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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1924
Page
4
The notice states Amarillo Daily Globe publication details including founding date February 20, 192, second class matter February 20, 1924 at Amarillo post office, published evenings except Saturday and Sunday mornings, 110 East Fifth Street, and Associated Press membership and credits.
Rates listed for Amarillo deliveries include options for one week one month three months six months and one year. Prices show variations for daily and Sunday editions with regional applicability across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico and include a Sunday only option.
In Chicago two sons of wealthy families confessed they killed a boy “just for the fun of it.” The educated, atheistic youths described studying sensations and testing feelings, prompting questions on whether exposure to nature might have deterred their crime.
A 74 year old man walked from San Francisco to Detroit seeking work and has become a curiosity to younger readers. The note mentions other items including a bank robbery in Oklahoma and political humor in various papers.
A New York diary vignette recounts morning errands and social calls, noting meetings with George Creel William MacHarg Verne Porter and Sidney Olcott. It describes a theater visit Hippodrome backstage moments and musings on vanity amid Fifth Avenue life.
Building permits for the past week surged to 9600 dollars. Notable filings include H Murphy at 608 Jefferson for 600, M K Jackson at 702 Alabama for 2600, A L Lawhorn at 310 North True for 1500 and 204 Florida for 38500, W E Cazzell at 2404 West Fourth for 2100, George Caylor at lot 9 block 99 Old Town for 2090.
A rambling column critiques modern trends from flappers to impulses for reform. It wittily contrasts stubborn delusions with facts, notes on investment and credit, and lampoons social pretensions in a humorous, period voice.
A collection of short notes from Amarillo including Norfleet sightings, the Globe’s new women’s page Danger promotion, trading stamps giveaway, local business and people reports, sports quips, and travel mentions of Dr. W H Flamm and others in town.
Gulf No 4 Burnett, Silk No 3 Burnett, and multiple Burnett section wells report rigging, drilling, and casing changes. Wells at Cockrell, Whittenburg, Mary C Burnett, Saunders, and others show shifting locations, gas encounters, and ongoing operations in Gray and Gray County areas with 64 inch casing deliveries and underreaming progress ongoing.
Washington June 2 The Ford Motor company was declared by the supreme court today not to have infringed the Marmatta patent for electric welding of thin sheets of iron and steel owned by the Thomson Spot Welder company.
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