National Venetian Blinds Sold by Amarillo Shade Co
Amarillo Shade and Equipment Co promotes National Venetian Blinds highlighting home improvement benefits. The firm emphasizes quality features such as wood from white cedar, four coats enamel finish, 36 color slats, ladder tape options, trouble proof tilt control, and concealed mechanism with easy window cleaning. The business at 313 West Sixth quotes manager J Vilas Newby on blinds as essential to home styling.
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Amarillo Shade and Equipment Company
West Sixth
J. Vilas Newby
In Hazard by Richard Hughes reviewed in The Literary Guidepost
John Selby surveys Richard Hughes lettered novel In Hazard. The story follows the Archimedes freighter through an extraordinary hurricane that shreds the ship and tests the crew. Selby notes its monochrome focus on fear and the crew’s transformation under crisis.
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John Selby
Richard Hughes
Harpers
Conrad
Archimedes
Norfolk
Far East
Caribbean
Mr. Hughes
Furniture Studio Opens Doors in Amarillo
J. Walter Short and Earl Bond announce the Furniture Studio at 2914 West Sixth. The shop offers quality refinishing and upholstering including piano, dining room, and bedroom suites with a factory finish and mail order service. Short and Bond bring six years with South Western Store Fixture Company and furniture building degrees.
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J. Walter Short
Earl Bond
West Sixth
Amarillo
Southwestern
Fair Bond
Furniture
Inside the Archimedes Aboard a Lemur Guided Voyage
The narrative places readers aboard the Archimedes, sharing the crew and lemur Thomas in vivid, intimate detail. Emotions and moves unfold for a immersive journey, promising a memorable reading experience that lingers beyond the pages.
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Thomas the Lemur
Road Construction Progress Near El Paso
Contraction for reshaping the base and applying base preservative to 10 miles of highway leaves one unpaved section between El Paso and Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico. The remaining 12 miles will be ready for paving next spring. A contract has been awarded for grading and drainage structures of that section.
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EL Paso
U.P
Carlabad Caverns
New Mexico
Bennett Champ Clark Breaks Two Thirds Rule Hurdle in 1940 Drive
NEA Service reports Bennett Champ Clark, son of Champ Clark, helped kill the Democratic Party's two thirds rule, boosting his 1940 presidential prospects. A favored anti New Deal figure, he leans isolationist, opposes war profiteering, and enjoys support from Garner and Farley while facing labor opposition. Clark’s long career includes House parliamentarian, AEF captain, American Legion leader, and Missouri political veteran.
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Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Champ Clark
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
Bennett Champ
Clark
Roosevelt
Garner
John Garner
James Farley
Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
Organized Labor
Patty Clark
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Pike County
Columbia
General Staff School
American Legion
James Reed
John Quincy Adams
Pendergast
Farley
Philadelphia
U. S
Maurice Milligan
Milligan
Valhalla
Milady Beauty Salon Showcases Latest Beauty Innovations
Milady Beauty Salon in Amarillo promotes modern equipment and services. Features include 50-cent plain shampoo and wave, permanents from 2.50, Thermapax magnetic facial applications, air conditioned decor, and a knitting class by Mrs. Clem Calhoun. Ran by Mrs. L. E. Eyler at 119 West Seventh with 11 operators and Ray Miller as a rising stylist.
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Milady
Amarillo
West Seventh
L. E. Eyler
Ray Miller
7 Up Panhandle Market’s Latest Refreshing Drink
The Panhandle offers 7 Up a lime lemon soda praised as healthful and refreshing. The green bottle signals the product distributed and bottled in Amarillo by the locally owned 7-Up Panhandle Corporation with D B Mc Glasson as plant manager.
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Amarillo
7-Up Panhandle Corporation
D. BE. McGlasson
Clark and Senator Bennett face political shakeup in late 1930s$
The record traces Champ Clark’s voting on the Byrnes amendment and federal relief measures, including support for Black’s confirmation and the Wagner housing bill, while opposing the naval appropriations act and the Gilbertsville Dam. It recalls a 1940 bid and a quip about nomination prospects from Speaker Tom Reed.
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Clark
Justice Black
Gilbertsville
Pendergast
Tom Reed
McKinley
Speaker
Champ Clark
Champ
Reed
Bennett
Engineers Meet at Lubbock for 25th ASCE Texas Sect Convention
About 150 practicing engineers from Texas and New Mexico are slated to attend the Texas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers twenty-fifth anniversary convention in Lubbock on October 28 and 29. J. H. Murdough chairs the event at Texas Technological College. Speakers include J. T. L. McNew, Marion R. Smith Jr., W. D. Twitchell, Carl F. Izzard, Winfield Holbrook, and Hans Kramer.
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Lubbock
Texas
New Mexico
American Society of Civil Engineers
J. H. Murdough
Texas Technological College
J. T. L. McNew
Texas A. & M. College
Marlin R. Smith, Jr
W. D. Twitchell
San Angelo
Carl F. Izzard
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Austin
Winfield Holbrook
Texas Land and Development Company
Plainview
Hans Kramer
Conchas Dam
Mirror at M. Wilson Observatory Polished with Rouge
A 100 inch silvered mirror at M. Wilson Observatory in California is being polished with rouge to maintain its reflective surface. The process aims to keep the instrument ready for precise astronomical work and observations.
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M. Wilson Observatory
California
Large Watermelon Sells for 18 Dollars in Atlanta
A Cass County farmer, BE Kennedy, sold a 158 pound watermelon in Atlanta for 18 dollars. The farm produced about 100 melons this year, with weights from 80 to 160 pounds. The largest melon, 160 pounds, was bought by Gov. James W. Allred and sent to President Roosevelt. Local buyers credit Cass County soil for the size, not seed, with a 183 pound melon noted four years ago.
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Atlanta
Cass County
Kennedy
James W. Allred
Roosevelt
Wellington Plans Horse Mule Show
Wellington plans the first horse and mule show for November 3 under the county agent’s office. A demonstration on breaking young livestock for work and a pulling contest will be arranged, with significant local interest noted.
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Wellington
di Jon
K Cottingame
Fragmentary OCR Notes from Local Page
Incomplete text fragmentary items from a local page include names and stray phrases such as Jess Stre and Mal Mo Fri. The readable content is too fragmentary to determine a coherent event or item.
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Amarillo Shade & Equipment Co
Johnson-Price Co
Fillmore &T. Amarilla, Texas
Meee
Nash
Post Office Cleaners
Camera Store
Polk
Amarillo Tent & Awning Company
the Literary Guidepost
Milady Service
Milady Beauty Salon
Bie
L. BE. Evyler
Lucille
Bradford
W. 6Th
Park Road
Bennett Clark
NEA Service
Senate
PT Pi Ki
EL Sl
Pore
Fort Worth
Denver
Rock Island
Santa Fe Railroads
ACME
Carloading Co
Gatlin Glass & Paint CO
Mountain & Plains
City Machine & Welding Works
the “Blind” Med
Ahink
Mm &L
Panhandle
Moneins
Jefferson
Bess Orr Foringer
Blackstone Cleaners
West Éth
E-Z
Amarilla
W. 16Th
F.H. A. Loans
E. A. Regal CO
J. F. Bromert
D. C
Apne
Amarite
Consultation Without Obligation Western
Electrical Supply Serving
The
Dr. 1. Me Montgomery
Optometrist
Oliver Eakle
Dea Caldwell
Bob Myers
Jackson
Frank
Barber & Beauty
the Panhandle
Bly W. "Th
Jess Strewhe
Orc
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