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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1932
Page
2
The narrator boasts of accurate winter forecasts and predicts continued snowfall in the plains for days ahead. He recalls speaking at a Pampa oil banquet and cites remarks by Ed Stallcup on unemployment and technology, noting a grim economic outlook.
The piece notes financial strain on the Rockefeller family with banks allegedly shutting them off. It mentions Young John D. Rockefeller's plan to build Radio City in New York and claims the family is worried about cash.
The census bureau reports November cotton use at 503 722 bales of lint and 62 325 of linters, up from October figures of 502 244 lint and 57 955 linters and from November last year at 425 228 lint and 53 967 linters.
A reflective poem noting that material wealth and social status fail to alter human values. It argues that honest labor, friendship, and courageous hearts remain core, despite changing prices and gadgets. The piece underscores enduring virtues over worldly riches.
Sidney Franklin America's only bullfighter lies gravely ill with double bronchial pneumonia at his brother Milton Franklin's Brooklyn home. His 101 degree fever and 115 pulse forced the postponement of a theater engagement and a planned trip to Spain.
Samuel Schwartz a 17 year old in New York swallowed a third safety pin in a month. Doctors at Flower Hospital removed the pin lodged just below the Adam's apple after two prior incidents at other hospitals. He offered explanations including eating oatmeal and a potato.
North Amarillo Heights property owner J. Smith appeared before the city commission Tuesday night to protest assessed valuations. He explained he was out of the city when the equalization board met and could not enter a timely protest. Mayor Ross D. Rogers asked Smith to present his protest to Jim Bowen, the assessor-collector.
The British cruiser Danae will arrive in Galveston on January 6 for a four day visit and will sail January 10 for Houston for a week. The visit was announced by Frederick W. Paris, British Consul. Separately New York state school systems were found to pay the highest salaries in the nation in a survey by a national educational association.
Mary Elizabeth Hirsch, daughter of trainer Max Hirsch, applies to the Jockey Club for a license to train and race her own string. If approved she would become the first woman to hold such a certificate in the history of American horse racing.
The piece highlights a woman who supervises a large stable with training gallops and routine care. She can discuss horse fine points and currently has one chestnut filly in her string, hoping to expand and follow her father’s example by keeping a public stable. Her brother is also a trainer.
Hogs at Kansas City steady to lower with top $2.40 for 160 270 lb pigs. Cattle and calves mixed with yearlings up to $6.50 and feeders 3.75 to 5.76. New Orleans cotton opens irregular and slightly weaker before late rally on strong domestic mill demand. Stocks steady with some gains in Allied Chemical Union Pacific American Telephone and oils dull. bonds weak for French and Belgian issues.
In Wheeling West Virginia a hotel bellhop who read detective books nabbed a man wanted by federal authorities. Charles Athey identified Mordical Abraham Weslow 62 from pictures, and postal inspector Frank E. Talbott said Weslow would be taken to Jacksonville Florida to face postal law violation charges. Weslow was described as a notorious confidence man with a prior Atlanta prison term.
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