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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1940
Page
2
A long camp diary from Camp Berry recounts wolf hunting near the bar, Alaska weather, geologist questions, local wildlife, and social observations. The entry covers Walter Holmes and Jack tracking wolves, guides’ stamina, rabbit feet gifts, indigenous relations, and implied future quail hunting plans along with scattered letters seeking employment and local notices.
A note requests return of a brown checked tweed jacket left in a girls rest room and offers part time work. The writer, 22, lists ironing in home, child care, and housework experience, and provides two local addresses with phone numbers for contact.
An ad promotes FASTEETH denture powder claiming firmer plates with no gummy taste or sour feeling. It says the alkaline formula reduces denture odor and improves comfort, available at drug stores.
Infant son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Morrison dies at four this morning in a local hospital. Body to be sent to Pittsburgh on the 4 40 Santa Fe train by N S Griggs and Sons for burial in a Pittsburgh cemetery.
Mike Hogg says Wendell Willkie could win Texas if voters see the truth about federal government actions. He plans to introduce Willkie at a speech, noting his own Democratic loyalty and leading the No Third Term group in Texas. Also with him, Grady Callaway of Edinburgh, head of Willkie Demo clubs in the Rio Grande Valley.
Wendell L. Willkie, now with his restored voice, called for a peaceful solution to international disputes via inclusive negotiations in September 1938, urging all nations to participate on equal terms. He argued that U S defense hinges on rebuilding the domestic economy more than on military armament, speaking aboard his train en route to Coffeyville after resting in Kansas City.
The Republican candidate prepared his first major campaign speech and handed over portions of the address to Alf Landon for delivery in Missouri and Kansas as his Midwest tour continued.
The text notes a GOP three-man congressional contest between Major Herman Crile of Roswell and Waldo Rogers with Crile holding an edge. It reports Albuquerque attorney Crile gaining ground as returns suggest Democratic turnout near 100,000 while Republicans approach 35,000.
Reich Marshal Hermann Goering personally piloted a German bombing plane over London during Sunday air battles, disclosed by an authorized source. The Yukon River at 1.437 miles long is spanned by a single bridge.
Gene Worley, 18th district congressional nominee, spoke at the Amarillo Kiwanis luncheon at the Amarillo Hotel. He cited tenant issues and rural depopulation in the Panhandle as key district problems and said he will lead a Future Farmer meeting tonight and visit the Panhandle tomorrow.
Berlin reports state charged Swedish government and papers with insulting Germany. Volkischer Beobachter led the drive by faulting Sweden for rebuking a paper that claimed British occupation forces in Iceland used terrorism while another paper accused terrorism in Germany.
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