The Man the Devil Didn't Want
A World War I memoir tale follows Mark Taylor narrating events leading to twin Luke's life after blindness. Luke marries Rosanne, Luke's wife, and Mark confront a tense household at Courtesy Court with Yrotaval as Luke's caretaker amid looming family strife and unresolved loyalties.
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Mark Taylor
Luke
Paris
French Foreign Legion
Yrotaval
England
Mark
Rosanne
Athene
The Globe News Editorial on War Causes and Conspiracies
The Globe News editorial traces World War I causes to actions by Kaiser Germany and suggests the Third Reich built a military machine and master race ideology. It argues fascist powers pursued conquest through conspiratorial steps, contrasting 1914 with 1940 to claim wars followed without provocation.
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Berlin
Vienna
Germany
Third Reich
Hitler
Nazi Party
Russia
Poland
Mussolini
Italy
France
Indo-China
Britain
Pipe curious cashier boosts cigar counter sales in Amarillo
An anecdotal column recounts a drug store cashier who, by cleaning pipes and offering free pipe sweetening, increases pipe sales and receipts by 200 percent. The tale argues innovation and attentive service win business.
Congress Doorkeeper Sinnott Rejects Brightener Plan
Doorkeeper Sinnott rejected a suggestion to use airs pages as a regular brightener in Congress saying it just wouldn’t work out. The remark signals resistance to the proposed decorative reform amid ongoing discussions on congressional decor.
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Congress
Sinnott
High school failure not end of the road says Dale Carnegie
A letter asks if failing a subject matters in modern life. Col Charles Sweeney, Eagle Squadron organizer, and other notable figures are cited as examples of later success despite early academic slips. Professor Harold F. Clark warns against overvaluing formal education. The piece urges turning failure into motivation to succeed.
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New York
Col
Charles Sweeney
Eagle Squadron
England
London
Washington
West Point
Mexico
Madero
Legion of Honor
Orville Wright
Amadeo Peter Giannini
California
Gene Staley
Decatur, Ll
Homer Cray
Mr. Meek
University of Missouri
Harold F. Clark
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Your Ideas Editor Globe-News
A collection of reader suggestions from Amarillo readers including safer license plates, deputized citizen traffic citations, reduced horn misuse, visible street numbers, a privately run nursery for newcomers, and revolving stairs at Amarillo High School with names and addresses for each contributor.
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Amarillo
Ruth Donaldson
Jackson
Amarillo High School
TODAY'S PUZZLER HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CLUES
A crossword style list of numbered horizontal and vertical clues includes items such as Pictured is an elk, Its solid horns, Altar chest, Chinese laborer, Saucy, Antiquated, Slash, And, Golf term, Neuter pronoun, To shove, Right abbr, To imitate, Swift, Infection, Frozen water, Old-woman is, Tolled, Its meat is called, Upright shi, The reindeer, Perched, Lives in north, Penpoint eras, Northeast abbr, River ducks, Old measure, Insulated, Inlet, Wrath, Neither, It belongs to the family VERTICAL clues include To dibble, To build, Natural color, Clattering, North Carolina abbr, Spinning toy, Abhorring, Otherwise, Part of a stair, To view, To suppress, Dyewood tree, To confide, Mineral spring, Discoursed, Coal pit, Mountain, Plant shoot, Clock face, Strict, Coins collectively, Slane dweller, Encountered, Age, Duct, Insect egg, Slovak, Slam, Ozone, Data, Myself, Taro paste, Advertisement, Railroad.
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Penpoint
Era
Senate Page Boys run through Capitol as Young Aides
A condensed profile notes that 12 to 16 year olds serve as Senate and House pages, chosen by lawmakers, with duties as messengers and desk attendants. Pages study in a Capitol basement school, pay $4 daily while in session, and many later hold notable positions. The 1939 76th Congress featured Gene Cox as a girl page for a day.
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United States
Senate
House
Congressional Record
House of Representatives
Capitol
Congress
Arthur P. Gorman
Maryland
Stanton F. Kalk
Donald H. Mclean
New Jersey
Gene Cox
Edward Eugene Cox
Georgia
U. S. Treasury
Gene
Washington
Market School
The Case of the Missing Husband Revealed by Eisenberg
Daniel M. Eisenberg explains his private missing persons service on CBS noting it has tracked about 165000 cases in 16 years. He cites why wives are rarely traced and details how men flee, often taking family funds, with unique methods to disguise identities.
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Usui
Prophecy of the moon colony heralded by Gray verse
The Christian Science Monitor notes a Latin poem by Gray, translated in the Times, predicting a future colonized moon. It cites British imperial ambition and the RAF with American planes aiding, implying a new air supremacy over Europe if realized.
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Tennyson
Locksley Hall
Thomas Gray
London Times
Gray
RAF
Britain
Fine feathers may spark federal action over illegal hats
Texas readers learn that illegal bird feathers appear in hats sold to men and women. U S Game Management Agent R T Hildebrand accuses East Texas feather merchants of bootlegging. He notes only 14 of Texas 540 bird species may be legally killed and says shops aren’t liable, sellers are. The Fort Worth probe aims to trace feather sources and to urge New York hatmakers to stop buying them. A postscript notes dancing may cause warts on feet.
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R. T. Hildebrand
U. S
Texas
Hildebrand
Fort Worth
New York
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Bill Browns
Paradise
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Theophilus Grant
Renier
Vrotaval
Protagal
Giulia Brent-Grayleigh
Chance
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
I Gene Howe
John McCarty
Anon Gime
the Globe
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GLOBE
Wright
Wright Printing Company of
Dale Carnegie
Globe-News
Sears
Frank A. Davis
Frank
Tyler Street
Milton Grawle
Tennessee Street
Judd B. Kirkham
Fountain Terrace
Dick Vaughn
Sheriffs Office
T. Miller
North Johnson Street
North Carolina
Edwin A. Halsey
U.S. Senate
Click
Daniel M. Eisenberg
Columbia Broadcasting System
Christian Science Monitor
Texas Digest
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