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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
4
The 1931 Amarillo park system is praised as unmatched in beauty and efficiency. Eakle Park features a rainbow lighting fountain drawing crowds nightly, while writers reflect on the city’s progress and park appeal compared to a decade earlier.
Gray County sold five per cent road bonds yesterday at par with a premium of 83 cents per $100, signaling strong investor confidence. The noting of profit underscores the county's solvent and sound financial standing as praised by observers.
The piece argues a shift from postwar bohemian self expression to self discipline among youth. It recalls 15 years ago when New York artists embraced irregular bohemian life, seeking release, only to see that creative art requires strict energy management and moral self restraint. The essay notes bohemia is fading from the artistic map as discipline prevails.
Nora confronts Damon over Nicholas Thayer's letter proving her father’s fraud. Damon seeks revenge as Nora faces a court battle and possible prison for Julian. Jon Thayer proposes helping Nora and fleeing together to Greece, offering a life free from Damon's meddling. Nora agrees to pursue love with Jon while protecting her father.
A. F. Wilson, 74, of Phoenix, Arizona, shot himself in a tourist camp near Lubbock while his wife slept. A coroner ruled death by his own action after an inquiry. A party of five related individuals accompanied him en route to visit relatives in Oklahoma.
A 1920s New York feature describes Rikers Island overrun with rats. It portrays grim conditions with swarms of rodents, burning garbage, and nightly rat patrols. The piece compares citywide rat populations and imagines a Rat Killing Day to curb the menace.
Henry Ford will broadcast from Detroit on Saturday evening to present a modern household appliance to his Detroit museum of industrial arts. A separate WEAF-NBEC program on June 22 will feature Mayor James J. Walker’s birth anniversary testimonial dinner. George B. Johnson will discuss Gangland on WABC CBS. Radio items include Rudy Vaillee orchestra on WEAF NBC and the Boswell Sisters on WABC CBS. A Fort Stockton Texas explosion killed James Miller and injured Don Dittman at the Dittman gasoline plant 20 miles northeast.
Readable clues list horizontal and vertical entries with several century old spellings and misprints. Provided are many definitions spanning assistants emotions insects ships and weights, with entries like Empire State Building location and 292 000 pounds.
Mr and Mrs Stubtail finish a first home next to Yap Yaps, dig deeply and build a mound to ward off rain and provide a lookout. Neighbors praise the design though Yap Yap offered advice. The Stubtails take pride in their hard earned, well planned home.
A reminiscence recalls existential despair and a failed literary effort, with a hospital of gloom in England fourteen years past. Verne Porter and the author seek a spark of romance in a Broadway dance hall where a fatigued blond recalls a former beau who could not dance.
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