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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
4
The piece cites Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia as listing five essentials of an educated person: mastery of the mother tongue, refined manners, habit of reflection, capacity for growth, and efficiency. It notes education alone is not enough without translating knowledge into character and action.
Glenn Frank outlines six shifts reshaping the nation from home life to labor, finance, and industry. He argues policy must reflect a city ruled America, dual earning families, emancipated women, rise of spenders, stock speculation, and impersonal machine industry relations.
In 1930s intrigue at a nursing home a scheme to remove John Waye unravels as Dr Charters and Dr MacAdoo spar over control. Waye exposes alibis related to a murder, while tension with Marjorie Lauderdell drives a dangerous mutual dependency among the conspirators.
A feature notes the origin of porter house steaks named after New York alehouses and the link to early butchers. It references Roentgen's discovery of rays once called K rays, noting the use of X for unknown quantities and mentions a readers’ outreach to Russ Murphy for more origin stories.
The piece notes a new monthly, Alimony, created by O. O. McIntyre in New York. It critiques alimony as a legal racket, citing court records and claims that 2,000,000 men pay unjust alimony while highlighting aggressive insurance district contrasts on Williams Street and in Manhattan.
Attendance at the Tabernacle Baptist Church revival grows as Rev. J. C. Sisemore preaches a call for deep prayer and confession of sin. Morning services run 10 to 11, evening services at 8, with emphasis on a great awakening through earnest prayer.
A printed crossword puzzle page lists horizontal and vertical clues about biblical terms and general vocabulary. Entries include hints like to send a program via radio harvest warning of danger and various definitions, with numbers marking grid positions and a Captain Flagg reference.
In Old Orchard a pair of Flicker birds argue over housing. Mrs Yellow Wing insists on a bright new home and drives Yellow Wing to search, first contending with a Screech Owl and later settling on a pole near Farmer Browns for building. The tale ends with the couple choosing a new home site.
A New York social sketch notes bachelor Summer Ballard hosting an annual dinner for 200 friends. It catalogs a cross section of society from newsboys to millionaires, and mentions Natacha Rambova's Fifth Avenue shop and salon life, a running joke about Greta Garbo, and light urban anecdotes from Fifth Avenue to 42nd Street.
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