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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1924
Page
5
Dorothy argues mothers over promoting their children create prejudice and fatigue in readers. She says parental praise, while well meaning, can backfire and turn the public away from the very offspring mothers exalt. She notes the natural yet blindsiding bias mothers hold toward their kids.
Dorothy Dix notes that mothers who brag about their kids insult their aims by raising expectations and inviting ridicule. Such overpraise can ruin reputations, hinder social chances, and blur real achievements, making youths targets of laughter rather than respect.
Peter Drew, a conventional businessman, falls for Helen Marshall who is engaged to Bob Powers. After secretly pursuing her at a seashore cottage, he convinces himself he can win her, despite her independence and her other suitors, planning to make her his wife.
A cinema page lists The Midnight Jimmie Adams in Black and The Mission Cornered, a Warner Brothers mystery with Marie Prevost in a dual role, featuring Cullen Landis and others. Also noted is self made failure, a full length comedy with Jen Alexander and Lloyd Hamilton at The Liberty.
Lloyd Hamilton, in A Self-Made Failure, revisits a mystery as his prized French briar pipe, vanished from United Studios a year ago, reappears in his Hollywood dressing room with no explanation. Hamilton vows a gift to the honest returner if known.
The Mission theater shows Corned about two identical girls, one from the slums and an heiress. An impostor wins a home, but twin sisters separated in childhood are exposed. Marie Prevost stars in a dual role with John Roche and other cast, directed by William Baudine.
A 1924 Public Ledger pattern shows a tiny tot frock featuring a center front slit with buttonhole edges, slitted skirt details, and sash ribbons of matching color finished with embroidery fringe. The design uses slotted swiss fabric and mercerized embroidery thread, with long ribbons threaded from waist to hem.
North Side News reports on residents visiting, illness recoveries, and church events. Families travel to Kansas and New Mexico, births announced, and revival work planned. Community figures include Mr Huck at Bryant candy factory and Rev Strong's mission trip.
A fragment notes Peter weighs what matters now as the future remains unsettled. The brief hints at priorities shifting in the near term, with emphasis on current concerns over upcoming changes.
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