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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1934
Page
2
Amarillo honors mothers-in-law with a planned celebration and forms a local Mother-in-Law Day club. The piece notes strong support against jokes at national level, highlights community events, guests, and charity efforts for Little Shirley Ann Grounds, plus local humor and reflections on Will Rogers and public figures.
Puneral services for Rufus Bennet, one of two blind musicians from a Dallas night club orchestra killed in an automobile accident yesterday, will be held here today with burial planned for Fort Worth. Emery Allen’s arrangements were incomplete.
Abilene March 5 UP Funeral services were to be held today for Louis M. Hunter 31 a prominent West Texas Insurance man and Abilene Chamber of Commerce director who died from internal hemorrhage yesterday after being pinned beneath his car Saturday H G Gorham with Hunter at the scene received minor injuries Jimmie Stovall driver of the other car was not injured
The column notes Annie Allegra Longfellow, the youngest daughter of the poet, known for The Children's Hour lines, has died aged 719. She leaves five daughters and many grandchildren, and Galton's heredity ideas are cited about female line genius.
Marilyn Lazard and Peggy Manning led flower girls scattering sweet peas as prize winners. Newsreels filmed the parade while the mayor and Eleanor Roosevelt spoke. The celebration drew thousands, prompting plans for annual events to honor the mother in law institution.
Lee Simmons, popular Texas prison system manager, denies running for governor. In Huntsville he stated he will not be a candidate despite requests. In Paris funeral services planned for Sayers Boyd, 54, veteran Paris newspaper publisher, who died from pneumonia after an injury and surgery.
Fechner and Collins clash over CCC lumber quality and stamping costs. Blanton accuses influence from John H. Kirby and questions stamps by the Southern Pine Association. Washington reports the House Appropriations Committee removing a Ward Department PWA funding provision and repatriation of unemployed aliens from the Panama program while preserving aeronautics support.
President Roosevelt warns against monopolistic and unfair trade practices while defending the NRA and the New Deal social economic plan. He urges wage gains and shorter hours to relieve the federal treasury and urges unity to balance agriculture, industry, and labor for the public good. The critic is deemed patriotic when offering constructive alternatives.
The stock show in Panhandle hosts a large crowd of cattlemen bankers and commission men from Texas New Mexico and nearby centers for the Hereford breeders auction. Notables include Wallace Good W H Briggers Jack Williams Charley Moorehouse Frank Witherspoon and Murdo Mackenzie among others with Texas A M extension specialists and university staff also present. A full entertainment slate includes three dances at Amarrillo Herring Hotels and 203 Polk Street.
Dear Tack letters praise a movement to ease the life of mothers-in-law, claim movies mock their plight, and propose a government home. Mrs. N. B. Griggs is thanked for her efforts and readers call for public respect and recognition.
The court resumed with Judge Krimball objecting to leading questions from Civilian Defense Counsel Anderson as Major Howland lectured the attorneys. Anderson argued the witness was unwilling under pressure and needed memory refreshment, which Howland allowed after overruling the objection.
Officials noted the first aid pact was limited by the federal government's pay capacity. Since then Congress has appropriated 950 million dollars for direct relief and CWA activities, shaping the scope of renewed renewal talks.
The first trial into an assault on M. L. May of Memphis and Wichita Falls ended in a $200 fine for Boaz. Prosecutors argued the three men drank at a downtown hotel and boasted of a fight, with May and McCaulley stabbed and Boaz allegedly protecting himself. Both May and McCaulley survived.
G J Palmer 63 longtime Houston Chronicle vice president and general manager will be buried in Houston today after dying Sunday from uremic poisoning. He became head of the Chronicle in 1926 after 37 years in Texas journalism and helped form the Texas Newspaper Publishers Association.
Hogs were 2,600 with 400 direct. opened steady to higher on 240 lb hogs, dull to steady on others. Cattle 10,000 with calves. heavy steers scarce. stockers and feeders strong. vealers and good to choice steer prices listed. Sheep 10,000 with lambs above 9.45 and other ranges. ewes and wethers priced. New Orleans Cotton: market eased early, then recovered some. May 12.16 to 12.28, July 12.20 to 12.28, October 12.34 to 12.28, with intraday fluctuations and short covering activity.
Randall County farmer Herman D. Robertson, 41, died at his home 15 miles south of Canyon at 2 20 this morning. Survived by widow, eight children, three brothers and a sister. Body at Griggs-Thompson Funeral Home, Canyon. Funeral service likely Tuesday.
Trading on the New York stock market paused as investors digested President Roosevelt's NRA speech. Bonds and most equities held near unchanged levels with some tobacco and alcohol stocks rising. Major declines showed for American Telephone, U S Steel, Chrysler, Du Pont, and others while Auburn advanced. Roosevelt urged higher wages and shorter hours to boost employment, prompting mixed views on near term profits but longer term gains.
Mrs. J. D. Stanford of 2018 N Main St Fort Worth writes she was nervous weak and losing weight but after one bottle of Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery she improved greatly and felt like a young girl again The product is sold in tablets and liquid at 50 cents 1.00 and 1.35 dollars with the slogan We Do Our Part.
The National Security Life Assn offers a no medical exam Life Protection Certificate for $1 to individuals ages 10 to 75. It covers up to $1000 for death from any cause and $2000 to $3000 for accidental death. No money is required for 10 days of free inspection. If kept, $1 secures protection for at least 45 days at about 8c daily. if not kept, nothing is owed. No agent will call. Limited offer.
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