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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1924
Page
7
A letter from Jenny appeals for newspaper carriers to be paid promptly, detailing how boys earn five cents per paper and face repeated collections. Dorothy Dix replies, praising newsboys and urging payment of small debts to prevent hardship, while urging readers to support young reporters and workers.
Marian Colby, employed at the Craig Holden firm near Wall Street, loves her married employer Alec Holden. He is restless and distracted by her, while Marian hopes for a meaningful connection beyond a casual office dynamic. Their unspoken tension hints at a fresh start or a possible turn in their lives tomorrow.
A youthful summer design from a French house features crepe Romaine in lobster red. The simple chemise silhouette uses a pleated front and waist detail, with no sleeves and a cape veil effect enhancing the garment’s unpretentious charm.
A navy Bangkok hat features orange petalled black eyed Susans for a bright summer look. An alternative uses a black shape adorned with white daisies and yellow centers. Velvet binding at the brim edge matches the hat color for cohesion.
New York special correspondent describes a black satin frock with cape like revers and great square cuffs edged in gold and rose braid. It notes the rever dominated trend, lack of collar on trims, and various paneling and sleeve details shaping the boyish tailleur influence.
Pattern No. 2100 offers a blue and green frock with grey background upper, contrasting sleeves and lower skirt in plain cotton. Sizes 16, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 inches. 36-inch requires 2 1/2 yards fabric and 1 1/4 yards contrast. Price 15 cents. mail order from Amarillo Globe Pattern Department for fashion magazine and pattern by post.
A sixty year old widower and successful businessman asks Dorothy Dix whom to marry from two candidates, one a forty year old single woman and the other a widow with six children. He cites five children ages fourteen to three and says his children need a mother while he can provide for her.
Dorothy Dix advises the unmarried man to avoid marrying a widow with six children as it could create conflict in a blended home. She warns against nervous delicate or high temperaments and urges selecting an easy going common sense woman with humor and a philosophical temperament for stepmother duties.
An Amarillo man who says little describes how men discuss business sports and amusements, women discuss themselves and business, and couples discuss bills and child behavior. He claims he never hears men talking about women.
Hardened skin on fingers signals external pressure and overgrown cuticles. Soften with vaseline or cold cream, wear ventilated gloves, and moisturize nightly. For hang nails push cuticle gently and trim near the root, using peroxide if skin splits.
An adaptation of Charley Harris' fan fiction comedy production featuring Clive Varin Henry B. Walthall Chapin Micry in a stage revue.
Joseph Kilgour, famed screen heavy and frequent Washington impersonator, as the "Father of His Country" in prior roles, returns to film in Sam E. Bork's First National production Ponfola. Kilgour has long balanced stage and screen work after a noted film career, including many prosperous villain and business man parts. The Fair theater opens the picture Thursday.
Vitagraph reports Behold This Woman as the title under which the Phillips Oppenheim novel Dow is nearing completion directed by J Stuart Blueckten. Irene Rich stars with Marguerite de la Motte Charles Post Harry Myers Rosemary Theby and Anders Randolph in the cast.
The Amarillo Globe calls for original child sayings with no prior publication. Submit on one side of paper to Bright Sayings Editor in Amarillo Texas and receive 50 cents per printed item.
The Globe notes Liberty magazine pays five dollars per Bright Saying and cites brighter lines from Amarillo and the Panhandle. Readers are invited to contact Miss Agnes Klinke in San Francis Tex. A three year old girl quips about electricity in her hair and gas in her stomach, showing vivid local wit.
Four year old Buster Peterson observed grandparents churn butter and dig potatoes then quipped that grandma punches potatoes from the ground and grandpa punches butter from the milk. A nearby child Gwendolyne near four played with an old telephone in Pampa Texas.
A Palace style production by Filmy company unfolds a grand, lengthy stage like film at the Mission last night. Mittin Cooper Gist Glass Adna Murphy headline with Dallas Figuer directing from James Colwell screenplay. The Wanderer of the Wasteland mirrors old circus methods, shot in Arizona and Mojave, with car caravan style logistics and self sustaining camp. The cast includes Jack Holt Kathryn Williams Noah Beery Billie Dove. The Lubitsch classic The Marriage Circle comes to the Mission for a three day run starting tomorrow.
Following the successful presentation of James Oliver Curwood's Flower of the North at the Liberty theater a large audience is expected for a second showing today. Henry Walthall and Pauline Starke lead the cast in the snowbound northern tale.
A mother explains a telephone receiver and mouthpiece to Oneta Johnson in Pam pa Texas. A father leads a frightened horse while a boy asserts the mare will not throw him. Claudie Price helps pen cattle and warns about a strange cow entering their herd.
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