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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1929
Page
3
On a sunny Biscayne Bay island, a grand historic home will welcome Herbert Hoover as a guest. The Miami article notes the residence’s stately grounds and links to the former president during his Florida visit.
Paris reports frosty fogs as women wear ankle muff socks to keep warm. Musicians protest rising use of phonographs and wireless sets replacing orchestras in small theaters and dance halls, warning of shrinking employment.
The Interstate airlines route between Chicago and Atlanta carried 6700 pounds of air mail and over 100 passengers in December. Commerce department surveyors plan ten mile beacon spacing with landing fields at every third beacon. Lighting expected by May 1 enabling night mail service alongside daylight flights. No passengers on night planes.
The article describes Mi ami’s tropical White House in Miami with President-elect Herbert Hoover to spend six weeks there. James Cash Penney owns the Belle Isle estate where Hoover will rest before inauguration, with a two-room presidential suite on the second floor including a study and bath, and access to a grand third-floor ball room.
In Pittsburgh, a blacksmith shop installs a radio to calm horses during shoeing. John Kelly and his brother say music eliminates tying ropes and lets them shoe a horse quickly as the animal remains tranquil. The note ends with a brief non sequitur about other clipped items.
Description details a room with a pipe organ, oak screen, reproducing piano, and music salon in the east wall. Dining room in southeast wing has built in sideboard. Features include French windows to Biscayne Bay, electric refrigerator, oil stove, and chef. A nearby pastel tiled pool and reinforced concrete boat wells accompany Belle Isle residence.
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