General Motors sets yearly sales record despite market saturation
General Motors reports total 1,215,826 car sales for the year, up 47 percent, signaling a persistent demand. The piece also notes worsening China news with hurried movement from Ningpo to Shanghai and fears of losses for British and German financiers amid contested concessions. It comments on currency value, wages up 116 percent, and cites Earl D. Babst on Java wages, describing the limited riches possible for Java’s forty million workers.
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General Motors
Java
Earl D. Babst
American Sugar Refining Company
Boy Penitent Over Attempt to Kill Father
Dallas March 9 A 15 year old, Howard Barr, confessed to attempting to kill his father and step mother with a dynamite bomb tossed onto a bed. He planned to kill for insurance to reach his mother in California. If Mrs Stone agrees he will be sent to her. otherwise a boys' training home is likely.
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Associated Press
Dallas
T. J. Stone
Howard Barr
Hugh J. Barr
Barr
Young Barr
California
San Diego
Endless human chain fights to keep Frick alive in Chicago
Albert Frick, 22, paralyzed diaphragm, lay propped in a bed as doctors and 24 workers labor in continuous eight hour shifts since Sunday morning. The course of paralysis appears virtually hopeless as artificial respiration is maintained in exact rhythm.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Albert Frick
Land of the Living
Frick
Realtors Invite Coolidge to Spend Summer in Panhandle
Amarillo real estate leaders plan to invite President Calvin Coolidge to make the Panhandle his summer White House. They propose offering the Kritser ranch twenty miles north of town as a summer home with modern conveniences and nearby fishing spots. An invitation will be extended promptly.
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Coolidge
Panhandle
Associated Press
Amarillo
Kritser
Kruser
Southwest
al Smith
Democrats weigh 1928 ticket with Missouri and New York picks
The article notes Democrats mulling a 1928 presidential run with Senator from Missouri as possible president and Governor Smith of New York as vice president. It questions whether Smith would accept a ticket requiring religious or ideological compromises and whether such a nomination would succeed.
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Senator 2
Missouri
Govergst Smith
New York
Smith
Central Japan Faces Aftermath of Major Earthquake
An earthquake devastates Tokyo Osaka and Kobe with loss of life and property. Officials urge swift recovery as Japan vows resilience and national unity with broad international sympathy.
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Japan
Tokio
Kobe
Osaka
Aloysius Joseph Kills Wife Then Ends Own Life
A taxi driver Aloysius Joseph killed his wife Monday after jealousy sparked her departure. He sought last rites from a priest, asked forgiveness, then shot himself. A priest disclosed the wife was deaf and beyond aid. A fourth USA air goodwill flight suffered an accident near Montevideo with no injuries.
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Aloysius Joseph
Oswaldus Northingerus Creates 1600 Ivory Dishes
English maker Oswaldus Northingerus fashioned 1600 ivory dishes, each complete and detailed to a minuscule size, small enough to fit into an ordinary cup.
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Oswaldus Northingerus
England
Spring Fashion Awakens in Amarillo Haberdasheries
Amarillo's show windows burst with the newest spring styles as young men prepare for courtship and wardrobe upgrades. Merchants display checks, pinstripes, broad sides, solid blues and greens to attract buyers.
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Amarillo
Haberdasheries
Mostil Improves After Suicide Attempt
Johnny Mostil, Chicago White Sox outfielder, attempted suicide Tuesday night in a Shreveport hotel bathroom. He was found in a pool of blood with throat, wrist, and ankle slashes and a deep chest stab wound, but his condition slightly improved and he is conscious. Friends cite possible mental distress tied to his health.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Johnny Mostil
Chicago White Sox
Mostil
Mosul
South Dakota Girl Bandit Sentenced to 30 Days
Marian Meyers a former student at the University of South Dakota was sentenced to thirty days in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to attempting to rob the vault of the First National Bank in Vermilion.
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the Associated Press
Vermilion
Marian Meyers
Cored
University of South Dakota
State Penitentiary
First National Bank
Farwell Train Crash Kills Woman and Injures Man
Mrs. F. A. Houston is killed when her car crashes into Santa Fe Train No. 21 at the Farwell Texico crossing while her husband Mr. Houston is hurt. Their infant daughter escapes with minor bruises as the couple were en route to work.
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Globe Farwell
Tex
F. A. Houston
Santa Fe
Farwell
Texico
Houston
Seymour
Texas
Hall Named New Sports Editor for Amarillo Globe News
Charley Hall, ex Dallas News and Waco News Tribune editor, becomes sports editor of The Amarillo Globe and The Daily News. He will serve as official Western League scorekeeper in Amarillo and write a series on the Amarillo Texans before the league season opens next month.
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Charley Hall
Dallas News
Waco News- Tribune
Amarillo Globe
The
Daily News
Hall
Globe- News
John L. McCarty
McCarty
Globe News
el Paso
Daredevil Cathey Trials Nash Car On 100 Hour Endurance
Lee Cathey known as Daredevil, continues a 100 hour endurance test in a Nash Light Six in Amarillo. He began yesterday and will run until 4 pm Saturday, with fueling daily at Henry Propst Motor Co. at 2 and 8 pm. Support comes from Kansas City Waffle House, McDonald Auto Supply, Pool Creameries, Hamilton Tire Service, and Amarillo Refining.
