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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1926
Page
11
Markets across Kansas City Oklahoma City Fort Worth St Louis and Chicago show cattle prices firm to higher with hogs and calves seeing gains. Grain and cotton seed oil futures cited with mixed results. cash grain values listed for wheat corn and oats.
Milton Bronner profiles Georges Clemenceau, the Tiger of France, as he reenters political relevance after years in retirement. The piece recalls his life from physician to premier, his fierce anti-German stance, role in World War I, and his sharp personality including quips about Poincare and a note on his quiet Paris and Vendée life.
Arch bishop Ruiz y Flores reports to Mexico City that in Michoacan and Guanajuato provinces Catholics were attacked, with priests and citizens executed during battles. The archbishop cites killings at Zahuayo Acambaro and Irapuato, and says federal troops executed leaders as protests flared August 1–2. The government denies large disturbances.
Charles C. Austin, state banking commissioner, filed suit in district court seeking payment of a $10 000 bond issued for the Navasota Farmers State Bank by Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. The bank insured an official who later embezzled over $10,000, and the bank then became insolvent.
Beverly Farms Mass August 12 The Associated Press reports Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes denied a writ of error for Richard Reese Whittemore who faces execution in Baltimore tonight. Whittemore led a jewelry theft gang and sought mercy as his last chance to avoid the death penalty.
Chicago fashion notes from August 12 describe long one side and short the rest bobbed hair as the season’s formalwear cue. Madame Louise showcases seventy five models at a fur show and forecasts bobbed hair as camouflaged to appear long with bias cuts and tinted ears.
Cameron County officials search for 17 year old Mildred Brown who vanished from Harlingen after a note in her room declared my body will be found. Clothing missing suggests she left of her own accord amid a tense, unclear situation.
R. H. Poston reports the loss of his dog during a field trials event. Details are unclear in the text, but the notice references the competition and the dog’s disappearance alongside participants and a local company.
Humorous fragment recalls a parrot that swore loudly and is found dead on the golf links. A caddie jokes about shining clubs and a golfer asks about improved play while a London lunch hour scene unfolds.
A terse comic exchange centers on a quarrel over a dance insult and a claim of being teased. The dialogue hints at social tensions and the speaker’s reaction after a dispute about dancing with a girl.
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