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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
3
A vintage claim touts California Fig Syrup as a safe remedy for children’s ailments. It features a Texas mother from San Antonio praising the product for constipation, cold relief, and improved vitality, noting broad, decades-long use and high sales.
The state board of equalization cut 70000 from tentative bridge assessments for George Keyes properties and several other bridges. Bridge values changed from 100000 to 65000 for Keyes Bridgeport bridge and 75000 to 40000 for Ada-Konawa. Dorset Carter bridge at Purcell lowered from 133000 to 100000. last year 60000. Other changes include Durant-Bonham 64000 to 40000 and Gainesville Red River 75000 to 60000. Permanent listings followed.
London dispatch reports an American millionaire sought a renowned London surgeon to treat his child in New York. The surgeon declined, then received a 24 hour film of the child's movements. After reviewing, he sent findings to the American, who later returned with a second film, a detailed treatment report, a large cheque, and thanks from the relieved father.
The record itemizes bridge values for Preston, Ter ral, Red River and Air Line toll bridges with assessments up to 125000 and 100000 for the Red River bridge and notes state action on the Jefferson highway bridge near Eufaula. It also notes Southwest Bell Telephone permanent as 16275446 and lists several pipelines made permanent with specified amounts for National Refining, Sinclair, Tidal, Champlin Refining, Deer Creek, and Shell Pipeline.
A collage of brief items from New York Greenwich Camden and Atlantic scenes. Domestic spats amid marriage woes Mrs Harry A Hyman sues for separation over wealth changes. Actress Betty Randolph seeks a license to wed clergyman Bartholomew J Chadocek. Gloria Swanson legal clash a 185 pound process server figures in a tale of lawsuits and stinging blows. The Homeric hulls with a whale collision injure a 40 foot child adrift at sea. liner frees itself after half an hour.
A cafe cellar man solves a mystery by observing corks eaten from champagne bottles and finds a champagne drinking rat visiting nightly to drink his fill of extra dry wine.
Chicago crime survey director A V Lashly revealed major gaps between police records and Chicago Crime Commission data for 1926 to 1927. Burglaries showed 14,110 complaints versus 1,206 police reports, robberies 7,191 vs 1,427, and overall cases far undercounted against charges filed and punishments. The two-year survey indicates extensive suppression of criminal complaints.
An advertisement urges readers to try END-O-CORN for corn relief with promises of painless walking. It directs purchases at druggists or sending a letter to ENDO-CORN LABORATORIES, 4 Garfield Blvd., Chicago, for prompt delivery via Fox Drug Company.
A speech urges a crime commission with broad public support to purge Chicago of crime influencing factors. It cites 1926 robbery counts and prosecutions, arguing officials cannot succeed without voter pressure and moral fear of crime. The text notes concerns about slot machines that talk in France as a tangential point.
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