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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1927
Page
3
Hundreds tour the Word ranch water site owned by Aneph yesterday as work continues on a massive dam spanning the big wayon. The nearly finished structure will impound millions of gallons of water with room atop for vehicles and an access road partway down the dam.
Trees have been cut and hauled away revealing the lake size while concrete flows in the collecting reservoir walls just below the dam. Most visitors arrive via Amarillo to Canyon then west to Hereford road five miles and north to the dam. Bushland road is newly graded and rough. Over 1,000 cars visited yesterday as families picnic and fish in the pleasant weather.
In St Louis on April 4 ISS reports six of ten officers can down a running man with a revolver, with 1 250 of 2 000 officers qualified as shots or better. Of these 800 are marksmen and 151 experts. Qualification requires 210 of 300 points, with 235 for marksman and 265 for expert. Nick Bosch Jr coordinates training, aiming to make the force the nation's best. Detives and uniforms train regularly, and riot gun and machine gun practice are on the range. A marksman’s button is earned and kept while staying ahead of peers. In 15 matches against other city police teams, Bosch’s men have won only once. The Des Moines team is mentioned.
Talmadge Place, a $500,000 apartment building by H. E. Smith at Fourteenth and Van Buren, will be ready for occupancy about May 1. Brennan Company of Dallas handles construction. furnishings by S. R. Isaacson and J. M. Thomas. Each of 54 apartments offers from one to five rooms, with Frigidaire units, steam heating, fireproof structure, and a luxuriously equipped main-floor lounge and reception.
The text notes that a local team won once against an opponent who also lost to St. Louis. Bosch argues for a fifty man match shoot on each side and bets St. Louis would defeat any American police team. It also mentions watercress domain and parsley for spring use and beauty.
John Coolidge gains presidential and parental permission to visit Miss Florence Trumbull governor Trumbull's daughter as often as he wishes. Motoring over the weekend included a Hartford dance and a countryside trip after meeting a Washington train in Hartford. He travels to Amherst. she to Mount Holyoke.
Beginning tonight the Second Baptist church will hold a tent revival at the corner of Twelfth and North Taylor streets. Everyone is cordially invited to attend these meetings.
A famous authority links susceptibility to colds with clogged intestines and touts Klok-Lax as a cleansing treatment. The ad claims regular use clears wastes, purifies the system, and prevents colds, urging readers to start now and buy from druggists.
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