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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1925
Page
4
The notice lists publishing options for Amarillo Globe Publishing Company including daily and Sunday editions. Rates are shown for carrier delivery in Amarillo and state region and by mail for Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico.
A. B. Martin of Plainview, noted attorney, is named to the West Texas State Teachers College board of regents at Canyon. The appointment ends the vacant Mussselman term and brings a resident regent within 400 miles. The Teachers College loan fund, started by the Martins for their son Alan Bailey Martin, supports many students. twelve used it in 1923-24 with no failing grades.
Leo Koretz, the man behind a phantom Panama oil scheme that swindled more than two million from relatives and friends, died in Stateville prison in Illinois where he began a sentence of one to ten years for his crimes. He had diabetes and was airily found in Halifax last December after a yearlong search, with insulin treatments failing.
A listing of multiple stations from WLW to RFI showing concert hours talks sports and youth programs across Cincinnati Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Omaha Portland San Francisco Los Angeles and more scheduled through late evening including orchestras, choruses, and lectures. Notable entries include WLW post dinner concert piano solos WLS midnight review and KGO St Francis Orchestra.
Alamosa camp No. 502 and Poplar Grove circle No. 171 will hold a joint installation at Woodmen hall at 7:30 tonight. F. E. Walker to be consul commander. list includes Upton Jones adviser lieutenant Roy K. McGee banker and many other officers and physicians. Refreshments after initiation.
J K Greer principal of Brownwood Junior High is chosen by West Texas State Teachers College president SJ Till to teach history and civics in Canyon summer normal. Others named include C H Dillehay Hereford superintendent mathematics FE Witt Lubbock high science Frank R Phillips Canyon Teachers College agriculture. Attendance projected near 2000 students in 1925. Mojica sounds like H.
A porter on the Santa Fe Pullman recounts a July incident in which a tall, red faced Amarillo man defends a teen girl from a New York traveling man. The Amarillo traveler confronts the aggressor, ejects him from the car, and protects the girl until relatives meet her in Kansas City. The porter notes Amarillo hospitality and generous tipping.
Washington reports a census showing logs and timber products output in 1923 valued at $1,494,259,231, up 65.6 percent from 1921. The brick tile industry in 1928 produced $331,883,549, up 36.2 percent from 1921. Also notes a Boulder, Colorado home return visit by the TRoup family and Harmon family residence on Lincoln Street.
A column of urban vignette notes on Madison Avenue prices, shop life, and New York characters. Scenes include antique dealers, a piano and a dog book shop, Delicatessens, fashion observations, and a brief curbside tale of paint signs drawing crowds. The piece closes with theater movement and Montforts' travel to Cleburne.
Washington January 9 A senate judiciary subcommittee deferred action on the nomination of Attorney General Stone to replace Associate Justice McKenna on the supreme court after a secret hearing. Several speakers appeared whose identities were not disclosed and chairman Sterling refused to discuss the matter.
Amarillo and Canadian sportsmen led by H W Galbraith and F A Zimpfer plus Ben Tepe and G W Coleman harvested 32 geese near Canadian at dawn. The limit is eight per day and the Panhandle closes next Thursday. Other locals reported geese thick near Canyon and sightings of 2000 in a single flock while Panhandle Hardware urged lawful, fair play and praised the Izaak Walton League.
A clipped crossword puzzle page with clues and word hints. The piece appears as a puzzle note from a titled authority and includes numbered entries such as Outlive and Look hard with various wordplay prompts.
The grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for Texas, Judge M. A. Childers of San Antonio, and two other Klan officials visited Amarillo last night for a meeting with Klansmen from over twenty Panhandle counties. Childers outlined the coming year’s program after recently being elected to the top post, succeeding Z. E. Marvin of Dallas. He was accompanied by FE Rochester editor of the Texas Courier and Lloyd P. Bludworth, grand klad of Texas.
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