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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1929
Page
3
London April 22. Officials warn doctors overprescribe drugs to the insured poor. Ministry of Health cites 50 million prescriptions yearly costing 44 million dollars. Sir George Newman notes extravagant practice with costly medicines and frequent repeat prescriptions among a single doctor.
Mrs. Prudhomme, once weakened by a severe malaria spell, credits a new medicine after a recovery period in San Antonio following specialist advice from Louisiana. This treatment restored strength and renewed life after illness.
Mrs. E Prudhomme reports rapid recovery after using Sargon for poisoning symptoms including jaundiced appearance and constipation. She claims five pound weight gain, restored color, and renewed strength, praising the product as a powerful body rebuilding treatment available at multiple Fox Drug Co. locations in Amarillo.
Samuel Ferguson of Pasadena is named the sole survivor among three Americans who helped raise the Spanish flag in Manila after the garrison's surrender in 1898. He recalls Edward P. Stanton dying recently in St Louis and Lt Brumby dying ten years earlier. Ferguson also served on the Holland submarine and survived a perilous 180 foot dive incident. He left the Navy in 1905 after ten years of service.
Governor G A Parks reports in Chicago that Alaska now has sixty landing fields at strategic points, regular air mail service, four commercial lines, and seventeen planes. He notes isolation replaced by fast air travel to population centers, boosts in fur transport, and progress in pulp and paper, timber, water power, and mining.
Norman Littlejohn, 11, was killed when his bicycle struck an automobile in Ranger Texas. He was returning from Sunday school and was thrown through a door glass, his jugular vein severed. The fatal crash occurred Sunday afternoon.
Dallas, Tex., April 22. Neighbors found 28 year old Mrs. Gertie Mae Sparrow unconscious at her home after she took poison. She died soon after at a hospital. Two letters were left, one to her husband and another to her son.
Thornton Wilder announced during a Dallas lecture tour that he is writing a new novel titled The Woman at Andros. The novelist disclosed the project in a public appearance today.
Washington reports 14 000 Gold Star Mothers and widows of soldiers buried in Europe will be invited to a government funded pilgrimage to eight cemeteries in France Belgium and England in early 1990. The program covers travel and two weeks abroad with a one day New York stop, and expands the term mother to include step mothers and guardians in loco parentis.
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