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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1925
Page
3
Automobil dealer Toney Chisum has purchased a corner lot at 22nd and Harrison in River-Eable Estates for $4,500 through C. P. Atwood of William Oliver Company. He plans an elegant brick home to be built soon, aiming to be the city's finest.
Plainview announces a new theater building as part of a million dollar plan. Solon Clements, a pioneer, confirmed the project while Roy Mitchell, Plainview Theatre owner, leases the new site to install a premier West Texas show house. The structure should be ready by May, with work starting immediately beside Cox and Thompson’s wholesale implement house on North Broadway. More buildings on the block are expected to be announced soon.
The Paramount film The Swan arrives at the Mission for two days featuring Adolphe Menjou Ricardo Cortez and Frances Howard in a satirical royal Europe tale. Dimitri Buchowetzki directs a story of Princess Alexandra who marries for love despite a scheming mother. The production includes a pantomimed 16th century Spain fantasy with Elizabeth Schermer Fritz Feld Ivan Linow and others.
Plainview will see the start of a $200,000 cotton seed oil mill with work beginning at once. J M Hardaway of Terrell Texas announces the project and an engineer will locate buildings and storage. About seventy five carloads of material will be shipped in. The plant aims to operate in time for the 1925 seed crop.
The Marine Corps mascot Sergeant Major Jiggs, famed as the Devil Dogs emblem, was introduced to George McManus creator of the popular comic strip Bringing Up Father at Madison Square Garden. McManus agreed to have his photo taken with Jiggs for Marine Corps records.
Richards, America's greatest magician, will appear at the Fair Theater for four days starting Monday. His show blends astonishment and humor with mind reading and audience participation, promising thrills and wonders that evoke childhood marvels.
Frances Howard and Helen Lee Worthing headline The Swan a Ferenc Molnar stage play adaptation. A hand-picked troupe from Follies and Vanities portrays diplomats and court guests in a Balkan kingdom setting. The production built Paramount’s largest set on Long Island for the shoot. The film opens Monday at the Mission.
March 7 construction of new switching trackage in the Plainview Santa Fe yards began Saturday and aims to finish before the 1925 wheat crop moves. A large force works enlargements while another crew nears completion of a large unloading platform for automobiles, tractors, and farm implements beside the Santa Fe tracks to ease freight handling. Numerous other improvements and enlargements are planned by Santa Fe in the Plainview yards.
Mayfield dispatch tells how John Taylor rode into Maysville Kentucky with 980 pounds of tobacco loaded in an undertaker’s hearse claiming no wagon was available and borrowing the vehicle for the load.
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