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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1924
Page
7
The report chronicles Rock Island lines personnel shifts and forwards rail life notes in Amarillo Texas. It mentions dining car changes, resignations of W F Kiser, and various station tasks with names like Anton Slaton and L L Bennett. The piece also weaves in Christmas reflections and broader transport industry notes from Albuquerque and El Paso.
Poignant note of departure as a speaker says they are taking the train home after a long absence of twenty years. A letter from mother arrives, filled with tears, bidding farewell to friends and signaling an inevitable separation.
San Francisco industrialist Charles D Arcy is jailed after refusing to pay 300 dollars a month alimony unless his wife obtains a divorce. He told the court he would stay in jail rather than comply, even as he faced eleven months of arrears.
Olathe Kansas December 15 Jesse Woolard an Olathe youth clung to the cowcatcher of the California Limited Santa Fe train and rode several hundred yards to safety after the sedan he rode in was struck mid car. Cranston Lintecum a salesman was tossed aside and suffered a broken leg. The wrecked car lay scattered in small pieces along 200 yards of track.
A Midwest group led by former Illinois governor Frank O. Lowden proposes a $30 million American Agricultural Society Building in Chicago. The complex would include a radio casting tower rivaling the Eiffel Tower Paris a 20 000 seat convention hall and a 3 500 room commercial hotel designed to showcase agricultural progress.
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