Arctic Doctor Heads South After Arctic Service
Dr Bernand Lizotte of Levis Quebec, age 33, saltbushes two Arctic summers aboard the government icebreaker N B McLean. He recalls treating a blood poisoning case by wireless and performing a successful appendectomy at sea with improvised instruments. He learned Eskimo and dentistry while in the Arctic and now signs on with the passenger ship Lady Somers for warmer climes.
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Quebec
W.A
Arctic
Bernand Lizotte
Woddes
N. B. McLean
Levis
Churchill
Man
Hudson Bay
Lizotte
Hudson Straits
Alex O'Grady
Resolution Island
Nottingham Island
Dreyfus Line
Port Burwell
Lizette
Lady Somers
Canadian
West Indies
Help Wanted and Lost Notices From Amarillo
A reader seeks housing work for self and husband in Amarillo with meals and room, plus nursing experience offered and references. Also requests a home for a small dog, and a middle aged lady to share a room and be home nights. Several lost items including a brown glove, keys, and a purse with social security card are offered for return with rewards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
G. W. Hesyderson
Texas
East Eleventh Ave
Tack
North Jackson Street
Armory
Studebaker
Cavender
Filmore Street
Will Answer Letters Dear Tech A Countryside Fellow
A fragmented letter from a middle aged bachelor traveler abroad, noting his fondness for Midwestern and Southwestern women, and planning a trip through desert states. He seeks fellow OWRD professionals along the route to provide guidance on towns, roads, and local feed speed of two people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dear
Tech
Countryside Fellowship
Middle West
Southwest
Ohio
Missouri
Kan- Sei Almoot
Atlantic Coast
New York
Shreveport
Fi Paso
Moving Mountain At Elysian Park Finishes Activity
Los Angeles officials report the Elysian Park cliff has apparently ceased moving after a nightlong slide that sent about 1,000,000 tons of earth trees and rocks across Riverside Drive into the Los Angeles River bed. Geologist Dr J P Buwalda says the danger seems over and officials plan highway repairs at an estimated cost between 300000 and 500000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Riverside Drive
J. P. Buwalda
American cilm zen Seeks Answers From All Letters
A letter from George H. Bruce of Norwich Connecticut requests letters from readers as of January 1 1938. He says he traveled extensively and studied widely and that his maker made him an American citizen. He adds he has a sense of humor about it all.
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George H. Bruce Norwich
Widow Seeks Companions and Steady Work for Family Man
Classified note from Mrs A M C seeking a 40 year old man for correspondence and steady work. She is a widow with a 16 year old girl, 15 year old boy, and a baby, currently employed driving a tractor. Contact W E at 408 North Buchanan Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack Tam
North
Buchanan Street
House Worker Wanted to Care for Child and Home
Applicant with case work and nursing background seeks part time house work with room and board. Three years hospital training, not a registered nurse, child care needs. willing to work several hours daily and live in. Apply in person at 2308 West Third Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Atx
West
Third Avenue
Will Give Girl Home On Farm Near Ama?
fragmented notice seeks a girl to live on a farm four and a half miles from Ama. details incomplete due to damaged OCR.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Ama
Cheer the Sandies A Letter From Tom
A dated letter expresses a wish to find a girl seeking a good home as an agreeable companion for Mrs. Andrews at 1923 Pierce Street. Dial 7449. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rille
Mrs. Andrews
Pierce Street Dial
Sandies
Tom
Benevolent Brotherhood of Bremerton Bachelors Formed
In Bremerton Washington twenty four men created the Benevolent Brotherhood of Bremerton Bachelors to promote bachelorhood with the slogan protect our bachelor hood The club caps membership at 25 and plans enjoyable evenings New members only after existing members wed must throw a party for the group if they marry
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremerton, Wash
U?p
The
Benevolent Brotherhood of
Bremerton Bachelors
Paw Paw Chairs Move to Plant Paw Paw Trees
Paw Paw residents join Dana Smit and wife in a reforestation effort to honor the tree after which the city is named. The campaign aims to plant scores of paw paw trees in local yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paw Paw
Mich
Dana Smit
Paw Pawaws
Modern Mine May Tap Gold in Bolivian Jungle
A gold deposit in the Tipuani Valley Bolivia, dormant 200 years, is to be revived with 1,000,000 pounds of mining gear flown in by Pan American Grace Airways. The plan sped by air from Nov 2 1937 aims to cut an 18 000 ft high ascent and finish in about 100 flights across difficult terrain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolivia
U.P
Tipuani
Campania Aramaro de Mines En Bolive
Seville
Pan-American Grace Airways
Golden River
Cordillera
Planning Boards Open Session in Southwest Flood Control Talks
Representatives from eight state planning boards including Oklahoma Texas Colorado New Mexico Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Kansas meet in Oklahoma City for a two day session. They review final revisions on flood control and water conservation plans and will forward recommendations to the national resources committee in Washington before reaching President Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Capitol
Southwest
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Missouri
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kansas
National Resources Committee
Washington
Roosevelt
Striking Auto Workers Fail To Halt Ford Plant
Striking members of the CIO United Auto Workers failed for the third time to halt operations at Ford Motor Company's St. Louis assembly plant as of November 29. Local workers continued their picket lines and labor action despite the attempts to disrupt production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
ST. Louis
CIO
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Motor Car Company
Lindbergh Still Calls Little Falls Home Town
Charles A. Lindbergh, living in England after the kidnapping tragedy, told visiting London sculptor H. A. Stermann that Little Falls Minnesota remains his home town. During a 1937 bust sitting, Lindbergh spoke of Little Falls and Minnesota, while Stermann noted lines of suffering on the Lindberghs' faces and that they did not signal plans to stay abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Falls
Minn
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
England
H. A. Stermann
London
Lindbergh
Stermann
Minnesota
Clean False Teeth New Magic Way
Polident powder cleans removable dentures by soaking them in water to dissolve stains and deposits. Made by Werner Laboratories it is approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau and other authorities. A 30 cent supply promises long lasting results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werner Laboratories
Good Housekeeping Bureau
Amarilloan Loses Grip at Fort Worth Station
P Holcomb of 801 North Taylor Street reported a suitcase theft at the Fort Worth and Denver passenger station. The incident appears in an Amarillo newspaper item noting the literal loss of a grip not a metaphor.
