Fundamentalist claims against science and the earth’s motion
A 1926 Star Company piece notes Rockefeller's donation to a Chicago divinity school and highlights debates sparked by Bryan's stance on evolution. It questions literalism, explains gravitational orbit, and surveys philosophers, industrialists, and Ford's workshop as examples of science and health pursuits, ending with warnings about Bolshevik influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockefeller
Chicago
Divinity School
Jonah
Joshua
Weather Outlook for Tonight and Wednesday Partly Cloudy
Forecast shows tonight and Wednesday with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures expected around 68 to 73 degrees, with a record high near 90 and low near 70 from a year ago. Auto parts dealer Parts-Davis Auto Parts Co.
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Davis Auto Parts Co
West Texas railroad hearing moves to completion
Plainview Tex July 21 witnesses at a hearing before interstate commerce examiner C L Boles discussed proposed extensions of railroads in West Texas. Briscoe county farmer John Burson testified high charges hinder wheat maize and kafir corn sales while Castro county could become irrigated with more rail access.
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Associated Press
Plainview
Tex
West Texas
C. L. Boles
Interstate Commerce Comission
Briscoe County
John Burson
Silverton
E. J. Noonan
Texas, Panhandle and Gulf
Castro County
L. P. White
Dimmitt Chamber of Commerce
Boles
Clarence Gilmore
Texas Railroad Commission
White
Plains
Collrado
Tulsa
Texas, Panhandle
Gulf
Tucumcari
N. M
Padlock Cases In Galveston To Go To Trial Today
Galveston hearing of individual padlock cases set to begin today before Federal Judge J. C. Hutchinson after dismissals of two injunctions against city officials. Several days expected for the proceedings as lawyers resolve errors in addresses and city ownership of property. The federal attorney apologized to the city attorney for the mix up.
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Galveston
Associated Pre
J. C. Hutchinson
Detroit Man to Deliver Scott In Illinois Plot
Springfield July 21 Governor Small received a tele gram from James Sweinhart Detroit asking where he might confer Wednesday for the delivery of Robert Scott brother of Russell Scott condemned to hang Friday Sweinhart asked for a Detroit News collector pay address for the meeting Illinois authorities to arrest and deliver Scott. Sweinhart would say little beyond It’s a nice day and editors claimed ignorance of Scott’s whereabouts.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Ill
Governor Small
James Sweinhart
Detroit
Robert Scott
Russell Scott
Swinhart
Detroit News
Illinois
Roberty Scott
Russell Scog
Mich
Len Small
Sweinhart
News
Four Die in Dallas Rooming House Fire
Dallas July 21 Four men are dead and six or more injured in a blaze that destroyed a rooming house shortly after 2 AM. Identified victims include T. E. Young 23 and William Brown 25. Two bodies were too badly burned to identify. The house was run by Patrolman and Mrs S H Garrett.
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Associated Press
Dallas
T. E. Young
William Brown
S.H. Garrett
Banks Back Huge Rum Ring Questioned by Grand Jury
Federal Attorney Buckner leads a John Doe grand jury inquiry in New York to determine if banks financed the bootleg ring that shipped liquor in trunks nationwide. Witnesses include agent William Gilbert as authorities probe financing and bank involvement across twenty nine states.
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Associated Press
New York
Puckner
John Doe
Buckner
William Gilbert
Nebraska
Jacob Kireeh
Broadway
Tha Ting Hat Saelee
Ciuc Wiere
J C C Rules Against Hikes In Rates Proposed Last Year
Interstate Commerce Commission ruled last today that proposed railroad rate increases between southern Missouri and northern Missouri Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and Arkansas were unreasonable. The commission authorized modification of existing schedules to allow circuitous lines to meet competition by equalizing rates with shorter routes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Neily mi
Metropolitan Opera Head George Haven Ends Life Today
George G Haven president of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate firm in New York shot himself at his East 53rd Street home. He was a NYSE member with Strong Sturgis and Company and a director of the Denver and Rio Grande and Texas and Pacific railroads. Yale graduate and member of exclusive clubs.
