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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1931
Page
4
A father teaches two children to seek beauty and meaning in nature and daily life rather than wealth. After the father’s death a visitor pushes for money, but the sisters insist their riches lie in memories, nature, and a metaphorical pot of gold at the rainbow’s foot.
Glenn Frank argues about farming needs and population trends. He notes demand grows slowly with population and urbanization lowers per person food needs. He estimates future land needs based on 2.5 acres per person, projecting 438 million crop acres for 175 million people while current cropland stands at 365 million.
Jimmie Haswell probes Audrey Blake and Dr. Netherton as Superintendent Richmond questions a chauffeur linked to Annabelle Querdling’s murder. Marjorie Blake resists help while revelations of letters, a missing will and local car sightings complicate the investigation. The plan to visit Merrow Craig and golf outings weave amid talk of innocence and punishment.
A fragment asks readers for ideas on how certain customs or sayings began. It invites submissions to Roas Murphy and Russ Murphy at The Globe for future answers.
New York observer D C McIntyre collects quick impressions of society in flux. The piece names figures from theater, journalism, and art like Cissie Loftus Katharine Cornell Elsie Ferguson and Helen Menken while noting changing fashion and social scenes such as color trends and Easter egg colors.
Funeral services for W. N. Miller 45 sales man for the Ted Ferguson Nash Company of Amarillo occur at 4 p.m. from Griggs Funeral Chapel with Rev. G L Yates officiating. The body will be sent to La Rue Texas for burial. Miller died in a highway accident near Gallup New Mexico while returning from Phoenix Arizona. He is survived by his widow and daughter Wayne Elizabeth.
The Texas fire insurance commissioner J W Deweese warns that family cook stoves oil heaters and faulty flues cause many fires. Last year furnaces and stoves damaged 563 structures with losses about 618224 dollars. He urges solid foundations noncombustible wall and floor protection burner cleaning and daytime stove filling away from flames.
In Shanghai on March 18 a force of 3000 bandits led by a sister of General Ho Lung was defeated by Nationalist troops. The attackers aimed to seize Lachin crossing the Hupeh-Honan border but were repulsed with heavy casualties. General Hsu Cyuan-Chan’s division aided the defense.
Fearing mob violence, Sheriff Ernest Lee Lawrence moved two Negro men, suspected in the fatal shooting of Constable Roy Sterling in Hempstead, to a county jail near Hempstead. The Hempstead event followed Sterling killing Willie Henley before being fatally shot.
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Redshoulder and Mrs Redshoulder search two days for the best nest site after losing their old home to Hooty the Owl. They argue over two trees a secluded pine and a hidden maple, each right for their needs, then choose the pine as the final nest site. Their plan ends with flight to start building.
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