Dream Home Site Highlights Beautiful Bivins Addition
Amarillo’s Bivins Addition is pitched as a premier show place with the Globe News Home at 1018 Milam Street. The area boasts high elevation cooler temps, a single through traffic artery, parkways, paved streets, utilities, and new homes with good drainage and no old structures. Gus Watson of Miles Realty Company tagged the Globe-News dream home site.
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Bivins
Amarillo
Globe News
Bivins Addition
Tenth Avenue
Polk Street
Globe-News
Milam Street
Gus Watson
Miles Realty Company
White's Auto Store Here Will Be Enlarged Soon
Amarillo White's Auto Store will move from Sixth Avenue and Taylor Street to a larger building around the first of the year. George Mansur, local manager, says the new location will have about three times the space and will stock period furniture matching items shown in the Model Home this week.
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Amarillo White’s
George Mansur
Sixth Avenue
Taylor Street
Mr. Mansur
New 'world's perfect government' scheme nabbed by celebs
William E. Riker touts a system for a perfect world government and says two celebrities have received his prospectus. Secretaries to John L. Lewis and Harold Ickes have acknowledged receipt of his literature.
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Holy City
Calif
William E. Riker
John L. Lewis
Harold N. Ickes
Apple Butter Kettle Returns To Roanoke Jail Reaches Public Use
Roanoke reports the county police keep a large copper kettle in the jail from a raid years ago. Citizens may borrow the kettle for apple butter making, just as it was used in bootleg liquor production years ago.
Riviera calls for modest dress amid tense international scene
Riviera newspapers urge women to wear more clothes as Shorts and scanty attire clash with the gravity of the international situation. The commentary stresses decorum and conservative dress in public view.
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Nice
France
Riviera
Air whistles on trains save deer along Roseville lines
Railroad men claim new air whistles on streamliners will protect deer in the Roseville area. Engineer Henry Strube notes deer formerly ran the tracks at night and did not heed steam whistle signals, but now scatter when the air whistle sounds.
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Roseville
Calif
Henry Strube
Roanoke Fans Surprised by 185 Pound Player
Spectators at a Roanoke high school football game expected a 585 pound tackle from the program. They were disappointed to learn the printed figure was erroneous and the player weighed 185 pounds.
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Roanoke
D. McLean
Morrow-Thomas Hardware Furnishes Dream Home Finish
The Globe-News dream home at 1018 Milam Street features high grade Schlage hardware supplied by Morrow-Thomas Hardware Company. A streamlined door lock inserts in the door with ball bearings to reduce noise and is finished in bright brass. The cabinets include a snuggler fastener to keep doors closed automatically.
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Globe-News
Milam Street
Morrow-Thomas Hardware Company
Morrow-Thomas
Amarillo
Panhandle
Milt Herrick Known As a Fast Thinker
Alamosa Colorado reports Milt Herrick earned renown for quick wits when his hay laden trailer caught fire near a suburban grocery store. He phoned the fire department, realized they could not respond outside town, and then unhitched the blazing trailer at a fire plug before the fire department arrived to save the tractor and trailer, though the hay was lost.
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Alamosa
Colo
Milt Herrick
Herrick
Coe Lumber Proud Supplier of Globe-News Model Home
J. B. Coe, president of the J. B. Coe Lumber Company, states the firm supplied materials for the Globe-News Model Home at 1018 Milam Street. He notes the project cost totaled $15,000 and emphasizes grade marked lumber and quality materials delivered.
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Milam Street
Globe-News
J. B. Coe
J. B. Coe Lumber Company
Lincoln Street
Mr. Coe
Silence at Ottawa Water Works Sparks Letters to Editor
After the water plant whistle, a 6 a.m. wakeup call for years, was silenced for repairs residents began writing letters. Some praised the quiet, others missed the noise as the town weighed the change.
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Ottawa
Kas
Louisville Pair Pays Five Dollar Marriage Fee With Nickels
Frankfort Kentucky. P K E White and Oma Barnett both of Louisville approached the county clerk office and dumped 100 shiny new Jefferson nickels on the counter to pay for their five dollar marriage license fee.
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Frankfort
P.K. E. White
Oma Barnett
Louisville
Pup Appears With Collar in Her Mouth
In Radford Virginia residents recall a clever dog owned by W R Withers. After a family discussion about state license requirements at four months the pup appeared the next day with a collar bearing a 1939 license tag.
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Radford
W. R. Withers
One Unlucky Thief Disturbed
Winchester scene as Jesse Thompson confronted a pickpocket who lifted a wallet at a political rally. Thompson had two wallets on him, the thief grabbed the one containing his identification.
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Winchester
Jesse Thompson
Thompson
Jail complex sale ends 90 year service in Lafayette county
Kansas City reports Lafayette county sells its 90 year old jail facility with locks bars and padded cells as a new one is being completed.
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Kansas City
Lafayette County
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Amarillo Hardware CO
Polk
Coe Lumber
N. Carolina
the News-Globe
Model Home
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Pirangia
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