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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1928
Page
8
The Amarillo Globe and Globe News issue from January 26, 1928 lists publication details including editors Publisher Gene How e and Wilbur Hawk, address at 6th and Fillmore, evening publication schedule, and subscription rates. It notes association with the Associated Press and service arrangement with Amarillo Daily News.
Amarillo, Potter county seat, shows unmatched Texas growth with 1900 1920 population up 1100 percent and 1920 figure around 15 494 rising to an estimated 40 000 to 60 000 by 1927. The city serves as a hub for crop farming and stock raising with trunk lines to major regions and new links to Liberal Kansas. It hosts oil gas field activity nearby and hosts zinc smelters and other industries, railroad shops, grain facilities, and a growing college plan next to an excellent public school system.
Amarillo prepares to host the fifty second annual Texas-Southwestern Cattle Raisers association meeting on March 20 to 22. More than 4 000 cattlemen from across the United States are expected, marking Amarillo as the first small city to host the event among Texas big cities. Officials say a strong welcome could bring repeat visits every five years. Residents urged to assist in hospitality efforts.
An old man dies in a Spanish town hospital followed by an unnamed elderly woman. Their bodies rest together as the mayor seeks birth, residence, and marital facts. A priest later reveals the woman’s varied life, including marriage to the dead man and flight with another man. Divided in life, they share a quieter death that ends old hatreds.
The piece contrasts how Europe misperceives Americans as crude yet notes Americans are prosperous and increasingly dominant globally. It cites Dr Mayo comparing music to medicine, acknowledging some music is hard to take.
Ralph Dunn and Rita Carstairs escort Stephanie in a ride to Fairfax where flirtations test loyalties. Rita flirts with Ralph while planning to undermine Stephanie. Rod notices Stephanie's melancholy and offers quiet comfort as twilight deepens the mood of longing and doubt.
New York drug stores have radically changed selling focus. Revenue now comes mainly from soda water coffee and sandwiches while toilet supplies outrank drugs. The era of chemists and grim interiors fades as bright displays perfumes doorways and novelty items lure customers.
The text recalls a small eastern city where Michael Dempsey leads his Irish Catholic base and funds a county building with a stone bearing MDCCCXCIX. A New York mother remarks on American men as unchivalrous, while a man named Rod recounts his lonely travels and ties to Mr. Hammond in Argentina as they discuss land and crops at Fairfields.
In a forest tale a boastful Chatterer the Red Squirrel loses his tongue while taunting Sammy Jay. Spite the Marten pursues through treetops as Chatterer races toward a safe hollow to escape. The scene ends with a perilous tree to tree chase.
Charles D. Brown, vice president in charge of operations at Marland Refining, to succeed William H. McFadden as operating manager for the Marland Oil interests in Ponca City. McFadden retires but remains director and vice president. McFadden rose from laborer to president of a steel foundry before health issues ended his steel career. The Marland oil venture, started 17 years ago, needed more capital and support.
New York January 26 Despite rising automobile fatalities the death rate in 1927 among policy holders in 52 leading life insurance companies fell to 823.5 per 100 000 from 878.1 in 1926. Homicides declined slightly while personal crisis reports rose modestly, marking a lower rate compared with 1925 and 1921 in the insurers study.
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