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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1928
Page
6
Little Mrs. Peter guides her white son Whitey through the Great World with constant safety checks and swift signals toward the Briar patch. Morning light appears as Whitetail the Marsh Hawk and Redtail the Hawk loom nearby, forcing a daylong halt.
In a Burgess tale, Whitey the Rabbit hides in a bramble with Little Mrs. Peter and her child while Jimmy Skunk, wary of a white coat, comments on lineage and defense. He suggests rabbits risk danger despite scent guns, then admires the odd coat and ponders a safe end. Mrs. Peter wakes Whitey, and they vanish as Jimmy notes the odd encounter.
Weather Bureau critics across the nation charge radio and moisture shortages disrupt weather and drought balance while some regions warn of heavy rainfall. The Weather Bureau says radio has no weather effect and notes sunspot cycles may explain anomalies, while radio rainmakers advertise products.
A penniless high school boy in New York ran away seeking the sea, blaming the west wind for his urges. He returned home by train, while the piece argues that such nature-inspired longings are hints rather than calls to action, enriching life through perception and inner conviction.
An article argues that Illinois last year saw automobile deaths exceed combined fatalities from diphtheria polio smallpox typhoid fever and malaria. It warns the traffic problem is a major national issue and calls for stronger efforts to reduce deaths.
The aged Lord Coventry of England has witnessed 68 runnings of the Epsom Derby leaving him with experience to choose a likely winner. In New York the street cleaning department faces an investigation and questions surface about broader efforts to tidy more than streets.
Chapter 46 opens with Saxon visiting Jerry King and offering jobs, while tension builds over trust and love. They spar over fidelity and power, as Jerry asserts independence and Saxon gazes for approval. She, wary and witty, questions love, dominance, and the lure of romance on the hilltop.
Danbury, July 12. A forty mile artificial lake north of Danbury draws interest across western Connecticut as residents and summer visitors search for a name. Suggestions ranged from Indian names to Candlewood and Danbury, with a compromise possible on Rogers Sherman in honor of the famed Connecticut patriot. The lake, the largest artificial body of water in New England, provides a new sports locale for settlers and visitors alike.
Mrs A H Parks and her five year old step daughter Smokey Parks were found in Amarillo this morning after a mysterious disappearance from the River Side Wagon Yard in Wichita Falls on July 5. They were reunited with A H Parks deputy sheriff and horse trader of Wichita Falls after a brief talk over alleged differences. The $100 reward offered for the woman and child was paid detectives Denton and Scott as soon as the pair were located. The baby was found in a local rooming house while the mother worked in a laundry. The reunion moved the officers to tears at the police station and the article ends with a dramatic and unfinished domestic scene.
A 1928 column by D. C. McIntyre portrays New York society as bored and disengaged. He ridicules how elites, debutantes, and café. patrons display ennui amid luxury, noting class divisions, charity, and gossip about the 400. The piece also mentions Harnack House as a German research hub for foreign scholars.
A witty dialogue framed as Answers magazine style humor where a daughter mentions needing money for her trousseau and the father jokes about not knowing the engagement. The line about wandering around underscores the playful, inscribed tone of early 20th century humor columns.
An old tale about theater passes exposing unhappy patrons in the United States. A deadhead defends a bad show by muttering under pressure then vows to buy a ticket and return to condemn it loudly from hell to breakfast.
Paris July 12 A French village Barfleur near Cherbourg offers a five franc square meal and a sixteen franc fourteen course dinner. The town prospers on rail and auto lines attracting visitors, while locals dine modestly except on fete days. A dead man’s coffin reveals sixty thousand dollars in securities to Vergne’s sister and her starving children.
A Belfast report describes a thunderstorm causing scores of reddish two inch fish to fall on the roof of a bungalow on James Mc Master’s Drubkirk farm in Ireland. No nearby river. Strangford Lough about two miles away. local hedges were blackened as if struck by lightning.
Cleveland July 12 Dr R W Scott Western Reserve University discusses Life's Process noting nature abandons humans at 40 and degenerative diseases rise after. He cites historical life expectancies from Rome through the medieval era and argues the shift is about nature losing interest rather than aging speed.
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