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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1925
Page
4
The Globe endorses the Bivins Fisk Harris slate in a move signaling party alignment and expected policy direction. Endorsement highlights the trio’s experience and stance on key issues.
Col Ernest Thompson finances an eight story office building on Third and Polk and announces a 135000 expansion to the Amarillo hotel adding 209 rooms. He says work begins Tuesday and the projects reflect Amarillo’s future as a modern city. Thompson is praised as a true city builder and credit for expansion is attributed to his vision and courage.
Visitors expect Amarillo to win the 1926 West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention with over 20,000 attendees. A mobilization includes a May 3 special train, parades in Dallas and Fort Worth on May 4, and stops in Mineral Wells to secure support from fifty eight cities. Local boosters urge active planning and participation to ensure a successful bid.
Advertises Marmola Prescription Tablets as a simple solution for overweight individuals who dislike exercise. Claims taking one tablet after each meal and at bedtime will steadily reduce fat and reshape the figure, with worldwide availability and a money refund to request a box.
Radio listings across WLW WOCO WLA BYW WCEP WHAS WOC WHO WOAW WFAA WBAP and others show church services studio concerts orchestral performances and choral programs. Notable times include 9 09 A M 7 30 P M 8 30 P M on WLW Cincinnati and 4 00 P M studio concerts on WLA Chicago. Other stations include Des Moines Omaha Dallas Fort Worth and more with varied church services recitals and orchestra plays.
Pacific and mountain time listings show orchestras, chamber groups, and talks from stations like KGW Portland WSAI Cincinnati WCCO Minneapolis WD, with concerts at 6 00 and 8 00 PM and various broadcasts continuing after 10 00 PM including weather, news, and educational programs. The slate includes Zion Band in Elgin Chicago theatres organ recitals and university night segments across multiple cities.
The narrator recalls joining Mr. Shelton at the Shelton-Houghton-Shelton ranches covering 250000 acres with 76 gates. They observe quail at breakfast, antelope in the west pasture, and a spring-fed lake stocked by birds and fish. The piece notes the ranches as among the Panhandle’s best watered with abundant living water and a quirky tale of fish entry through spawning attached to birds.
Paris dispatch recalls a French gendarme and a drunken peasant in Place de la Bourse as a sidewalk comedy. The writer compares French drinking to New York’s, notes Restaurant Montaigne on Rue de l’Echelle as a gourmet haunt, and wanders through anecdotes about Dodge trucks, Roy Hollingshead, and a Panhandle sale. He ends homesick for New York and his dog, hinting at a permissive French drinking culture and his own travel fatigue.
Hugh C. Gouldy will be general manager stockholder and director of the new Palo Duro Furniture Co. He resigns from Amarillo Second Hand Furniture after three years and will head stock selection at big wholesale markets ahead of a planned April 1 opening. L. B. Lyles to assist. C King has 'em.
Port Arthur March 21 Efforts to contact the Gulf Stream the Gulf Refining Company's oil tanker two and a half days overdue from Tampico with crude for the gulf port. Relatives of the crew aboard the ship expressed concern over its safety late today.
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