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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1929
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe notices its founding date February 20 1924 and that it entered second class matter at the Amarillo Texas post office. It prints evenings except Saturdays with Sunday morning edition in connection with the Amarillo News by Globe News Publishing Co. The publisher and editor is Gene Howfe, with Wilbur Hawk as general manager.
Amarillo hosts 500 YMCA and Hi Y leaders for a FUTURE annual conference shaping future governors mayors ministers and business leaders. The piece also highlights progress against tuberculosis, noting a drop in death rates over 25 years and urging Christmas seal donations to continue the fight.
In late March 1924 in Washington an elderly Peruvian ambassador and a British envoy arrived to present credentials to President Coolidge, affecting the future deanship. Sir Esme Howard and Dr Herman Velarde, long service figures, faced retirement by 1930 as successors Sir Ronald Lindsay and Manuel Freyre Santander prepared to take posts and possibly the dean’s seat. Velarde, nicknamed the grand old man of Latin American diplomats, has served 43 years, still learning English, and enjoys car rides near Washington with few perturbations.
An air circus at Parks Airport near St. Louis featured an aerial potato race. Contestants must land after each circuit, pick up a potato, and take off again. The first pilot to collect three potatoes and land is declared winner, identified as Winser.
In Amsterdam on December 6 the first Dutch production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing premiered. The staging marks a milestone as the famed English comedy appears in the Dutch language on stage, reflecting cultural exchange and evolving theater tastes in the city.
Rita teams with Ray to compose a score backed by Pete Anheim for a Broadway revue. Ray hopes to repair his marriage to Barbara while Rita grapples with her growing love for him as their late night work sessions blur boundaries. Barbara and Ray face a tangled future as their separate lives converge in tomorrow's chapter.
A camp director warns that excessive ideals harm children more than too few. Perfectionist youths grow discouraged, blame themselves, and hinder social relations and achievement. Encourage attainable ideals and steady effort so children build good work habits and self satisfaction.
A dozen Santa Fe employees visited Police Judge Homer A Callaway over two days with invitations attached to their cars. The crowds misunderstood the Ninth Avenue parking ordinance between Polk and Tyler Streets and parking in parallel spots. Judge Callaway dismissed all charges.
Paris reports the Leviathan of the American fleet carried the most Atlantic passengers in the tourist season from mid June to mid October with 15,282 embarked at Cherbourg and 36,076 bags of mail. The Majestic ranked second with 11,644 passengers and 25,201 mail bags while the Berengaria was third with 10,415 passengers and 24,012 bags.
New York columnist 0 C McIntyre catalogs high end fashion thieves and chic observers. He describes style swipers as typically young art students who copy designs from Fifth Avenue shows then reproduce them cheaply. a daughter from an impoverished aristocratic family leads the copyist group earning around twenty thousand dollars a year. He notes fashion crowds, hotel lounges, and shop windows as backdrops to the phenomenon.
STOCKHOLM December 6 An auto mobile using ordinary fire wood for fuel instead of gasoline was tested by the Swedish army with satisfactory results. A two and a half ton Scania Vabis truck powered by a new gas generator built by Widegren brothers covered 143 miles using about 298 pounds of wood, versus 13 gallons of gasoline for the same distance. The run averaged 20 12 miles per hour, taking seven hours at about 75 cents cost, compared with over four dollars for the same distance in gasoline. The generator aims to allow fuel from wood to be obtained anywhere in Sweden and will also be used on mail and passenger buses from the same maker. The oldest college building at Oklahoma A and M, Old Central, is to be rebuilt.
In this Burgess bedtime tale Reddy Fox and Mrs Reddy spy on a farm from behind a barn. They bide their time as daylight reveals the farmer and a hound. They plan a patient grab when the turkeys wander near the old orchard, hoping to outwit the dog and steal a meal.
The 1050 annual Texas Health Officers and Sanitarians Association meeting will be in Amarillo. Mayor Ernest C. Thompson Dr H H Larson and Jack Wyatt represented Edinburg. Houston Fort Worth and San Angelo competed to host next year. The three day meeting will draw over 100 officials from state and national health services. Wyatt second vice president spoke on sterilization of the dairy.
In Waseca Minnesota a double wedding from 50 years ago was celebrated as a golden anniversary for two couples Mr and Mrs B M Gallagher and Mr and Mrs Richard Conway who have spent all their married years in the community Also in Texas J B Lee 92 retires after 44 years as district clerk of Walker county
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