Amarillo Building Permits Near Million and a Half
The 1929 Amarillo building permits total nears $1.5 million with $50,691 issued last week. The largest is a $42,000 mercantile and industrial building at Tenth and Tyler for Louis H. Smith, a brick two story 120 by 140 foot structure housing an auto service and supplies business. Other permits include a brick veneer dwelling on Fillmore, a Sumner Addition garage, and several frame houses and additions with values ranging from $70 to $4,000.
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Tenth and
Tyler Streets
Louis H. Smith
Fillmore Street
Eakle
Barfield Lumber Company
Carolina Street
Summers
A. Summers
East Tenth Street
Tate-Lax Medicine Show
Frank Foliart
North
Maryland Street
San Jacinto
D. S. Bruce
Harrison Street
Edgefield
C. M. Hurd
F. H. Haynes
North Lamar
Old Town
Lee Blackwell
Charles Moody
Monroe Street
George L. Smith
W. E. Atkins
East Twelfth
Mirror
D. H. Greer
Sunset
Country Club District
R. P. Eastland
Tyler Street
Plemons
Mrs. Webster
W. E
Well
Charming home with shingled roof and timbered facade
A unique house features a broken gable roof with half timbering and circle head louvres. Brick accents and bright awnings provide a colorful contrast to the traditional design.
Book of Home Plans Offered At Low Cost
The News-Globe and Panhandle Lumber Company offer a book of many home plans to promote better homes. It sells for 50 cents when picked up or 60 cents if mailed.
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Book of
News-Globe and the Panhandle Lumber Company
Flashes of Life and Blue Laws Highlight New York and New Jerseyitems
A police report lists Jeanne Engels jewels valued at 350000 dollars including a 250000 dollar pearl ring and a 20000 dollar six carat diamond ring, with a wedding set and two pearl strands. In New Market New Jersey Recorder Von Minden expresses support for Sunday football despite blue laws as 22 youths are involved in unspecified activity.
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Associated Press
New York
Jeanne Engels
New Market
N. J
R. P. F. von Minden
NYU Track Captain Phil Edwards Engaged to Weehawken Woman
Phil Edwards, captain of the New York University track team, is engaged to Misa Edith Oedelschoff of Weehawken New Jersey. Her mother is French and her father German. The case was continued as Edwards was arraigned before him.
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New York
Phil Edwards
New York University
Misa Edith Oedelschoff
Weehawken, N. J
High School Girl Parachutist Survives 1700 Foot Drop
Arveta Rogner, 17, learned parachute jumping at Roosevelt Field New York. She plunged 1600 feet headfirst from a plane with a foot tangled in lines, then freed the lines and descended about 600 feet to the ground.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Yo
Arveta Rogner
Stokowski conducts Philadelphia Orchestra in classic program
On radio, Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in Bach and Mozart, dressed in plus fours with no collar. Before a Wagner overture he shed his coat and necktie as the performance continued. In Borger, Captain Frank Hamer’s six shooter reportedly missed a target, prompting a candid apology about worn sights, while a sergeant faltered with a rifle.
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Philadelphia
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
Borger
Frank Hamer
Texas Ranger
Funeral Service for Bradford Baby Today
Funeral services for Evelyn Louise Bradford infant daughter of Mr and Mrs C V Bradford 705 Louisiana Street were held this afternoon at 2 from the family home Rev J M Jones pastor of the Baptist Church of Bushland officiated Interment in Liano Cemetery under direction of N B Griggs Sons Mortuary
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Evelyn Louise Bradford
C. V. Bradford
Louisiana Street
J. M.jones
The
Baptist Church of
Bushland
Liano Cemetery
Griggs & Sons
Thor introduces advanced washer with cuffs and collars clean
The latest Thor washing machine claims world leading design and test results. It promises thorough cleaning of shirt cuffs and collars in one wash without soaking. Features, beauty, and a remarkable low price are highlighted.
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Thor
Air travel deemed as safe as other transport modes
New York Oct 7 The Review of Reviews investigator Herbert Brucker concludes air travel today is as safe as car train or ship travel when properly serviced. He notes 384 deaths from aviation last year but only 18 were authorized airline passengers among 52,934 carried, with most fatalities among amateurs and noncommercial flyers.
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New York
Herbert Brucker
Brucker
New Mexico
Colorado
Beautiful Gist Home in Wolflin at 2615 Hayden Street
The Spanish style residence built by Reppert Lumber for Dr. R. L. Gist sits at 2615 Hayden Street in Wolflin Place. It features a large living room with cathedral ceiling, muresque tile mantel, cedar-lined closets, upstairs three bedrooms with apple green baths, a cedar-lined hall closet, an upstairs balcony, and a three-car Spanish garage with staff quarters.
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DR. R. L. Gist
Hayden Street
Wolflin
Hayden
Wolflin Place
Reppert Lumber Company
R. L. Gist
Aleo
Servanta
Anti-Tammany Democrats in Texas urge meeting
Alvin A Moody, head of the anti Tammany Democrats of Texas, sent a letter to State Democratic chairman Ed Wilcox urging a meeting of the Democratic committee to define the attitude toward Democrats who refused to back Governor Smith last year. He insists he speaks for more than 75 000 Texans.
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United Press
Dallas
Alvin 8. Moody
anti-Tammary Democrats of
Texas
ED. W. Wilcox
State Democratic Executive Committee
Democratic Committee
Smith
Moody
anti-Tammany Democrats of
Coste Breaks World Record on Distance
French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte reportedly set a nonstop long distance flight record from Le Bourget near Paris to Manchuria covering 6,068 miles. A telegram signed Coste and Hellenie claims a 6,958 mile record with safe landing in Heilung Chiang after a week of travel ending October 6.
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Amarillo
East Tenth
Bradford
Shor
General Electric Motor
News-Globe
Cece
Pere
EL Toro
Coste
Wheat Farm
Texas Plains
Tyler
6Th
Tyler Sts
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