Twelve Cars Leave City for W T C C Meeting
A dozen Amarillo business men led by S J Cole headed at 6:30 am for Wellington to attend the West Texas Chamber of Commerce district convention. Each car bore Tri-State fair ads and will stop along the route to distribute literature. Delegations from the Real Estate Board the Board of City Development the Tri-State fair and Civic clubs joined. More than thirty towns planned to send delegations to Wellington.
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Amarillo
S. J. Cole
Transportation Department
Board of City Development
Wellington
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Real Estate Board
England and Japan Agree on Navy Plan
The Washington Post reports Britain and Japan reached a secret understanding on naval supremacy after the Geneva conference when the United States rejected Britain’s program. Details remain scarce and officials debate potential consequences in Washington.
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England
Japan
Associated Press
Washington
Washington Post Today
State Department
Great Britain
United States
Bilbo Holds Lead in Race for Governor
The latest Mississippi second primary tabulation shows Theodore G Bilbo leading Governor Murphree by about 10 000 votes. With seven precincts unreported Bilbo has 140 128 to Murphree 130 717.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Theodore G. Bilbo
Murphree
Bilbo
Murphee
Five Die In Norwalk Oil Stove Explosion
Explosion of a kerosene and gasoline mix used to start a kitchen fire in Norwalk kills five people and leaves two others near death in a local hospital. Victims include Mary Hicks 38 and her children Viva 3 and an infant, and Mrs. Robert Pool 18 with her son Richard 6 months. Homer Hicks and the Pool son-in-law hospitalized with severe burns.
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Associated Press
Norwalk
Ohio
Mary Hicks
Viva
Robert Pool
General Tire Firm Hangs Up New Record
The General Tire and Rubber Company reports the biggest sales gain in the tire industry for the first half of 1927, with gains of forty percent in dollars and cents. Mr. Watson of Ballew Satterfield, General Tire distributors in Amarillo, notes tough price competition from reclaimed rubber. Two large factory additions are underway and will be ready soon, with plant modernization planned. An annual trade in sale is launched to mark the victory for tire buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Tire and Rubber Company
Watson
Ballew-Satterfield Company
General Tire Distributors
Amarillo
Fiedom
General Tires
Old Tack's Program for a Bigger, Better Amarillo
Ambitious 1920s style platform proposes lower ad rates and utilities, a municipal pool, shorter police hours, a square deal for all workers, more parks and viaducts, public lake access, a municipal golf course, and elimination of railroad crossings. Calls for livability improvements and industrial attraction while addressing street quality and pricing gaps in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bivins Lake
Amarillo
San Jacinto
The Tactless Texan in Amarillo Letters
A rambling Amarillo column by The Tactless Texan laments personal woes headlines and work problems. He riffs on parole, automatics telephones and nightly domestic drama while lampooning cruelty to animals and local transit issues. He quotes readers from Portland and pokes at city life and rail service.
Ex Mayors Noped In U S as Rogers Praised
Erasmus Tack reports on Will Rogers the mayor emeritus of Beverly Hills addressing a Kansas City crowd. Rogers jokes about ex mayors and politics, rails at indulgent reporters, and comments on Capper and Curtis while lampooning Coolidge and Aimee MacPherson.
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Erasmus Tack
Wil
Rogers
Liberty Memorial
James A. Reed
Kansas City
Reed
Kansas
Capper
Curtis
United States
Henry Allen
William ‘Randolph’ White
Emporia Gazette
Aa Magazine
Senator Capper
Police Gazette
Democratic Party
Cal Coolidge
John
Guy Coolidge
Coolidge
Mrs. Coolidge
Rebecca
Washington
Hollywood
Charlie
Lita
Lindbergh
Aimee MacPherson
Aimee
Amarillo urged to raise 100000 for college building fund
Mayor Bivins appealed to citizens after Col Haines left the city to lead the drive. He offered site and land value as a cash reserve and said Amarillo must raise the $100,000 to guarantee the college project. A prominent citizen already pledged $25,000, but leadership is needed to start the fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bivins
Amarillo
Zeppelin Project S L 127 World Flight Plans Revealed
German planners announce the S L 127 airship to use fireproof helium and a nonexplosive gas, with a 1928 spring completion. They project Atlantic routes, a world circumnavigation in about 12 days, and bases from Lakehurst to Arctic and Pacific coasts, plus a Seville Buenos Aires service. Public notes recount Eckener’s 1924 ZR-3 crossing to Lakehurst and the Los Angeles hangar.
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United States
Atlantic Ocean
Lakehurst
New Jersey
Los Angeles
Arctic Ocean
White Sea
Pacific Ocean
Hugo Eckener
Franz Wittermann
Ernst Lehman
Hans von Schiller
Atlantic
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Lost Flyers Search Continues and Drift Is Studied
The navy directs the Omaha fleet toward Honolulu while drift areas are swept between current positions and Hawaii. Rubber life raft tests renew hope the missing aviators may be afloat as search in Hawaiian waters continues with no clues. Victims named include Mildred Doran Jack Frost Gordon Scott and William Erwin.
