Baldwin Settles Great British Coal Strike and Ford Enters Aviation
The article discusses Prime Minister Baldwin paying 50 million to coal mine owners to avert a strike and suggests Britain explore permanent government control of mining. It notes the death of Moishe Ber Yudelman and moral takeaways. Henry Ford buys Stout Metal Airplane stock, plans large scale aviation, government air mail contracts, and commercial flights, viewed as beneficial to the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remier Baldwin
Great Britain
Enry Ford
Stout Metal Airplane Company
Ford
Ness
Postoffice Rates and Advertising Value Discussed
Brief clipping notes a discussion on postal rates and the value of advertising, with reference to continuation on page two.
Amarillo Weather Forecast Snapshot
Tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy. Hourly temperatures for Amarillo today show highs around the mid 80s and a steady warm day. A year ago the extremes reached 85 and 64 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Five Shot in Klan Riot Shocks Framingham Crowd
Framingham Massachusetts police held seventy five men said to be Klansmen after a riot near the Libby farm. Five were wounded by buckshot and a score injured by rocks and clubs. Bail was set for fifteen on assault with dangerous weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Framingham, Stass
Framingham
Mass
Ku Knux
New England
Pearly W. Libby
Libby House
C. J. Carr
Linst
Charles T. Beaupre
Concord
Holden
Reading
Libby
Surrouching
Parker
State Constabulary
Libby Farm
Wheat Drops 8 Cents In Chicago Trading Today
Chicago headlines report an eight cent drop in the wheat market after government yields outlooks showed a larger 1925 harvest in the United States and Canada. May delivery slid to 1.60 to 1.66 the prior day, with heavy selling followed by quick buying and a sharp rally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Canada
Game Called Off In Rain. Doubleheader Planned
The St. Louis Cardinal-Philadelphia game was washed out by rain in St. Louis. A doubleheader will be played tomorrow to make up the schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
St. Louis
Mary Louise Is Turned Away From no Convents, Adoption Annulled
Newark Star Eagle reports Mary Louise Spas a 21 year old Bohemian woman failed to enter a convent in Newark. She is described as adopted by Edward W. Browning and accompanied by her parents as she sought novitiate at St John the Baptist and Dominican houses. The piece notes the city ordinance on Polk Street speeds and the ongoing enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Louise
Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Newark Star Eagle
Mary Louise Spas
St. John the Baptist
Dominican Fathers
Convent
Summit
House of the Good Shepherd
Here
Edward W. Browning
Death of Mrs J L Summers at daughter's home
Mrs. 8S. A. Clifton aged 77 died at 12 30 this afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs J L Summers 108 West Cheyenne To add. She leaves a son J W Clifton and her daughter both of this city. She was a member of the Methodist church. The body is being prepared for burial at Versailles Missouri. Funeral announcement to be made tomorrow. Mrs Summers is the wife of J L Summers a real estate dealer and builder in the Country Club district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Clifton
J. L. Summers
West Cheyenne Toad
J. W. Clifton
Mrs. Summers
Methodist Church
Griggs Undertaking Company
Versailles
Summers
Clifton
Country Club
Highest cattle price in Kansas City hits record in five years
Kansas City on August 11 reports the top cattle price in five years as seventeen prime long fed steers sold for 15.10 per hundred pounds. The year’s previous high was 15, with prices rising 3 to 5 dollars in about three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Kansas City
Oil price cut posted by state agencies at market open
The Associated Press reports in Pittsburgh that on August 11 a 25 cent a barrel reduction is posted for seven grades of Pennsylvania crude oil by the principal purchasing agencies at market opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Adoption of Mary Louise Annulled in Cinderella Romance
In New York on August 11 Surrogate Noble of Queens County annulled the adoption of Mary Louise Spns by Edward W. Browning citing misrepresented age. Mary and her foster father attended as the court announced the revocation. Mary, once eager for a convent, returned with her family to Astoria amid a large onlookers crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Mary Louise
Spns
Edward W. Browning
Noble
Queens County
Newcombe
Mary
Astoria
Court House
West Texas Chamber Plans Amarillo Membership Drive
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce will launch a membership campaign in Amarillo led by B. F. Bennett after talks with local officials. Amarillo expects over 300 memberships as it hosts the 1926 convention next June, following Wichita Falls with 600 and Lubbock with 200 members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
B. F. Bennett
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
Solon's Secretary Dragged Into Michigan Divorce
Alpena Michigan August 11 A deposition by Floren Dallan servant to Congressman Frank D Scott read into the record of the congressman's divorce action against Edna J Scott that Mr Scott and his secretary Miss Jane Kennedy were alone in the house office building Washington in April 1923 under suspicious circumstances
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
Alpena
Mich
Floren Dallan
Frank D. Scott
