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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1931
Page
2
A narrator describes Anna preparing for company with blue dishes, silverware, candlelight, and fancy rolls. The scene covers table manners, sit up straight, choosing forks, and not showing dislike. The child endures etiquette lessons, feeling uneasy yet compliant in a formal tea setting.
In Amarillo a debate on wealth and hardship runs through this winter column. The writer notes strong local spending, cites sellout shows like Flying High, and argues the town isn’t desperate though cattlemen praise a mild winter. He laments hard times yet praises church charity and calls for unity to keep doors open. A later note seeks a lost white and black faced female rat terrier named Boots with a reward.
A man named J E Gay, once famed in Arkansas, now hominy maker in Amarillo, advertises hominy at 15 cents a quart or two quarts for a quarter from 1904 South Arthur Street. He vows the product is the best ever and explains his unemployment prompted the venture. The note ends with breezy, erratic asides about travel and Commander Byrd.
The article notes a continued discussion on tax penalties and a provision from the Oneal bill allowing tax payments in two installments. It emphasizes the tax bill as the session's largest legislative accomplishment and highlights the free conference committee's role.
The elder Bannon was hurried to Williston this morning. He confessed to killing the Haven family by luring them to a barn on their farm last February and striking them with an axe after an argument with the father. He claimed the others were slain when they came to investigate.
Frances Alda signs a weekly 52 week radio contract with Judon Radio Program Corp, a Columbia Concerto unit, dated January 8. A new Cub and Scoop segment debuts tonight on WJZ at 9:45 Cast, with Arthur Campbell as Cub and Charles B Brown as Scoop, and airs again Friday night and every Thursday and Friday thereafter. Additional programs tonight include Morton Downey at 6, Vagabonda at 6:15, Poet's Gold with David Ross at 6:30, Marion Harris with Rudy Vallee, Freddie Rich's Siatsbotta at 8, Lorna Fantin at 8:15, Frank Parker at 8:30, Echoes of the Opera at 9 with Alice Gentle, Horace Heidt's orchestra on WJZ 11 to 12 from Cincinnati via WHW.
On KGRS the 6 30 to 7 00 segment features Milt Taggart's Orchestra followed by an Organ Program by John Joney from 7 to 7 30. WDAG broadcasts Chevrolet Chronicles from 8 50 to 9 00 and a Mayor's Loyalty Program from 9 30 to 10 30.
A January letter from a farmer argues for careful consideration of a 40 percent wheat acreage reduction in September. The writer praises balanced discussion in the paper and suggests savings like cheaper gas and oil, grain dealers paying premiums for 64 pound wheat and protein tests, and bankers coordinating a finance plan for the Southwest wheat region.
Health authorities urge caution as scattered flu cases appear while noting early cold treatment. Avoid internal medicines without physician advice and prevent digestion disturbances. External use of Vicks VapoRub is advised for children and adults to soothe symptoms.
The Tri State Fair Association hosts Flying High a fast paced aviation themed musical comedy from writers Bud DeSylva Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The show leverages speed and transcontinental air race imagery reflecting the era's fascination with flight and modern entertainment.
The Nash automobile driven by Ben Short of Amarillo, who was injured after striking a concrete abutment and overturning at a culvert on the Canyon Amarillo highway, was not defective, says local Nash dealer Ted Ferguson. He has the car for inspection. the front axle was torn out and the car nearly demolished.
Tom Mitchell jailed Wednesday afternoon by deputies John Odom and John Williams under Constable Howard E Elliott. He posted $1000 bond after liquor seizure at 25004 Taylor. Officers report 232 pints whisky 20 gallons alcohol and 3 quarts 2 pints wine found, one of county’s largest recent seizures.
The United States expresses deep regret over Major General Smedley Butler's unauthorized remarks about Italy's prime minister in Philadelphia on January 19. Henry L. Stimson extends apologies to Mussolini and the Italian people, noting no recent similar apologies by Washington.
Portland manager Clarence H White said Premier Mussolini was accused as a hit-and-run driver by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr in New York in 1930. Vanderbilt Jr told United Press he had no statement now about being the source of the Mussolini story. Italian papers ridiculed Butler speech as insolent and ridiculous.
The article notes a huge 200 inch telescope for Mount Wilson observatory with General Electric casting quartz reflectors. Gerard Swope calls it an exciting adventure as it promises new universes for human sight, enabling imagery beyond current limits and hinting at the vast, potentially finite cosmos.
Hogs 5,000 head steady to slightly lower. top 7.60. Packing sows 5.76 to 6.50. stock pigs 7.00 to 7.50. Cattle 2,500 with calves 600. steers and yearlings steady. other classes steady to weak. Heifers good and choice 60 to 85. cows good and choice 4.75 to 7.00. vealers 5.50 to 10.00. Sheep 6,000. lambs rising, sheep steady. feeders 6.75 to 17.65 per 60-75 lb. Fort Worth assets show hogs few bids. cattle slow with declines. fat calves 7.00 to 7.50. fat lambs 7.76 to 8.00.
No external treatments or surgery stop piles. Internal medicine heals the lower bowel by strengthening the veins and walls. Dr J S Leonhardt developed Hemroid, 960 successes in 1000 patients, with City Drug Co supplying it and money back guarantee if misery continues.
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