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R. H. Jackson
Omaha
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Cole
Hawaiian
Martin Jensen
Hawaii
Mauna Kea
Mildred Doran
John Auggy Pedlar
Vilas R. Knope
Jack Frost
Gordon Scott
Golden Eagle
William P. Erwin
A. H. Eichwaldt
Dallas Spirit
Navy extends search for missing Pacific fliers
The Navy Department approved a second extension of the search for missing Pacific fliers. The plan adds five to six days of operations, with investigations by the light cruiser Omaha and fifteen destroyers 600 miles off San Francisco, plus mine sweepers Widgeon Ortolan Pelican Sunnadin and submarines at Pearl Harbor covering key areas near Hawaii and Kauai. Automobiles are expected for Bolivia travel due to horse limits and llamas only as pack animals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific
Navy Department
Hawaiian Islands
Omaha
San Francisco
Widgeon
Ortolan
Island of
Hawaii
Pelican
Sunnadin
Kaui
French Figare Shoals
Pearl Harbor
Charles L Green Amarillo business leader dies
Charles L Green Amarillo furniture real estate and property magnate dies leaving a million dollar estate. He led Green Brothers company with 611 Polk and 6 Taylor street buildings and held interests in Coe and Parks Lumber Montgomery Style Shop and several apartment blocks. Closed today and tomorrow. Burial beside his wife in Corsicana Texas.
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Tary Club and Realtors Association
Howard Paul
Real Estate Board
Corsicana
Charles L. Green
Green Brothers Company
Panhandle Plains
Texas
Amarillo
Coe and Parks Lumber Company
Central Presbyterian Church
The
Rotary Club, Real Estate Board
Woodmen of the World
Arkansas
Tony
Ouchita County
Camden
Navarro County
Roberta Armstrong
Fort Worth
Green
W. W. Cunningham
Plains
James T. Green
Polk Street
Sixth and
Taylor Streets
R. McAfee
Mr. Green
New Building Code Commission
Bodies of Reds to Undertaker's Funeral Sunday
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will lie in state in a Boston funeral parlor until Sunday. The undertaker will remove religious emblems, and the bodies will be taken to the parlor this afternoon. A Sunday funeral procession will pass the State House and proceed to Forest Hills for cremation amid a split on funeral plans and a national conference in New York to push a clemency movement and memorial.
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Associated Pross
Boston
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
North End
Defense Committee
State House
Boston Common
Forest Hills
Sacco
2000 Made Homeless By Fire in Scutari
Daily Express dispatch from Constantinople reports a fire in Scutari destroying forty homes and leaving 2000 people homeless. Scutari, a suburb of Constantinople on the Bosphorus slope, has about 80,000 residents and a commanding view.
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Scutari
United Press
London
Daily Express
Constantinople
Bosphorus
I Forgot and I Didn’t Think In Printer Ink
A reflection on human error and regret tracing two phrases “I forgot” and “I didn’t think” from biblical times to modern life. The poem notes worn, penniless figures trailing the human race amid disaster and blame, with a final nod to copyright later.
I Forgot and Its Toll on Duty and Pain
A reflective verse by Edgar A. Guest laments the quiet wreckage caused by phrases I forgot and I didn’t think. It traces how promises and missed warnings ripple through lives, from ships and trains to daily burdens and tears, urging responsibility.
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Edgar A. Guest
Markets report Kansas City and Chicago livestock prices
Hogs, cattle and sheep prices listed for Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago with tops and bulk ranges. Reports show varying demand, forgings include hog tops around 10.60 to 11.00, cattle mixed with veal up to 19.50, lamb tops near 13.75, and grain quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats in Kansas City futures.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Kansas
ST. Louis
East ST. Louis
Chicago
The
Foreign exchanges steady in New York on August 26
The market showed steady rates with Great Britain at 4.85 18 114 dollars for demand and 4.863 16 for cables, sixty day bills on banks at 4.815, France at 38.91 13 16 and 9.921 16 on cables, Italy at 6.44% both demand and cables, Belgium 18.91, Germany 23.80, Tokyo 27.8714 and Montreal 100.0314.
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Associated Press
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Tokyo
Montreal
United States Bond Quotes From New York Market
Liberty bonds listed with prices and yields for various series. First 4s traded near 101.10, 4 1/4s around 103.50, second 4s about 100.80, third 4 1/4s near 100.31, fourth 4s around 104.20, Treasury 4 1/4s at 114. The 4s 3% near 105.81.
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United States
Associated Press
New York
Liberty
Treasury
Chicago Market Notes August 25 Butter Eggs and Poultry
Chicago market report shows butter prices mixed with creamery firsts and various grades, eggs unchanged. Poultry prices hold firm with fowls, springs, broilers and turkeys listed, while potatoes remain slow and dull in Chicago trade.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Olga
Poultry Alive
The
Forty Die as Quake Hits Formosa Isle
An earthquake on Formosa Island near Taiwan killed forty people in Ensuingai near the Port of Taiwan. Tokyo dispatches say 145 houses were damaged in the district and four were injured.
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Formosa Isle
Associated Press
Tokyo
Formosa
China
Japan
Ensuingai
Taiwan
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Old Tack
Parker
Mr. Santa Fe
O. W
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John Coyle
Carolina Street
Tack
Dalhart
Society For the Prevention of
J. G. Rushing
Portland
Oregon
M. S. Smith
Oklahoma City
Pueblo
Board of City Devilment
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J. W. Husted
East Seventh Street
Davis Roe
Ananias Club
San Diego
Golden Gate
Greenwoods
West
Boosters Club
Times
Bolivia
Charles Green
Missouri
Nebraska
New Orleans
James F. Bennett & Co
James E. Bennett & Co
Ept
Allied Chemical & Dye
American Steele & Foundry
Associated Dry Goods
Anes
Atchison, Topeka & S. F
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnsdall Corporation A
Bethlehem Steel
California Petroleum
Cerre de Pasco
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Northwestern
Peeteweease
Rock Island & Oe
Chile
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Estes
Dupont de Nenou
Famous Players
Fleischmann Yeast
General Electric
General Motors
Great Western
International Harvester
International Nickel
International Tele. & Tely
Phillips Petro
America
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker
Texas & Pacific
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Steeleeee
Willys-Overland
Woolworth
ersEy
City Drug Store
Willborn Bros. Co
Houston Street
Santa Fe
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