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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1936
Page
7
Amarillo real estate dealers report rents rising about 10 percent since August as population growth and new federal workers push housing demand. Vacancies shrink to near zero, with only three percent unoccupied among all buildings. Demand fuels buying but small down payments limit transactions while crops and business prospects shape future rents.
Two Washington officials assist the State Wheat Board in compliance checks on 1936 wheat contracts. A F Werner state supervisor and J Columbus federal comptroller staff audit county records. John R Edmonds notes checks from 10 counties and preliminary work in 70 more. 18 staff added. office location is Potter County courthouse third floor.
In Amarillo a display at a federal building shows pens used to sign landmark acts from Hoover to Roosevelt alongside Roosevelt era relics. Elsa Ryan, now a WPA drama executive in New York, reflects on career shifts and family hardships. Local notices cover affiliations, travel, and theatre listings with a film and venue guide for the coming week.
An old advertisement explains Black-Draught as a vegetable laxative made from drying and grinding plant leaves and roots. It claims no chemical change, targets the digestive tract directly, relieves constipation, and notes a 25 cent package yields about 26 doses.
Dr. Jay Keeler of the American Institute for Visual Educational Research spoke on personality and memory at the Amarillo Lions Club luncheon. He claimed most brain capacity is unused and that remembering names boosts business success. Also noted were musical numbers by David Macpherson and a trip report to Lubbock, with Amarillo Lions set to play a softball game in Dalhart Friday.
The performer, raised in New Orleans, started a musical career with Dorothy Dell and has appeared on NBC broadcasts for months. Tonight opens a double feature at Mission Theater with Half Angel and The Amateur Gentleman showing tonight and tomorrow.
Los Angeles judge signs final divorce decree for actress Joan Blondell and cameraman George Barnes. Blondell had been granted an interlocutory decree a year earlier, ending their marriage.
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