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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1924
Page
7
A satirical cautionary piece advising men on traits to avoid in potential wives. It warns against beauty as a sole lure, domineering families, self righteous reformers, dress beyond means, naive innocence, clinginess, lack of backbone, artistic pretensions, temperamental outbursts, fragility, and disdain for domestic life, urging practical partnership.
The Globe offers 50 cents per child saying printed and urges readers to submit unique lines not previously published. Several readers share child humor, including a three year old who disliked riding on an alligator in an elevator and a mother recalling a dream their child could not explain.
Eleanor, eighteen, flirts with Dan Sutherland while Alec Holden's wife Harriet steps back from her marriage. Eleanor returns home planning to depart with Dan as tension and danger mount over a late night ride and an uncertain destination.
The Avenger, a action packed western tale of a great wrong and revenge, headlines a double bill at the Liberty theater today and tomorrow. It is part of the Ghost City serial with Pete Morrison and Margaret Morris, plus a Pathe comedy.
At the theaters Watch-Albertus the Great and the Miracle Man headline the bill along with Breaking Into Society. Ball Montana Charles Amador Chaplin’s double Dorothy Barton appear in The Moral Sinner and The Avenger stars in a Western episode The Ghost City plus a Pathe comedy.
Alburtus the Great fills houses at every Fair performance in Amarillo with mystic entertainment and feats of psychic ability. He answers questions from the audience, defying attempts to trip him up. A concurrent film, Breaking Into Society, shows a father hiring a pugilist to tame modern youth, delivering startling comedy.
Mrs Clint Cleghorn entertained friends Friday afternoon with music and conversation. The infant son of Mr and Mrs Gaines has been ill but is improving. Mrs Grounds visits Palestine Tex this week. Mrs Fred Turner visits in Shelbina Mo and will return soon. Mrs C Y Floyd hosts Misses Turner of Dalhart and others at 721 North Fillmore. Irvin Elwell and son visit Mrs J A Cox in Kansas City. Mr and Mrs Church visit Charles Grimes of Washburn. Mrs C E Griswold is sick this week. Rev C B Griswold returned from Wichita Falls.
The Rev. W. N. Strong, pastor of Buchanan Street Methodist Church, came home Monday after assisting in a revival in the West. Mrs. R. A. Kerney of 704 North Buchanan Street is ill this week. Mrs. A. A. Price of 306 North Buchanan Street hosts her sister Mrs. Will Ready and her children from Elk City Oklahoma this week. they return Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Price visited Canyon last week for the homecoming of his brother Frank Price of San Pedro California, their first meeting in twenty two years.
G C Odom of the Odom Land company will depart today for California for a three month stay with his family. The Dickson drug store is noted for careful prescription filling and features pharmacists A 8 Dickson and John Golding among the state’s best.
A 1920s advisory piece argues that a wife’s sense of humor sustains marriage. It warns women to laugh at their husbands quirks to keep peace, insisting happiness rests on mutual lightheartedness and forgiveness.
The Mission theater hosts a two film bill today and tomorrow with The Moral Sinner starring Dorothy Dalton and a Charlie Chaplin lookalike act by Charles Amador. The Dallas native Dolly Dewayne completes the act. Dalton jokes about her talents while promising performance in the silent drama.
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