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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1925
Page
3
Douglas MacLean stars in Introduce Me at the Mission to a capacity crowd. The comedy follows his pursuit of a brown eyed beauty and encounters Mr. Bear in a riotous sequence. The reviewer calls the film unmatched in motion picture humor and urges local residents to attend for a carefree evening.
In Valdosta Georgia Mrs L C Dasher reports recovery from severe female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Battle Creek Michigan resident Mrs C Palmer praises swift relief and plans to advise others, sharing her experience with the remedy.
The auditing and credential committee will pass on delegates today for the 28th Texas Federation of Labor convention. George Slater, J L Hauswald, Rudolph Gerst, and Mrs Idell Jones head the panel auditing books. The committee will report by Monday morning as organizers prep for 500 delegates with local unions coordinating accommodations.
Announcement shows three forty acre tracts in Hutchinson county leased to Arthur M. Donnelly of Fort Worth by Cobb Davidson Petroleum. Drilling must start immediately on two tracts in southeast quarter section 13 and one tract in southwest quarter of section 12 block Y. Prices not disclosed, but in line with rising area lease values.
Hereford boys organized a get together for Boy Scout troops under E W Harrison Monte Baker and A G Bell at the county courthouse. Panhandle Council executive Nelson aided in recruitment for summer camp. A large turnout is expected for the Palo Duro Canyon camp near Amarillo with scouts and city interest high.
North of 36 featuring Ernest Torrence Lois Wilson and Jack Helt closes at Deandi today. The romance of 1867 is revived as Texans are drawn to a Houston area made film. Armstrong Musical Comedy Co. adds Oh, You Cude a double program with Rusty Scott and Luke Kellum.
County Judge EF Cayton of Claude and his son Merle visited the city yesterday. Tom McClure of Claude confections visited Friday. S H Taylor of Alamosa Camp W O W moved his office to 117 East Fifth Street, a separate W O W office for the first time in 13 years. Alamosa Camp plans a large Texas Head Camp delegation to Galveston August 10 to 15. W B Douglas of Western Packing arrives in Amarillo and rents a home for summer. N G Lucas becomes secretary of Brownwood Chamber after S L Williams.
N. S. Carlock of the Blackburn Undertaking Co will accompany the Shrine Band from Alberquerque New Mexico to the Shriners Convention in Los Angeles on June 2 3 and 4.
Paul M. Dutton Jr aged 20 months died at the family home 702 Grant Street Friday at 6 45 pm. Funeral service held at 2 30 pm at Griggs Funeral Chapel conducted by Rev R Thomson pastor Central Presbyterian church. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery.
N S Griggs proprietor of Griggs Funeral Chapel returned Friday night from Austin where he attended the Texas Funeral Directors and Embalmers association. Griggs is a past president of the Texas association and has represented Texas four times at the National Funeral Directors Association.
J M Adams Plainview editor died in Toulon France May 10 while on a world tour. His body will be shipped from Marseilles June 8 to Galveston, via three weeks in transit. Adams owned the Plainview News and earlier edited papers at Coleman and Comanche. He contracted influenza in India during the tour.
Clarendon May 22. The city commission ordered a complete audit of city accounts covering 1922 through 1925. After the audit a detailed report on the city's finances will be issued. The accounting system will be revised and modern methods installed following the audit.
J W Matthews, who escaped Arkansas state penitentiary in 1919, was arrested in Plainview and turned over to the warden. Deputies Sturdivant and Evans aided. Matthews had married in Crowell and his wife sought clemency. He served seven months of a two year sentence for disposing of mortgaged property. Matthews won 86 patches in Plainview.
Smith and Townes, architects, completed plans for J. R. Durrett to build a two story brick home with basement on Harrison street. The $25,000 project will feature hot air heating and a modern design, with the contract to be let in a few days.
Memorial day observance by Ray Blakemore Post of the American Legion in Plainview on May 30 includes exercises at the city auditorium and grave decorations for all soldiers buried in Plainview cemetery.
The Roughneck shark fight, staged in the Felt theatre, features Tahitian combatants slaying a monster in a hand to hand battle. Local audiences flock to see the realism of the underwater clash and the vivid love scenes starring George O'Brien and Billie Dove.
Randal Drug Co at 422 Taylor Street announces the Rexall Agency plan is discontinued as of October 17, 1924. The remaining stock on hand will be sold at half price.
Judge Henry 8. Bishop orders Mayer to furnish a 40000 indemnity bond to J. H. Coker by June 1 after a hearing on Coker’s receiver request. Evidence shows Mayer and Coker run a partnership in oil properties and royalties, forming Johnson Ranch Royalty Company with holdings in South Hutchinson county.
Reginald Barker presents Broken Barriers for Metro at the Fair Theatre beginning tomorrow. The production explores the good and evil of divorce and its impact on the younger generation in a two day engagement.
Mrs. C L Fason of Winfield Texas recounts how Cardus eased her back pain fatigue and nervousness during pregnancy and after childbirth. She praises the purely vegetable tonic for building health improving sleep and energy and recommends it to expectant mothers. NC-164
Screen version by Sada Wan and Edward Higgin adapts Meredith Nicholson’s novel with James Kirkwood leading an all star cast as Trenton seeks divorce from his wife while a young woman fights convention and a flapper romance entangles her brother in a tense denouement that reshapes every love.
Mae Busch Adolphe Menjou Norma Shearer George Fawcett Robert Frazer Ruth Stonehouse Winifred Brys Robert Agnew Vera Reynolds and Edythe Chapman star in a Louis B Mayer presentation through Metro. The ensemble features noted performers in a period era cinema showcase.
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