Amarillo Letter Mixes News, Notes and Local Controversy
A Pampa letter rails at forecast bets on the Sandies, promotes a charity dance at Amarillo Hotel, and weighs in on home guard duties, fashion judges, and a ten‑man best dressed list. It also discusses duck disease myths, persimmon beer wishes, wage fairness, and social commentary on local life and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Don Harrington
John Fullingim
Lawrence Hagg
Buddy Hoen
Bill Pheiffer
Anti-Sourpuss Association Attracts Amarillo Members
The Anti-Sourpuss Association expands in Amarillo with Pat Flynn of the chamber reporting a flood of inquiries. The group uses a grinning cat insignia and the motto do not be an old sourpuss. East firms adopt the club for stationery. It touts business benefits and invites joiners.
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Pat Flynn
Chamber of Commerce
The
Anti-Sourpuss Association
Random Snippets Highlight 1930s Daily Life and Trends
A collage of observations from 1930s life notes trends in society work manners and media. It covers July crime deaths fashion fragrance industry press censorship labor figures childhood stars and consumer habits with varied snippets and data points.
Red Cross Appeals for Aid in Securing Wheel Chair
Mrs Arthur Ball of the local Red Cross chapter said the group is in serious need of a wheel chair for an invalid unable to obtain one. The appeal seeks assistance to secure the device for patient care.
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Red Cross
Arthur Ball
The
American Red Cross
What They Write to What They Write to WANTS LAUNDRY WORK
A reader seeks home laundry and housework work to be done at reasonable rates with references. The advertisement lists Mrs FP James at 140 East Fourth Avenue Tam and Wilda at 732 North Johnson Street Mal as sources. Also mentioned is a lost black California weight top coat advertised as found locally.
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Tack
EF James
East Fourth Avenue
Tack Tam
North
Johnson Street
Mal
California
Science Gives Film Longer Span of Life
Rochester New York report notes accelerated aging tests by the Bureau of Standards showing acetate film may be preserved hundreds of years while cellulose nitrate lasts 50 to 100 years. A Hollywood chemist put max life at 24 years, but officials see no limit yet. Acetate is less flammable and used for permanent newspaper records, bank data, home movies and x rays.
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Rochester
N. Y
U.P
Bureau of Standards
Washington
Mount Pleasant Man Dies Here
Stephen H. Purger of Mount Pleasant died this morning at a local hospital. He was the Texas Company agent at Mount Pleasant. Surviving are his wife three children his mother three brothers and four sisters. Funeral rites will be held tomorrow in Mount Pleasant with Boxwell Brothers directing.
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Stephen H. &Purger
Mount Pleasant
Texas Company
S&s
Hungarian Cabinet In Extra Session
The cabinet was summoned to an extraordinary session in Budapest to discuss Czechoslovakia's latest move that did not satisfy Hungary's territorial claims. Observers saw bold Czech attitude, possibly aided by Germany, which drew closer to Czechoslovakia.
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Budapest
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Virginia Erects Monroe Statue First of Its Kind
A statue of President Monroe, commissioned for the Venezuelan republic 40 years ago, was finally erected in Virginia after a revolution halted delivery. It marks the state's first statue of its famous son.
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Monroe
Venezuelan Republic
Virginia
Stanhope Named First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain
London dated October 27 reports Earl Stanhope, president of the board of education, named first lord of the admiralty to succeed Alfred Duff Cooper who resigned October 1 over distrust of Premier Chamberlain's foreign policy. Earl De La Warr was named president of the board of duties.
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London
Earl Stanhope
Board of Education
The
Admiralty
Alfred Duff Cooper
Chamberlain
Earl de la Warr
Privy Seal
House Probers Hear Governor Murphy
Lansing reporter J H Creighton testified before the House committee on un American activities that Governor Frank Murphy said the government must protect workers during a strike action while some workers faced arrest for violating a court order. He inferred Murphy referred to an injunction blocking non strikers from Lansing automobile plants.
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Washington
House
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Lansing
J. H. Creighton
Murphy
Creighton
Russell Funeral In Pauls Valley
The body of Blanche Russell fatally injured in a Vega area crash will not be buried in the local potter's field. Friends in Pauls Valley Oklahoma asked Blackburn-Shaw to send the body there for burial, with arrangements shifting from the potter's field. Earl Clemens of Selma California, killed in the same accident, was sent to his Winnewood Oklahoma family home.
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Blanche Russell
Vega
Pauls Valley
Okla
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Potter's Field
Earl Clemens
Selma
Calif
Winnewood
Dickinson Infant Succumbs Here
Kent Dean Dickinson six day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle D. Dickinson died this morning. Survived by parents, a brother Charles S. and sister Dorothy Lois, who live at 2712 A West Fifth Avenue. Father a driller at Sinclair Prairie test west of Amarillo. Funeral services this afternoon at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel with Rev. H. C. Smith officiating. Body to be sent to Colorado Springs, Colorado for burial.
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Kent Dean Dickinson
Lyle D. Dickinson
West Fifth Avenue
Charles S
Dorothy Lois
Dickinson
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers
H. C. Smith
San Jacinto Methodist Church
U S Army Flier Sets New Speed Record
Lieut Benjamin S Kelsey set a new army speed record of 355.3 miles per hour for a loaded pursuit aircraft after flying from Dayton Ohio to Buffalo New York in one hour and one minute aboard a Curtiss snub nosed pursuit plane with full wartime equipment.
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U. S. Army
Buffalo
N. Y
U.P
Benjamin S. Kelsey
U. S
Army Air
Dayton
Kelsey
Hospital Bond Clears Way For New County Memorial Facility
The government will pay a sum if satisfactory as a master bond of 10 000 is signed by Ed Hardin Gene Howe Roy Cullum Jim Florey Wade Brymer Charlie Ware Walter Blackburn Bill Frost Binford Arney and C W Parr. The hospital will be built on county land north of Highway 66 as a memorial to George Broome the American Legion and the chamber of commerce. County officials say the project will raise land values and ease future land transfers.
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Ed Hardin
Gene Howe
Roy Cullum
Jim Florey
Wade Brymer
Charlie Ware
Walter Blackburn
Bill Frost
Binford Arney
C. W. Parr
George Broome
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
Cabinet reshuffle tightens Chamberlain ministry
Prime Minister Chamberlain fills two cabinet vacancies while delaying choices for lord privy seal and dominions secretary. Earl De La Warr remains without a successor as lord privy seal and the secretaryship of dominions sits open after Lord Stanley's death on October 16.
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Chamberlain
Earl de la Warr
Lord Stanley
Dominions
Funeral Tomorrow for Rail Pioneer W. H Placey
Funeral services for W. H. Placey, pioneer railroad man, will be at 2:30 P M from Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Chapel. Rev J D Horton will officiate. Burial will be at the family home in Arkansas City Kansas. Placey lived in Amarillo since 1889 and worked for Santa Fe Railway until 1910 retirement. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and a Mason.
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W. 8
Placey
Pioneer Railroad
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Chapel
J. D
Horton
Pierce Street Baptist Church
Arkansas City
Kan
Amarillo
Santa Fe Railway
The
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Amarillo Scouts Court of Honor Set for Tonight
The Amarillo Area Council Boy Scouts will hold its regular monthly Court of Honor at 7 30 tonight in the county courthouse annexe. A large number of Amarillo and area Scouts will receive advancement awards. Parents and friends are invited.
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Boy Scouts
Amarillo Area
Potter County
Amarillo
Scouting
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