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Associated Press
New York
George G. Haven
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company
East 53 Street
New York Stock Exchange
Strong, Sturgis and Company
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Yale
New York City
Truck Body Falls On Clovis Man Injures Local Trucker
Dave Owens of Clovis New Mexico was seriously injured when a truck body collapsed onto him while he was working under a truck at 110 Pierce Street in Amarillo. He had moved to Amarillo about two months ago with his sons to truck gravel. the incident occurred as the props gave way, injuring his back and loins.
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Uigl Cornaro
Venice
Venetian
Dave Owens
Clovis
N. M
Pierce Street
Owens
Amarillo
Darwin
Raulston
Small
Nazimova and customs men do not agree
Alla Nazimova, noted actress, faces a conference with customs agents over clothing items held up on arrival on the Leviathan. Two trunks and a hat box were sent to appraisers after examiners questioned declared values. Nazimova insisted the prices were correct.
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Associated Press of
New York
Alla Nazimova
Appraisers
Securities listings rise sharply in first half 1925
New York reports new securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange for the first half of 1925 totaled 1,817 million dollars, far above prewar 1913 levels and marking a strong five year average around 3.4 billion annually. The market activity is contrasted with earlier periods, noting the postwar scale of listings. Abbreviated line about The Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Panons For Food appears as garbled OCR.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Hotel Addition Progress In Amarillo Moving Fast
The Amarillo hotel expansion shows brick work finished and metal lath nearly done. Fire proof gypsum blocks are being added to partition walls and the entire structure will be fire proof. Contractor Fred Bone estimates completion by September 10.
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Amarillo Hotel
Fred Bone
Acceptance of Ford Offer on Ships Recommended
Washington July 21 Acceptance of the Henry Ford bid of 1 706 000 for 200 Shipping Board vessels set aside for scrapping has been recommended to the Shipping Board by President Palmer of the Fleet Corporation Oscar D Van Benthuysen 23 was fatally scalded while working on a tank at the Texas Sugar Refining Company in Texas City his home was in Galveston
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Associated Press
Washington
Henry Ford
Shipping Board
Palmer
Fleet Corporation
Galveston
Tex
Oscar D. van Benthuysen
Texas Sugar Refining Company
Texas City
Satterwhite Likely to Enter Texas Governor Race
Plainview July 21 Lee Satterwhite of Panhandle speaker of the House said he could not see how he could stay out of the race for the Republican nomination for governor next year. He noted encouragement from supporters across the state and a strong West Texas base with growing followings in East North and South Texas as he attends an interstate commerce commission hearing in West Texas.
Speed record set in damage suit on rail rates
In Chicago on July 21 a damage suit for 30000 dollars against three railroads was filed in federal Judge Wilkerson's court by the Oklahoma state shippers association. The railroads confessed judgment and deposited 10000 dollars each with Atty. Jacob I. Grossman. The defendants include Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago Burlington and Quincy Chicago Rock Island and Pacific. The suit charged discriminatory rates on canned goods from Colorado to Kansas and Oklahoma after an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling.
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Chicago
Wilkerson
Oklahoma State Shippers Association
Jacob I. Grossman
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Burlington and Quincey
Chicago Rock
Pacific
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Interstate Commerce Commission
Man Hurd Near Wellington May Not Live
Associated Press reports in Wellington that CO. F. Burgess, a store owner near the Texas Oklahoma line northeast of Wellington, sustained severe lacerations when a frightened cow dragged him through a barbed wire fence. He was brought to Wellington with a right leg amputated above the knee and is in serious condition from loss of blood.
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Associated Press
Wellington
CO. F. Burgess
Texas-Oklahoma State Line
Burgess
Suit to Clear Title on Word Ranch Lands
The Amarillo National Bank filed in district court against C. T. Word and others seeking foreclosure on debts with the Word Ranch water site as collateral. Lumpkin and Trulove represent the bank. Court officials say the suit aims to clear title to land recently bought by the city as a water site.
