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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1925
Page
4
Rates listed for carrier and mail subscriptions in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico show options for one week one month three months six months and yearly plans. Additional Sunday only option available.
The San Angelo Standard editorials Amarillo’s water bond vote as proof of growth, insisting the $1 750 000 project will be self supporting and not raise taxes. The Globe rebukes the piece as libel and invites the San Angelo editor to Amarillo to see its eight story building boom and new homes.
A dense timetable lists daily programs across many stations from Chicago to Portland. Entries include orchestras, concerts, lectures, weather, and news segments with varied local times and venues.
An advertising pitch touts Mentho Sulpher as a rapid healing treatment for skin eruptions including eczema and acne. It claims instant relief, quick complete results, and uses a germ destroying sulfur formula. Free sample offered from Whitehall Pharmacal Co with address in New York.
A humor column lampoons birthday aging billboard and newspaper ads and shares weather signs for rain. It cites billboard spending surpassing newspapers and mocks rival Carl Sullivan in a mayoral race while recounting domestic anecdotes and a Panhandle Music Festival boycott.
A festival aria moment ends in a lively quarrel over an overture and anvil chorus. The couple resolves the dispute by noting the real music heard was the "Refrain from Spitting" from an opera.
London reports that grey and white road surfaces induce eye strain among rising numbers of motorists. Arthur Upson, speaking before the Institute of Opticians, says white surfaces reflect harmful actinic rays and urges road builders to mix green coloring matter into surfacing material. The article notes a nearby street corner at Tenth and Grant near Polk.
Puzzle by J C Boyd features a dense grid of clues across and down. Answers include a range of words from common to obscure with many proper names and terms, reflecting a mid century newspaper’s packed crossword style.
A reader notes that solving the puzzle involves comparing synonyms in the Horizontal and Vertical lists with the number of spaces in the diagram. Fill in words that fit the spaces, starting with short linking words to gain clues for harder entries, and lightly write near the given numbers where a synonym meaning nearly the same fits.
A Paris correspondent from March describes the city’s blunt contrasts. He notes beggars along boulevards, peep shows near Americans, and police tolerance. He contrasts cultured writers with depraved entertainment and praises Luxembourg gardens and a polite French child, while commenting on long telephones and fast pneumatic telegrams.
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