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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1924
Page
4
The fragment lists the Amarillo Daily Globe, its founding date February 20 1924, and publication details including address 110 East Fifth Street Amarillo Texas with telephones for News and Business, plus subscription rates and carrier options.
The piece reflects on the emotional end of a yearlong theater run in New York. Cast and crew form close bonds, face farewells, and endure a melancholy final night as performers depart for provincial tours and hotel life.
A collection of quips and anecdotes from Amarillo readers and editors reflecting social attitudes in 1924. It jabs at memory, politics, gender roles, humor, writers, and modern life with satirical asides and short anecdotes. It references Europe debts, women voting, an Italian musician, a Greenwich Village incident, and local quirks. The piece mentions Jude Johnson, Shorty Jenks, Walter Wellman, and a domestic science student, ending with a warning about sin and a domestic scene.
The notice advertises The Amarillo Florist seeds at 419 Polk Street and promotes planting sweet peas now. It lists Duke’s Drug Store at 7th and Polk and a phone number 398 for shopping. It mentions Mrs Harvey M Crudgington and her son leaving to visit relatives in Fort Worth for two weeks from 1710 Buchanan Street.
A speaker laments laughter at minor crimes enabling greater lawbreaking. He argues joking at petty violations erodes respect for law, emboldening criminals to commit larger offenses and threatening societal order. He urges a serious, responsible stance toward all laws.
Randall county Sheriff Bill Black will not seek re election and will devote his time to 900 acres of cotton, ending political ambitions to focus on farming.
Movie News and Views notes Hall Caine's Master of Man produced by Goldwyn stars Conrad Nazel Mae Busch Patsy Ruth Miller with Hobart Bosworth Aileen Pringle Creighton Hale. Plot centers on a devoted girl and a man who repents. Ends happily with inheritance renunciation. Will Rogers appears in The Cowboy Sheik at Liberty theater.
The Santa Fe Trail starring Neva Gerber and Jack Perrin opens this week at Liberty theater and Mission for a three day run. The Next Corner a Paris Spanish South American romance debuts at Mission with Conway Tearle Lon Chaney and Dorothy Mackaill. The Santa Fe Trail is praised for historical accuracy and pioneer struggles while The Next Corner follows Elsie Maury’s forbidden love and confession amid desert and city settings.
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