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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe founded February 20 1924 announces it is published evenings and Sundays by Amarillo Globe Publishing Company at 110 East Fifth Street with Associated Press affiliation and contact lines for news and business departments.
Rates listed for daily and Sunday delivery by mail in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico include options for one week one month three months six months and one year. Prices shown cover various regional and weekend services with special rates for Sunday only subscriptions.
A Dallas News State Press defense of Miss Gertrude Ederle’s English Channel attempt argues the urge to excel drives such feats. It links ambition to broader progress and cites William James on training the will, with a humorous aside about S. P.’s Niagara Falls croquet box dream. Atlantic Life advert follows.
In New York on August 27 the piece surveys aging clubmen nicknamed Majors or Colonels who remain socially active at clubs, dine with young bloods, and value long nights and late sleep as salvation. It also notes Milton Sills and Colleen Moore film mentions and a Great Neck resident with a yacht, reflecting celebrity culture's reach.
United Press compiled schedule lists Friday Aug 28 programs across many networks. Entries include Detroit Symphony Orchestra KOA New York Philharmonic Amsterdam and other ensembles, with concert, weather, markets, and sports updates, plus station silences and management note about potential changes.
The note highlights a new film season in Amarillo starting August 31. It mentions M. McClary exhibiting broom corn stalks over eleven feet tall at the Farmers congress and claiming twelve acres of corn of similar quality. It also notes broom corn valued at about $100 a ton and a goat industry expert slated to speak. A Globe solicitor reports high local readership.
A Russian engineer Makhonin is credited with inventing carbonan, a liquid motor fuel based on distillates of wood and peat. French navy trials reported 10 to 15 percent higher efficiency than benzine. The worded telegram to the American Chemical Society notes the claim from Horten Norway.
American soda fountains introduced last year have become popular in Chile and are being installed widely as the country approaches its winter and coming summer season, signaling rising demand for chilled beverages.
Rosalind Nash quits stenography for cabaret work as Madeline Browning disapproves and Jack Armstrong pursues Rose. Dorothy Richards introduces Rose to men, liking Alvin Rives who favors another. Nicky Blake shows interest, but Rose prefers Alvin while he rejects her. Madeline visits, radiant, sharing news of engagement and romance with Jack.
Madeline confesses she loves Jack and would give him up to Rose if it makes him happy. Rose persuades Madeline to let Jack pursue a life with her while revealing her own longing for excitement and independence, sensing fate’s strange turn.
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