Consolidation idea for rail cars and wartime potato debate
Davies Warfield proposes a central agency to manage box cars to boost railroad profits and public freight service through consolidation. He cites 1,100,000 cars and warns of inefficiency from empty moves. Also discusses potato import limits, Britain’s empire, crime cases, and public policy musings.
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Davies Warfield
W National Association of Railroad Securities
Warfield
Bitain
United States
Canada
Hughes
Great Britain
British Empire
New Year Opens With Cold Wave Across Plains States
A blizzard of snow blankets western Kansas and nearby areas as temperatures plunge. Goodland reports six inches with Hutchinson and Dodge City around three inches. Wichita sees four inches. Dallas records 40 at midnight dropping to 27 by morning as Texas endures a fourth wave of winter cold.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Goodland
Kane
Kansas Hills
Weather Bureau
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Concordia
Wichita
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Arkansas
Missouri
East Texas
Rio Grande Valley
West Veras
Louisiana
Dallas
Texas
Panhandle
Hutchings Named New Secretary of State in Texas
Austin report says General Nary Hutchings is appointed Secretary of State after Jeff J. Strickland resigns. Governor Neff announced the move on January 11, detailing the transition and its immediate impact on state offices.
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Nry Hutchings
Secretary OF
Austin
Tex
Genera Nary Hutchings
Neff Last Yirt
Jeff J. Strickland
League of Nations review shows progress amid challenges
Geneva January 1 The official year end review says the league has passed the point where failure to solve any issue endangers it and has become a fixed part of international life. It notes the need for time to achieve universal membership arbitration security and arms reduction and highlights American participation in preparations for the May arms traffic conference.
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Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations
League
Washington
Norman H. Davis
Henry Morgenthau
Hungary
Jeremiah Smith
Boston
Year 1924 Shows Dry Enforcement Victories in the U S
Washington reports year 1924 brought major prohibition gains with statements from Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti Saloon League general counsel. Prohibition linked to lower death rates fewer accidents less drunkenness crime and poverty, and business experts credit prosperity to savings growth in home buying and retail trade.
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Washington
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
New Year Fetes In Amarillo Go On Quietly
Amarillo welcomed 1921 with orderly celebrations across the city. Midnight matinees at local theaters drew hundreds, watch parties and dances drew crowds, and hotel affairs including the Tolzien Farwell orchestra and Khiva Shriners events. Police report only two speeding and two vagrancy charges, noting no disturbances.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Hotel
Tolzien- Farwell
Ralo Duro
Khiva Shriners
Polly Garden
Night Owls
Magy Club
Panhandle
Wage earner better off in spite of industrial decline
New York reports 1924 review by the National Industrial Conference Board finds wages have doubled since 1914 while living costs rose less than two thirds. Yet 1924 showed industrial decline due to overproduction at home and weak export demand and a still downward cyclical trend until deflation ends.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Sonia
Child Labor Abolition Declared Task of New Year
William Greer president of the American Federation of Labor appeals to citizens to back ratification by states of the child labor constitutional amendment. Weather bureau issues no report today.
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Washington
William Greer
American Federation of Labor
Weather Bureau
Din Rather Than Gin Highlights New Year Festivities
Across Chicago New Year celebrations drew crowds to hotels cabarets and private houses as four fatal shootings were reported in the city four people died from stray bullets in New York City crowding the streets and police patrolled late into the night Berlin Berliners feasted on Berliner pfannkuchen while cafes closed early Paris saw quiet observances with Midnight masses and urban revelry American services and Catholic churches reported heavy attendance in New York and San Francisco observers noted restrained prohibition enforcement amid widespread celebration
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Chicago
Loop
Prohibition
New York
Financial District
Oin Trinity
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Berlin
Associated Press
Paris
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Our Lady of Victoria
Bonus Certificates Prepare Amendments Mailed
Washington announce 600000 adjusted service certificates valued at 750000000 were mailed at midnight to veterans. 30000 checks of 50 dollars or less for short service will be mailed March 1. Senate subcommittee plans amendments to the postal pay and rate bill to rebalance rates and support a veto plan.
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Washington
Congress
Hines
Moser
Senate Postoffice Sub-Committee
Postoffice Department
Senate
House
Coolidge
Thasday
Outburst of Killings Reported in Maryland
Baltimore January 1 Samuel Gresser 30 was shot and killed in his grocery by an unidentified man who fled. Minutes earlier two women Ped Pantiné Woodiser 43 and Dantha Sehott 44 were killed at Escex Heirhold Windiseh 4 years old husband of Windfarh is jailed charged with killing the women.
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Baltimore
Samuel Gresser
Escex
Pantiné Woodiser
Dantha Sehott
Heirhold Windiseh
Three Men Die in Vasper Coal Mine Explosion
Vasper Tenn Jan 1 The charcoal red bodies of three men were recovered last night from the Vasper coal mine after an explosion late yesterday Foreman Charles Wood pumpman Tom Sims and Clayton Miller all were married The spark from a telephone battery is believed to have caused the blast.
