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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
10
In a London trial, large hotels abolish free tips and add ten percent to the gross bill. The extra is distributed among staff, mirroring the German system. Waiters and maids report satisfaction as generous patrons may also provide extra directly.
Visitors view displays in the city auditorium by the allied laundry trades. Abe Cohen of Washington shows a wool washing machine claimed to shrink not. George Bell from Amarillo showcases a barrel rack churn and jar container. Armbruster of Houston demonstrates loose identification. R W Slate and Harry Schott seek to explain the New Way system with Royal line products.
J. C. Chick of Chevrolet Motor Company Oklahoma City branch announced plans to place a house in Amarillo soon after a two day conference with Panhandle and New Mexico agents. He noted district business has more than doubled in the past year and will likely rise further. Amarillo has served as a supply depot for the company. Accompanying him were W. E. Livingstone and M. Chase. Over 40 dealers attended and signed contracts for the coming year.
Henry A Nobles privately published Home Circle a small poetry volume in Amarillo. Dedicated to his daughter Mrs Dorris Nobles Blackburn wife of Gerald D Blackburn. Many poems are personal referring to family members and the poem Home Circle centers on the mother Mrs Nobles.
R W Murray of Ranger and Eastland has leased the Palo Duro Hotel site from Sewell Drug Co and will move in after Sewell relocates to 404 Polk Street. Murray ordered new fixtures and aims to make the store a city leading pharmacy.
Two houses on the Circle ranch of Lee Bivins burned yesterday morning with a loss estimated at 3500 dollars. The fire likely started in a flue. Firemen and policemen reached the scene but arrived too late to save the structures.
W E Lyle of Stephens McKee Bacon Co chosen to lead both the parade and the mascot goat in Lubbock on Saturday July 11 for the Fourth Annual Traveling Men Jubilee. About eight hundred salesmen are expected to march after the Lubbock High School band with a ball game, banquet and stunts scheduled for the day.
Discussion of selling 1 750 000 dollars in city bonds to fund water supplies dominated the last night’s regular weekly city commission session. The commission unanimously ratified the sale of a 100 000 warrant issue to Branch Middlehaf Company of Wichita at par and accrued interest with 2500 dollars of expenses borne by the city. A Rev G H Bryant led North Amarillo Civic Club to request Fillmore Street white way placement, eight light standards sought, and a committee from Glenwood led by J M Jones asked about segregation laws. Pavement work and other details also were approved.
Judge Henry S. Bishop granted a temporary injunction to A. P. Mc Swain preventing Ernest Definey Rev. John M. Jones Edwin P. Webb Thomas A Bordeaux Walter M. Foster Lloyd Hammon and Rev. Cesario Gutierrez from threatening or interfering with Black buyers of property near the Santa Fe roundhouse. Mc Swain sold parcels between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets and Arthur and Houston streets to Negroes. Plaintiff seeks 10000 actual and 16000 exemplary damages and a permanent injunction. hearing set for next Thursday at 2 pm.
Homer King aged 56 died Monday night near Washburn. Funeral services were held at Griggs Undertaking Company chapel with Rev. R Thomson officiating. King, a retired stockman from Texico New Mexico, is survived by his brother H C King of Stafford.
Lawyer members of the Lions Club led a noon program at Amarillo Hotel with visits from laundry owners. Judge W. E. McGee explained seizure and search law limits including warrants, and J B Dooley discussed automobile legislation. Joe Akin described a San Antonio playground project in Brackenridge Park. George A. Lilly of Dallas spoke on the laundry convention. Glenn Hutton of Waco sang.
H A Gardner reports Texas Lions Clubs have grown to 88 with 3903 members. Cedar Point Ohio hosted the International convention with 983 delegates and 4500 attendees. Three special trains left Chicago for Cedar Point. Gardner visited Detroit's Ford plant before returning to Amarillo.
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