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Publication notice shows Amarillo Globe Publishing Company details with address and “Associated Press” credit for news dispatches and local news content in the publication.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1924
Page
4
Publication notice shows Amarillo Globe Publishing Company details with address and “Associated Press” credit for news dispatches and local news content in the publication.
The letter argues La Follette will draw votes in Amarillo and the Panhandle but warns conservative labor and business leaders may oppose him. It claims prosperity depends on confidence and stability, rails against La Follette as hostile to railroads, and predicts Texas will vote Democratic while Coolidge fields few votes. The writer cites Texans’ fondness for honest leadership and urges cooperation between labor and business.
Long list of radio schedule entries with programs and orchestras in Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Minneapolis and other cities. Includes times for children stories travel talks concerts and news summaries with multiple stations and network notes.
The article chronicles Gray's drug store at Broadway and Forty third street, its side door to a rear auction area, and the rise of Joseph Le Blang the cut rate ticket king. It notes the auction crowds, police oversight, and the operation's profitability, with Le Blang credited for reviving shows and filling seats. It also mentions five thousand gym trainees aiming for future world championships and the rough culture of early street fights shaping the era.
A columnistic sketch chronicles a tense exchange with Mr. Mac about a raised issue, a shot at department changes, and a jab at a Bright Sayings section. It shifts to anecdotes about a shooting, a Missouri epitaph, and a street talker on orators. It notes Jay Gould in a New York prize fight scene and laments neglect of playwriting, concluding with a copyright notice from 1924.
Hundreds visited E. D. Green's clothing store at 408 Taylor Street to view a mastodon thigh bone dug from a sandy bank nine miles north of Amarillo by Frank Givens and Mr. Green. The 50 inch long, 150 pound bone is well preserved, though it crumbled during extraction and was tied together. It remains on display in the store window.
Local column notes: residents from White Deer Hereford Hereford and Amarillo share visits vacations and family stories. Snippets mention beauty parlor products from Dickson Drug Store lines from Krea Francee Hudnut Coty and Houbigant. A Lincoln quote appears and a Naughty wasp mishap is recounted along with divorce gossip and a Polk street bobber shop remark.
The Dickson Drug company adds a specialized unit to store ice cream bricks in plain and fancy styles from the Mistletoe company. Plain bricks cost 50 cents per quart while fancy bricks are 60 cents. William Howes of the Rock Island work train at Vega spent Sunday with his family at 732 North Pierce street. Miss Mable Page visits Miss Dorothy Pennock and heads home to Claude this evening. The coolest spot on the plains is Jack Hall's ranch, inviting families for a day.
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