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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1925
Page
7
A garbled OCR item notes a salesman named $am and a person or entity Ikonrad Kakecter in a parallel business arrangement. The readable text implies a joint activity or ongoing venture but details are unclear. No dates or locations are provided.
Wisconsin State Senator J L Barber calls for an anti vamping bill to curb what he calls dangerous female manipulation in court. He cites Judge Association backing and argues men deserve equal treatment as women gain voting and dress rights. He attributes many male prison terms to women's perjured testimony and blackmail schemes nationwide.
Four public buildings in the Plains region totaling about 335000 were awarded. Sampson Construction of Post City won Amherst school 88198. J M Morgan and Co of Big Spring got Midland high school 150000. Rice Construction Co of Dallas Lubbock secured Muleshoe courthouse 68000. W H Shell of Lubbock Dallas took McCarty school 30000. Weather rains forecast to boost activity ahead of Terry county courthouse bid May 28.
A Scotsman visits a grocer and asks the price of eggs. The boy quotes twopence halfpenny each with cracked eggs at a penny. The man replies crack me a dozen, delivering a lighthearted London Tit-Bits style joke.
Wayne Watkins, injured in an automobile crash Thursday night, remains in a local hospital. The wreck occurred two miles north of the city when cars driven by Jack Kaether and a man identified as W T Stewart collided on the highway. Kaether said his car was struck from the rear as another vehicle passed, leaving Kaether’s car about $900 in damage and the other car wrecked.
Customer complains the peaches weighed under the advertised amount and the grocer deflects by joking about evaporation and a brand name Williams Purple Cow. The exchange reads as a tersely humorous dispute over fruit weight and retail guarantees.
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