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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1924
Page
4
The Amarillo Daily Globe announces its founding date February 20 1924 and publication terms including evenings and Sundays at 110 East Fifth Street. It notes second class matter status and AP membership with exclusive rights to AP dispatches.
In Texas and Oklahoma subscription options include three months for 1.95 and six months for 3.90. One month prices and a Sunday only option for the new year are also shown.
The writer raves about the Three Weeks show and its provocative scenes while noting a strong speech by Carl Sullivan. He also mentions a new department writer John Moore, the sight of the summer girl, and a bank robbery chase from Slick to Justiceburg.
Broadcast listings show Democratic National Convention coverage across stations in Chicago and other cities all day. Programs include musical concerts, lectures, and special performances with orchestras, vocalists, and local choirs interwoven with convention updates.
The Amarillo Boy Scouts formed a Palo Duro canyon tribe as a permanent unit led by Cooper Dewey Red Wing with Gilmore Nunn Yellow Jacket as tom-tom man. Members include Al ward White White Owl and many others listed, tribe plans monthly meetings and leather crafts to become a major activity in Scout life.
An advertisement lists gold crowns and bridge work priced at seven and eight dollars. It also notes teeth extraction services with sit up calls to the City Light and Water Company office and two phone numbers for contact.
A June feature portrays Neysa McMein’s West Fifty Seventh Street studio as a magnet for New York's artists and stars. The piece notes her hosting flair and calm artistry, with guests like Mary Pickford and Ring Lardner visiting, and mentions her husband John Baragwanath. It also sketches two contrasting lives of city figures, one rising from a hat shop to a hotel job and another veiled woman scarred by a failed cosmetic procedure, seeking quiet refuge in Central Park.
Half Minute Interviews gathers plans to relocate musicians to Amarillo seeking jobs for four crack Beaumont players and three Hereford talents. Col J B Golding promises July 4 shell demonstration at Jack Hall ranch with French 75s and 300 rounds, while a young driver avoids enforcement of fast travel.
Miss Grace B. E. Hamilton Treacher of Piano and Dunning System of Improved Music Study for Beginners opens a studio starting September 1 1924 in San Jacinto offering piano classes twice weekly at 1009 Taylor.
Local residents report visits and trips across Texas. Names include Miss Bernice Bowlin in Plainview for a wedding and J A McCaul in Amarillo and Oklahoma City. Reuben Musick heads to Evergreen Colorado. J W Sanders returns to Canadian after a visit. The Panhandle Laundry advertises 3000 as its phone number. John M Mathias attends insurance meetings in Dallas and Galveston.
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