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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1934
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe discusses subscription options and special delivery service, then shifts to a civic editorial arguing traditional semi annual tax collection fails modern needs. It suggests advancing tax dates to reduce borrowing, citing New York City as a model with April and October collections biannually for six years to end anticipation borrowing.
Federal relief agencies show progress in cleaning up the homeless youth problem on highways. Last year estimates said about half a million youths were on the bum. Today 200 camps and 350 city shelters operate, with over 200,000 roving transients cared for and helped back toward hope and self respect.
Glenn Frank argues the question is no longer whether to control business but what form such control should take. He warns that delaying wage, hour, price and profit policies risks deeper economic decline unless government shapes policy with informed, careful collaboration with private enterprise to avoid stifling productive power.
Marsha Moore confides in her rector about a love triangle with Bob Powers and Geoff Tarleton. The couple enjoys a tender dinner, sensing closeness despite inner turmoil and unspoken confessions that remain unfinished as the night ends with a gentle, uncertain mood.
In a hushed village scene Marsha debates secrets from a past while Geoffrey Tarleton plots and teases. The pair step into a charged luncheon as quiet moments sharpen tension and threaten a climactic shift tomorrow.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains sobriety as the first law of safe driving. He notes alcohol slows reaction time and dulls memory, increasing crash risk at any speed. Simple tests like finger-nose touch, walking a key task, and reading can reveal impairment and determine driving competence.
McIntyre chronicles social notes from New York and Long Island with visits, letters, and anecdotes. He cites bar openings in Paris and a playful double talk column, listing humorists and celebrities, including Drexel, Ford, Rogers, and Wodehouse, amid travel lore and shifting expatriate life.
In a Thornton Burgess bedtime tale Wiggle Nose reflects on Reddy Fox after a flattery filled visit. He questions why Mother Nature fears the larger fox and recalls Reddy's sharp teeth while Reddy heads home pleased with the rabbit’s gullibility and plans further flattery.
The United States Department of Agriculture described Texas cattle and ranges as very bad. On August 1 range conditions were 50 percent of normal, the lowest in 11 years, with cattle at 60 percent of normal. July rains offered limited improvement in the south and coastal areas but more rain is needed to provide winter feed, especially in the north and south plains and Red River regions.
A collage of eccentric curiosities and biographical lines from 1934 including Central Park West apartments, a Florence synagogue, Major Bowes radio setup on an Ossining estate, Lois Long on the Oxonian accent, Sinclair Lewis as a Sauk Center tow-head nicknamed Doodles, Samuel Hopkins Adams as the first Park Row cane bearer, Dick Cameron and the Rath brothers running a beer and sandwich parlor in Twin Falls, Berton Braley's hot day poems, Percy Hammond encountering a Chinese servant in East Hampton, and the servant’s remark about work being finished.
The items present include three questions and answers. Annual U S milk production on farms is about 102 309 000 000 pounds for 1933. The Waverley Novels were written by Sir Walter Scott. The four commonwealths are Massachusetts Pennsylvania Kentucky and Virginia.
In Burgess tale The Tempter Wiggle Nose declines a sly fox Reddy s invitation to a bramble hideout. Reddy uses flattery and misdirection hoping to trap him but Wiggle Nose recalls the fox s sharp teeth and refuses to leave his home. The scene hints at danger and cunning.
Puzzle clues mix foreign terms and wordplay about architecture and landmarks. The page lists a long vertical and horizontal crossword style grid with definitions such as to sink, wander aimlessly, Greek letter, and a reference to Champ Mars in France.
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