep two dogs, they invite interested parties to call 2-4014 for directions to reach them and arrange adoption.
A reader wants to correspond with a employed woman aged 45 to 50 to share his home near a bus line and shopping center. He offers a garage if desired and notes references are exchanged. Phone 2-1766.
A lost billfold containing personal papers but no money is to be returned to 310 North Lamar or phone 30173 with any information.
Woman reports a lost Elgin Deluxe Sindell watch found Monday morning November 20 downtown. It was a Christmas gift from her late husband and she offers a substantial reward. Call 23488 to contact.
Dear Tack offers two or three children days for working mothers. Purpose to provide care for nearby families at reasonable rates. Contact via phone 2 9786 for details and arrangements.
A colored girl seeks employment offering day work or dishwashing duties. Call 3-4748 after 2 30 for contact and arrangements.
Mrs D L Parker announces home sewing services from her residence at 193 Ineram Drive Pleasant Valley. She lists weeping willow sprouts, small peach trees, current sprouts, and strawberry plants for sale and provides phone number 3 3000.
Two female half-shepherd puppies need a good home. They would suit farm work or as pets. Call or visit to see them at 329 Taylor.
A reader proposes bartering a Revere Fight magazine style movie era item for building materials such as asbestos siding and cedar shingles. The note includes a contact phone 3-3009.
For sale items include tea towels and hand towels plus not holders suitable as Christmas gifts. Contact phone 29583 or visit 2011 Madison St. to view these pieces.
A reader offers a 28 inch haton valued at 2395 and a large angel fond cake for one book of Gunn Bros. damns. The trade request is presented by Mrs. C. R. Compton.
Like new black suede TB size with Gold Cross shoe and black kid leather two strap Foot Saver TAA. Also selling and knitting mittens for children and ladies gloves for Christmas by Mrs Russell at 1542 East Seventh.
People who missed Chow-Chow tomatoes can buy large green tomatoes at 819 Forest. For sale by John H. Gattis, price 1.50 dollars per bushel. Phone number 2-6737.
Mrs Pelfery of 800 Arthur advertises ready to care for two or three children aged four to five, by day, with a small son at home. She asks interested families to call 3-2238 for arrangements.
A reader asks for donated or cheap bed and stroller for a mother who must work to care for her baby. If you can help, call 3-7225 to arrange.
A colored woman advertises day work, requesting contact at the phone number 3-8675.
Sell crochet divan set and several pillow cases plus other pieces suitable as Christmas gifts. Includes contact by phone 2 2809. Address 811 North Buchanan.
Local caregiver offers hourly or daily child care services during Christmas shopping season. Available daily at home with flexible hours. Two nearby bus stops in 29994 provide easy access for families seeking affordable supervision while shopping.
Marie a widow in Amarillo asks for polite correspondence from gentle men around 60 years old. She has limited mobility and few social contacts and hopes a kind letter from a sincere suitor will arrive soon.
Piano lessons available with reasonable rates. Contact phone number 7513 for arrangements. Located at 2908 Tyler.
Local resident seeks in home ironing assistance while caring for a sick husband. Contact via phone number 33185 to arrange help nearby.
A black and white pinto mare from race stock is offered for trade. The seller requests a motor scooter and cash in exchange and provides the contact number 3-32664 for interested buyers.
Person seeks to rent a pasture for a child’s pony in the northeast part of town and provides phone contact 3-3266 for arrangements.
A caller seeks practical help with ironing tasks and laundering curtains. The note provides a contact number 4-1191 for follow up and specific requests to locate ironings and curtain laundering and stretching services.
For sale a white fur jacket suitable for evening gowns and a pair of ladies black riding boots size 6 1/2 7. The items have been worn only a few times and are offered at reasonable prices. Interested buyers please call 2 4437.
The writer offers small crocheted pieces including chair backs pot holders and doilies for sale. They seek a kind elderly woman in need of a good home and provide the contact number 2 4660 for inquiries.
Born today you project energy and drama in leadership roles and prefer independence. Your steadfast judgment can resist change but progress needs adaptation. You value duty, may offend slower minds, yet your magnetism draws others to your ideas. High standards can make you a societal influencer and a harmonious marriage awaits an intellectual partner.
Fulton Lewis Jr sketches a replacement profile for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He notes a rapid placement service and Washington aides scouting a new berth, while predicting a possible ascent to the United Nations. The piece lampoons candidates with Harvard ties, public payroll loyalty, bipartisanship views, and a strong will to avoid resigning amid foreign policy repudiation.
Graveside rites were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Memorial Park Cemetery for Mrs Nettie Eleanor Hayzlett 81 years old 2620 Sanborn. Officiating was Dr E B Fincher pastor emeritus of Southern Presbyterian Church. Burial was under direction of Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. Mrs Hayzlett died yesterday afternoon at her home following a long illness. She had lived in Amarillo for the past five months. She came here from Denver. Survivors include a niece Clara Boston and a great niece Mrs T G Branchi both of Amarillo.
Patchogue New York November 27 The Long Island Railroad escaped a wreck when an 18 inch rail segment broke off as the Montauk bound train passed over it A motorist Gene Sullivan alerted police at East Patchogue and crews repaired the break before the next train. A prior wreck in New York City killed 77 and injured 332 last Wednesday night.
In San Antonio an accident claimed the life of 3 year old Donna Lynn Traugott, daughter of County Commissioner Dan Traugott. The driver, 17 year old Robert Trevino, said the child ran into the roadway from a group of children on a parkway in front of his car.
Final rites for Joseph Isom Meek aged 76 were held at 2 30 this afternoon in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel. Rev Eugene Slater of Polk Street Methodist Church officiated. The body will be cremated in Dallas. Meek died early yesterday at 1009 Van Buren.
An anti embargo message notes European factories rebuilding for Russia and smuggled U S strategic goods, citing a December Digest issue claiming nearly a billion dollars in West machinery and materials will aid Russia in 1950, urging readers to buy the issue.
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