Weather Outlook and Life on the Amarillo Ranch
The Weather continues wet as water boosters rise in Amarillo. The Canadian River swells while scattered clouds cool and rain drifts nearby. The Big Bull ranch sees a dry patch, but they expect a hard winter and a longer cold season ahead. The note also covers job needs, pronunciation checks with Dr. Pierle, pacifist views, and a paper theft incident in Amarillo's Sixteenth Street area.
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Amarillo
Big Bull Ranch
Big Bull
Amarillo Letters on Roosevelt, Taxi Wages and Local Life
A column lampoons taxicab wages in Amarillo and weighs Roosevelt talk for a third term. It notes drivers earning 7 to 10 dollars weekly amid rising living costs, and hints at Mrs. Roosevelt visiting in March. The writer riffs on local woes, fare rates, and social conditions with pointed asides.
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Amarillo
China
Cuba
Mrs. Roosevelt
Lucas Couple Released From Hospital After Accident
Mr and Mrs T N Lucas of Dallas were injured in a highway accident near Claude nearly two weeks ago. They were released from St Anthony's Hospital last night and traveled back to Dallas by train.
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T. N. Lucas
Dallas
Claude
St. Anthony's Hospital
Sleeping Beauty Faces Two New Ailments
Dark haired Patricia Maguire known as the sleeping beauty after five and a half years in a coma in Chicago faced two new threats. Doctors reported an abdominal tumor and phlebitis, inflammation of the veins, as added dangers to her condition.
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Chicago
Patricia Maguire
Wallace Dictates Food Costs Heading Down in 1938
Secretary Wallace said wholesale food prices fell in August as large crops of corn and livestock feeds signal meat prices will drop in 1938. He noted urban residents must allow time for crop yields to translate into pork chops and beef, and tied farm price stability to city prosperity.
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Washington
Wallace
Kick Off Drive To Raise Funds For Amarillo Agencies
The Community Chest launched a campaign to raise 84795 for Amarillo service agencies in 1938. Leaders summoned all campaign participants to Amarillo Hotel Canary room at o'clock this afternoon for the kickoff drive with much of the remaining effort focused on soliciting support.
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Community Chest
Amarillo
Canary
Seek Witnesses To Dallas Slaying
Police sought witnesses to the shooting of Mrs. Howard P. Stewart 50 at a Christian Science Church reading room in Highland Park Dallas. Her divorced husband called and fatally shot her before killing himself. Stewart, an oil man from Shreveport Louisiana, had recently lived there after the divorce. Acquaintances said he sought reconciliation with his former wife without success.
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Dallas
Howard P. Stewart
Christian Science Church
Highland Park
Stewart
Shreveport
Man seeks hourly or daily house cleaning work
A reader on Monroe Street offers cleaning services by the hour or day and can furnish references. The ad notes the person is in urgent need of work and signs as A Reader.
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Tack
Monroe St
Girl Seeks Employment to Support Family
A 17 year old girl seeks work to aid her mother. She states experience in house cleaning and child care and asks for any available positions. This personal appeal appears in a local column continuing on page 5.
Dead Man Pleads for Water on Golf Course
An excited tourist reported a dead man on a River Drive golf course. Deputies found the man and carried him to the county jail after he pleaded for water just before passing out.
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Sheriff's Office
River Drive
North Highway
Counter-Revolt Clashes as Paraguay Rebels Hold Asuncion
Government naval forces opened a counter-revolt against Rebels occupying Asuncion. Loyalist high command declared President Felix Paiva’s government would continue. Col. Rafael Franco, hero of the Chaco War, headed by air from Buenos Aires to join the Rebel governing triumvirate.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
U.P
Felix Paiva
Rafael Franco
Chaco
Buenos Aires
Suspected Slayer Hunted on Gulf Coast
Gulfport Mississippi police pursued Goldy Hairston of Longview Texas under orders to shoot to kill as a suspected slayer of Gulfport patrolman J O Wolf. Wolf died of gunshot wounds after Hairston and an associate resisted questioning at a filling station. The fugitives fled with two friends, exchanged gunfire with officers, and escaped toward Jackson Mississippi.
