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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1933
Page
2
A local Texas newspaper column blends weather forecasts with community tales from Amarillo. The writer notes coming cold, mentions stew kitchens run with donations, jokes about politicians, and shares anecdotes about letters, prizes, and local characters.
Panhandle director Hal Worth arrives in Amarillo to stage a modernistic pageant for the March Fat Stock Show at Municipal Auditorium. The set features rainbow silver tones, a sun backdrop, silver arch with a Texas lone star, rainbow drops, starry floors, a harmonized runway for princesses, and lighting to emphasize a Southwest standout. Queen’s train is en route from New York. Tickets at the door March 6 cost 1 dollar. Talent is being drawn from 20 Panhandle cities.
Wilmington February report describes police and locals showing sympathy for a group of boys who swam nude in the Christiana River. Officers arrived as the youths fled in varying states of undress, in near freezing conditions of about 20 degrees above zero.
Funeral services were held Monday morning at Griggs chapel for Elizabeth Lovett infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Lovett of 319 North Tyler Street. Interment followed at Llano Cemetery. The child died Saturday.
A brief poem praising steadfast women who endure hardship with grace while men fret over loss. The piece highlights Mrs Blake Mrs Brown and Mrs Black as dignified figures who bear misfortune without complaint, contrasting male anxiety with female resilience. Copyright 1933.
Amarillo Salvation Army marks 14 years of service with the opening of a church assembly hall at 508 Van Buren Street. The Young People's Corps will hold daily revival meetings and Soldiers' revival services for adults begin next Sunday lasting 10 days.
Cuban pianist Jose Echaniz, a rising soloist once an accompanist for famed artists, will appear Monday night at the Amarillo High School Auditorium under the Panhandle Civic Music Association. Admission is limited to Civic Music Association members, and the concert starts at 8 15 p m.
Leon L. Waters of the Field Museum perfected a synthetic method mounting woolly orangutans using celluloid with embedded original hair, eliminating tanning. The life like specimens appear so real they invite feeding peanuts.
Funeral services were held in Austin for David H. Harrell 72 former University of Texas regent and noted local businessman. Harrell served as a World War I era special agent in Spain and France for Woodrow Wilson and later worked as a special Agriculture Department agent in South America in 1919 and 1920. He died yesterday in Austin.
Beaumont offices sought today to learn the name of a young man who shot himself to death in a hotel room and had meticulously destroyed all clues to his identity. Authorities investigated the death, describing the man as attractive and unknown, with no immediate leads about his origins or motives.
Kansas City hogs and cattle markets feature 4 000 hogs with top 3.25 and cattle listings across weight bands. New Orleans cotton opens steady with early losses followed by brief rally as shorts cover and contracts stay scarce.
The New York Stock Letter notes a cautious market after early selling with slight recovery in some shares. A firmer wheat tone aided sentiment, GM rose on expected dividend, and several issues regained fractional losses. U S Steel held steady while Bethlehem eased and other leaders like Woolworth and Goodyear fell.
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