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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1927
Page
10
An old advertisement urges building a railway to serve ocean steamship routes across Mexico. It promotes a sweet laxative claim for children and adults, touting California Fig Syrup as the remedy for bilious or constipated symptoms and promising gentle relief.
Cow and calf values mixed across markets in Kansas City St Louis Chicago and Oklahoma City. Cattle vealers steers and heifers show varied pricing with hogs mostly steady to slow and top quotes around 12 dollars in several locales. Sheep and lamb values noted with western and native flocks tracked alongside packing sows and bulls.
The first term at St Marys Academy closed last Tuesday after mid term exams with favorable results. The second term starts January 19 and new pupils have enrolled in both boarding and day schools.
C H Crumpacker of Chicago visits wife's parents at 1804 Harrison. Mrs Jason Robberson back in Amarillo from Gainesville. H S Durham starts real estate business in Oliver Eakle bldg room 710. Mrs W H Crowley trips to Vega to see her son. Mrs Edwin O Bryants visits Tulsa. Floyd Copeland returns to Lubbock from Magnolia Petroleum. Pat Flynn moves from Jackson MS to Columbus GA Federal Stores. Ben Smith away on business to Borger. Miss D E Wood now in charge at Misses Taylors ready to wear after arriving from San Francisco. Mrs Mina Upson to Oklahoma City to visit Bert Wheeler. H H Edmondson visiting Adams store in Dalhart. Milton White visits sister in Clovis. Pearl Crow joins Adams store in Dalhart. Warren Abel of Wellington, Kansas.
The body of 76 year old financier Thorne Woolsey of Waynesville North Carolina and New York City was found in a vacant lot in Miami Beach Florida. He died from a fractured skull with drag marks and torn clothing indicating a distant movement before death. A shoe lay ten feet away and a watch plus some money were recovered from his pockets. Woolsey was a Selma Alabama native known as Cardinal among New York Rotary members.
The defense challenges Mrs. Greer and grand jury records as she testifies about the Chipps Norris telephone call. Questions focus on cursing, timing of Chipps voice, and whether Greer dodged service while Hot Springs testimony is discussed. Evidence handling over the Hot Springs statement is debated.
National Cash Register adds staff including Bill Williams now assistant manager at Federal Clothing. A. L. Kirtley J. G. Barnes and C. D. Sloan sail to New York for Cuba. Amarillo Music reps Wylie Walker and Archie James travel for business. Mrs. E. H. Johansen arrives from Maxwell Iowa. James Mellroy becomes collector for Federal Clothing. R. F. Wright launches Amarillo Brick & Supply at 115 West Seventh. Mrs. Don Gibbons visits Ward then heads to Fort Worth. Mrs. Crowley recalls a long drive to Vega for her son's nail injury update. Bone chessmen indicate tenth century Western Europe play.
If you struggle with blackheads, use two ounces Calonite powder from a drug store. Sprinkle on a hot wet cloth and rub over the blemishes. In minutes, every blackhead will dissolve away entirely.
European financiers reveal a plan for a 117 mile ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to compete with the Panama Canal. The line would use a 30 rail right of way with a floating drydock cradle and heavy locomotives, enabling ships to cross in about seven hours with tolls lower than the Panamanian route. The project hinges on a Mexican concession and includes dredging at Coatzacoalcos and Huayontlan to allow entry and harboring of vessels.
President Calles says nationwide revolution by fanatical elements has failed. He rejects agrarian petitions for arms, says the army is strong enough to quell uprisings. Arms given to agrarians in Jalisco and Guanajuato due to fanatic activities. Archbishop Orozco y Jiminez of Guadalajara accused of leading rebels, but the episcopate denies the charge. Archbishop Drax of Tabasco whereabouts unclear after arrest. Federal forces move to Jalisco while central states remain under campaign against Catholic rebels.
Funeral services are planned tomorrow for Wanda Lou Wibiel infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben Wibiel of 1902 West Eighth. She died yesterday at Dixon Creek where the family had been living for two months. Blackburns Funeral Home handles arrangements. The notice oddly mentions an expenditure estimate of five to seven million dollars.
In Texas, reform efforts rise as Miriam A. Ferguson leaves office. Bills seek to share pardoning power among governor, attorney general, and chief justice. Measures aim to curb clemency, reduce procedural delays, and tighten appeals. Ferguson granted thousands of pardons and paroles, including several to murder and liquor offenses, while ten escaped the electric chair and others faced commutations.
James H. Hairston found guilty of robbery with firearms for the Odell bank raid of December 18 and sentenced to fifteen years. Clyde Stratton and Lyter Huffman faced trial with Stratton pleading guilty and Huffman not guilty as venue issues and continuance requests arose. The trio reportedly looted $7,600 and locked employees and a patron in the vault.
Rev. G. S. Flacks a converted Jew will preach a gospel sermon each night this week at the Southern Presbyterian church at Eleventh and Jackson streets. Services begin tonight at 7 30 and continue through Sunday night. Flacks has many friends in the city glad to learn of his return after a previous series of sermons here.
Half Minute Interviews quote Bob Linn praising Sunday paper as outstanding in Amarillo and Panhandle. C. E. Eaton reports a January 12 Wichita to Jersey City to Amarillo air mail order delivered January 18 showing air mail speed. Mrs. M. D. Oliver-Eakle recalls ground breaking for the new skyscraper hotel at Seventh and Tyler streets with happiness.
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