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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1928
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe published evenings except Saturday and Sunday mornings with The Globe-News. editor Gene Howe and general manager Wilbur C. Hawk. Circulation by carrier and mail rates listed.
Hollywood is shifting away from star power as talkies demand real talent and stage experience. The old belief that beauty alone wins fame is ending, replaced by a merit based system. The industry, once ruled by bluff, must now reward ability and hard work across all roles.
A Minnesota obituary tells how William Henry Eustice, crippled at 15 and poverty stricken, earned a million dollars to endow a hospital for crippled children and left 1.5 million to its maintenance. The piece praises optimism through Rev. Clayton S. Brooks whose Ardmore church budget experiment succeeded.
A humorous column discusses parental assumptions about children behind masks of emotion. Helen’s mother recalls imposing rules while Helen shows a detached, sullen mood. The piece hints at underlying loneliness seen by a psychiatrist through Helen’s own eye.
A clipped synopsis notes Dixie Dugan soon to open in Get Your Girl a Jimmy Doyle musical comedy with new backing from Cora Brewster and Jack Milton. It lists evening tab figures Nita Kirk Sunshine and Denny Kerrigan among others, plus a note on a proposed Thames bridge costing 16 250 000.
The piece reflects on the mismatch between outward coldness and inner distress in children. It recounts a mother’s quick anger at a lamp mishap and a child’s later gesture of giving his penny bank, showing that apparent indifference may mask deep sensitivity. Parents should seek underlying feelings through comradely sympathy to truly understand their children.
Investigations aimed at impeachment of Governor Henry Johnston, Agriculture Chief Cordell, and Chief Justice Branson to shape the January session. Probes will cover alleged abuses of power, state funds, and political influence, with broader reviews of highway, election, and state administration.
Honolulu reports show six months of prohibition enforcement cost bootleggers at least 140000 as clashes with dry squads shattered 124 stills worth 49600. Okolehao led seizures with 3762 gallons valued about 35000. Twenty six cars seized, owners losing 11493. 353 arrested, 256 prosecuted for liquor violations.
An independent Hollywood producer seeks to avoid authors royalties by basing films on public domain classics. He boasts of finding a work by Shakespeare yet misidentifies Ten Nights in a Barroom as Twelfth Night, a joke revealing confusion over authors and copyright in early film making.
Buster Bear lurks near a small house where a Bobcat is being held prisoner. He worries about the men who built the house and returns night after night. A man with an ax and gun arrives, spots Buster’s tracks, and vows to shoot the bear for stealing pigs.
Buster Bear hides from a prowler near a small house as a man with an ax and gun waits. The intruder mistakes the situation for a cat, only to discover a bobcat inside. The gunfire scares Buster, who dashes to his new ledge home, wary of a possible trap.
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A 2,500 year old giant redwood near Santa Cruz will be decorated with electric lights for Christmas. The "Giant" stands 306 feet tall with a 66 foot circumference and contains about 425,916 feet of lumber, enough to build thirty five two story houses.
Four men were killed and six injured in a collision between a freight and work train twenty miles east of Carthage Missouri. Officials from Missouri Pacific said they would not assign blame until the investigation concludes. The dead were Lou Campbell 19 of Larussell Robert Ellifret 20 Monett Howard Crevis ton 19 Bowers Mill and Lowell Foster 19 Sarcoxie all from Missouri. Japan produced nearly 15000000 pounds of rayon in the last year.
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