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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1925
Page
3
Dorothy Dix argues that work benefits women as it does men and condemns idleness as harmful. She rebukes the notion that female labor is a misfortune, noting many women find meaning in productive effort and sharing household duties with men.
Mr. Wright and family return from Chicago Grand Rapids Detroit Buffalo and Toronto on business for the Amarillo Second Hand company. He bought eight or ten carloads of new stock from leading furniture markets and two cars will arrive tomorrow with more to follow for display.
H. S. Wilboit formerly of Dallas and his family move to Amarillo. Opening at 696 Polk Street on Monday August 10, the store will feature entirely new stock and fixtures with women’s novelty shoes only. Wilboit arrives from the East after retail experience in Cincinnati and Cleveland and chose Amarillo for residence and business.
Harmon Benton returns from College Station after attending A. and M. short courses. Panhandle Scout council organizer Fr. BE Voss underwent appendicitis surgery and shows improvement. Miss Dot Ingram and Miss Jewell Davidson take vacations. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spencer go to Mayo Brothers hospital for Mrs. Spencer’s operation. Police report many traffic arrests. Plans for a $1400 home at 2200 Buchanan Street. Walter Crossett prepares Tri-State Field Trials headquarters near Wheeler. Rain improves New Mexico crops. Portales expects 500 carloads of sweet potatoes and notes profits for Portales valley. Bailey County cotton estimate revised to 427000 bales. Claude National Guard to move to Hood building. building work ongoing with fireproof vault. Nan Hart of Terrell visiting D. A. Blake Jr.
The Fair shows The Monster with Lon Chaney featuring a detective angle. Eve's Secret stars Betty Compson and Jack Holt. Subdued is a French comedy with climactic twists. The Deandi features Tom Mix in The Stage Coach Driver and a two reel comedy. Complete hang daily. These pictures run one day only. The Liberty presents Cupid's Rustler with Ed Cobb, a Western melodrama built for thrills.
Lon Chaney stars in The Monster a mystery sanitarium tale opening at the Fair. The film promises suspense and thrills from mystery to last reel with audiences invited to test their detective skills. Also Eve's Secret at the Mission features Betty Compson and Jack Holt with a France-set plot and a dramatic climax. Cupid's Rustler headlines Liberty with Our Gang and Aesop's Fables for a varied bill.
Admiral Koontz hosted a farewell reception in Melbourne with three battleships used for guests. Sailing orders set the fleet to Hobart Tasmania midweek, while faster units depart Thursday. Rear Admiral Magarder praised the warm ovation after 36 years in service.
An elderly woman traveling with her son in a Ford laments the cold and rain of the mountains and urges a return to Texas. She describes making clay pipes from riverbank clay near Charley, a small Texas town, and criticizes modern tobacco.
Gray County with Pampa as county seat becomes the latest to reserve space in the 1925 Amarillo Tri-State exposition agricultural exhibits. It is the fifteenth county to enter the fair.
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