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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1925
Page
11
Amarillo business center moves northward as the E S Blasdel building at 500 North Fillmore Street opens with space for Johnston Drug No. 2 Rolling Stone grocery and a two chair barber shop. The structure features brick and tile construction, full tile walls, brick exterior, concrete floors, glass front, and a ten year gravel roof.
The article notes the Lazy Ass Ranch 1925 Irish potato harvest and J. E. Bryant Co handling the crop with Higinbotham promoting California Burbanks as a supplement. Texas scenes include Tulsa travel, domino games between Van Zandt and Moore, and local chatter about gourds and grass burrs. Three Amarillo Baptist Girls Choir officers are listed with committees.
The Violano-Virtuoso in the Lindsay Drug Co on Polk Street plays classical pieces and Broadway hits. A violin is driven by sixty four metal fingers with four notes at once, while a piano section uses individual magnets. Three motors run the instrument with Horace Lindsay supplying new song hits weekly.
Mrs Fannie Taylor 69 of Athens Texas visiting Mrs J S Penrod at Canyon walked twenty miles to Happy with Mrs Penrod. the trip began as a short stroll but continued until they reached Happy where Taylor called it a joke. The Galbraith Foxworth Lumber company is building a lumber yard at Quanah.
The Johnson Drug store No. 2 will occupy the corner of the E. S. Blasdel building at 6500 North Fillmore Street. T. C. Ward, manager and part owner, says the shop will offer superior fixtures, curb service at the fountain, full prescription fulfillment, and a focus on high quality drug sundries. Ward leaves nineteen years with the Denver railroad to run the business.
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