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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1927
Page
6
The Amarillo Globe News lists its founding date February 20 1924 and publication details. It notes ownership by Globe News Publishing Co with publishers and managers named and mentions Associated Press protection. Subscription rates and regions are outlined along with contact data.
Rocky Mountain Airlines of Denver announces Amarillo as a planned regular stop on the Denver to New Orleans passenger and freight route. The city could gain a central role in expanding commercial aviation as nations modernize air transport.
Governor Moody ordered the Rangers withdrawn from Borger after a special commission found conditions satisfactory in the oil town. The move signals Borger’s return to peaceful status and exonerates Sheriff Owenby of Hutchinson County as Moody ends Ranger presence.
The Globe defends a low cost water policy while noting the new city schedule lowers bills for small users by 30 to 40 percent up to 60 000 gallons. City officials say the plan is temporary and aims to test costs and revenue with no profit, promising further cuts if August shows profit and a 30 to 60 day public patience window.
Aldous Huxley argues that while leisure enables culture, mass production and entertainment create canned leisure that does not automatically yield real culture. He notes Americans and Europeans, amid prosperity, spend leisure on trivial amusements rather than substantive cultural growth.
The tale centers on Bedwell, a reasonable yet exacting master who employs a versatile servant. When the servant asks for soap, Bedwell rebukes him for overfamiliarity, illustrating a strict, almost punitive dynamic in a small domestic setting.
In 1926 fiction excerpt Sonia Marsh in San Francisco pursues romance with Franklin Crane while Don Stillwater and Walter Henderson vie for her affection. After aiding Crane in a scandal, she faces pressure from past ties, a confession, and a looming moral reckoning as Don plans a return.
A humorous piece notes clean sweeps in baseball but few on the front porch. It recalls Joshua making the sun stand still while Will Hays aims to quiet the stars at night. Mr Ford, a tractor maker, also makes a fine retraction and questions why no self renewing note is invented in an era of labor saving devices.
Jimmy Skank, full of grasshoppers, pauses to watch a Woolly Bear cross his path. Peter Rabbit questions the danger, while Jimmy contemplates eating the hairy caterpillar if room allowed. Woolly Bear escapes as they talk, leaving an idle moment before the next tale.
A narrator surveys Amarrillo scenes from a doctor waiting room to downtown life. Humorous portraits of anxious patients, fashion, gossip and street commerce mix with bustling post office queues and out‑of‑town newspaper buyers seeking a link to home.
Washington reports a sensational anecdote from an Alabama senator J Thomas Heflin biography on his boyhood. The account recalls Heflin as a strict family breadwinner who cooked after Aunt Rose’s slap and faced rumors his cooking killed a cook.
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