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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1924
Page
4
Amarillo Daily Globe issued as a second class matter from February 20 1924. Published evenings except Saturday and Sunday morning by Amarillo Globe Publishing Company at 110 East Fifth Street. Associated Press news supplied locally and nationally.
Rates listed for Amarillo carrier delivery and mail subscriptions. One week five ten cents. One month thirty five cents. Three months one ninety five. Six months three ninety. One year seven sixty. Mail rates Texas Oklahoma New Mexico: monthly fifty cents. Six months two seventy five. One year five dollars. Sunday per year one fifty.
The column blends reflections on golf victory decisions and daily life in Panhandle towns. It notes a grain man traveling on the Santa Fe, jokes about plowing, jokes about pajamas, and quips on local commerce and health advice. A cotton mill plan in Corsicana and a $100000 Athens telephone plant are also mentioned alongside humor and observations.
Dense OCR radio timetable lists programs across U S stations with times and show titles including KYW WMAQ WLAG KSD WDA W OAW WSB WHAS MEMPHIS WFAA KGO KHJ KPO KGW and KGW. Notes CST PST and Pacific times flagged. late news opera concerts lectures and kid stories pepper the day.
A long rail of station codes and time slots shows Chicago WMAQ and KYW programs plus many others across the Midwest and West. The note mentions Denton preparing the Dallas Denton electric interurban power line and a thirty day completion target.
A diary style column notes a smoke free fourth day and a stroll with Verne Porter crafting limericks. A limousine ride leads to a reunion with a writer who once sent a letter, then dinner at Editor Keats Speed’s with bridge and discussion.
In Salt Lake City on June 16 an inscription tablet was placed on the Salt Lake Tribune building to honor the Pony Express riders of 1860 61. The bronze tablet commemorates the site of a former adobe mail station and salutes the personnel of that gallant enterprise.
In a debate on utility pricing the Inquisitive Reporter cites opinions from J. W. Harris S. J. B. Rainey D. W. Finley and James Trolinger praising or condemning the high gas rates. Citizens note the disparity between homeowners and large establishments and compare local costs to distant fields.
Jumbled local items note hobbies fishing club records and hospital updates. Mentions Violet rays water life Nat Panhandle Laundry number and three thousand as a repeated figure. Amicable Life Insurance Waco and Farmers Union Kansas City send visitors to Amarillo during shipping season.
A flaming oil derrick at Goose Creek near Houston will be filmed by the federal bureau of mines as the climax to a safety themed movie. The production, costing about 6000 dollars, aims to educate oil industry workers and other laborers about fire safety through a romance driven narrative. Production will cover Houston production, Dallas area pipeline and car transport, and Tulsa refining, with Magnolia Humble and Gulf funding. The project plans wide distribution to industrial centers and eventually overseas.
A narrator notes the mail carrier endures modest pay and long hours yet shows dignity. He is sober and industrious, typically supporting a large family, and brings joy through daily letters despite burdensome monthly mail. The reflection dismisses others as lacking his quiet virtue.
Col Jack Golding comments on flag desecration and advertising uses of vehicles. Elgar Laird urges regular feeding for pigs. James Renfer notes congestion on Sixth Street and proposes Tenth Street extension for safer travel. James Wilson quips about Col Miller and a large bass with eggs. J R Durrett extols life insurance as unselfish protection for dependents.
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