Amarillo Globe News Masthead and pricing notice 1927
A reproduction of the Amarillo Globe News front matter from February 16 1927 shows publication details. It lists editors Gene Howe and Wilbur G. Hawk, notes Associated Press affiliation, and subscription rates for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico with weekly and monthly prices.
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Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo de News
Globe-News Publishing Co. 6Th
Ilimore
Associated Press
Community Chest Drives Amarillo Charity Forward
The Globe reports Amarillo uses a community chest to fund charity through a centralized committee, reducing individual investigative tasks. The plan, growing in many cities, costs the city under one dollar per person with a $9,500 shortfall to complete the fund, and residents are urged to contribute this week.
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Ministerial Alliance
Chamber of Commerce
Amarilbang
Community Chest
Anna Taylor
Amarillo
What Price Drudgery by Olive Roberts Barton
In a curmudgeonly essay, Olive Roberts Barton defends busybodies known as Mrs Carters who tirelessly serve clubs and charities. She argues workers bear the burden while drones attack, urging readers to value genuine effort over petty judgment.
We Can't Eat as Our Ancestors Did
A London incident where a man died trying to eat a meal too large leads to comparisons of modern menus with historical feasts. The piece notes ancestors had far greater dining capacity, citing old pies and feasts as examples, and laments the shift to simple modern lunches.
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London
Rabelais
Resentful Cape Cod Rescuer Meets Rose Abbott
A Harvard football captain, newly minted Boston real estate helper, returns to Hydeport and encounters Rose Abbott after three years apart. Her condescending warmth exposes his unchanged vanity and flawed plans, ending with a rueful realization that he misread fate and her feelings.
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Boston
Rose Abbott
Rose
Hydeport
Abbotts
William Alden
Harvard
Yale
Chauffeur Job Shakes Up Hydeport Romance
In Hydeport the narrator accepts a chauffeaur position offered by Rose Abbott's father, despite fears of humiliation. He contemplates dropping the one sided romance, recalls past fame, and imagines daily contact with Rose while hiding his Harvard football past as he awaits the first driving shift.
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Rose Abbott
The
Crimson
Harvard Thunderbolt
Grand Banks
Hydeport
Seth Chadwick
Sam Nickerson
Bill
Seth
Sam
Mr. Abbott
North Point
Abbott
New York
Rose
William Alden
Harvard
Chadwick
Tobacco does not hurt men says Dr Mason Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein summarizes tobacco effects noting nicotine levels vary and that smoking shows mixed effects on mental tasks while workers in battle industry are little affected. He argues tobacco is not addictive like morphine or cocaine and can be soothing under stress.
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Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Hygeia
Health Magazine
W. E. Dixon
Department of Pharmacology
Oxford
Cambridge
Dixon
Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones
Fragmented reminiscence and ad copy in a 1920s style
Excerpt shows a reflective narrative about a mistress and past behavior, followed by an advertising block touting Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as especially suited for elderly people. The ad claims no chloroform or opiates, mild laxative effect, soothing cough relief, and lists Johnston's Drug Stores and Polk Street Cafe as locations.
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Foley
Johnston
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Amarillo Globe
Gene Howe
Wilbur GC. Hawk
BY Mail
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Olive Roberts Barton
Mrs. Carters
Isa
Cruise
George Washington
Washington
West Point
Benedict Arnold
Mrs. Arnold
Arnold
Cornwallis
South Carolina
Greene
Virginia
Lafayette
W. E. Woodward
Yorktown
Rochambeau
Manhattan
Blackburn Building
Wolcott
Polk Street
J. F. Bromert
D. C
Texas Court House
Palmer
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