Tack Letters Share Small-Town Classified Kindnesses
A reader page blends ad requests and personal notices from Fort Worth to Canadian Texas. Letters seek work and aid, including a white prairie chicken mystery, a widowed caregiver, missionary needs, and a man railing at family friction in a rural setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. White Drake
McQuiddy
White Drake
Husband
McQuiddy’s
Tack
Isaac M, Simpson
Red Deer Park
Texas
Cumberland Mountains
Tennessee
Middle Tennessee
Chance
Lincoln Street
Lindbergh Kin gs Admiral Now
A distant relative of Col Charles A Lindbergh has risen to Rear Admiral and leads the U S Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair. The note also contains a farmer’s grievance about gas tax refunds and political criticism of Sterling and associates amid local district matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Emory 8. Land
U. S. Navy
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Mr. Sterling
Dumas
A. C. Johnson
Sheppard
Texas
Readers discuss taxes refunds and newspaper loyalties
A letter contemplates tax refunds for a Texas farmer and criticizes local media coverage while urging political change. It questions print choices and mentions Sterling Hoover Tack and newspaper loyalties amid community sentiment. A second piece recalls Phoenix Indian history and a modern Amarillo scene showing a return to savagery with bare, bathing-trunked men near the city auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Globe
Daily News
Amarillo Daily
Sticks
A. C. Johnson
Lottie
Sterling
Hoover
Tack
G. C. Bryan
Stratford
Amarillo
City Auditorium
Bargain grocer ad lists varied canned goods and meats
A Brookfield area ad promoting low prices on staples and protein items. Items include Prunes Beef and Veal roasts T bone and chuck steak lard bacon soap and table staples with traffic note and bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BLISS
Brookfield Butte
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fort. Worth
Austin
Temple
San Marcos
Dial
Crockett Street
Abe Miohbe
S. A
Harrison Street
Buchanan Street
Lindbergh Kings
Phoenix
Arizona
Mother Hubbard
Jonson
Johnson
Doe
Jar
Colorado Eipeaches
OFS
Gallion
Creamery
Pinkney
Bacon
Faloi
T-Bone
Pinkney’s
Franks
Post Bean
Grocer
Pride of
Lemons-Thompson Grain Co
Swift Jewel
Plains
Wheaties
Hamburger
Fowlkes
Pierce
West 16Th
Durkee’s
W. S
Buchanan ST
Daniels Self Service Grocery
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