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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1938
Page
15
Short notices from a newspaper page include readers seeking work around after school and Saturdays and others offering child care services or elderly assistance. The fragment also shows a crossword puzzle with partial clues and answers.
A historical puzzle answer set includes clues and solutions crediting Walter Hunt for an American first. The page lists numbered terms from 1 to 54 with varying definitions and references. It also features notices from job seekers including J. W. M seeking work in West Seventh Avenue, a PRACTICAL NURSE, a READER, and an ALBERT farm worker, plus MABEL seeking Spanish cooking work in Las Vegas Hotel.
A letter from a 21 year old Amarillo resident seeking office or truck driving work with references offered. A citizen writes about the Townsend National Recovery Plan advocating job creation for youth, criticizing unemployment and senior poverty, and urging informed youth participation.
The narrator recalls raids that brought casualties, smuggling Red Sea intrigues with Arab couriers, and a mysterious paper marked L Amourie. Amid late night confessions in a market district, a chase unfolds around a dark yacht and a limousine as tension builds. The other figure hints at a border crossing for crucial news.
The piece notes Walgreen selling many shoe trees at 19 cents each, a local man’s night shoe spring, rodeo ticket sales via Darrell Grunay, and Clark Gable’s car promotion for Too Hot to Handle. It also mentions lookalikes for Rudolph Valentino contacting producers, Hedy Lamarr anecdotes, Larry Cotton’s music career, and Adelina Patti’s earnings.
The article profiles Lloyd Nolan as a versatile but cautious actor who prefers character parts to leads. It notes his early departure from Stanford, world travel aboard a tramp steamer, a shipwreck near Marseille, a stage career including One Sunday Afternoon and Ragged Army, stock tours, Hollywood arrival in 1934, and his efforts as a playwright and pianist.
Barceloneta port area bombarded by three squadrons killing 21 and wounding 70 as British ships Stanlake and Boby were hit but crews survived.
A Thursday Globe correction clarifies Country Club Cleaners pricing for Swagger Suits. The ad now states the service costs 75 cents, not 50 cents as previously printed.
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