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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
2
The Amarillo Globe promotes a benefit show titled The Dream of a Clown to raise funds for the Social Center for Girls. Prominent local citizens will perform in a lighthearted charity event intended to entertain and support community welfare.
Readers honor Lillian Wald on her 70th birthday, recognizing her Henry Street Settlement and pioneering visiting nurse service in New York. The piece highlights her decades of reform work, fundraising battles, and impact on urban health and living conditions.
Washington sources report the Roosevelt administration aims for a substantial Senate majority to pass the Supreme Court bill between mid and late May. Senator Robinson privately claims enough votes, while opposition leaders face undecided senators and possible compromises to attract votes and reduce filibuster threats.
Martha Brittain, aided by GER RY NEAL, searches the West Coast for Betty Haynes after Betty's abduction by JACK SPEDDON. In Seattle she faces a ship prison run by JOHNNY CIZNIK ally Speddon, as police hint Betty may be murdered. Martha is drugged and held aboard a ship awaiting orders.
An optimist jokes about talking above a neighbor’s radio broadcast. The remark captures a lighthearted moment of listening and competing voices in a shared neighborhood space.
In Droylsden Manchester Victoria Mill has produced a banana skin fiber yarn woven into dress material. A director says the aim is a warm fluffy synthetic wool for silk-like goods, with low dyeing costs and potential patents and commercial production. Banana fiber is blended with about 45 percent continuous filament rayon.
William A McLean began his second million miles at sea as purser of the Grace liner Santa Paula, sailing recently. In Iowa from 1925 to 1934 flax beat wheat barley and oats for returns per acre.
Joe Louis dominates Harlem fashion with bold color and elaborate wardrobe upgrades. The piece notes his pearl white hats, high button shoes, giraffe skin gloves, and vivid shirts and ties. It mentions manager Joe Blackburn nicknamed him Chappie and cites mixed press sentiment from sports writers.
Sterling hunter P. J. Copsey kills a 1936 season deer near Paonia Colorado with 31 inch spread antlers and an estimated weight of 325 pounds. The deer is reported as the largest antlered specimen on record by the Record of North American Big Game of New York.
In a swamp by Laughing Brook Farm, Farmer Brown's Boy and his dog Sport survey for a Woodcock nest. They doubt the woodcock’s nesting yet keep faith in Sport’s tracking nose, planning another check a week later. A possible sighting of Mrs Longbill hints at careful observation.
A crossword style clue list lists a Nobel Prize winner as the author of Gesta Berling’s Saga and provides numerous numbered word solves and crossfill hints across horizontal and vertical entries including terms for anatomy, geography, and common nouns.
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