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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1927
Page
8
The Globe News reports Amarillo flood relief contributions total 798.40 to date with an additional 100 pledged by the Rotary Club. Donations noted include W H Woodlief 0.55 C G Mayer 10 M W Cunningham 25 and the Marizon 10 with earlier totals adjusted.
Contestants for Miss East Amarillo include Edna Gallo and others aiming to represent Amarillo. Entry closes Monday morning at 409 12 Polk Street with several entrants listed by name and address. Russell Sporting Goods will provide Pelton bathing suits for the stage show, and prizes include 25 dollars for the winner and 100 dollars if she becomes Miss Amarillo and goes to the Galveston Pageant May 21 to 23.
A mix of historical notes mentions Paris favoring double breasted coats for mannish tailleurs, past limits on locomotives at London Euston to calm horses, and Alaska’s price compared with its 1867 purchase. Other items list major Alaska exports, sand grouse water-carrying habits, medieval star beliefs, English church attendance by lower classes, and low officer conversion rates from Citizens' Military Training Camps.
S H Chandler Jr a 45 year old farmer near Waelder was found dead beneath a tree at his home with a pistol beside the body. He had been released on $5000 bond after the fatal shooting of George Stone of Waelder last Saturday.
Marshal Joffre sends a message to the American public urging that U S forces be dispatched to France to join Allied troops in the war effort ten years ago today in April 1917.
The world’s longest rail line, idle for a decade, resumes service from Riga in Livonia to Vladivostok in Siberia, spanning 6,800 miles with a thirteen day journey time.
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