Amarillo Girl Scout Council Exhibits At Tri-State Fair
The Amarillo Girl Scout Council directed by Miss Daffin Lowery showcases its first Tri-State Fair exhibit featuring handcrafts home making natural lore and Scout techniques. Homemaking leads entries including dressmaking needlework cooking and canning with prizes awarded for leatherwork beadwork tie dying basketry posters quilts and more.
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Amarillo
Arlene Duebbert
Ann Marie Walker
Mary Alice Burnett
Madeline Stafford
Ruth Early
Carlie Barnes
Carrie Barnes
Margaret Lillibridge
Fern Williams
Dorothy Coard
Geraldine Logan
Mary Ann Lee
Mary Ella Flesher
Dorothy Jo Smyth
Laurette Lockleer
Agnes Ann Wagner
Mary Ann Stanberry
Marjorie Dudley
Mary Ann Tolleson
Mable Stephenson
Mary Jessie Beynon
Caroline Marsh
Marjorie Wilkinson
Peggy Seible
Mary Wood
Frances Farwell
Theda Elliott
Caroline Studer
Dr. Russell A. Hibbs Dies at 63 After Overwork
The obituary notes Dr. Hibbs, chief surgeon of New York's Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital, died at 63. Renowned for spine fusion techniques and pioneering surgeries for hip knee ankle and foot, he cared for thousands pro bono. His death follows intense concern for patients and global respect for his discoveries.
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Russell A. Hibbs
New York
Hibbs
Kentucky
Amarillo Sealed Bids Sought for Street Pavement Project
The City Commission of Amarillo Texas invites sealed bids by 7 30 P M on Tuesday September 27 1932 for paving Ninth Avenue with Warrenite Bitulithic or brick on concrete base including curb gutter and drainage on Polk and Taylor street area. Each bid must include 5 percent cash or certified check and a performance bond from a responsible surety company registered in Texas.
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City Commission
Amarillo
Texas
Ninth Avenue
Polk
Taylor Streets
Taylor Street
Public service ideals and industry hopes across the era
The piece surveys civic virtue and public service while noting global tension with China and Japan. It discusses opium in Henan and large poppy plots, then shifts to technology and advertising from General Motors and General Electric about storage innovations and costly campaigns.
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England
Italy
Persia
China
Henan
Honan
Bomb blast targets Chicago judge at his home
In Chicago on September 21 a powerful dynamite blast severely injured two passersby and damaged Judge John P. McGoorty’s residence. McGoorty, his wife and children were in the living room during the attack. The assailants offered no motive.
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Chicago
John P. McGoorty
The
Criminal Court
Organized Crime
McGoorty
Elizabeth
Margaret
Robert
Wilber Koetten
Ada Moyer
Koetten
Advertising and debt policy in postwar finance moves
The piece argues for intelligent advertising to raise demand before adjusting prices and critiques foreign debt relief. It notes the American Legion in Portland denouncing canceling foreign debts and questions sacrificing billions abroad for hundreds of millions saved. New York seeks $75 million from the RFC for a second Hudson River tube to create jobs with self financed returns.
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American Legion
Portland
Ore
United States
New York
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hudson River
Hudson
New wind powered plant and cotton harvester at fair booths
At the fair implement show two new devices draw attention a wind driven power plant on a steel tower and a John Deere cotton harvester that pulls bolls green or ripe. The display includes tractors feed mills combines drills plows planters and more from John Deere and International Harvester with Bill Fisk supervising the exhibit.
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K. C. Gentry
Western Light & Supply Company
John Deere
J. W. Miley
International Harvester
Bill Fisk
Regals of the Piedmont Virginia Dairy Festival Crown Ann Elizabeth Davies
Ann Elizabeth Davies of Arlington County Virginia is crowned Regina II queen at the Piedmont Virginia Dairy Festival. The festival showcases a wide display of agricultural machinery including tractors from Allis-Chalmers and J I Case, windmills, pumps, and farm equipment with dealers demonstrating water systems, grain drills, binders, cultivators, and Ford vehicles.
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Ann Elizabeth Davies
Arlington County
Regina II
Dempster Company
J. 8
Paul
Booth
Allis-Chalmers
J. R. McKnight
J. I. Case
C. J. Williams
Roy Longest
Clowe and
Cowan Booth
Panhandle
Fairbury
W. E. Anderson
the Woods Farm Equipment Company
Oliver- Nichols and Shepard
Minneapolis-Moline
J. L. Tryon
Hammer Mills
C. O. Smith
Amarillo
Ohio Farm Machinery
Texas-Ohio Cultivator Co
Barker Sentenced Over Labor Racketeering Case
James Red Barker was sentenced after empanelling a grand jury that probed politics and crime links. The investigation, described as pending, led to Barker’s prison term amid a lengthy legal battle. Put Sammons, newly released from Joliet, also sentenced by Judge McGoorty, with arrest ordered tonight.
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Barker
James
Red) Barker
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Girl Scout Council
Ior
Lillian Skagg
Mary Louise Brands
Wendene Wilson
Mary Jane Potter
Elizabeth John
Cecile Parsons
Suzanne Dyer
Suzanne Pers
Margaret Terry
Frances Gifford
Germany
France
Russia
W. N. Durham
GAS Company
Japan
E. G. Biechler
General Motors
General Electric
Biechler
McCormick Co
Amarillo Gas Company
Pittsburgh
Ned
Cream of Beauty
Plains ‘Tractor and Equipment Company
Kerr
Southwestern
Ford
Walter Irvin, Inc
Time
Tonacco
Scientific
Firestone
Chevrolet
Sqggie
Chrysler
Studebaker
Firestone Courier
Firestone Sentinel
Restone Es
BUICK
Hi Inc
Az Adler
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