The Man the Devil Didn't Want Excerpt
Percival Christopher Wren narrates Mark and Luke Taylor joining the French Foreign Legion at World War outbreak. Luke’s story reveals Yrotaval the Spaniard’s deception, Luke’s blindness sham, and Mark’s disillusionment as family tensions, romance with Rosanne, and Giulia Brent-Grayleigh emerge amid a volatile household dynamic.
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Mark
Luke Taylor
French Foreign Legion
Yrotaval
Luke
England
Rosanne
Courtesy Court
Vrotaval
Foreign Legion
Giulia Brent Grayleigh
Giulia
Contessa Della Mirandola
Cayenne
Lake Rivers Taylor
Globe News Publishing Co. announces editorial policy page
The Globe News, Amarillo, founded February 20 1924, outlines its role as an independent democratic paper publishing news impartially and presenting opinion pieces. It explains how readers should evaluate columnists, and notes consolidation of feature and editorial content on the facing page for easier absorption.
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Amarillo
Texas
Amarilla
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
the Globe
Newsapers
Globe
Native Panhandle Stone Builds WPA Memorials and Parks
Native red sandstone and white limestone from the Panhandle are used by the WPA to create rock memorials and recreational facilities including playgrounds football fields fountains and dormitories. Towns like Clarendon Canyon Estelline Quitaque and others announce rock fences grandstands parks and picnic areas showcasing local stone in civic improvement projects.
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Panhandle
WPA
Clarendon
Canyon
Estelline
Quitaque
FEVER FARMS DECLINE IN FARMERS AND ACREAGE
The United States shows a 3.1 percent drop in farm numbers from 6,288,648 to 6,096,789 over ten years while average holdings rise from 138 to 174 acres. The dust bowl magnifies rural retreat, reducing solid proprietors and stressing the nation’s farm stability. Analysts warn half as many farmers could meet food needs with modern production methods.
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United States
Your Ideas for Amarillo Globe-News Readers
A compilation of reader suggestions from Amarillo residents urging bus rear-name visibility, centralized city offices, safer sidewalk use, blackout nights to spotlight democracy, farm support shifts, North Amarillo area improvements, and calls for women’s jury service, with names and addresses attached.
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Globe-News
Amarillo
O. L. Kuykendall
North
Houston Street
J. M. Willborn
Names in the News Briefly
Five names appeared recently on front pages. The 1940 champion jockey fatally injured in a fall. A Harvard sophomore son of a Hitler associate left school to enlist in the air corps. One of a small power’s strong men who resisted the axis died. A prominent American carried a Roosevelt introduction to a naval figure. An American athlete set a new indoor 60 yard high hurdles world record at Millrose.
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America
Harvard
Adolf Hitler
Air Corps
Roosevelt
Feeding at the Bronx Zoo and the Navy Destroyers Explored
The piece describes ten nickel slot feeding machines at the Bronx Zoo allowing visitors to feed animals including llamas elephants and ducks while stricter diets limit feeding for antelopes and birds. It traces early zoos slot machines and details duck populations at the zoo and the change in feeding patterns. It then shifts to a naval essay on the U S S Delilah and destroyers, praising their size speed and role in war and patrol duties.
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Bronz Zoo
Regent's Park Zoo
London
Bronx
Bronx Zoo
Queens
Chauncey
Goodrich
Gibraltar
Delilah
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Pacific
Honolulu
China Sea
Speaking of hobbies a lively essay on leisure time
This item highlights hobbies as a healthy use of spare time. It features Rosa Lou Jarrell of Woodside Maryland and her jitter jewelry made from colorful spools. It also showcases C A Robbins of Portland Oregon collecting Mexican miniatures and Mrs Jesse J Galloway of Bloomington Indiana with six varied hobbies.
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Rosa Lou Jarrell
Woodside
Rosa Lou
Washington
C. A. Robbins
Portland
Ore
Robbins
Jesse J. Galloway
Bloomington
Ind
Delilah the heroine of a new Marcus Goodrich novel
Life magazine presents Delilah as a slim blue gray sea machine with explosive power. Her body carries venting debris and superheated blood as she speeds to unleash destruction on foes. The fictional sister ship embodies deadly promise and a doomed mission.
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Delilah
Marcus Goodrich
Farrar & Rinehart
U. S. Navy
Pinch of Snuff Shows Stable Industry in 1940 Earnings
The snuff industry remains steady through cycles with 1928 to 1935 consumption near 40 million pounds and 1940 earnings rising modestly. American Snuff Co, George W. Helme Co, and U S Tobacco Co report small sales gains aided by tax refunds, while brand preferences stay fixed.
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American Snuff Co
George W. Helme Co
U. S. Tobacco Co
Helme
U. S
Etiquette Quiz on Family Manners and Social Conduct
Questions test proper social usage with answers emphasizing polite obedience to mother, sharing in hosting, and resisting show of self importance. Best solution advocates active family help in entertaining guests while cautioning against boasting or shirking letters or favors.
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Percival Christopher Wren
Giwia
Angel
Athene
Oxford
Paris
Johnson
Giulia Brent-Grayleigh
Mary
Khyber Pass
Licas
Sir Markham
Kabul
Sir Markham Taylor
Markham Taylor
Lucas
Dolman
Busby
Jellalabad
Dr. Brydon
Tripe
Legion
Belgium
France
A Gene Howe
John McCarty
Telephones, News and Business Department
Circulation Department
Beauty From Native Store
R.M. Rubottom
Pierce Street
National Treasury
Edwin G. Loftis
Fillmore Street
W. P. A. C. W. Welch
Monroe Street
Jackson, van Buren and
Harrison
J. L. Martin
Jackson Street
Edwin H. Shaufler
Hayden St
Winston Churchill
Sono
Talk of the Town
The
New Yorker
Pathfinder
News Weekly
Life
Newsweek
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
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