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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1924
Page
6
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In Amarillo readers are urged to back presidential candidates favorable to railroads, citing Santa Fe support for local growth. The piece lauds Santa Fe earnings, taxes and dividends in 1923, arguing rail lines boost the city’s economy and will fund future expansion.
A bustling fragment from Amarillo area notices describes a free dance at Tarding Ranch with music and open air venue. It notes social happenings around Wheeler field trials, local visitors, and various small town activities including a one day sale and dairy school plans.
A dense listing of August 14 radio programming across stations from KYW Chicago to KFI Los Angeles. It catalogs half hour updates, orchestras, soprano and tenor soloists, lecture hours, and evening concert broadcasts with times, stations, and performer names such as Josra Delabary's Orchestra, Pauline Witte, Lydia Lechner, and Ralph Williams Orch. It notes time standards and regional differences for CST and PST.
A dense listing of radio programs across Chicago and other cities with time slots. Highlights include Debabary's Orchestra at 6:30 PM and Ralph Williams Orchestra led by Paul Lourher. WMAQ and WGN feature multiple concerts and talk segments. plus sport and lecture broadcasts across stations from WHAS to KGW.
County commissioners appointed J N Green as public weigher for Precinct 1 and he will serve until the office is filled in the election. The Daily Globe ad rates 1.5 cents per word for want ads.
A collection of old jokes and comic snippets features Avery Turner recalling lively Amarillo days twenty five years ago. The bits include quips about safety razors, a divorces hint with pajama on a door, and light banter on provisioning and embezzlement as told by various regional characters.
J. R. Dyche of Panhandle Barber Supply reports back from a two day business trip to Plainview and Lubbock. Postmaster Kenyon notes political gossip in Dallas about Tom Barton planning Ferguson speeches. Childress public schools open in September with many teachers and rising enrollment. E. I. Pittman's glass sale Saturday promises big savings. FE. I. Pittman, jeweler in City Drug.
In New York dated August 14, fifty years ago high society faced a scandal as a young debutante rode ponies on Fifth Avenue. The piece recalls a baby vamp, Margaret Moncrieffe, and events shaping Manhattan, including the Church of the Ascension site and golf limits in 1640. It notes Florence Burns’s multiple arrests, a 1919 riot, and ongoing Sullivan law enforcement. The column ends with a census-like note: 9,500,000 telephone calls daily and 500 central offices in the metro area.
Dr J J Crume jokes about fishing tales on a New Mexico trip while a county sheriff notes eighteen prisoners in custody. Hereford area cotton estimates top half a million dollars with two guns for crop protection. Patchin Place in the Village is described as a historic, close knit enclave with distinctive tenants and aging features.
The Globe invites readers to submit fresh original sayings by children with a 25 cent payment per printed line. A sample includes a two year old remark about calves and cows and a child noting back pain in front. Submit on one side to Bright Savings Editor Amarillo Globe Amarillo Texas.
Frances Hunter asks a child about God’s stance at creation in Claude Texas. A reader from Amarillo shares a humorous family anecdote about a cousin Raymond, a union printer’s son, who fears his birthmark could be washed off his union label during a bath.
A collection of short, humorous anecdotes from Texas families. Children comment on bedtime, eggs, drawing, smells, and colors, with adults and siblings reacting. Names include Ila Gibbins Claude Byrd Dean Harman Ruby Muriel Mary Doughty Frankie Rhea Rosie Lee Johnson and locations in Texas and Tulsa.
An adult must accompany the school child for a free eyesight test and card record. Dr Claude Wolcott at 1104 Polk advertises engagement details with a contact phone 1982 and a price of half cents per word.
Locust Valley, N. Y., August 14. John W. Davis outlines his campaign strategy to win Democratic control of the presidency and Congress. He plans a western tour with Senator Pittman to Denver, and will push offensives in Ohio Illinois and the Mississippi Valley to mobilize independent voters.
Harry M. Brown succeeds T. Loren Driscoll as manager of the Amarillo Gas company and will oversee Panhandle Pipeline and Amarillo Gas. Mrs. Brown joins him in Amarillo at the Amarillo hotel. Driscoll will join Union Development in Buffalo, New York and plans to relocate Amarillo as his home despite个月work elsewhere.
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