Texas Scrap Drive Gathers Momentum Across Cities
The Associated Press reports Texas salvage efforts collect thousands of tons of scrap. Highlights include a steel casket for world leaders atop Waco’s heap, a 20-year-old 2500-pound theater sign in Dallas, 106 tons from Borger Boy Scout raid, and a 41-inch shellcase from Paris World War I donated by David R. Litsey in Houston.
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Texas
Waco
Hitler
Mussolini
Hirohito
Earl B. Jetton
Jetton Place
Bexar County
Owen Whilday
San Antonio
Dallas
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Federal Reserve Bank
Borger
Howard Rawlings
Houston
David R. Litsey
Paris
Amarillo Globe reports city scrap drives and steel for munitions
On October 1 1942 Amarillo notes 42 miles of street car tracks to be torn up for 6190 tons of scrap metal. Jefferson County dumps 4000 old plates and a hoard including an elevator safes swords and guns to Galveston. Fort Worth activates a salvage drive with 30 trucks 600 drivers and 1500 volunteers at 3 PM Sunday to collect scrap.
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Houston
Jefferson County
Galveston
Fort Worth
Trades Inland Lake for Life In the Navy
Homer M. Watson of Buffalo Lake leaves Amarillo for Camp Allen Virginia to join the Navy as a carpenter mate He is to be known as Mack during boot training and hopes for a PT boat division assignment Watson has long worked in Amarillo since 1929 including drug stores and the Rex Theater He is survived by his wife and local friends who wish him well in the service Uruguay has an unemployment problem.
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Homer M. Watson
Camp Allen
Virginia
United States Navy
Mack
Watson
Buffalo Lake
Navy Seabees
Oing
Navy
Amarillo
Ed Jamison
West Sixth Avenue
San Jacinto Heights
Jim Golding
Golding
Rex
Rex Theater
Army Air Forces Technical School
Southwest
Panhandle
Atson
Mie
Buffalo
Neal Shaw
Bascom White
Homer
One-Woman Committee Wins Army Gratitude
Army morale officers in South Texas applaud Florine Davis a 16 year old who formed a one woman committee to provide camp entertainment. She recruited musicians dancers and entertainers from Houston supper clubs and radio stations and organized free volunteer performances for army camps.
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Army
Houston
Tex
U.P
South Texas
Florine Davis
Miss Davis
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Slogans in 10c and 25c
An old Globe News Want Ad promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills claiming to wake bile flow and relieve indigestion. The copy emphasizes two pints of bile daily and prosperity of digestion with a snappy, period tone.
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Carter
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Madagascar
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Farewall
OPA
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Homer M
Mack” Watson
Fine Diamonds
J.T. Russell
Marie Earle
Uncle Sam
Motor Corps
Herbert
Jewell Williams Baker — Cosmetician
Caromel
Globe News
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Barrie
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Stace
Lawrenceburg
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Chee
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