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Gulfport
Miss
U.P
Goldy Hairston
Longview
Texas
J. O. Wolf
Wolf
Hairston
Jackson
Douglas Aircraft closes Northrop plant by Douglas
Douglas, president of Douglas Aircraft Corp, announces closure of the Northrop subsidiary plant and states it no longer exists as an industrial entity. More than two hundred pickets continue to protest in front of the plant.
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Los Angeles
Donald W. Douglas
Douglas Aircraft Corp., Inc
Northrop Aircraft Plant
Douglas
James E. Kilday Appointed Regent in Texas Colleges
Gov. Allred names James E. Kilday of Houston to succeed Claude Pollard as a member of the board of regents of the College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville. Loraine Spoonts and R. C. Eckhardt are reappointed, with further health and regents appointments noted.
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8. W. Meharg
Plainview
Regents
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Rural Teachers Meet On Eight-Grade Plan Tonight
County Superintendent Carl G. Clifft announces a 7:30 PM meeting in the courthouse office to discuss the eight grade plan adopted by Amarillo and Potter County schools Miss Annie McDonald will explain the plan All rural teachers will attend and patrons were invited.
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Carl G. Clifft
Amarillo
Potter County
Annie McDonald
Hereford Youth Sentenced in Drunken Driving Case
Noel Jones of Hereford was convicted in district court yesterday on drunken driving charges. He received a $50 fine and one week in jail after being accused of driving intoxicated on South Fillmore Street.
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Noel Jones
Hereford
Jones
South Fillmore Street
Rainfall amounts across Dalhart to Tucumcari and South Plains
Rain totals varied across regions with one inch near Dalhart to Tucumcari while Adrian recorded two inches. The Santa Fe area logged diverse amounts from one half to several inches, including White Deer one inch and Miami to Canadian four to six inches, plus multiple towns reporting partial to two and a half inches.
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Dalhart
Tucumcari
Adrian
Lela
Shamrock
South Plains
Santa Fe
White Deer
Miami
Black
Clovis
Strong City
Okla
Vicin*y
Gage
Amarillo Noise Ordinance Fragments
Provisions ban unnecessary horn use and loud signals, restrict noisy vehicle operations, curb open exhausts, and limit building work hours to 7 AM to 6 PM on weekdays unless an emergency permit is granted by the city manager. The text cites exceptions for urgent safety needs and ongoing emergencies.
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City of
Amarillo
Noise Ordinance Proposes Heavy Fines for Disturbance
A proposed city ordinance targets loud street noise near schools hospitals and shops. It bans noisy loading and unloading, street peddler cries, and the use of drums or loudspeakers to attract attention. Violators face misdemeanor charges with fines up to 200 dollars and daily offenses.
Noise Ordinance Aimed at Protecting Private Homes
A local ordinance declares that heightened intensity and duration of noise interfering with comfortable home enjoyment by ordinary residents is prohibited and hereby enacted. The rule seeks to curb disturbances in residential areas and applies to ongoing nuisances.
Sino-Jap clash on Whangpoo river prompts alert
As Chinese planes raided along the river, anti aircraft fire and tracer bullets illuminated the ships in the International settlement. All hands were ordered below deck except Liberty boat crews gathering personnel for possible emergency. One Chinese plane reportedly crashed near the Columbia Country Club amid warnings to embassies and foreign vessels to display national colors.
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Augusta
Columbia Country Club
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Tazard
Dr. Pierle
West Texas College
University of Shanghai
Mr. Izzard
Dr. Pierse
Mr. Tarard
Japan
Marvin Jones
Panhandle
Sixteenth Street
Harry Moyers
Harry
Marty
Iater
Jim
Liv
Mr. Meyers
E. C. Britain
Monroe Street
State of
N. 8. Griggs
James O Curtis
Canyon
Clarendon
Pampa
Roosevelt
Jim Ferguson
Big Bend
Great Britain
Dean Gildersleeve
Barnard College
Columbia
Boston
North Carolina
Abraham Lincoln
N. Y
Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall, Hunt & Rice
Hollywood
New Orleans
Orleans
Jacksonville
Fla
San Francisco
Burns of
Scretcher
ST Ralry
OLD Quaker
Proor
Cope
Cola Wrenceburo
Indiana
Sleeping Beauty
EA ‘d
Paraguan
Gulf
James E. Kilday
Pollard
N.s.griocos'&sons Funeral
Eighth and Fillmore Sts
Amarillo, Texas
Phil
Vtaviets
Western Light & Supply
Polk
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