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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1928
Page
5
Exasperated by autocratic West End stylists and high charges, prominent London society women turn to suburban salons where services cost far less and sometimes last longer. A tasting note on tipping prompts many to trim at home, then visit shops for a final style.
A French colony of about 300 people settles in Stoke on Trent as a Michelin tire factory rises. They dislike English weather and pubs, face language barriers, and seek amusement via French books and cinema while awaiting full operation. The piece notes Edinburgh’s ice cream parlors and Stevenson manuscript sale unrelated to the main story.
The piece profiles D. Merritt’s claimed nonstop 60 million mile flight to Venus in his own invention as skeptics doubt the feasibility. It notes a lighthearted tone and calls for belief in science while detailing other Santa Fe personnel movements and office visits around Amarillo and nearby towns. PMID
An advertisement from Port Arthur Texas touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a reliable health booster for women. It claims the remedy helps run down health and urges readers to obtain it from local druggists in liquid or tablet form and to request free advice from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo New York. A trial package costs 10 cents.
Plants on the Plains division of the Santa Fe will move soon to Winslow Arizona to install similar plants on the Coast lines double track. Grady Stegall has recovered from appendicitis in the Clovis hospital and returns to Amarillo. J W Dunlap resumes duties after holidays in Kansas City. M G Palmer returns to Newton Kansas. The Denver division nears completion of 80 pound rail work into Texline. Amarillo yard work finishes with 95 track laborers suspended but likely to be recalled. The smelter shows rising business with about 100 cars daily moved by Denver yard engines. Raymond Foster in Tulsa and F J Mackie comment on seasonal freight tonnage dips after holidays. A Grand Canyon Grand Canyon to Bright Anyon Point letter travels 1647 miles by rail and auto. Texas & Pacific contracts with General Railway Signal for electric car retarder at Trem
Des Moines historians note the Rock Island station sits on ground once traded for a $2 clock now valued at a quarter million dollars. The piece also mentions a Fort Worth yard project with 81 switch machines and related equipment. A Mexico native dance begins with fiddles and ends as pistols appear. Sixty thousand freight cars will haul Colorado sugar beet crop and byproducts to factories.
A toy balloon traveled 118 miles from Birkenhead to Paul England and won this year’s balloon race at the Birkenhead School Elizabethan Fair.
Amarillo physicians will gather at the Harvey House for the Potter County Medical Society annual banquet lasting two to three hours. Entertainment includes vaudeville acts by troupe members now playing at the DeAndi theater. The Rev F W O Malley, pastor of
The First Christian Church will host the evening with Dr. R. A. Puncan as president of the society. Dr. Jason Robberson serves as secretary and Dr. H. H. Larson chairs the entertainment committee.
Fire swept Casein Hall, the main building of the Tulsa day school for Catholic youth, causing about $175,000 in damages. Thousands of spectators watched as flames consumed the structure late at night.
A three story building burned in bitter cold as firefighters' efforts proved unsuccessful. Cause of the blaze remained undetermined.
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