Edna J. Scott
Scott
Jane Kennedy
Washington
Fifty More Sign Up for Amarillo Trade Trip
The Amarillo trade trip committee seeks 50 more reservations to reach 100. Forty eight already enrolled for the trip departing Monday at 6 PM for Plainview with a welcome party, then on to Lubbock and surrounding towns over three days, ending Wednesday night. The $45 cost covers rail and Pullman fares and advertising items, with the West Texas State Teachers College band joining gratis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Plains
Lubbock
Amarillo
Wichita
Kansas City
J D Sugg Texas Galahoma Financier Dies in Chickasha
J D Sugg a 74 year old financier and former president of Chickasha’s First National Bank died after an extended illness in Chickasha Oklahoma He built extensive real estate holdings in Chickasha and Texas towns including San Angelo Gainesville and Ranger He moved to Chickasha in 1922 from San Angelo and later made it his home He was born in Mississippi
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chickasha
Okla
J. D. Sugg
First National Bank of
Texas
San Angelo
Gainesville
Ranger
Sugg
Mississippi
Tunney and Wills to Meet in New York in September
New York August 11 Gene Tunney American light heavyweight champion signed a contract for a match with Harry Wills. It will be staged at Yankee Stadium probably Friday September 25 under the direction of Tex Rickard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Gene Tunney
Harry Wills
Yankee Stadium
Tex Rickard
No Violation of Law as Cowhand Celebrates Rising Cattle Trade
A crowd on Polk Street awakens to a cowboy yell when cattle buyers from Missouri Illinois and Kansas spark chatter about new purchases. Amarillo Chief Clark Cain releases the excited former cowhand noting no law violation as the cattle business rebounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eredee
Polk Street
Clark Cain
First
Tenth
Fillmore
Harrison Streets
Polk Clark Cain
Amarillo
Missouri
Panhandle
Illinois
Kansas
Chief Cain
Texas R R Commission Not Expected To Oppose Rock Island Petition
Austin August 11 The Texas Railroad Commission is expected to make no objection to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway application to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to extend its line from Liberal Kansas to Amarillo 145 miles The extension would traverse Oklahoma Texas counties and Hansford Hutchinson Carson and Potter counties in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Commission
Chicago
Rock Island
Liberal
Kansas
Amarillo
Texas County
Oklahoma
Hansford, Hutchinson, Carson
Potter Counties
Tri-State field trials open at Wheeler camp
The Members Derby starts with 26 dogs entered as the Tri-State field trials unfold in Wheeler Texas. Kinningham Frank wins Shooting Dog stakes and Antonio Texia earns honorable mention while anticipation grows for tomorrow's All-Age events and the Amarillo trophy offering $1,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler, Tex
Kinningham Frank
J. C. Perry
Mar Shall
Tex
Antonio Texia
C. I. Snider
Altus
Oklahoma
Wheeler
Tri- State
Farm Counts Drop as Idle Land Expands Nationwide
A Department of Agriculture survey shows U S farms declined by 30 000 last year about 0 1 percent while cropped lands fell 1 3 percent and idle acreages reached 25 million Acres in the south were largely idle with gains in the Great Plains dry farming area Increases in farms occurred along the cotton belt margins and southern states despite overall consolidation trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Great Plains
Department
Georgia
Alabama
Michigan
Missouri
Idaho
Carolinas
Florida
Texas
Minnesota
South Dakota
California
Nebraska
Clewiston Florida Picked as Bryan Memorial Site
Clewiston Florida has been definite ly chosen as the site for the national monument to the late William Jennings Bryan. Announcement was made by Miss Dionesia Bryan Evans, his goddaughter, in New York. Indirect notes mention local vendors and a photo request during the announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Clewiston
Florida
William Jennings Bryan
Dionesia Bryan Evans
Narcotic Squad Ace Leaders Arrested In Chicago
Col. Will Gray Beach head of Chicago narcotic division and three assistants were arrested on charges of bartering drugs for loot from robber gangs. Agents swept opium joints in Chinatown and on the south side, raiding Beach O'Brien Baxter and Dietrich with more arrests anticipated in a nationwide graft cleanup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Will Gray Beach
Internal Revenue Department
Special Intelligence Unit
Internal Revenue Bureau
Chinatown
Uth
Beach
Dennis O'Brien
Alonzo Baxter
Harry Dietrich
Federal
Elmer L. Ivey
Washington
Patrick Roche
David H. Blair
Internal Revenue
Lincoln C. Andrews
Mellon
O’brien
Ivey
Philadelphia
Baxter
Deitrich
Roche
Colonel Beach
Kitty Gilhooley
Irey
United States
Canada
Mexico
South Side
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Star Company
Apital
Lord George
Baldwin
Qaodishe Ber Yudelman
Brooklyn
Jerusalem
Moishe Ber Yudelman
Moishe
Moody
Sankey
Salvation Army
London
Hell
Mar.ford
Busi
Massachusetts
Polk
Cain
W. H. Brummett
Marke
J.L. Summers
Solon
Gase
Committee
Tunney
Wills
The
Austin
Railroad Commission
Pacific Railway
Interstate Com
Merce Commission
Aphay Memwocko
Clewiston, Fla
Bryan Memorial Site
East Fourth Street
American Warehouse Company
Merchanaise Storage
J. S.narcotic Squad
Ace
Witherspoon
City
East 4Th
Kez
Mathews
East Fifth Street
Amarillo Heel
the Panhandle
Globe. Supreme
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