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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
6
Rain delayed the Tri-State Open Tennis by about an hour as courts dried. Frances McNeil defeated Bonita Cazell 6-4 6-4 to become a top threat in women’s singles, while junior champion Glen Newbold crushed Glen Allor Newbold 6-0 6-1 in the junior singles.
United Press reports show Casey of San Antonio and Hunt of Houston tied for home runs with two. Sanguinet of Waco leads with 25 homers and other leaders include Bennett of Wichita Falls with 23 and Meliano of Waco with 21.
France urges retaliation by forming a United States of Europe while Britain leads an Imperial Crusade for a Customs Union across the empire. The plan would end free trade within the empire but tax foreign wheat and meat, giving imperial producers free entry and charging outsiders. Lord Beaverbrook backs the Crusade along with top industrialists.
Mike Gibbons, famed boxing figure, backs his protege My Sullivan as future welterweight champion. Sullivan, 21, has 16 wins by KO in 40 pro bouts and has not lost since early 1928, having just defeated Andy Divodi in three rounds. He aims to challenge Jackie Fields after Fields won the title.
Baseball totals show Klein of the Phillies leading with 9 homers and 0.0 average in the Home Run Club. Yesterday's homers include Bartel and Cissell with Pirates and White Sox, Byrd with Yankees, Haas with Athletics, and others. National League and American League totals are partially legible with 572 in the NL and a remaining AL total.
Tok io reports a blistering heat wave causing death insanity and prostration across the region. Police say six drowned while seeking relief in lakes and 64 people are missing as the heat worsens. Temperatures in streets reached near 120 degrees, though official readings list 97.4. Vegetation withers after five weeks of drought.
Mrs Lawen Clooney manager of the Telephone Exchange Cafeteria in San Antonio reports relief from chronic headaches after starting Nature's Remedy NR Tablets. She says she has felt well since taking them and notes rising curiosity about the remedy. The ad touts wide daily use and a 25 cent price per box.
Two hundred Amarillo youths completed ten weeks of summer school, finishing credits and improving grades to advance to higher grades. A nine member faculty taught all subjects with high school and lower grades led by A B Hays Oscar Wise E C Potter Mrs H G Brent L McNeill Dewey Reed and Miss Mary Frances Hunter Miss Gladys Davis. Honor roll to be announced later.
In Austin on Aug 9 a blaze gutted two business frame structures causing an estimated $10,000 in damage. Two people died and four year old Ernestine Bashara was reported burned to death, allegedly left behind amid the chaos.
J. E. McCollum of Route No 1 Amarillo says his wife’s health, broken for over two years, has greatly improved after taking Orgatone. He details relief from stomach pains headaches and constipation and credits a hearty breakfast and restored strength to the medicine. Orgatone is described as a scientific bile treatment sold locally by Fox Drag Co stores.
Baseball scoreboard shows New York at Philadelphia and St. Louis at Chicago with several outcomes, plus National League standings led by Chicago and New York teams. Western and Southern leagues list Omaha and Topeka atop divisions, while Dallas, San Antonio and Beaumont chase wins in Texas games.
Joe Guerrero, a Mexican national, died after re-entering the fire to wake sleeping occupants. Authorities have not yet determined the fire’s origin or cause.
Carl Kauffmann the veteran from Pittsburgh is favored to win the National Public Links title for the third straight year as third round match play begins in St Louis. He beat John Conway yesterday, with John Hornsby and John M Boyd remaining as challengers, while young Mortimer Jaffee and Frank Connolly show promise. In Philadelphia Albert L Byler begins an endurance test by listening to the Graf Zeppelin during its world flight.
Jimmy Alexander aged 6 of 807 Arthur street runs a paper route, two days selling papers seven yesterday and 15 today. Proceeds fund chocolate ice cream cones as his face shows. He and his brother Brownie rescued a dog from the News-Globe office and earned two dollars from Colonel Erasmus Tack for giving the stray a home. He says the dog is fine and named Tack, but every time you call Here Tack many dogs come.
Tokyo reports from the home ministry a notable drop in labor disputes in 1028 with 751 cases and 80 866 participants, down from 1012 cases the previous year. The rise in sabotage and lockout incidents suggests a milder overall dispute tone despite fewer cases.
The West Texas Sheriffs Association held the second day of its semi annual convention in Colorado. Sheriff Bob Miller of Paint Rock opened the event with welcomes from Mayor Thomas J. Coffee chamber of commerce president Dr P C Coleman and County Judge C C Thompson. Visitors enjoyed a luncheon hosted by the chamber and Lions Club with trap shooting barbecues and dancing as entertainment.
Paris August 9 The ministry of air will erect a lighthouse at Locronan Finisterre department to guide oceanic flyers. The move follows a petition by Charles Danielou deputy for the region who argues the station will tempt aviators leaving Le Bourget to rout through Finisterre despite its off route position.
The City Commission of Amarillo Texas will receive sealed bids at 7 30 P M on August 30 1929 for paving with brick or concrete including curb gutter and excavation on Monroe Street and Twenty Second Avenue Plans on file in the city engineer’s office A five percent certified or cashier’s check with each bid required Bond to be furnished by a responsible surety company authorized to do business in Texas and maintain a local agent in Amarillo The city reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids W N Durham City Manager Amarillo Texas August 9 1929
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