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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1927
Page
2
An official report shows snakes in India kill about 18,000 people annually, nearly twenty times the tiger toll of around 1,000. Elephants, leopards, bears and other wildlife account for roughly similar fatalities. A new dough mixing machine can bake bread 40 minutes after dough is prepared.
Wooden hats offered by an English firm as a rotation for miners and workers at risk of falling articles. They use wood pulp as material and are waterproofed, lighter than metal, and not easily broken. Paris sees booming sales of imitation jewels, including bracelets with imitation diamonds in silver valued up to $100.
Aaron Ward the Yankees second baseman joined the White Sox in a swap that sent John Grabowski and Ray Morehart to New York with no cash exchanged. Ray Schalk, newly appointed White Sox manager, sought a new second baseman to replace Eddie Collins.
Approximately 200 dollars in fines were collected by the corporation court for yesterday's violations. Judge E A McKinnon called it the lightest day of the week with traffic offenses leading, along with gaming intoxication and disturbing the peace noted on the blotter. Indications point to another light day today.
A. F. McNabb announces the Herring Hotel coffee shop opens to the public tomorrow morning for breakfast. The shop is described as modern with ample seating. Lunch and dinner will be served in the Crystal room and private dining rooms daily.
A golf guide urges patience in swing timing. Wait for the clubhead to come around and keep the head down as arms swing through with a natural pivot. After impact the left heel returns and the right braces, finishing on the left foot.
London aims to stage professional baseball next summer promising games rivaling Chicago and New York. Organizers plan a three US teams league plus a university and local squad with Chelsea ground Sundays used as trials. C F Muirhead says England fans will pay to watch high calibre baseball.
W L Churchill chief engineer of the Orient railroad and Miss Alma Harding of Lone Wolf Oklahoma will marry in Wichita January 20 ending a childhood romance. Churchill served twelve years in Mexico during the revolution and after WWI became senior structural engineer for the Interstate Commerce Commission before returning as Orient chief engineer. The honeymoon will be in a special car on the southbound Orient with decor under president W T Kemper.
SOFIA January 14 Hog raising in Bulgaria has tripled in ten years and now markets about a million pigs yearly. An English corporation holds a 20 year concession to export to Great Britain and shares profits with the Bulgarian state, signaling a potential surge of English bacon from Bulgarian farms.
Jack Cronin of Tulsa Oklahoma has been hired as the new grounds keeper for the Amarillo Western league baseball park. He will assume duties once park construction permits. Cronin is a former baseball player who previously oversaw Lincoln park last year.
A new metal produced by a secret German process is said to be so strong that it allows fabricating an eleven foot wide span easily. The invention is linked to a huge airplane project and suggests longer flight capabilities.
In Austin on January 14 the Texas senate refused to confirm Eugene Smith Scott Woodward and George Robertson, leaving the state without a highway commission. Attorney General Claude Pollard ruled the failure, and the three appointees stepped down as they left the governor and her husband. Woodward said he sought the ruling and is returning home.
Miss Nettie R. Clary of Iola Texas reports a disfigured face caused by hard red pimples that festered and scorched her skin. After trying remedies she found relief within three weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment with occasional use of the ointment and talcum.
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