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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1924
Page
5
Classified notice lists publication details and subscription prices for Amarillo Globe Publishing Company with rates for daily and Sunday editions by mail across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico and details for carrier delivery and time frames.
The Globe prints humorous local quips and anecdotes from Amarillo and surrounding towns. A farmer chides townsfolk over diversified farming, a New Yorker’s suicide attempt ends with a cork leg saving him, and an Amarillo man’s New Mexico mountain dew fantasy leads to a hall porter fee and a hotel manager’s $300 check payoff.
A dense listing of August 11 radio programming across Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Portland and other markets notes half hour cadence updates silent night readings orchestral performances operatic solos and children stories. It compares Central and Pacific time zones and clarifies daylight saving shifts.
A detailed listing of nightly programs across many stations and venues including orchestras, sopranos, tenors, contraltos, and travel talks. Highlights feature Grace Windle, Hazel ONeill, and Tony Corcoran among others with performances from CHICAGO stations WGN WJAZ KFI and more.
B KE Mills sold his Pierce street grocery and moved with family by Chevrolet to Redondo Beach California last Sunday. His sister Mrs Jim Baker accompanied them. Mrs J C Daling underwent a surgical operation Friday and is recovering at 1110 Fillmore. George Baker recalls The Globe’s Amarillo arrival as everybody's friend and not a tool. August rail move promo offers half fare for American Legion convention in Brownwood August 18 to 20. ICC bulletin predicts heavy perishables movement in AugOct with demand for refrigerator cars and calls railroads to cooperate. Grand Crossing Chicago sees 750 to 800 trains pass in eight hours. Whittle and Spit club members secured best seats for Harley Sadler show Sunday. My hireless cooker jokes about trash and burns it, leaving a sign “God Bless Our Home.” C L Sipe visits Moody Texas for two weeks. If girls wear bathing suits, you see why they shouldn’t. D Jackson, Pullman inspector from Dallas, in Amarillo. Joe saw the train but could not stop. his flivver was towed, soon made as good as new. Raymond Foster, Rock Island baggage agent, resumes duties after illness. Frank F Dyer, Forest Carpenter, Roy H Lance, Floyd Ammons now Santa Fe brakemen. Otis Clarke learning road and location.
A collage reviews brief remarks from residents about family history rain in Lushland a new electric sign for the Palo Duro Hotel and voter opinions. It mentions a baby at St Anthony's sanitarium Amarillo life and a brakeman at Baker’s Beanery and notes the Cotton Belt railway line and a malaria control role for track workers.
A diary fragment from New York on August 11 recounts meeting Rudolph Valentino, remarks on guards at a bank, and the social theater of Madison Avenue. The entry notes intriguingly dressed bankers, a journalist’s dress sense, and local street reactions as daylight unfolds.
Canyon Texas August 11 1924 West Texas State Teachers College presents the annual summer orchestra and chorus program on August 20 The program includes The Peace Pipe a cantata based on Longfellow Hiawatha with baritone solo by Bernard Taylor of Fort Worth The college chorus numbers about seventy five experienced singers and the orchestra about twenty members rehearse the score and plan a lively finale
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