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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1928
Page
6
The Amarillo Globe editorial calls readers to pay their poll tax with six days left to qualify for the 1928 elections. It argues for widespread voter participation, condemns minority rule, and urges exercising citizenship rights and duties in selecting public officials.
A Spokane flyer delivered yeast to the isolated Idaho town of Orogino saving bread supply for 1,000 residents. The ordeal highlighted aviation’s role as a quiet, daily hero as other workers like doctors and linemen are valued for problem solving. The piece also credits Amarillo for hospitality noted by Dr. J A Hill.
Ralph Dunn scenes unfold as a midnight visitor leaves a demijohn and money in a sack, revealing a bootleg scheme at the old manor. Stephanie and Rod face offstage as ghostly whispers and storms test nerves while suspicions rise about who robs the household.
New York reports that waitresses move from Bowery grease parlors to elegant Fifth Park and Madison Avenue establishments. Salaries reach 60 dollars weekly in some restaurants while some workers invest to run their own tea rooms. Memoir-like tales include hostesses graduates from Vas sar studios and wives of affluent patrons.
Billy Mink races through Green Forest pursued by Spite the Marten with Joe Otter key to outrun the hunter. Blacky the Crow watches the chase from a pine, believing Billy will fail yet Billy dodges a stump and escapes toward Laughing Brook.
A 1928-era dispatch notes how subway beggars shifted to using the S 4 submarine disaster as a sympathy hook. A shabby panhandler befriends a wary donor with a mock battle tale, lighting a match and weaving tales of service to elicit coins. The piece predicts the fad will fade as news cycles move on.
Stockholders of the Texas Midland railway ratified the December 23 decision to sell the Ennis to Paris line to the Southern Pacific through the Houston and Texas Central, awaiting Interstate Commerce Commission approval. A February 1 hearing date was set by the commission. Directors J H Mee Donough E J Kiest B L Gill Sr and W T Allen of Dallas attended. Col E H R Green was absent.
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