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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
4
An OCR fragment shows a telephones news department notice from 2012 with Associated Press rights and subscription pricing for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. It references one week one month three months six months one year and Sunday only options.
Voters in Amarillo should back candidates who support railroads like the Santa Fe and Denver roads. The editorial praises Santa Fe profits and taxes, cites a wheel shop, and asserts railroads boost growth, urging support for fair-minded presidential candidates to protect the rail system and local prosperity.
Local notices describe an open air dance at Jack Hall ranch with music, held every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at four miles from town. The item also notes a free Saturday night event and a special glass sale on Saturday August 16 1924 starting at 9:00 am.
Central Time schedule lists KYW Chicago and WEBA Chicago night programs with multiple orchestras and soloists. WMAQ audience gets At Home hour with Montreal theater organ selections. stations across the Midwest and West present concerts, opera, and dance music with named performers such as Jouve DeHabary Orchestra, Ann Ritchie, Pauline Williams, Avery Melivane, and Manuel Rodriguez, plus news and dramatic portions.
A dated schedule lists numerous radio programs across U S cities with times and performers including Frederick W. Agard tenors and orchestras, George Osborna Orchestra, Ruth Eleanore Hollingsworth contralto, Beile Snyder Drury pianist, and various station identifiers WMAQ WEBH KSD WHB KPO KGW KGW KGW KLKC. The list covers concerts broadcasts and talks through late evening hours with notes on time zones and daylight saving.
County commissioners appoint J N Green public weigher in precinct one. He will serve until the office is filled in the election. Daily Globe advertising rates note one and one half cents per word.
The column coins old time Amarillo days with remarks from Avery Turner about local crowds. A Los Angeles divorcee jokes about pajamas on a door knob. A Panhandle man valued for high earnings plans safe razor demonstrations. Ne gro humor and Texas anecdotes mix with a Dallas driver’s tale of purchases near the Oklahoma line and a shopkeeper’s nightwear questions.
J R Dyehe of Panhandle Barber Supply returns from a two day business trip to Plainview and Lubbock. Postmaster Kenyon labels Dallas gossip about Tom Barton giving Ferguson speeches as political chatter. Childress public schools set September opening with many teachers and rising enrollment. E I Pittman sells cut glass Saturday as a grand money saver. FE I Pittman jeweler in City Drug.
The column recalls a 19th century New York society scandal a sixteen year old beauty who attracted figures like General Israel Putnam and Aaron Burr. It also recounts Florence Burns a famed figure of 1890s New York and a string of arrests, plus notes on telephone traffic and central offices in the metropolitan area.
Dr J J Crame recalls dubious fishing tales at Shady Brook Inn near Eagle Lake where a Oklahoma man claimed locals net big bass with sacks. Sheriff Whitaker reports eighteen county jail inmates charged with felonies. Jay Ray notes Hereford business leaders estimate half a million dollars of cotton with two gins operating this year.
A collection of child quotes submitted for a 25 cent prize by Amarillo Globe readers. Notable items include a two year old asking about calves and cows during dinner, a boy questioning what God stood on, and a child mistaking a thunder head for a red haired girl, among many other short anecdotes from Texas families.
The text notes Patchin Place in the Village as a small cluster of six three story brick houses on one side and four on the other. It describes Wesdee the caretaker at No 2 watching over a large resident family for 25 years and contrasts Patchin Place with other secluded spots in New York. Rainy days leave a mud puddle in the street, with old fashioned letter boxes at doorways and a visible fire escape along the fronts.
An adult must accompany the school child for a free eyesight test and to record the card. Dr Claude Wolcott at 1104 Polk coordinates the service and an engagement phone number 1982 is provided.
A roundup of visits and travels including Mr and Mrs A G Gober in town en route to Wyoming. J H Gouldy heads to Eureka Springs Ark for three weeks and will vote by ballot mailed by the county clerk. H M Jones tours Mistletoe creameries as a dairy expert. J F Keiffer joins Tom Trippett in the Flapmobile agency after two years in autos. Mrs R A Taylor returns to Paris Texas after a month with Mrs W C Mitchell. Dick Daily, now cashier at Silver City NM, reports on his progress. Henry L Ford is urged for a second term as county attorney. The Ricks family, headed by H L Ricks of Ricks Furniture, visits Amarillo before traveling to Big Springs.
Locust Valley N Y August 14 John W Davis outlines a campaign plan to win Democratic control nationwide He presses a westward push with Senator Pittman Nevada to map a route as far as Denver He aims to aid both executive and legislative races and launches his second attack in Ohio followed by Illinois and the Mississippi Valley.
Harry M. Brown will lead Panhandle Pipeline and Amarillo Gas, succeeding T. Loren Driscoll who moves to Union Development in Buffalo. Mrs. Brown joins him in Amarillo staying at the Amarillo hotel as Brown relocates from Clarksburg and Denver after Prairie Oil and Gas of Independence Kan acquired control of Amarillo Gas.
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