Amarillo Globe Publishing Note with Rates
A historic Amarillo newspaper page outlines publication details, ownership, and rates. It lists Globe-News Publishing Co as publisher and editor, Wilbur C. Hawk as general manager, and shows subscription prices by carrier and mail for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. The piece includes Associated Press note and postal info from 1924.
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Amarllo
Texas
Amarillo
Globe-News Publishing Co
Gene Howe
Wilbur C. Hawk
BY Mail
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Domestic water rates dispute in The Globe report
Mr P H Hertzgog accuses The Globe of misleading readers about a 40 percent rate cut for domestic water. The paper investigates and finds Hertzgog’s bill includes a $2.50 service charge tied to a 11-2 inch meter, not used by typical homes, and would show a 40 percent reduction only if the charge is excluded.
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Southwestern Public Service Company
P. H. Hertzgog
The
Globe
Hertzgog
the Globe
Why We Worship Heroes and the Crowd's Hunger for Fame
Dr A A Brill argues that hero worship across eras stems from the cave man inside us reacting to celebrity. Crowd fervor for Lindbergh, Valentino, and court room spectacles reveals primitive urges for sex power and immortality, coupled with identification with others who succeed and feel personal pride.
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Charles Lindbergh
Valentino
Charles W. Eliot
New York
Ruth Snyder
Browning
A. A. Brill
America
Popular Science Monthly
Lindbergh
Gore
Nature
Atlantic
Citizens argue water rate hike misleads and hurts users
A reader to The Globe complains about proposed water charges, presenting a June comparison of old and new prices. He cites meter charges and consumption tiers, noting higher totals under the new scheme for 3400 to 10,000 gallons and accusing officials of misleading the public about savings.
Sonia Marsh Returns to Crane in New Chapter
Sonia after a life in San Francisco reunites with Franklin Crane as past sins stalk her family. Her mother Anna's long confession reshapes loyalties and fate. Sonia contemplates annulment from Don and a renewed bond with Crane amid a web of deceit, death, and inherited guilt.
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Sonia Marsh
San Francisco
Franklin Crane
Jed Thomas Real Estate Co
Don Stillwater
Walter Henderson
Berkeley
Sonia
Crane
Henderson
Maxine la Rue
Don
Berlin
Stockton
Bay
Marin County
Jed Thomas
Anna
Franklin
Vera
Gert
Geneva Parley May End In Anti War Pact Between America And England
Washington reports that despite bitterness at Geneva arms talks an Anglo American understanding may emerge to prevent naval arms race. Proponents in US and Britain see a friendship based treaty as key to world peace and global happiness.
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Geneva
America
England
Rodney Dutcher
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Britain
British Empire
Scripps-Howards
William Randolph Hearst
Houghton
J. L. Garvin
London Observer
Briand
France
Barbs Poincare on guilt and other headlines of the day
Barbs M Poincare differentiates between German people and rulers in wartime remarks. Mme Schumann-Heink, 66, returns from Europe to sing with the Metropolitan Opera this season and plans a 70 concert tour. A New York man, 98, advises “Do all business on a cash basis” as a longevity rule.
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M. Poincare
Mme. Schuman-Heink
Europe
Metropolitan Opera Company
Chauncey Depew
New York
North Carolina Faces Oil Rush in Clinton Well
International News Service reports Clinton, the capital of Sampson county, has become the center of North Carolina's oil rush after a well three miles from Clinton yielded an oily substance. Residents who invested about $6000 await developments despite earlier warnings from State Geologist Bryson that commercial quantities were unlikely. The 600 foot depth is noted, with 100 feet of rock overhead. Glasgow plans a flying club with a committee of experienced pilots formed recently.
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International News Service
Raleigh
Clinton
Sampson County
North Carolina
Bryson
The White Coated Bluebirds in the Great World
In Thornton W Burgess tale, Winsome Bluebird siblings hatch pale coats sparking fear among Old Orchard birds. Welcome Robin predicts trouble from hawks and cats, as Sammy Jay screams alarm and the three white chicks vanish, while two colored siblings hide. The scene ends with a grim forecast about the white chicks.
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Bluebird
Goldie
Welcome Robin
Chippy
Kitty the Catbird
Robin
Sammy Jay
Sammy
Hawk
Mrs. Winsome
T. W. Burgess
My Favorite Stories by Carolyn Wells
A lawyer greets a comically large client seeking a divorce for the first time. The caller explains the reason is insult by her husband calling her a hippopotamus, two years earlier after she finally visited a circus and realized the term fit. The humor hinges on a misinterpreted insult.
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Carolyn Wells
Wild horses driven to Denver soap factories migrate from open range
A herd of 350 wild horses from Wyoming arrived in Denver as a local firm contracted to supply 5,000 wild horses to soap and rendering plants. Wyoming allows roundup for slaughter to aid civilization, with Colorado lawmakers likely to seek a similar statute. Belief holds 25,000 horses may be driven to factories within five years.
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International News Service
Denver
Old West
Wyoming
Douglas
Coloradoe
Stock Association
England's War Pensions Outpace U S Per Head
A parliamentary statement quoted Colonel states that Britain's war pensions cost about 300 million pounds annually, roughly triple the per person spending of the United States. The figure underscores Britain's heavy postwar pension obligations and their fiscal impact at home and on imperial finances.
Golf Lessons by Wire Sparks Coastal Fad at Montauk
Montauk Beach embraces telegraph golf instruction led by John Brophy with a chorus of corrections for slices hooks and sand traps. Notables such as former Gov Cox Anne Nichols and W Slover study the method as officers report pin hole damage and responders give terse firing data.
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W. S. Slover
Norfolk
W. D. Devery
Indiana
Parliament official compares pensions by nation
Stanley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, notes Britain spends 50 percent more than any other nation. Using 1925-26 as a basis he cites totals and per head figures for Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, and states Britain's pension expenditure for the coming financial year will be $20 210,000.
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International News Service
London
Great Britain
United States
Stanley
Ministry of Pensions
Germany
France
Britain
DARED REDS TO KILL PARIS
King Alfonso of Spain, while visiting England and France, earned a daring reputation as a royalist unafraid of anarchists. He attended a trial where a death plot was to be carried out, revealed himself at last, and the Reds refrained from attacking him.
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Paris
Alfonso
Spain
England
France
Reds
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Amarillo Globe
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Telephones Steerer
Pindy
Vida Hurst
League of Nations
Los Angeles
August Heckscher
Prince of Wales
Glasgow
Scottish Flying Club
Thornton W. Burgess
Denver Soap Factory
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