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Vasper
Tenn
Charles Wood
Tom Sims
Clayton Miller
Famous For Food Amarillo Ho 4 The Panhandle's Meeting Place
A fragment from the Panhandle region highlights a central hub dubbed a meeting place known for food. The note suggests local prominence and community gathering role.
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Amarillo Ho
The
Panhandle
Panhandle Inn Opens in Panhandle Gala Celebration
More than 500 people attended the Panhandle Inn opening with 243 in the banquet. Judge Albery A. Callaghan presided as Judge J C Paul praised Col Ernest Thompson and the builders. Col Thompson pledged the hotel as Panhandle’s meeting place, as dancing followed into the night. The inn, costing 65000, offers 42 rooms and modern facilities.
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Globe Panhandle
Panhandle Inn
Panhandle
Albery A. Callaghan
J. C. Paul
Panhan
Ernest Thompson
Ernest O. Thopson
Amarillo
Oklahoma Lineman Wins Vail Gold Medal for Heroic Rescue
St Louis January 1. After reviewing hundreds of daring acts by telephone company workers nationwide the American Telephone and Telegraph company awards C. E. Rider of Gautier Oklahoma the Vail gold medal for 1924. Rider a lineman rowed a boat against a strong current through blazing gasoline on the Cimarron river to restore broken wires.
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St. Louis
National Committee
American Telephone and Telegraph Company of
New York
C. E. Rider
Gauturie
Okla
Vail
Southwestern Telephone Company
Cimarron River
Injunction Hearing Set Over Rail Tax Fight in Amarillo
A United States district court in Amarillo will hear tomorrow at 10 a.m. a petition for a temporary injunction to restrain the city from collecting Rock Island railroad taxes. Judge James Wilson is due from Fort Worth tonight. Counsel for the railroad are Stone and Galerie. city attorneys are Underwood and Johnson.
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Amarillo
Rock Island Railroad
United States District Court
James ©. Wilson
Fort Worth
Stone and Galerie
Underwood and Johnson
St Paul Ball Club Sold in American Association
St Louis residents Robert Conner and Lee L Daly became new owners of the St Paul club of the American Association. John W Norton, longtime Saints president, completed negotiations for the sale. Purchase price was not disclosed publicly but unofficially estimated between 175000 and 200000, said to be the highest sum paid for an operable team in the league.
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iBy
Associated Press
St. Paul
Robert Conner
Lee L. Daly
St. Louis
Pew
St. Paul Club
American Association
Saints
Connery
Daly
John W. Norton
1924 Banner Year for Education Progress
Washington reports 1924 as the banner year in education with enrollment of 25,000,000 pupils and an average daily attendance of 10,700,000. John J. Tigert notes extensive city building programs and a shift to work study play platoon school organization in 79 cities across 28 states. Rural gains include 1,000 school consolidations eliminating about 3,000 one room schools and longer terms.
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Washington
John J. Tigert
Government party 10 80 thousand legal actions
Washington reports 1924 saw about ten thousand government civil actions disposed of with fines and penalties exceeding 12 million dollars. Attorney General Stone cites focus on cases against trade associations and enforcement of anti trust laws on restraints and monopolies from pooling competitive patents.
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Washington
Stone
Department of Justice
Housing shortage on decrease, survey finds
Chicago Jan 1 A National Association of Real Estate Boards survey from 25 percent of U S and Canadian cities shows a continuing decrease in the national building shortage. Shortage in single family dwellings remains high with 49 percent of cities reporting. Evidence of over building appears in 27 of 258 cities.
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Chicago
National Association of Real Estate Boards
United States
Canda
Memphis Seeks Eighty Thousand Lost in Rondout Mail Robbery
Post office inspectors in Memphis revealed progress in tracing securities stolen in the $2,000,000 Rondout, Ill, mail robbery last June. They plan to return to Little Rock after recovering $21,000 in Liberty bonds, detaining Helen McNeill and Mrs Ellen Holliday in Memphis. The bonds and money are linked to Herbert Holliday, already sentenced, with potential prosecutions for his accomplices and a larger network tied to the Rondout loot.
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Memphis
Tenn
Little Rock
Arkansas
Helen McNeill
Ellen Holliday
Herbert Holliday
Holliday
Kansas City
Rotary club votes to split district and seek 1926 convention
Amarillo Rotary members approve dividing the Thirteenth International Rotary district by eleven to one and, by six to one, back the fight for the 1926 district convention. The luncheon at the Amarillo hotel noon program on friendship featured T. B. Gallaher Ross Phillips and Rev. Virgil Fisher with Mr. Phillips' speech read by Dr. Richard Keys.
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Amarillo
Globe Starts New Year Right Gets New Office Space
The Globe enlarges its office space by adding a city room across from the current suite in The Globe building. Two smaller offices join the space with staff assigned to specific rooms. move reflects rising business and signals further expansion in 1925.
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Globe
The
City
Tne
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