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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1927
Page
4
Publication details show Amarillo Globe News published by Globe News Publishing Co with editors G Howe and W C Hawk. It lists post office filing February 20 1924 and circulation rates for mail and carrier delivery. The issue date is Tuesday March 15 1927.
A Globe letter writer lauds Amarillo traffic control praising the amber light system that gives pedestrians time to cross. Noting visitors from the East and Captain Amundsen commend the city’s signals while warning about reckless drivers who run by standing cars and turn on red without a full stop.
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce launches a nation wide campaign for strict limits on bridge toll charges. It argues tolls are largely unnecessary and outdated in modern America though some cases may require tolls temporarily.
Balto and his companion huskies, once hailed after delivering medicine to Nome, Alaska, have moved to a Los Angeles dime museum and now Cleveland citizens plan to house them in the Cleveland Zoo. The piece suggests they might be happier back in Alaska, attached to a sled once again.
The United States navy has built 1200 complete eight millimeter programs in duplicate and holds nearly 3800 reels of shorts and features. Films are released to ships, then to shore stations, keeping sailors content while they "join the navy and see the world."
Beaumont Texas dispatch reports the Kirby Lumber mill at Bronson about ninety miles north was burned. The facility produced 60 000 feet daily and valued around 50000 dollars. Mexican Am bor Manuel C Tellez traveling from Mexico City to Washington noted in Laredo that his trip aimed to help a sick brother.
The narrator escapes a kidnap plot and injures a gambler then returns to play for Harvard at Yale Bowl. He races for a touchdown after entering with coach aid, evading Yale defenders and tying the score. He scans the crowd for Rose Abbott and Andersen as gamblers lose twenty thousand dollars.
Washington March 15 President Idge resists interior photo views of the new temporary White House residence at Dupont Circle. Photographers are barred from entering while outside cameras snap the ritzy interior, despite Coolidge’s amiable stance toward photographers and his openness to posing.
Hazleton Pennsylvania records a quirky chapter as Michael Pecora, once a barber shop towel boy, trains in sight of Frigerio the Olympic walking champion. For 16 months he strides down Main Street beating Willie Plant twice and turning local doubt into hometown bragging rights.
London reports reveal eclectic pastimes among aristocrats. Baron Rothschild’s flea collection is now at the British Museum. Honorable Ivor Montagu buys fleas dead or alive and chloroforms them. Prince Arthur accompanies Princess Arthur on gown shopping. Lord Gainford embroiders on trains. Ernest Thesiger creates intricate tapestries admired by friends.
The United States has cut war debt by seven and a half billion dollars since 1919, lowering annual carrying costs by about 318 million. Treasury efforts reduced outstanding Liberty bonds from 26.6 to 19.1 billion as surpluses fund debt relief rather than tax refunds.
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