Radio and Empire Books in Amarillo Library Review
A collection of literary notes outlines Julius Hornung on radio careers and shipboard operators, Dr James Kendall on Gas in the Last War, and C Rufus Rorem on accounting methods. It surveys Jawaharlal Nehru’s Toward Freedom, The Ageless Indies by Raymond Kennedy, Negley Farson’s Africa As a Whole, and Timoshenko by Walter Mehring with vivid portraits of wartime figures and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Kendall
Surrey
England
Farnham School
University of Edinburgh
Nobel Institute
Stockholm
Indies
Raymond Kennedy
Yale University
East Indies
Far East
Africa
Negley Farson
South Africa
Great Rift Valley
Congo
Tanganyika
Election Shortage Halts Ballot Needle Supply in Bay
After the primary, 30 large steel needles used to string tabulated ballots vanished in Bay Tucson. Clerk Gladstone MacKenzie suspected their location but could not confirm. Officials likely sealed them in ballot sacks, which cannot be opened for six months, delaying November general election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Ariz
Gladstone MacKenzie
County Board of Supervisors
Wife Had Chance of Lifetime at Camp Forrest
A newlywed couple, married two months, faced a probing induction interview as Virginia Dunkleberger, 20, questioned Austin Dunkleberger at Camp Forrest about his pay, shoe size, and children. The exchange showed the intense cross examination during the army enlistment process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tullahoma
Tenn
Virginia Dunkleberger
Austin
Camp Forrest
Army 1-A Husband and Wife Work History Noted
The wife-interviewer recalled meeting a man now 1-A in the army while he sat across the table. The couple lived near Winchester and both had worked at Camp Forrest before Dunkelberger joined the army, the husband as a quartermaster clerk and the wife in the induction office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nea Winchester
Camp Forrest
Dunkelberger
Army
Timoshenko rises as Russia's top field commander
The article notes General Seymon Constantinovich Timoshenko, age 20 in 1915, rising from machine gunner in the First Oranienbaum Regiment to command the Fourth Cavalry division on the western front. It portrays him as Russia's best field commander, inspiring troops amid wartime leadership. It also mentions a Sheridan, Wyoming incident about magnified sun rays igniting a wooden house frame and a note on new fiction arrivals and iodine’s violet vapor from a library update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymon Constantinovich Timoshenko
Imperial Germany
Timoshenko
Oranienbaum
Fourth Cavalry
Nebraska man builds egg henhouse under wartime limits
Walter Brantley of southwest Nebraska answers a U S Department of Agriculture call for more eggs by constructing a 20 by 40 foot hen house. The wartime restriction on lumber and nails did not deter his project as he expands poultry production to meet national needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timoshenko
Walter Mehring
Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow
Tchaikovsky
Iolanth
Stalin
Washington
Walter Brantley
Nebraska
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Brantley Builds Hen House From Local Sticky Soil
A farmer used sticky soil to create adobe blocks for a first rate hen house housing 150 chicks. Brantley spent only $7.48 on roofing paper and glass cloth, yet eggs from last year’s flock earned $278. He aims to double that with a strong market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brantley
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Amarillo
Public Library
Ruth Delzell
Julius L. Hornung
C. Rufus Rorem
Graduate School of Business Administration
Harvard University
India
Jawaharal Nehru
United States
Sir Stafford Cripps
All-India Congress Party
Cripps
Nehru
Harrow
Cambridge
Hahn
Ovanhees
Kennedy
Tsetse
Hubert
Arnold Hodson
Gold Coast
South Tanganyika
Farson
New York
Jay Thorpe
Bergdorf-Goodman
Drugless Research Foundation
H. Roy Barnes
D. C
Jackson St. Ph
Sweetwater
San Angelo
San Antonio
South Texas
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Union Bus Depot
Old Post Office
Sheridan, Wyo
Carroll D. Clark
Sheridan
Hunsley
Hunsley’s
House OF Color
East 6Th
Thrift
Penney's
Penney
By Laura A Helen
Bunny
Amarillo Globe
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
N. Y
Trentwood
Trentwoods
U.S. War Savings Bonds
Penney’s
Poplin Jackets
Coeu
Casio Weil
Ed Coats
James
RTS
Oxford
Goodyear
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