Fifty Years of The Daily News and Other Musings
A reflective column marks Chicago Daily News fiftieth anniversary praising Victor Lawson and Melville Stone. It recalls rival Chicago American prices, notable figures like Bok and Washington, births in taxicabs, and a mix of political and social curiosities, including shipbuilding and Prohibition debates.
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Star
Chicago Daily News
Victor Lawson
Melville Stone
Chicago American
Daily News
U S Protest Sharp Over Mexican Land and Oil Law
Washington delivered a formal note to Mexico sharply protesting retroactive and confiscatory features of new alien land and petroleum laws. Ambassador Sheffield presented protests last week, strengthened by the latest note demanding a presidential decree to curb objectionable provisions. The dispute centers on foreign ownership limits and rights under Mexican law and the Payne-Warren accord.
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United Press
Washington
United States
Mexico
Mexican Foreign Office
State Department
Sheffield
Plutarco Elias Calles
Coolidge
Kellogg
Mexico City
Hague International Tribunal
Wilcox Company expands to 32 Gray County locations
Special to The Cnhey Pampa from Jan 9 reports Wilcox holdings add 32 new sites on Gray County sections 52 60 61 and 62 with rigs shipped to drill three wells per location until all sites have wells. Other operators announce new locations and oil activity rises statewide.
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Wilcox
Gray County
Teachers association fixes 1926 meeting site
The executive committee of the State Teachers association chose Paso as the 1926 meeting place. Re-elected officers include R. T. Ellis as secretary treasurer Ray Camp as publicity director and M. H. Moore as a member of the permanent fund committee.
Weather Forecast Summary
Today will be fair with mild conditions. Yesterday’s high reached 42 degrees and low fell to 26. A year ago yesterday temperatures were 38 and 16 degrees respectively.
King of Osage Hills and Farmer Charged In Osage Murders
Federal grand jury indicts W. K. Hale known as King of the Osage Hills and John Ramsey of Fairfax for murder in the Osage killings tied to government property on the Roan case. Fifty three other indictments were returned as part of the Osage reign of terror probe.
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United Press
Guthrie
Okla
W. K
Bill) Hale
Osage Hills
John Ramsey
Fairfax
Henry Roan
Roan Horse
Grand Jury
Hale
Ramsey
Roan
Rose Little Star
Ernest Burcardt
W. E. Smith
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Seventeen Die As Eastern Storm Menaces Ports
United Press reports a colossal eastern blizzard causing seventeen deaths across cities from New England to Alabama. Snow totals reach 2 to 18 inches with crews and ships in distress off the Atlantic coast while temperatures plunge from Minnesota to the South.
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United Press
New York
New England
Alabama
Michigan
New York City
Newport
Warren
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Albany
Charleston
West Virginia
Boston
Massachusetts
Steubenville
Ohio
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Kansas City
Detroit
Atlanti
Hares Hooper
St. Paul
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Florida
Pensacola
Jacksonville
Tampa
Miami
Key West
Girl 16 Hurt in Car Crash Near Fifth and Johnson
Miss May Adkins, 16, was seriously injured when a car she rode in collided with a second vehicle driven by Jess Fowlkes. She was thrown through a windshield, sustaining a skull fracture. Taken to Northwest Texas Hospital, her condition remained unchanged. doctors warned she could be comatose for days. Her sister, unharmed, was driving. The crash occurred near Fifth and Johnson streets.
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May Adkins
Jess Fowlkes
Miss Adkins
Northwest Texas Hospital
Gidl
R. L. Vineyard
F. L. Adkins
Capitalists weigh Amarillo gas pipeline project
Texas and Northern capitalists who own wells in the Panhandle gas fields plan a 1 million pipeline to Amarillo to sell gas to industries at 10 cents per 1 000 feet. A local observer reviews prospects and expects a favorable report if business and growth are secured. A new pipeline could attract a second smelter and many industries.
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Texas
Panhandle
Amarillo
Ballew and Satterfield Expect New Hup Cars
Ballew and Satterfield expect six new Hupmobile sedans soon. They report the factory can supply four buyers for every car for the next six months and have received word of strong interest from prospects.
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Ballew and
Satterfield
Kiwanis Ladies Night to View Grid Iron Skit
The Kiwanis club hosts a ladies night at 7 pm Thursday in Amarillo hotel with a 30 minute gridiron skit. Public officials and prominent men will attend. Over 200 expected as Dr. A J Caldwell presides at officer installation.
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Kiwanis Club
Amarillo
A. J. Caldwell
Flood in Mexico Sweeps Away Towns Report
Flood waters from the Santiago river flood a vast area in Nayarit washing away the towns of Tuxpan and Rosa Maria and several villages. Port San Blas is underwater with houses washed away. Rail losses total 250000 dollars and reports indicate lives lost and hundreds made homeless.
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Mexico City
Santiago
Nayarit
Tuxpan
Rosa Maria
Port San Blas
Southern Pacific Railroad
Will Rogers to appear in Amarillo next month
Will Rogers the famed cowboy comedian is set to perform February 19 at the Municipal auditorium in Amarillo under the Tri-State Exposition management. He will be joined by the De Reszke singers, with top seats at 2.50. The show is billed as a night of non stop laughter with Rogers noted as a long standing Ziegfeld Follies attraction.
