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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1927
Page
14
The Amarillo Globe-News publishes evenings except Saturdays with Sunday morning edition from Amarillo Texas. Publisher Gene Howe and General Manager Wilbur C. Hawk oversee staff. Associated Press content used. Circulation and subscription options listed.
A bankers report analyzed thousands of loans and found tele phone operators and clerical workers top female borrowers while firemen lead male borrowers. Most men seeking loans are married with dependents, illness and coal purchases driving demand. Women's borrowed funds reflect perceived sole responsibility and salaries set accordingly.
A U S Department of Labor report redefines the servant problem. It states servants demand decent quarters time off and privileges, but employers grant fewer perks as costs rise. Immigration limits rejected as causing scarcity. native and foreign born women prefer other work. The conclusion: the servant problem will endure.
The Amarillo Board of City Development urges a beautification push based on dollars and cents, arguing civic greenery boosts home values and attracts visitors. It calls for starting with public spaces, then convincing homeowners and renters to plant and care for yards, aiming for visible change by next spring.
Census-taker woman visits a family with three bright children and learns the mother plans no more children. A joking remark about large families leads to a shocked reveal that she believes every fourth child born is Chinese, a quiet punchline to the tale.
A Bluebird bathes in dish water near Farmer Brown's clothesline and emerges blue from head to wing with pink eyes. His white siblings, puzzled, imitate the bath, splashing until all become blue, in a whimsical nature tale of transformation.
A 1927 Burgess tale follows Winsome Bluebird and children as three blue fledglings quarrel with two white siblings over identity after baths. The scene centers on confusion, curiosity, and a family moment as the color mixing causes friction among hatchlings.
Sonia and Franklin Crane reunite in a rain swept Marin shack after tragedy and betrayal as Sonia faces family secrets and chooses love. Don Stillwater and Walter Henderson fade while Crane's fate is sealed by secrets and confession.
The last of the Florida Seminoles have capitulated and want to come into the Union, signaling a potential shift in relations and state policy during a period of political change.
A San Jacinto bus tale recounts a girl juggling two dates in one evening. She hides from Morton on the stairs and misleads him about her whereabouts while Harry arrives unseen. The piece paints social whirl in Amarillo with traveler registrations and a restless crowd at Col Thompson's Herring tavern.
Farming experiments undertaken by the British government in Windsor Great Forest have failed, and golf is to supplant crop raising there. Windsor Great Forest, cleared during the World War, will be the first state golf venture in Britain with two eighteen hole courses and a building development plan.
Airplanes drop hundreds of sacks of rice over Manitoba marshes to feed ducks and muskrats, creating a curious wildlife foraging program as part of a through-the-field effort to boost habitat and food sources.
Washington faces a partisan clash as Pennsylvania’s William Vare and Illinois’ Frank Smith press to keep their Senate seats. If seated, they could cast votes on tax cuts flood relief and farm relief. if kept out, Republicans risk losing their narrow majority and stalling major legislation before next year’s elections. The stalemate may hinge on maneuvers by the privileges and elections committee and pressure from business and farming groups.
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