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Lee
Cathey
Amarillo
Henry Propst Motor Company
Ninth
Polk Streets
Propst Company
Kansas City Waffle House
McDonald Auto Supply Company
Pennzoil
Nash
Pool Creameries
Hamilton Tire Service
Amarillo Refining Company
Girl of 16 Is a Lifers Feature at Amarillo Hotel
A fragment notes a 16 year old girl labeled lifer with reference to Blackburn Ambulance and the Amarillo Hotel described as the Panhandle's meeting place. The item suggests a human-interest feature or promotional blurb in a local paper.
Weather outlook for Amarillo and Far West Texas
Forecast shows tonight fair with Thursday bringing rain and colder weather. Far West Texas expected similar with cloudy, rain north portion and cooler conditions. Today’s temperature extremes reach 70 to 88 by 1 o clock. year ago highs were 69 and 88.
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Amarillo
Far
Texas
Amarillo Wins New University Site From Methodist Conference
The Amarillo Board of City Development backs the University of Amarillo after the Northwest Texas Methodist conference locates it south of the city one mile south of Thirty-fourth on Washington. A five person committee plans buildings and funding with Dr. W M Pearce as chairman. Civic groups nationwide pledge support as the project moves toward a March 29 conference meeting.
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University of Amarillo
Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Amarillo Board of City Development
W. C. Gatton
Claude C. Wild
Thirty-fourth Street
Washington
O. P. Clark
Lon D. Marrs
Methodist Conference
Amarillo
United
Panhandle Plains
W. M. Pearce
Methodist Church
Board of City Development
Chamber of Commerce
University of
Rock Island
College Board
Llano to Erect 250000 Mausoleum by Renowned Designers
The Llano cemetery plans a $250000 mausoleum with sales and construction by Community Mausoleum Company of Kansas City. Sidney Lovell of Lovell and Lovell Chicago will design and supervise, using durable materials. The project includes a chapel and marble statues from Italy for interior beauty.
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Llano Cemetery
M. C. Nobles
Cemetery Association
W. H. Fuqua
Community Mausoleum Company, Inc
Kansas City
Missouri
Mausolea
Sidney Lovell
Lovell and Lovell
Chicago
Lovell
United States
New York
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Wichita
Llano Pantheon
Italy
Kore
Fuqua
Our Cemetery Association
Lindsey O.K.'d as grid coach for Oklahoma
Adrian Lindsey of Bethany Kansas was approved as football coach at the University of Oklahoma by the board of regents. Jap Haskell was selected as baseball coach at Kansas City. Ben G. Owen will direct athletics under the new plan starting next fall.
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Associated Press
Norman
Okla
Adrian Lindsey
Bethany Collegg
Lindsborg
Kan
University of Oklahoma
Board of Regents
Jap Haskell
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Ben G. Owen
U S Good Will Fliers Head For Sao Paulo
Pan American good will fliers resumed flight northward from Rio Grande do Sul toward Sao Paulo with a brief stop at Florianopolis, signaling the next leg of the goodwill mission.
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Associated Press
Rio Grande DO Sul
Brazil
Pan-American Good Will Fliers
Sao Paulo
Florianopolis
Rio Grande
Lone Oak Hotel Destroyed By Fire Near Greenville
Fire of undetermined origins last night destroyed the McBride hotel at Lone Oak near Greenville. The loss amount was not yet determined. The Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Hotel is famous for food.
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Lone Oak
The
Associated Press
Greenville
McBride
Here
Amarillo Hotel
Japan Accepts Three Power Naval Arms Plan
Tokyo reports Japan intends to accept the three power naval arms limitation proposal of the United States, as learned by Associated press today.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Associated Learned
Dalhart Grand Jury Report Expected In Murder Case
Dalhart March 9 Joe Bill Inman held in Dallam County jail on murder charge in fatal Sunday shooting of Billy Patterson. Grand jury began inquiry Monday and is expected to report soon. Inman, senior class president, surrendered after Patterson was killed on main street. He may plead self defense claiming Patterson threatened him.
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The
Globe
Dalhart
Joe Bill Inman
Billy Patterson
Dallam County
Grand Jury
G. W. Alexander
Inman
Judge Inman
Patterson
Alexander
Tellez Reported Ready to Return
Unconfirmed reports state Manuel Tellez Mexican ambassador to the United States who arrived in Mexico City on Monday would return to Washington on Saturday.
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Mexico
City
Manuel Tellez
United States
Washington
Explorer Tracy Richardson Plans Expedition into Southern Mexico
Explore Mexico New York reports Tracy Richardson, soldier of fortune and explorer, organizing an expedition into unexplored southern Mexico where he previously saw river cliff hieroglyphics and marks of an ancient civilization.
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Associated Press
New York
Tracy Richardson
Soldier of Fortune
Mexico
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South Dakota
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the Panhandle
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Kinta
Bonnie Cooper
Sarael Cooper
Cooper
Bonnie
B.C.D
NEW University
Lindsey O.K
U. S
Tellez
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