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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1928
Page
12
Hollywood report notes University of Southern California opens a four year film tech program with a museum housing historic materials, art, and relics for cinematography study. The piece lists curios from shoe buckles to Persian mills and mentions other Hollywood museums and new talkie plans.
In Pittsburgh a half million dollar shrine to Stephen Collins Foster will be built in the university district near the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology. The project sponsored by the Tuesday Musical club aims to fund through a Pennsylvania and national campaign with a strong drive in Pittsburgh and Allegheny county. The memorial will include an auditorium for 1,000, a stage for 100, rehearsal hall and dressing rooms in initial plans.
Art treasures of the church in Moulins diocese are placed under a committee of eminent churchmen and lay artists. The committee will supervise repairs and transformations affecting art pieces and even approve church building changes. The Bishop forbids priests to modify churches without committee consent.
An Asheville report notes a regional earthquake warming the mountain springs in western North Carolina near the Great Smoky area. Water temperatures jumped from cold to near boiling after the quake, affecting nearly all nearby springs and delighting visitors.
Paris reports new French general uniforms designed to minimize apparent size. Horizon blue coats are replaced to give a slimmer silhouette, aiming to reduce the look of weight among officers.
The debate centers on how 240 generals serve as models for lieutenants and advertise the army while highlighting two major concerns: cost and appearance of uniforms.
Berlin on December 25 reports the ministry of health and welfare will award a Prussian porcelain cup and saucer, named mother’s cup, to German mothers who bear a twelfth child. Over 150 cups await the first dozen in productive homes as 1927 saw only eighty twelfth births.
More than a million Christmas trees were cut in the Maine Central railroad territory as reported today. The railroad moved 729 cars of timber in the period referenced.
The piece notes 15 percent of cars carried timber from other roads with shipments extending to Florida Illinois Missouri Michigan and Wisconsin. It states most cut trees are young open grown stock unlikely to become good timber.
In Paris vegetable jam fills the fruit shortage. Carrots pumpkins and tomatoes are used to make jam for children. Pure food rules in Paris are loose and authorities note the low priced jam market is supplied from track gardens.
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