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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1935
Page
6
Courts inspect 74 devices seized by Sheriff in Potter County. owners admitted to adjusting payoffs to boost profits. A jack pot was disabled with a tampered mechanism and a decoy wheel. the devices allegedly net between 10 and 60 percent for operators. Residents discuss shifting machines to Arizona amid legal battles and appeals.
Fortune Magazine predicts a major reorganization of the Southern agricultural economy as the United States loses its grip on global raw cotton markets. Increased production abroad, notably Egypt and Brazil, threatens export buyers and prompts calls to contract and dismantle extensive export banking structures.
Yale sociologist Prof James G Leyburn challenges the view that Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay to create equality. He says they kept old social distinctions, with clergymen and a local aristocracy ruling by gods elect, while merchants, artisans, and laborers held separate ranks and land pews. The study traces these class lines from Harvard seating to frontier settlement.
A nine day old newborn in Amarillo weighs two pounds eleven ounces while her mother Carrie Dell Harwell aged 30 weighs fifty six pounds. Doctors note the extreme rarity of such low birth weights and discuss medical care and family context in this early report.
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