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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1924
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe announces it began as a second class matter on February 20 1924 and is published evenings except Saturdays and Sundays with the news distributed by the Associated Press. The paper lists its offices at 110 East Fifth Street and notes exclusive AP rights for news dispatches.
Rates listed for carrier delivery in Amarillo and by mail for daily and Sunday editions. Local one month and multi month options shown for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Prices include one month three months six months and yearly options with occasional Sunday only rate.
The Texas paper endorses Mrs. Ferguson for governor while noting Jim Ferguson’s comeback and the electorate’s protest against Ku Klux Klan involvement. It cautions Republicans, Democrats, and independents against a third party, urging a stable Democratic win and a measured transition. The piece highlights gendered projections and a skeptical view of an independent bid.
A dense list of Monday August 25 radio programs across U S cities detailing half hourly Tate news, theater organ, mixed vocal quartets, orchestra and studio concert programs, talk shows, schooling segments, and night broadcasts with times mainly in CST. Key names include Dorothy Bull Ralph Bull Chester Bage Katherine Schmidt Marion Lee Josephine Martine George Osborne, Bernice Griffith Alvin Halchem Clar ton Wolfe Rudy Seigera and Henry Halstead.
A dense listing of radio programs across Chicago to Los Angeles with time slots for orchestras, sopranos, bands, and talk segments. Notable names include Marie Beetener, Nick Lucas, Harry Davis, Ralph Williams, and Art Hickman. Broadcast times span early evening to late night with varied stations and venues.
Karl Walker says The Globe’s parties are a hit and open house broadcasts draw crowds for the November election returns. Harold Hardner aims to meet a prospective buyer before he dies and thanks the paper for its help. Jack Burgess jokes that his Willys Knight may have been borrowed by Ma Ferguson after a car found abandoned on the Claude highway.
The diary entry for August 25 details breakfast with Houdini and an autographed copy of A Magician Among the Spirits. It covers visits to dress shops, a game of bottle pool, a show by Eva Tanguay, a sharp movie-industry critique, and notes on MecWhorty’s empire and Seventh Avenue construction.
A call for reader submissions pays 25 cents per child saying printed. The note lists several short anecdotes from Amarillo residents and outlines submission details. It mentions Avanell Horsworthy and the address in Amarillo and includes a dated 1924 copyright notice.
J M Williams of Acme Brick is in Lamesa on business. Tom Huggins and family visit Amarillo. Miss Mable Page returns to Claude from here. Harding's Ranch promotes swimming and dancing with large outdoor pool. Fort Worth visitors include Earl Gough and Mrs. Cartwright family. Many locals travel for visits, shopping and entertainment at Harding's Ranch fourteen miles away.
The Tactless Texan taunts a pole cat intruding in Amarillo home and plots to test a trapper theory by dropping it from a mill elevator. The column foresees Texas crowning a woman governor and jokes about political laughs from national peers.
Buenos Aires August 25 The Maritime Labor federation with 7000 workers declares a general strike in response to measures linked to investigations of a bomb explosion in the hold of the Argentine coastwise steamer Asturiano. The ship was recently boycotted by the federation as part of broader actions.
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