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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1924
Page
4
Classified notice shows newspaper pricing for daily and Sunday editions from Amarillo Globe Publishing Company. Rates listed include one week one month six months and one year by carrier and by mail for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico with Sunday only and other variants.
Statistics claim one in seven Amarillo marriages ends in divorce. U S rates lag only Japan in divorce, with critics blaming installment living and modern trends. Clergy and judiciary urge recognizing the divorce danger to the home.
The Globe publishes Captain Hamer of the Texas Rangers remarks on enforcing the prohibitory law. He cites San Antonio seizures and the widespread network of bootleggers. The piece argues liquor supply runs from New York to Amarillo and notes rising drunkenness arrests across the U S.
A printed crossword puzzle by Eisner and Leavitt with clues and numbered starting squares. It lists 38 definitions from Cosmetic to Indian tent and guides readers to fill intersecting words of exact lengths.
Puzzle answer list includes 1 Fish 2 Scarcer 3 Epoch 4 Human being 5 Equals 6 Perfume 7 Styfish 10 16 19 21 23 26. Clues yield terms like An, Consumed, Watering place, Internal Spirit, Overcome, Aloft, and others. Several entries point to archaic or misprinted words such as Ameccin, Ameccan, bricklayg, and scaia, suggesting a garbled historical puzzle page with multiple misreads.
Saturday December 13 1924 listed stations WMH Cincinnati WSAT Chicago WLS WGN and others announce evening programs including concerts operatic solos children's stories and orchestras with times from 6 PM to 11 16 PM featuring Willams Skylarks Packard Radio Club and Buganie Dinkins Artists across multiple cities and coast to coast stations in standard and Pacific times with hosts and performer names such as Marie Turner Leaalis Lemar Howard Hafford Judah Heather and Lenin Connors Orchestra skilled ensembles and varied broadcast formats.
The piece argues repeal is unlikely as the eighteenth amendment endures and moral forces oppose change. It warns violations cause social ills, crowded jails, and rising crime, urging thinking citizens to enforce the Volstead Act and view drinking as unpatriotic. It closes with a call to attend The Fair.
McIntyre sketches a midnight New York supper club scene with glum crowds, celebrity chatter, and vivid street life. He notes society figures, theater hits, and press careers, then shifts to a Fort Worth obituary of Fort Worth lawyer O D. O’Dell who once served as corporation counsel.
San Pedro Cal December 12 Naval board resumes hearings on the La Moyne explosion and fire that killed two sailors and injured many officers and men. Lt J E Shaw of USS Arizona recounts waking to blasts and leaping overboard with others to throw life belts to passengers. He describes a second blast engulfing the boat as he clung to a life preserver and a drowning man dragged him under. The missing body may be Joseph A Keck of USS New Mexico.
A Belfast committee aims to raise 5000 dollars to provide city hospitals with radio receiving sets. If successful, the plan will expand to other northern towns as Belfast’s radio station enjoys strong demand and success. General repairs, 113 W. 7th.
The Dimmitt High School vocational agricultural class under M. R. Avery finished truck doors for student transport. The project saves the school about 250 dollars this year while total vocational agriculture costs stay under 500 dollars for the year, boosting community service and value.
Miss Gwendo lin Caswell, 23, who said an airplane ride partly restored her hearing, reported the improvement did not last. The aviator plans a second treatment Sunday with a drop from 8 000 feet to shock the nerves into action after she lost hearing at age three from illness.
President Coolidge met with about twelve Republican senators to rally support for defeating an early move to override the executive veto of the postal employees pay bill.
Peking dispatch reports General Chang Tsao Ling sending 40 000 Manchurian troops to General Lu Yung Hsiang to strike Chi Shieh Yuan in Kiangsu. One brigade has begun moving toward Nanking as part of the expedition.
In Dimmitt on December 12 wild ducks and geese are hunted not for sport but to protect feed and wheat fields. Farmers report significant crop damage with one man noting forty acres of wheat destroyed. Local business leaders join farmers in coordinated effort with Castro residents to curb wild game losses.
An art exchange note praises the balcony work at Misses Taylors Hemstitching for prompt and careful completion.
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