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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
3
Adolphe Menjou and Florence Victor headline a witty matrimonial comedy at the Mission in Are Parents People. A satire on married life with a quarrelsome couple and their 16 year old daughter, it features a divorce, a boarding school meeting, and plenty of humorous situations. The film plays today and tomorrow.
A disaster along a railway line leaves 36 dead with 125 passengers in the party. Wreck crews clear rear cars, engines haul debris, and tracks are reopened by 2:30 p m. Priests visit hospitals tending the wounded as fear and grief spread among survivors.
The agrarian vote grows beyond rural base as farmers shift from a dis organized group to a force shaping state elections. Nationalists cling to power via pacts in Victoria and the Commonwealth while farmers plan to run independently, signaling a likely clash with Labor, which governs four states. Farmers oppose alliances with the Nationalists.
Berlin reports indicate Germany may yield a record harvest this year. Official forecasts from Prussia and across the nation claim prospects rival those of 1913, with experts saying crop outlooks have not been better in decades.
The Quesnel Board of Trade discusses enforcing the pound law and decides to protect the pound-keeper from cow owners. Longstanding threats have left no volunteer to fill the role, as cows damage gardens and storefronts before grass turns green in spring.
A brief statistic notes the birth rate in the United States increased from 22.2 per 1000 in 1928 to 22.6 per 1000 in 1924. The item presents a dated demographic figure with no further context or explanation.
H C Harding of the Harding Ranch offers a 25 cent gate fee and 50 cent couple price for Wednesday night dances at 8 30 pm at the outdoor pavilion. The cooler open air venue draws campers and Amarillo visitors, with road widening work in progress through the canyons.
Miss Pauline Elizabeth Cackley aged 18 died last night at 11 at the home of her mother J E Skipper 1109 Garfield. She came here last Saturday with her mother Elizabeth Cackley and aunt Mrs F J Hinds of Sapulpa Oklahoma. In ill health about two years she was an only child. her father died when she was two. Blackburn Funeral Home prepared the body to be sent Thursday by Santa Fe to Dillondale Ohio for burial. Her mother and aunt will accompany.
London June 16 Commander P Harrington Edwards chairman of the Labor Co-Partnership Association said a cousin was the grandson of a duke while another cousin was out of work and drawing government dole. He added such facts show class feeling should be out of the question and illustrate the era.
Europe after the war is a social melting pot for Americans, say Italian observers who lived in the United States and traveled widely. They note travel dissolves sectional and social barriers, with Americans abroad finding access across classes, except for a privileged American aristocracy living in Europe.
London June 16 reports a Cheshire inventor patenting a color therapy device to combat sleeplessness. After four years of work the machine, resembling a wireless receiver, flashes 12 color rays in a sequence when used at bedtime, claimed to induce sleep. The piece also notes beliefs about a split soul in South Africa, with three souls in head, stomach, and big toe.
The Deandi Jolly Flappers Musical Comedy Co presents a double blackface bill My Honolulu Girl with Big Boy McBride in Hawaii, plus acts by Billy DeRue Viola Rappert Sam Lupo Dan Friendly and more. A feature film Defying the Law and a two reel comedy accompany a wave of vaudeville style entertainment.
The Berlin Federation of Welfare Workers, after a week of meetings, urged local option to decide license grants for alcohol sales. They cited 45,000 years of jail terms for drunkenness in one year and rising consumption since WWI, urging communities to have the say for moral cultural and economic reasons.
Hull England June 16 Gerald France president of the National and Commercial Temperance Union declares prohibition in the United States fosters thrift home building happiness and prosperity. He celebrates the sinking of bootlegging vessels and hopes criminals lose their fortunes to keep Britain’s name from treachery.
Statistics from the Guerrero office of military operations show 148 people executed their enemies in April as courts had light calendars. The report highlights a surge of vigilante killings during the spring season in Acapulco Guerrero Mexico.
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