Amarillo’s booming growth as a regional hub in the 1920s
The piece depicts Amarillo as a rapidly expanding trade center with a vast retail network, gas field production, and extensive wholesale houses. It highlights hotels, schools, churches, hospitals, parks, parks, and federal buildings, plus a growing population and massive commercial activity across dozens of industries.
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American Legion
Wight
White Way
Texas
Amarillo
United States
Amarillo Daily Globe
Young But Husky
Light and Water Company Gas Company
Fragmented OCR text hints at a local notice and names list
The readable fragment mentions individuals and places across multiple states and cities, with a call to try a Daily Globe want ad. The text is incomplete and scattered, suggesting a compiled notice or advertisement page segment rather than a single coherent story.
Tom Finch Acquitted of Burglary Charges
A jury in Judge Henry Bishop's court acquitted Tom Finch of burglary after ruling he was not mentally responsible due to multiple escapes from Oklahoma asylums. Frank M. Stewart announced the League of Texas Municipalities twelfth annual convention set for May 7-8 in Paris. Topics include taxation sanitation water supplies fire protection traffic regulation public health, civic beautification, libraries parks and playgrounds. The event will cover the city manager plan adoption and municipal civil service reports.
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Henry Bishop
Tom Finch
Oklahoma
League of Texas Municipalities
Frank M. Stewart
University of Texas
Paris
Texas
Holman Announces Run for Justice of Peace
J W S Holman veteran district land county clerk announces candidacy for justice of peace in precinct one 2 Holman long served as district and county clerk of Calhoun County and as county attorney He also served as deputy district and county clerk under Frank and held two years as justice of the peace He has lived in the area since 1900 and now resides at 601 Front Avenue San Jacinto splits
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J. W. S. Holman
Holman
Calhoun County
Frank i
Is Holman
Front Avenue
San Jacinto Splits
Canyon Women Invite District Meet For 1925
The Women s Book Club of Canyon with the city Commercial club and other groups will host the Texas Federation of Women s Clubs seventh district meeting in Canyon in 1925. Leads by Mrs J A Hill president of the Women s Book Club, Miss Jessie Carpenter president of the Home Economics club, and Mrs J B Humphreys head of the Canyon Federation which includes non federated Canyon groups.
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Canyon
Tex
Wom
For Sale Share of Palo Dura Club Stock
Column notes and ad style line mention a stock sale with a phone contact 1310. A tangential jab about former Secretary Falr at the Department of the Interior appears in a wry aside from the Columbus State Journal.
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Palo Dura Club
Falr
Department of the — Interior
Columbus State Journal
Here There and Everywhere in Amarillo Legal Roundup
Dallas attorney H. G. Goggans is in Amarillo on business. A. A. Lumpkin and Otis Truelove had district court business yesterday at Lefors. Henry Jacobs, a Black man, is on trial in the district court today for selling liquor.
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H. G. Goggans
Dallas
Amarillo
A. A. Lumpkin
Otis Truelove
Lefors
Henry Jacobs
Pecos Valley Orchardists Plan Spring Smudging Campaign
Roswell New Mexico April 1 Orchardists in the Pecos valley are lining up spring smudging efforts with ample help expected. The Merchants Association has volunteered to assist in protecting the fruit crop. Barring late frosts officials anticipate a bumper harvest this year.
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Roswell
N. M
Pecos Valley
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