Diary of a Broadway Day and Morals in New York
The diary recounts a February day in New York with stops at Riverside Drive and Broadway including a breakfast dispute, a visit to a post office substation, and social rounds with Ray Long and Frazier Hunt. It contrasts polite manners with harsh city lives, describing a Broadway girl type marked by cynicism and fleeting glamour amid a backdrop of nightlife and vanishing traces.
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New York
Jern Pepys
72Nd Street
Riverside Drive
Broadway
Ray Long
Frazier Hunt
Gil Patten
Frank Merriwell
Ecaily
Ely
Eddie
Joe
Derbys, debutantes, and a hotel tale from 1927
A London inspired derby fashion joke circulates while tales unfold of debonair guests in a hotel, flirtations with debutantes, and indulgent charges from hairdressers to florists. A Arkansas visitor seeks a floor-adjacent room amid theatrical plans as light gossip and lavish expenses fill the night.
Texas Overnight News Roundup with Local Incidents
AP brief highlights Fort Worth society death of Catherine Gwynne from theater incident. Henriet ta Willis decapitated by freight train at 19. Galveston invites Dan Moody to festival as grand duchess of Texas. Hillsboro safe robbery at Pennington Jewelry yields 10000 in gems cash. Various quotes from local figures on oil stocks, rail freight, and Humble development with plans for a football game in October.
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Galveston
Dan Moody
Grand Duchess of
Texas
Half Minute Interviews on Independent Baseball Interest
C. J. Gibson predicts higher attendance for independent baseball this year due to growing interest sparked by the Western league. Overheard on the street is a remark about Amarillo’s newcomers observing the scene.
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Gibson
Amarillo
Embezzlers Sentence Bill Moves Through Texas House
The Texas House committee on banks and banking favorably reported a bill to cut the minimum embezzlement sentence from five to two years. It was one of twenty measures under a banking reform program, with two exceptions. The move aims to ease convictions while the emergency clause cites current hard minimums as a hurdle.
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Associated Pree
Austin
House Committee On Banks and Banking
Texas
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McIntyre
Chorine
London
Arkansas
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Rupert
Loreleis
Hollywood
Chicago
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Louisiana Iron & Supply CO
Shreveport, la
Texas News
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Catherine Gwynne
Henrietta
Bueter Willis
Hillsboro
Pennington Jewelry Company
Colorado
Orville Dutton
B. Davis
Rock Island Line
R. P. Parcells
American Legion
Clarendon
Lubbock Tech
Humble
Moore County
Moon Mullins
Emmy
DR. Caldwell
N.S. Griggs & Sons
Cadillac and Packard Ambulance Service
Fillmore
G. C. Bruce
Hot Springs
Ark
Blackburn
Theam
Miss Schmaltz
MR. Percyfield
SWELL
BOM
Scamaltz
Chicago Totan
Fuk Wercise
WEA Service, Inc
Meg
Pat Off
Boots
Wiyakucune
Opal
By Martin
Washington
Pigat
Banks
Grove’s
F. Q. Kelleam
D. B. Boone
Frank E. Buckingham
Amarillo Jldg
COE & Parks Lumber Company
Lincoln Sta
Amarillo Rubber Stamp Company
Amarillo, Toas
Notary and Corporation
West Fourth St
North Fillmore
Grey Eyne NA Prompt. Pt. Service
Tam Orci
Yenth
Lincoln
Duke Drug CO
News-Globe
H. H. Larson
T. B. Jones
Ray Bynum Bldg
Oliver-Earle
C. D. Hess
Blackburn Bldg
J. M. Johnson
Oliver-Eakle
Bristow Hotel
West 7Th
Sondy Highlands
Country Farm
James A. Bush
East Fifth St
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