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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1928
Page
6
The Amarillo Globe announces its publishing details and staff with address at 6th and Fillmore Amarillo Texas and declares itself an independent democratic newspaper. It notes news from the Associated Press and outlines subscription rates for local and mail editions.
An elderly widow who lived alone for four decades after a brief three year marriage dies in New York leaving 14 thousand dollars. Officials find letters and keepsakes. a landlady recalls the widow shared her table with her dead husband. The piece meditates on enduring companionship and the nature of happiness beyond death.
A compact historical analysis contrasts Joseph Stalin’s grip on power with Leon Trotzky’s falling influence. It notes Trotzky’s expulsion from the Communist party and hints at assassination rumors, while asserting Stalin’s steady, iron-handed leadership, and questions whether opposition could restore democracy.
Congress shows growing selectivity over who can enter the country, mirroring tight controls familiar in nightlife guest lists. lawmakers debate criteria and enforcement, signaling stricter policy direction amid partisan divides.
Illustration credits list J Norman Lynd as both author and illustrator for a feature. The piece reflects Lynd's signature style and visual approach. The note confirms continued collaboration with Lynd handling both text and art duties.
Stephanie confronts Ralph and Rod as she faces guilt for bootlegging knowing the truth about the source. She urges Ralph to stay, offers marriage, and plans a future life together while Platt and Rita plot to salvage their own fortunes at Fairfield.
A humorous column recounts social curiosities in New York including encounters with W. R. Hearst and Hewitt Howland, insights on Broadway culture, gossip about Bohemian lifestyles, and a tale of an honest taxi driver returning a lost jewel case.
Reddy Fox plots to learn when Jerry Muskrat visits the spring-hole by provoking Sammy Jay. He fakes exercise to attract attention, hoping to learn who watches the area while avoiding suspicion. Sammy explains Jerry Muskrat emerges each morning from under the ice to sit on the bank.
A humorous sketch by Bert Swor based on real life incidents from the South features a blackface monologue about a jealous suitor at a Texas house. The intruder contemplates escaping via a back window as a dog in the yard barks and the hostess jokes about the back yard being toed with dawgs.
The case of Alma Petty Gatlin, 19, charged with first degree murder in the axe murder of her father Smith T. Petty, will open February 13 at Wentworth. Rev. Thomas Pardue testified as principal witness while Gatlin awaits trial in a bare cell, hoping for acquittal or the electric chair.
Dr. George Barger, biochemist from the University of Edinburgh, will visit Cornell University in March to deliver the George Fisher Baker resident lectureship. He helped develop synthetic thyroxin, an imitation of thyroid secretion, using coal tar and iodine.
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