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The
Amarillo National Bank
C. T. Word Et al
Word Ranch
Lumpkin and Trulove
Virginia Farmers Face Major Loss Without Rain
Virginia farmers threaten to lose 40 to 50 million dollars if a general soaking rain does not arrive within a week. Agricultural statistician Henry M. Taylor warned that the drought’s persistence endangers crops and farm income across the state.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Virginia
Henry M. Taylor
Famous For Food Amarillo Hub and Warehouse Ad
The Amarillo Ho el promotes itself as the Panhandle meeting place with the slogan Famous For Food. It lists American Warehouse company for merchandise storage and provides phone 101. A note invites visitors to see pictures at the Mission.
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Amarillo Hoel
the Panhandle
American Warehouse Company
East Texas Follows West In Chamber Of Commerce
A movement to form an East Texas Chamber of Commerce with headquarters in Port Arthur or Beaumont has begun and won backing from both cities chambers. Plans mirror the West Texas model, already successful for years.
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East
Texas
Chamber OF Commerce
Associated
Port Arthur
Teas
East Texas
Slayer of Conner Expected to Be Arrested Tonight
Tulsa reports indicate officers expect to arrest the man who killed Fred Conner, automobile dealer, on a highway south of the city last Thursday night. Sheriff Walters said advices place a suspect near Sweetwater and to be arrested late this evening. Conner's body was found early Friday morning and his car recovered at Slaton as officers across the Southwest widen the manhunt.
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Fred Conner
Here
Walters
Sweetwater
Young Conner
Slaton
Southwest
Coolidge Sees Peaceful Settlement in Coal War
President Coolidge believes thracite operators and miners will reach a wage scale agreement and that there will be no mining shutdowns on September 1. His view rests on the labor department report and press dispatches from Atlantic City, with no official report to him.
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Associated Pres
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Min
Labor Department
Atlantic City
Klein family killed in Oklahoma car wreck near Lawton
J. B. Klein and his son died in an automobile accident near Lawton Oklahoma yesterday. Mrs Klein and two other children were seriously injured. Klein was well known in Amarillo for installing the steel work in the Municipal auditorium.
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J. B. Klein and Son
Lawton
Okla
Klein
Amarillo
Prohibition Men Must Watch Driver Not Car
Prohibition agents may need caution as bootlegger cars are observed by officers. In Washington a well known bootlegger’s auto was found parked before prohibition headquarters. Prohibition Commissioner Hayes stepped from the car and acknowledged using court rulings allowing dry officers to possess confiscated machines.
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Associated Press
Washington
Prohibition
Hayes
Rain Delays New York Cincinnati Game to Tomorrow
Rain forced postponement of the New York versus Cincinnati game set for today. Both clubs will now meet the next day on an open date, with no changes to venue or lineup announced.
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New York
Cincinnati
Scopes Verdict Delivered in Dayton Tennessee Trial
In Dayton Tennessee on July 21 a jury found John T. Scopes guilty of violating the Tennessee law on teaching human evolution. Judge Raulston imposed a $100 fine with $500 bond pending appeal. Scopes declared the statute unjust but accepted the verdict, while defense attorney Dudley Field Malone arranged for the appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The scene included post trial speeches by William J. Bryan and Clarence Darrow, with Dayton hailed for hospitality as the case drew global attention.
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Associated Press
Court Room
Dayton
Tenn
Scopes
Raulston
Dudley Field Malone
J. Gordon McKenzie
Tennessee
Clarence Darrow
Bryan
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Haeckel
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Ford
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
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Asociated
Fort Vorillana
Denver
Splawn
University of Texas
Marshal Petain
War Office
Morocco
Abdel-Krita
Scott
Blaze
Metropolitan Opera
Clovis Man
Nazimova
Satterwhite
Lee Satter
Janne
BC Bolchi
Chi Fullman
Park Benjamin
Enrico Caruso
Anna Bolchi
Fullman
Benjamin
Conner
Globe
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Bie
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Supreme Court
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