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United Press
Dallas
Dallas Board of Education
Texas
Wylie A. Parker
The
Forest High School
Board of Education
Committee of Investigation
Parker
Will Rogers
Amarillo
Tri-State Exposition
Mister Rogers
Municipal Auditorium
Ire
de Reszke
Rogers
New York City
Will
Berlin couple sails for Europe on honeymoon
Ellin Mackay Berlin and Irvin Berlin set sail for Europe aboard the Leviathan after a dramatic dash from their New York apartment. A throng of reporters and photographers swarmed the scene as they left for the high seas, while Ellin’s millionaire father offered no forgiveness.
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United Press
New York
Ellin Mackay Berlin
Irvin Berlin
High Seas
Europe
Leviathian
Berlin
Atlantic City
Urge Amarillo Post Office Addition Plan
City business leaders push for a $40 000 enlargement to the Amarillo post office to handle rising volumes and add lock boxes. The unused $12 000 appropriations can be applied, with a telegram to Congressman Marvin Jones asking federal officials to intercede.
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Amarillo
Post Office Department
Washington
Postoffice
Board of City Development
Marvin Jones
Oil Firm Yard Blaze Narrowly Spared Disaster
Firefighters stopped a near disaster at a Texas oil company yard where a gasoline truck burned near large tanks. Two hose lines cooled the blaze preventing a gasoline explosion. A separate blaze damaged a newly finished house at 1300 West Nineteenth Street after a hobo started a fire in a nearby hen house.
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Texas Oil Company
West Ninth
Willie
West Nineteenth Street
State examiners to probe holiday rum prescriptions
State Comptroller S H Terrell says special examiners will investigate complaints that physicians and druggists in Texas issued and filled whisky prescriptions during the recent holiday season. The examiners will cooperate with prohibition officers in a thorough probe across various parts of the state.
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United Press
Austin
Texas
S. H. Terrell
Prohibition
Hutchinson County Oil Company Well Reaches Depth
Hutchinson County Oil Company Inc reports its first well in Block Y Hutchinson County down 2100 feet. The 120 acre property indicates ongoing drilling progress while company officers H Eb Hume president F C Klinke vice president W E Oliver Jr secretary treasurer and directors H W Blackburn J M Durrett are named. The Coffee Shop at Amarillo Hotel promotes as Famous For Food in Panhandle region.
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Hutchinson County Oil Company, Inc
Block Y
Hutchinson County
H. Eb. Hume
F. C. Klinke
W. E. Oliver, Jr
H. W. Blackburn
J. M. Durrett
Magnolia oil lease ties 30000 acre Panhandle tract to Magnolia
Magnolia Petroleum bought a ten year lease on the 30 000 acre Dick Coon ranch in Moore county Texas near Du mas. The deal completed Saturday marks the largest Panhandle lease in years with Olive M Childers handling the transaction. Magnolia plans immediate development and predicts a monster pipeline to Wichita Falls and daily production around 20000 barrels as activity spikes in the Panhandle oil field.
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Panhandle
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Dick Coon
Moore County
Olive M. Childers
Coon
Dumas
Magnolia Company
Yaeld
Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Miller-Wetzel to Spud In No 1 Well in Hutchinson County
The Miller-Wetzel Oil company plans to spud its No 1 well in southwest Section 12 Block Y Hutchinson county today. The firm holds 100 acres in the Panhandle oil field and shows capital stock of 100000. Col Will A Miller, president, drilled Panhandle tests in 1912 and 1920 and Tulsa fields in 1917 1918. William E Wetzel, vice president, is a veteran driller with Panhandle and West Texas experience.
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Miller-Wetzel Oil Company
Block Y
Hutchinson County
Panhandle
Col
Will A. Miller
Amarillo
Tulsa
Burk Burnett
William E. Wetzel
Pennsylvania
West Texas
J L Smith Buys 20 Acre Oil Lease For 30000
Amarillo man J L Smith pioneer merchant and banker of West Texas paid 1500 dollars per acre for a twenty acre oil lease in Hutchinson County Section 12 Block Y from J A Whittenburg. Total price 30000 dollars with 1000 cash and 500 oil term. He plans to drill a well soon on the Swelty acres.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
J. L. Smith
West Texas
Block Y
Hutchinson County
J. A. Whittenburg
Mr. Smith
Renewal Search For 2 Blizzard Victims Near Bayard
Tomorrow a large posse from this Nebraska region will renew the search for the bodies of J. E. Shea a traveling salesman and Miss Gladys Dunbar his companion believed dead after a blizzard on December 13 near Bayard.
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United Press
Bayard
Neb
Nebraska
J. E. Shea
Gladys Dunbar
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Bok
Holland
League of Nations
George Washington
Mr. Bok
Chicago
Germany
Queen Victoria
Braunseguard
Windsor Castle
F. Edson White
Armour and Company
Moore
Philadelphia
Charles E. Welch
Doctor Welch
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Harrison
Garfield
Shipping Board
U.S
By Ludwell Denny
Wilcox Company
EL Paso
Dallas High
Bushland
Essex
Mrs. Berlin
MacKay
Hutchinson County Oil CO
Amarilloe Hotel
Amarillo Hotel
the Panhandle
Magnolia
Coon Ranch
Gas Field
Miller-Wetzel Company
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