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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1927
Page
5
Charley Fisk, president of the Texas Bankers Association, is back home after ten days of banker meetings in several down state cities. He says he has not decided about a mayoral run and notes Amarillo's interest while predicting 1927 will be a banner year. He answers questions about weather and public issues as he resumes daily life.
Police rush to an apartment as a telephone call reports noises from a leaking still. Two policemen and an ambulance arrive while three dogs are found lapping up liquor, described as booze hounds guarding the scene.
Proceedings define actions from the Seventh District in Amarillo with motions granted or overruled, reversals and remands, and submissions set for March 16 1927. Cases involve Atkins vs Davis Wells Cavit Stephens vs Stephens Jones vs Bledsoe Christian vs Parm er, Mercantile Bank vs Schuhart Humphreys vs Young Gates vs Pitts Mayfield vs Garrett and others from multiple Texas counties including Dallam Parmer Potter Motley Briscoe Wichita and more.
Nurse Ellen J Buckland notes millions discard old pads for Kotex a modern hygienic option. It is highly absorbent and deodorizes reducing embarrassment with no laundry. Doctors and nurses endorse it with many women using Kotex bought at stores by asking for the genuine Kotex.
The Associated Press reports that Chief Justice William Howard Taft has brought a light mood to the Supreme Court. His cheerful humor and patient admonitions have calmed loud attorneys and eased the formal tension once typical in the high court.
Voiture Locale 689 La Societe des Quarante Homes et Muit Chexaux will meet Thursday at 7:30 p m at the American Legion Home in the north wing of the city auditorium. The called meeting will transact business and discuss spring parade plans due to postponements. All visiting voyageurs and those who moved to Amarillo urged to attend. A feed will be provided.
British Museum and University of Pennsylvania excavations at Ur unearthed a complete ivory toilet set with a lotus mirror handle, powder box, sphinx paint pot, and a finest Phoenician style comb. A 8000 B C cemetery yielded abundant gold and silver diadems, rings, beads, and long lapis pins, plus a gold bull bead and other intricate artifacts. The Spanish government to spend over 2 million dollars on the Huelva Ayamonte railroad construction.
Yale endowment campaign gains momentum with $6,000,000 pledged by 300 graduates two months ahead of the drive. President James Rowland Angell announced the total at the annual alumni exercises, with each donor averaging about $20,000.
Vernie Moon, 21, of Indianapolis, a blond sailor from the U S Wyoming, wed the 46 year old widow Mrs Mary Kavanaugh after her first husband left a six figure fortune on his death four months ago. Moon now travels with a new car and a two year old stepson while questions linger about his navy status.
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