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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1925
Page
4
Publication details for the Amarillo Globe including founding date, mailing and delivery schedule, frequency, and subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Includes office address at 110 East Fifth Street and phone numbers for news and business departments.
The Globe commends utilities for envisioning future needs in electricity gas water and transportation. It notes planners anticipated demand years ago and built systems so homes offices and daily life run smoothly. It praises staff loyalty and integrity while reserving the right to critique failures to meet public service ideals.
A Chicago banker predicts farm land will jump from 25 to 50 dollars an acre within a year. He urges buyers to acquire Panhandle land now while prices are low, noting value will rise as diversification and intensive farming spread across the region.
The American Research foundation reports nearly 25 000 oil wells drilled annually in the United States for three years. Drilling costs now approach 550 million dollars per year, and per car gasoline storage fell from 161 gallons in March 1924 to 88 gallons this March. Wholesale gasoline prices rose about four cents in three months, but industry competition has delayed pass through to drivers.
The writer reminisces about Joan Watson in Amarillo and crediting Watson with running the Harvey House at Dodge City, claiming it is the city's largest industry with 82 workers. He jokes about local history, mentions a dental bill, a nose-shaving gag, a broken glass case, and a boast about a cowboy.
The Toledo Blade notes a seven to eight month life for a paper dollar and cites forecasts: this year's U S wheat yield near 680 million bushels, 93 million below last year, with corn at 3.095 billion bushels. Declining wheat may lift prices while corn should be cheaper. December corn around 85 cents, wheat about 1.42 to 1.45 dollars in major markets.
Gas field officials prepared to battle a rampaging Bryson gas well that burst into flames Friday causing over $5 000 in losses. Edgar Williamson of the First Baptist church plans to teach at the B Y P U assembly in Palacios Texas in early July. Seville Spain hosts bullfight fans wearing imported hats from several nations.
An advertising note from E. B. D. urges readers to use Globe want ads for concise messaging and effective placement. The slogan implies that a brief clear notice yields results.
New York writer describes Coney Island as a vivid Manhattan playground with lights noise and crowds. He notes nightlife the boardwalk and rides, the contrast with Sea Gate’s quiet gates, and the crowd diversity from circus to Wall Street society. He recalls prohibition’s impact on beer bells and the evolving aim for year-round resort status.
The piece sketches the upcoming three hundredth anniversary of Manhattan Island purchase with notes on descendants of early settlers and a humorous newsroom anecdote about a Queens of Soh interview with a gelatinine heroine arriving from Hollywood.
A Wichita Kansas firm defends Texas Panhandle road conditions against a Globe letter and a Texas Panhandle remark by L B Robins. The letter urges proper notice before publishing criticisms and notes the 1921 May origin of the claim, requesting neighborly correction.
A grand lady is confronted on a film set by a newspaper woman who dismisses her as temperamental and an actress, the scene ending with the lady left flat on the lot. The exchange is described in a 1925 McNaught Syndicate piece.
A nostalgic reminiscence of Amarillo’s “Old Home Town” bonds and local pride. The piece contrasts hospitality and progress with social quirks, notes a lazy husband remark, observes a colored woman’s appearance, and closes with a tale of a broken promise to transport Sunday school children to Box Canyon for an annual picnic.
A letter from The Coleman Lamp Company signed by secretary Charles C. Parr reports Dr. G L Yates holding a series of meetings in Clo vis New Mexico with splendid success. Thirty conversions are said to be from Sunday's services. Airplane ambulances will transfer patients from outlying districts to a New York hospital.
Cynthia Leland faces social fallout after her husband Jim leaves with his mother to Honolulu soon after their wedding. She seeks support from Cecile Malcolm and befriends Noel Gardner, joining a mid winter house party at Cecile’s mountain cabin with the town’s social set and its outsider.
Cynthia faces pressure from Jim Leland's family and gossip as Noel Gardner plots a future abroad. She weighs leaving the world she knows, writing Jim from a San Francisco steamship office, and whether to stay or run from the tangle of love, divorce, and judgment.
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