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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1928
Page
7
International News Service reports in Moscow that the beggars union runs a school teaching begging as a profession. Beggars earn three to five rubles daily, with about 8 000 beggars in the city and 61.3 percent professionals. The union trains blind beggars, children, and cripples in singing, music, languages, and presentation to attract alms.
Denver July 9 A fire operator at City Hall, Thomas Rowbotham 28, gains notice for oil paintings and wood carvings done in spare moments from the switchboard. While colleagues play games, he sits with easel and brush. He carved two lamp sets with miniature lighthouses and Dutch mills. He has received offers for his works but has not sold them.
A long Midland era style railway column notes relief staff changes at Amarillo and Denver, with new index and bill clerks, yard checkers, and switch engines. It details track material shipments to Pampa, plans to connect Clinton mileage, and a wheat train schedule from Amarillo. Local staff moves include absent telegrapher Sam McCrary, replacements, and assorted travels and leaves.
The report highlights staff movements at Santa Fe and Rock Island lines with executives and crews traveling to resorts and back to Amarillo and Knoxville. It notes F E Clarity’s route from Fort Worth to Denver on Train 7 and Jesse Rowe’s return to duties after visiting relatives. It ends with W W Carter promoting a seedless prune as a new fruit product from his side line.
The article notes Mrs. Carter's produce reduces seed handling for faster consumption. It mentions Jim Bannon, R. 8. Kirkpatrick and L. T. Henderson returning to Amarillo from Sterly after a trip on a Denver line, with Bannon and Henderson purchasing Sterly lots as a freight intersection point. It also covers a railroad clerk in Amarillo getting afternoons off for four grandfathers' funerals and discusses the Lincoln funeral car, clarified by Carl R. Gray of Union Pacific.
In 1911 a grass fire ignited near a car, burning it, while the famed Blackpool wheel, carrying 600 people per turn and weighing around 1,000 tons, was abandoned after three decades of operation.
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