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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
4
The Amarillo News lists editorial and business offices at Sixth and Fillmore, pledges prompt telegram dispatches from the Panhandle region, and states subscription and delivery rates. It also notes Associated Press membership, circulation audit, and a policy to promptly correct erroneous reflections upon individuals or businesses.
President Harding urged stronger enforcement of the eighteenth amendment in Denver remarks. He pressed officers at all levels to zealously enforce the ban on alcohol, criticizing bootlegging and urging public officials to model lawful obedience.
Panhandle towns plan picnics races rodeos and public speaking for Independence Day. Celebrations will mix entertainment with brief but instructive addresses on what the day means to Americans. Program committees should stress patriotic education alongside festivities.
The Electra News will establish carrier delivery in Electra replacing reliance on the postal service. This step aims to provide subscribers with same day publication delivery. Advertisers are reminded the paper will gain greater value from late news under the new plan.
C H Walker editor of the Dalhart Texan was reelected resident of the Colorado to Gulf Highway Association for a third term at the Alvarado Texas convention. Delegates say his two years of work justify another presidency and expect continued progress in the coming year.
A brief quotation notes that unity and harmony are quiet, while discord speaks loudly, attributed to Thomas Carlyle.
The item collects odd observations about city life from the Houston Chronicle style notes. Notes touch on traffic fines, police, street naming, thermometer jokes, June grads, swimming, bathhouses, Ovid and strawberries, fashion, airplanes, politics, street crowds, and laundry venting shirts.
The Cincinnati Enquirer lauds President Harding speech to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for its call for fraternity among nations and opposition to conspiracy and unrest. It contrasts true brotherhood with organized destruction and warns against Bolshevism and seditious influence in the republic. In Tulia Herald, J S Engleman buys W C Bangle’s half interest in the Tulia Herald, effective June 1, 1923, with the paper asking for reader support amid hard times.
ABE MARTIN quips that wives aim to control meals to influence men, then mocks the other man who names Pullman coaches and jokes about catching the man who names the nine horses run. The tone is satirical and regional.
Jenny Pendean seeks detective Mark Brendon to solve the murder of her husband Michael. Robert Redmayne and Giuseppe Doria loom as suspects amid desertion, wealth dreams, and a Bristol to Dartmouth chase. Brendon probes Paignton and Plymouth, suspecting a calculated crime rather than madness.
Olive Barton's tale follows the twins as they reach Bird Town where houses sit on posts high above ground. They meet Mrs. Martin and neighboring residents while searching for Ruby Joan the rag doll, but no one has seen her. The chapter ends with the twins returning to the Choo-Choo Express.
Amarillo townsman Carl Sullivan, a camping gear aficionado, tours the park with a guide who reveals a monster tree aged fifteen hundred years. The dialogue recalls how the guide learned the tree’s age from a boss fifteen years prior, highlighting the traveler’s fascination with open spaces and nature.
Special to The News details renovations in Clarendon with a rebuilt high school structure able to bear heavy loads. Two overflow cottages are relocated, one to the black community’s school and one to the new high school grounds housing the janitor. Grass terraces will reduce rain erosion and improve campus beauty.
Scout Executive Nelson outlines reasons boys should attend camp. It offers a seasonal escape from city life, fresh scenery, new faces and responsibilities, and a chance for mental and physical retooling. Camp promotes self reliance, a thorough life reset, and freedom to explore nature and firsthand wildlife experiences.
The Seated Presa M Kinney notes 29 years with the local fire department and time as chief of police and fire marshal, along with earlier service since the department’s founding. He previously led the Texas State Volunteer Firemen's Association. An unrelated Pennsylvania saying about whippoorwills and barefooted time appears.
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