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P. Holcomb
North Taylor Street
Holcomb
Amarilloan
Fort Worth & Denver
Case Reaches Court Over Traffic Accident Damages
Boyce Long a highway patrolman sues Roy Broaddus for injuries from a traffic collision. The case opened today in Judge W E Gee's court seeking damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boyce Long
Roy Broaddus
W. E. Gee
Long
Two Hold Up Bank and Escape With $14,000
Two men robbed the Citizens Bank of Springfield in Missouri and escaped with about 13 000 to 14 000 dollars. They fled in a coupe that sideswiped a milk truck two miles from the city and seized a pickup belonging to E. T. Page, a grocer, who had stopped at the crash scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
U.P
Citizens Bank of
E. T. Page
Grave-diggers strike halts burials at Greenwood Cemetery
Police guard the gates of Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn as grave-diggers and other workers strike causing seven additional burials to be postponed. The action blocks access to the cemetery and disrupts funeral schedules. The protest centers on labor conditions and demands by the workers.
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New York
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Last Rites Held For Mrs Mildred Vineyard
Last rites were held today for Mildred Vineyard 92 a Panhandle pioneer who died Sunday at her home. Services were at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home at 2 PM with Rev E B Fincher and Dr J Howard Williams officiating. Interment in Llano Cemetery.
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Mildred Caroline Vineyard
Panhandle
Blackburn-Shaw
E. B. Fincher
Ellwood Presbyterian Church
J. Howard Williams
First Baptist Church of
Amarillo
Llano
Kentucky Street
Armstrong
Potter Counties
Texas
Montague County
Armstrong County
Vineyard
Christmas Decorations Light Polk Street Thursday
Polk Street will don its Christmas costume Thursday as nearly 10,000 yards of laurel rope arrive from Mt. Airy North Carolina. The Veterans of Foreign Wars store the materials at 501 Polk Street and coordinate the decorating. O C Applequist notes more supplies may be ordered and workers are stringing lights with laurel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk Street
Mt. Airy
N. C
Veterans of Foreign Wars
O. C. Applequist
Arkansas High Court Upholds Brockelhurst Death Sentence
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled the death sentence for Lester Brockelhurst 23 of Galesburg Illinois valid for the hitchhike slaying of Victor A. Gates 57 a Little Rock planter on May 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Supreme Court
Lester Brockelhurst
Galesburg
Ill
Victor A. Gates
Little Rock Planter
Home Loan Offer Delayed Reaches Wakefield Homes
Homeowners in Wakefield Massachusetts received literature urging them to borrow under the Federal Home Loan plan six months after the offer expired. Postmaster cited delay in Washington as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield
Mass
U.P
Washington
Cooties Plan Initiation Ahead of VFW District Meet
Amarillo Cooties prepare a cootie scratch initiation for Thursday December 11 at 8 PM in the ex service men’s home Municipal Auditorium. The event opens the ninth district convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to be held December 11 and 12 with expected attendees including Arthur Dodds Dallas Tom Carter Lubbock and J E Deen Tulsa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Order of Cooties
Amarillo
W Dawkins
Cache Capour
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Arthur Dodds
Dallas
Dawkins
Tom Carter
Lubbock
Texas
J. E. Deen
Tulsa
Municipal Auditorium
Aunt Rescues Boy From enraged Bull in Ohio
George Zeis, 18, was knocked down and trampled by a bull but saved by his aunt Mrs. Blanche Burd who drove the animal off with a pitchfork. Zeis suffered severe bruises and a fractured rib.
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Tiffin
U.P
George Zeis
Blanche Burd
Zeis
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