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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
5
A reader asks if she should borrow to attend college after high school. Dorothy Dix advises facing facts, choosing a skill with earning potential, and cautioning against debt for a four year degree. She promotes stenography as a viable start and warns against keeping up with rich friends.
John Atkins a 32 year old lineman for West Texas Utilities died in Lubbock after contact with a 2500 volt line while hanging to a pole with a safety belt. L G Bell on the opposite side cut the wire but arrived too late to save him. Survived by wife father mother and a brother all residents of Lubbock.
Advice suggests saving potato water to polish tarnished silverware. Soak items briefly in the water, then rinse in hot suds for a renewed shine. The column signs off with a domestic tip from The Housewife.
Paris reports the long versus short skirt conflict persists in a two year struggle. Referees dressmakers declare negotiation impossible as fashion divides opinion. The trend favors moderately short skirts ending between knee and ankle with moderate width.
New York announces that the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey show will stop using dangerous wild acts. Public criticism and parental concern over safety lead to the decision, with emphasis on more humane acts featuring dogs, seals, horses, and elephants.
The listing features The Mission Cheap Iniss an exposition of the ant mad age and a good little story with a hidden moral. Buffalo Bill Jr Sears Make a Man serial and Inez From Hollywood play. fast and fearless action. Lemon comedy included.
The Mission keeps showing Fair while Liberty ends Hel fal o Bill Jr in Mast and Fearless. Ross Rogers reports unusually strong attendance at the Mission with Cheap Kisses praised as a beautiful title love story.
The piece surveys early 20th century cinema gossip and upcoming releases. It highlights Cecile De Mille as America’s most glamorous girl, Gloria Swansea’s Air Mail intrigue, and Gloria’s look at the public’s appetite for celebrity. It mentions Reginald Denny in The Was Worker, Marguerite Clark’s personal life, Anna Q. Nilsson and Lewis Stone in Inez From Hollywood, and Buffalo Bill Jr. at the Liberty with Harry Carey in Roaring Rails on the bill changes Friday.
A large audience enjoyed a Liberty community function featuring concerts plays and piano pieces. Proceeds from the event funded future community house projects with many local residents and visitors recognized among the performers and attendees. Mary Qlater Aire of Fo Tanies and several others performed. Little Peter Dickens, great grandson of Charles Dickens, laid flowers at Westminster Abbey marking the novelist's birth centennial observance.
The Deandi theater prepares for a May 1 opening with stage equipment from the Mission theater, new heating, and upgraded projection and dressing rooms. Rogers plans to upgrade seating and lighting, while police report three missing children found near their homes in the past two days.
The Globe will award four prizes of 25 cents each and a one day pass to the Fair theater every day for the best and wittiest jokes about children. Parents may submit ideas but the jokes must concern kids' doings and sayings. This becomes a regular daily feature.
Karley Ralston and others speak on rains cattle traffic and plans for the Tri State fair. Residents mention Panhandle growth, rail routes, and local notices while a call to use Globe want ads closes the piece.
The note lists prize recipients Lulu TD Connell of Hereford Tes and Little Sally age four who won a 25 cent prize and a Fair theater pass. Other items recount everyday childhood moments and local anecdotes from Amarillo and nearby streets.
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