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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1924
Page
4
The Amarillo Daily Globe provides its founding date February 20 1924 publication schedule and office contacts. It lists subscription rates for Amarillo and surrounding areas and notes editions published evenings and Sundays with territorial coverage in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Amarillo hosts the Legislative Convention of the Big Four Railroad Brotherhoods with visiting delegates for a week. The article praises the engineers and workers who operate trains and guard passenger safety, thanking them for their service and hospitality.
Amarillo is described as a prospective convention city due to its location and access by three railroads. Hotel facilities, including the existing Amarillo hotel and the Palo Duro hotel under construction by Col. C. T. Herring, plus a large municipal Auditorium, are cited as key factors in attracting state conventions.
A dozen or more boys played baseball on a southwest corner lot when the owner angrily removed bats and gloves from the street. The incident raises questions about youth recreation, safety, and whether outdoor play harms or helps potential future talent.
A mixed satire and essay column humorously weighs human folly, motivation, and public life. It ponders enemies and debts, single tasks, labor and wealth, vanity, newspapers, and American governance with quips about farmers, time, and marriage while ending with a riddle about animals.
A strip of New York life along the Mills hotels reveals drifting laborers and restless souls. The piece notes tired hotel crowds near Pennsylvania Station, a Broadway theater trend of late, social costs of crowds converging for the national convention, and a grim view of urban mobility.
Compiled by United Press a dense listing of radio programs across stations WTAM WPAB KS WOR WEAF WOO WCX etc detailing concerts recitals talks and performances with named performers such as Mildred Steele Woods Erisman Leviathan Orchestra and Walter Miller while noting times noon to late evening and regional time standards across cities including Cleveland State College Philadelphia Detroit and Chicago with emphasis on music hour by hour events and broadcasts from stations WOAP WGN WMAQ and others.
A roundup of brief quotes from Amarillo residents includes a World War I veteran about frontline death and personal loss, a cattle shipper noting good range gains, a Jericho cotton grower predicting more acreage and a new gin, and George H. Hill on rapid city growth and rising telephone service. Others discuss Buffalo head photography, Globe newspaper sales on trains, Texas centennial pride, a collision with quarrying tragedy, quicksand mishaps for Miss Anna Bower, and Pastor C. N. Ferguson’s dedicated ministry and legacy.
Minute Movie reports Harry T Hoofit famed song expert leaves City Hall for a world walk without rubber wheels. The piece notes 3000 members of the Women’s Anti Gardenia group attending the annual plant exhibition held under the auspices of the local RFVP.
The Mission theater features The Stranger with Betty Compson and Richard Dix to strong reviews, plus a two reel comedy and Pathe news reel. Liberty shows On the Midnight Sage and a Larry Lemon comedy in last performances, then a new two day bill with A Man's Man and The Santa Fe Trail. Jackie Coogan plans a charity tour and Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality prompts Smithsonian interest. Jack Hoxie signs a new five year contract. Viola Dana prepares The Beauty Prize.
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