Boston Hat Works offers hat cleaning in Amarillo
Fall season prompts Amarillo readers to renew old felt hats at Boston Hat Works, 419 Polk Street. Nick Sothr and Terry Pando run the shop serving Amarillo Panhandle customers since 1906, with out of town mail orders from New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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Boston Hat Works
Polk Street
Amarillo
Panhandle
Nick Sothr
Terry Pando
Boston
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Fenpert
Texas
Fall Term at San Jacinto Beauty School Begins September 9
enrollment opens for the San Jacinto School of Beauty Culture Amarillo Texas on September 9. The six month eight hour a day program promises practical training with make up and drying room facilities and flexible tuition. Graduates hold high salaried positions or own shops across the Panhandle.
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San Jacinto
Beauty School
San Jacinto School of BeautAnd
San Jacinto School
The
Panhandl
San Jacinto School of Beauty Culture
M. Hancher
Amarillo
Texas
Southwest
Postoffice Cleaners Dollar Day Offers Free Suit or Dress
The Postoffice Cleaners at 120 Fast Seventh Avenue run a monthly Dollar Day. One dollar buys four garments cleaned and pressed or any combination totaling a dollar. Regularly 35 cents each or three for a dollar, this includes suits and plain dresses with cash and carry.
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Seventh Avenue
Postoffice
The Rainbow Old Time Dances Tomorrow Night
The Rainbow at 907 North East Eighth Avenue announces Old Time Dance night Tuesday featuring the Sons of the West Panhandle orchestra. Admission is 40 cents per couple. a Saturday Night Round Up also offers varied dances with the same band.
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the Rainbow
North East
Eighth Avenue
Rainbow
Sons of the West
Amarillo Secretarial School Offers Fall Training Program
The Amarillo Secretarial School opens enrollment September 2 and starts fall term September 3 at 800 Jefferson Street in Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer’s home. Courses cover shorthand typing English spelling comptometry book keeping and office skills with specialized tracks for aviation radio medicine law and other fields. Classes day and night with flexible hours and individualized instruction.
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Amarillo Secretarial School
Amarillo
Panhandle
Foringer
Specialized Dermovac Facials Highlighted by Mrs Vann
For years our Dermovac facial uses a controlled vacuum system to treat acne and other skin conditions while stimulating facial muscles. Visitors are invited to discuss their skin troubles with no obligation. Mrs Vann leads trained beauty experts across all beauty culture fields.
Postoffice Cleaners One Day Saving Event
A one day event at the Postoffice Cleaners invites families and friends to visit together for real savings on cleaning services. The offer emphasizes group visits to maximize discounts and streamline turnaround times.
Pistols with blanks used by usher at Harlem theater
Miami ushers carry blank pistols to frighten youths at the Harlem theater to prevent gate crashes. Jack Woodberry faced a shooting charge but a fine was suspended as he claimed the weapon used only blanks to deter rowdy boys who throw rocks. Brazil’s area is 3 275 510 square miles.
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Miami. Fla
Harlem
Miami
Elliott-Greer School Supply Headquarters Ad
Elliott-Greer Company at 508 Taylor Street offers a full stock of pens pencils notebooks and more. They feature Parker fountain pens Sheaffer and Wahl brands and the Corona portable typewriters with a pay as you type plan and low weekly payments.
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Elliott-Greer Company
Taylor Street
Parker
Elliott Greer Company
Corona
Here Are the Have Nots No Water in Maryland Town
A Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club area in Easton Maryland sits five miles inland with no water access. Fifty years of competing small yacht clubs ended with a central site lacking any waves or harbor.
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Easton
Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club
Chesapeake Bay
Wartime ad braves blackout with vague geographic hints
A southern resort prints a wartime bargain listing a detached house by a main road and overlooking a bay and harbor. The ad omits specific location details with blanks for blanks to avoid disclosing military value. It notes proximity to a bus route shopping center and railway station as general orientation.
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London
Blank
Local Store Invites Public to Inspect Full School Supply Stock
The shop advertises a wide range of school supplies and extends an open invitation for customers to visit and review their complete inventory in person.
Star Spangled Buoy Missing Near Fort McHenry
Coast guardsmen and lighthouse officials deny the Star Spangled Banner buoy ever existed at the anchorage used by Francis Scott Key in 1814. Capt. William H. Riehl claims placing a three foot can buoy with Stars and Stripes near Fort Carroll in 1914, though others dispute dates and sightings. Winds or tides may have carried the buoy away from mid Chesapeake Bay.
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Baltimore
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
William H. Riehl
Sentinel
Chesapeakeay
Riehl
Fort Carroll
Old Riversview Park
Seven Keys to Trouble in Basel Sparks Theft Spree
A Basel youth found keys on the street and grew curious about what they unlocked. His escalating desire to test them led to a spree of seven thefts before police apprehended him.
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Basel
Switzerland
Memphis police nabrobbery suspect after hotel to hotel chase
Police traced a robbery suspect across Memphis using three taxicabs starting at a hotel and ending back at the hotel where they captured him. The pursuit covered extensive city territory as officers followed the suspect’s movements.
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Memphis
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Dwight Newby CO
Amarillo Shade Equipment Co
Tik Ai
Time Payments
Fillmore
Madsen
Hiway
Polk St
Typewriter Service Co
Victor
REM Kidwell
Bush Drug Co
Taylor
Dr. T. M
Montgomery
Optometrist
Oliver Eakle
Secretarial School
Bese Orr Foringer
Jefferson St. Amarillo
Sons OF the West Adm
Refrigeration and Radio Service
Gooch
Polk
Beauty Culture
Beauty
W. 6Th
E. E. Finkler, Inc
J. F. Bromer
Taylor ST
TOM & Roy
GUN & Key Shop
M. T. Robertson
Roy F. McGee
Tyler
Johnson Price Co
Speed Ravey
417 Polk
Brazil
Amarillo Junior College
Jefferson Street
Hoffman Machine Shop
N. Tyler and Hoffman Arms Co
Gatlin Glass & Paint CO
Hope
N. C
W. T. Savage
Asheville
Call the Water Company
Call the Electric Company
Call the Telephone Company
Fort Worth
Denver
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Transfer & Storage Co., Inc
Amarillo Tent & Awning Company
E-Z
L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters
Western Tent & Awning Co
G. M. Stone
Harrison
Woody Electric CO
C. H. Wiseman
Mrs. Vann
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