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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
4
A religious reflection cites Nehemiah 13 27 on resisting evil deeds and marrying wise partners. The excerpt includes a J P Senn quip contrasting a good wife as harbor to life’s tempests and a bad wife as a tempest in the harbor.
In a critique of education and public safety, the piece argues schools should teach Americanism alongside government knowledge. It blames limited civics for the rise of the Black Legion and urges focus on Washington Jefferson Jackson Lincoln as civic heroes.
The article notes the Forest Service planted about 225,000 acres in national forests in 1935, more than all agencies did in 1934. Plantings this year are set to rise over 10 percent, with U S forest acreage over 500 million acres and a world ranking topped by Russia Brazil Canada and the United States as forest nations. Europe’s replanting is cited as precedent.
Frazier Hunt interviews Governor Alfred Landon as part of Smoking Out the Candidates. Landon answers six of ten vital questions and cites uncertainty about exact responses. The piece notes three of the four unanswered items relate to sensitive policy positions.
The interview described would force Landon to choose a side or risk alienating liberal supporters nationwide or provoking Hearst and other reactionaries. The piece mockingly suggests he avoid comment until after the election, comparing him to “the Coolidge of Kansas” and lampooning past Congress members and figures like Haile Selassie.
The piece reports a Democratic revolt against Roosevelt policies ahead of the renomination convention. It cites Byrd Glass George and other conservatives blocking NRA measures and pressing for limits on New Deal programs. It also covers FCC censorship, funding to Kansas, foreign language propaganda efforts, and ongoing political maneuvering ahead of 1936.
Linda Bourne, 20, loses her father, moves to Hollywood, and rises as Miracle girl after Peter Gardiner, a reporter, helps her land a job writing society news. She profits from others’ projects, adapts scripts, and gains status, wealth, and romance while drifting from Pete's world to fame. Linda becomes a celebrated figure in film circles, hosting social events and mingling with directors, producers, and stars as she ascends.
Flapper Fanny brings a new cinematic mood as Linda meets Basil Thorne at Honey Harmon's Malibu bungalow. Cora Jarrett notes Thorne cycles through blond types, from Dietrich to gaming to sophisticated women. Linda reflects on love missing in her life as she confronts Hollywood intrigue.
Curator A. P. Kashevaroft of the territorial museum received a pair of 70-pound hinges. They came from a two foot thick door of the old Wrangell customs house, used as miners’ headquarters during the gold rush days.
Daily menus list breakfast lunch and dinner items for Sunday through Friday with items such as French omelette roast pork baked egg plant mutton chops and minced fish. The note requests health questions answered and a stamped self addressed envelope for Dr Frank McCoy and paper submission details.
Dorothy Dix argues the Illinois high court upholds a domestic reform law limiting alimony to two years after a wife without children divorces. She contends the measure curbs alimony fraud, deters frivolous divorces, and protects men from unpaid support, while urging protections for wives from abrupt home eviction by dissatisfied husbands.
The excerpt lists meals for Saturday including jelly tomatoes beans applesauce and a potato dish with Melba toast. It also includes a long essay by Dorothy Dix from 1936 arguing alimony should reflect a wife's contribution and character, not just money, with views on divorce settlements.
Questions on cucumbers baby walking and chayote answered. Cucumbers are harmless when paired properly with meals and can be eaten sliced without salt or oil. A late walking child may just be late, doctors suggest examination if concern continues. The chayote fruit is pale green from the cucumber family, grown in Mexico and warm US regions, with one large seed and squash like flavor.
New Yorker Emma-Lindsay Squier travels aboard the freighter Exchange bound for Africa and beyond. She is described as frail in appearance yet bold in exploration, having ridden a burro in the Andes and explored Maya ruins while helping her husband with a Mexico travel film.
Puff wipes his tears with a napkin and pleads to stop crying though Thomas the crocodile remains inconsolable. The scene has a childlike fear and laughs mix as the pair navigate an emotional moment.
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