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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1924
Page
4
Amarillo Daily Globe founded February 29 publishes evenings except Saturday and Sunday morning, issued by Amarillo Globe Publishing Company at 110 West Fifth Street. Associated Press is exclusive to creditable news dispatches and local news.
The notice lists per week and monthly rates for Amarillo carrier service and mail delivery across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. Rates include one week 15 cents one month 65 cents three months 1.95 six months 3.00 and yearly 7.50. Sunday edition offered at 60 cents per month or 2.75 per year.
A string of brief notes from Amarillo includes a man roaming Polk street seeking Jack Dempsey and threat to whip him, jokes about the third party, a Yonkers man assaulting his wife, a note on Seeing America First from a porch, a warning against toe stubbing and kissing, John Moore’s safety slogan, praise for W W A Barlow over volunteer wheat yielding 30 bushels per acre near Panhandle area, and local farm adversity with stubborn wheat.
In a town hall gathering the six heirs with guards, six accountants, and six lawyers agreed to end litigation and split the estate. Cash totaled 42 000 dollars with 4 000 in court costs and 2 000 for accountants, leaving 36 000 to divide equally among the heirs and lawyers. Each heir would receive 6 000 dollars and each would obtain a full 490 acre section of land, prompting plans to hire another lawyer.
The listing details numerous radio programs across stations KYW WMAQ WEBH WQ I WDAP and others including children's stories, orchestras, lectures, sports updates and nightly entertainment. It notes time zones Central Standard with DST differences and outlines specific artists and shows from Frank G Hardner to George Osborn and the Delux program teams.
A late July radio schedule from Chicago to Portland lists dozens of programs. orchestras led by figures like Joska DeBabhary Rita McFawn and George Osborn are scheduled alongside talks on safety, gardening, and sports news. Carl Sullivan notes better business than last year.
An auction in New York features the wardrobe of a famed boulevardier with 54 walking sticks 31 suits 14 overcoats and 102 monogrammed shirts. The sale totals 300 across hats shoes pajamas and accessories while the subject, divorced five times, is noted for constant attire changes and two valets.
Police report multiple complaints from Sixteenth and Polk residents about boys stealing fruit and damaging trees. Arrests may follow. Dr G F McGee of 106 E Fifteenth St is among those harmed as youths strip unripe fruit and break branches.
Local notes report varied visits and events including Mrs. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Terry from Canyon, B. W. Gleason and Mrs. W. L. Rice visiting Amarillo shops, and W. S. Blackshear en route home from New York. A farmer forecasts rain later this week and Lee Bivins is praised as a top young diver at the Nat. G. M. Dunne and Harry Taylor plan a bond-buying trip through South Plains towns with recent $18,000 county bond purchases from Tahoka.
Construction to remove old frame structures at Fourth and Taylor begins this week. A two story building for C. E. King will measure 60 by 149 feet with a basement steam plant and 31 rooms on the second floor, 12 with private baths. I. F. Rittenberry is architect and J. D. Singleton is the general contractor.
A record breaking explosion near Ogden Utah for railroad approaches to the Great Salt Lake trestle raised 550 000 cubic yards of earth and rock and shattered a 275 foot high hill 1000 feet long. The blast used 401 200 pounds of black powder after twenty five men spent forty five days placing explosives in tunnels totaling 4100 feet.
S Honda, Buddhist salvation Army leader, chanted Hail to the Lotus Scripture of the Law as he entered San Francisco's Golden Gate. The prayer sought friendship between Japan and the United States.
A municipal tourist camp here will have pictures and a description in The Nation's Highway soon after a Postal Highway representative visit. W A Lowman praised the camp ground noting open air kitchens as a novelty and favorable cooking arrangement.
E. Clay, window display and advertising manager for White and Kirk, will leave Sunday for a thirty day vacation in his home town of Waynesboro Tennessee. He has been with White and Kirk five years and expects a wonderful time on his month long trip to Tennessee.
El Paso resident R E Peabody travels to Colorado Springs and Denver in the interest of the Round Table, an alliance of chamber executives, before returning home. A railroad clerk answered two thousand questions in a day yet fumbled two items: Joliet Illinois’s leading hotel and Denver California’s largest laundry.
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