Amarillo hotel city within a hotel hosts many shops
The Greater Amarillo hotel functions as a mini city with rooms meals and a variety of services. Visitors can access a drug store Yellow Cab service an oil exchange and multiple firms from the lobby area, all anchored by the Pool Drug company’s origins in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater
Amarillo
Southwest
Pool Drug Company
Roy Pool
Yellow Cab Company
Blackboard Oil Exchange
Texas Longhorn Now a Protected Animal
The Texas longhorn is protected as a government ward on a reservation in the Wichita National Forest Oklahoma. Introduced by Spanish settlers the breed will be managed with care in a pasture near buffalo stock. Officials say it will be profitable for the government via beef value or sale to zoos and parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita National Forest
Oklahoma
Washington
Congress
Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve
Indian Territory
Southwest
Texas
Wichita Forest
Wichita
Flashes of Life and War Era Oddities Across the Nation
A jumble of fragmented notes from New York to Washington. Mrs. J. P. Morgan inherits a death notice, and $200,000 is donated for sleep disease study. Dr Theodore B. Appel prescribes a cradle of health including exercise fresh air and balanced diet. Henry Ford champions long walks and trains his at Wayside Inn. A war department kitchen for pack horses signals cavalry uses. Linoleumville residents seek a town name change amid call troubles. Prices surge for quicksilver as wartime supplies shift. Diplomatic notes mention a Jugo Slay legation member heading home after stock issues force closures in 12 banks.
Greater Amarillo hotel invites Panhandle for opening banquet
Invitation to Amarillo and Panhandle residents to tour the 400 room Greater Amarillo hotel with 300 bath rooms. Banquet 7 to 9 PM followed by dancing with three orchestras. Officials urge inspection of the lobby and celebrate the hotel as the Panhandle’s Meeting Place. ERNEST C. THOMPSON.
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Amarillo
the Panhandle
Greater Amarillo Hotel
Amarillo Hotel
News-Globe
Living Heroes of Confederacy to Be Honored
Atlanta based report notes the enrollment of about 40,000 living Confederate Veterans into a Gold Star section of the Book of Memory. The effort is backed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Confederated Southern Memorial association with leaders Moss and Mrs. Wilson pledging support. A triple plated gold medal designed by Augustus Luke man will be awarded as names are enrolled. The drive aims to complete by April with the Tampa convention to follow.
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Atlanta
Book of Memory
South
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Confederated Southern Memorial Association
Lucius L. Moss
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Sons of Veterans
A. McD. Wilson
The
Confederated Memorial Association
Tampa
Fla
Augustus Lukeman
Stone Mountain Memorial
Wilson
Stone Mountain Memorial Association
Penny in the Slot Radio Arrives in London
London introduces penny in the slot radios with booths for listeners using earphones to hear wireless programs until their penny’s worth. postmaster general approves a private company to run the scheme.
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London
Associated Press
Postmaster General
Barometric Well A Natural Puzzle
Portland telegram reports a barometric well near Maupin Oregon powering water supply and forewarning storms. Geologists study the 458 foot basalt shaft where air is sucked or blown for 12 to 24 hours before and after storms, suggesting underground chambers regulate pressure and temperature.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Maupin
Well dressed man in traffic court cites Kermit Roosevelt
A well dressed man in a New York traffic court testified with the name and address of Kermit Roosevelt and paid a $2 fine for a charge of driving a truck wrong. Roosevelt was not in town that day.
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Associated Press
New York
Kermit Roosevelt
Greater Amarillo hotel to open with public ceremonies
The greater Amarillo hotel will open to the public Friday night March 25 with a banquet at 7 and dancing in the hotel featuring three orchestras. Col Ernest O Thompson owner invites every citizen of Amarillo and the Panhandle to inspect the twelve story tower and Palm Room while enjoying a view of the city. The seven year project began after Thompson purchased the hotel in 1919, expanding from a wooden frame to a fourteen story roomed tower through additions including the Polk street, Third street and now the twelve story structure. Local contractors and firms supplied design, construction, and interior elements for a modern hotel with a Presidential suite, mezzanine, and ample lobby space.
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Greater Amarillo
Col
Ernest O. Thompson
Amarillo
Panhandle
Minn Baend
Col. Thompson
H. P. Canade
Polk Street
Third and
Polk
Peacock Alley
Third Street
Colonel Thompson
Greater
Third
W. H. Hayman Company
Amarilo
Southwest
J. A. Thompson Paint Company
Reed Sheet Metal Works
Moron-Thomas Hardware Company
Amarillo Plate Glass and Mirror Company
Vernon-Williams Company
Gaines D. Whitsitt
Monarch Cement
Amarillo Lumber Company
G. E. Jones Electric Company
W. A. Fowler
Ben Sibbitts Iron and Foundry Company
Wichita Kansas
Moore- Poston Company
Ifm
Farm Boys and Girls Prize Offer For National Congress
The Rock Island railway offers 64 prizes for 4 H Club members from eleven states to attend the Sixth National Farm Boys and Girls Club Congress in Chicago in December 1927. Prizes are split evenly between boys and girls, with four awarded to Texas. Winners chosen by extension authorities and the U S Department of Agriculture. The event promises national speakers and tours of major exhibitions and facilities.
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Rock Island Railway
Farm Boys and Girls’ Club
Chicago
Texas
Rock Island
G. L. Noble
National Committee On
Girls Club
Mile Square
Lincoln Park
Poultry Industry Expands Across Plainview South Plains
Special to the Globe from Plainview Texas March 23 reports poultry raising becoming a major industry in Hale county. A chamber program employed poultry expert J L Meyers and banker R A Underwood to aid farmers, with 52 hundred chickens culled in four weeks and 20 percent unprofitable stock weeded out. The Staked Plain Turkey association, led by W S Noel, drives stock and egg quality. A twelve thousand egg hatchery near Plainview expanded to 47,000 eggs under Noble Conner with B H Pearson, while L B Platt’s produce house handles poultry valued at 620000 annually with six monthly chicken carloads four egg carloads and turkeys worth about 200000 during holidays.
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Plainview
West Texas
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Boon
J. L. Meyers
Meyers
Plaing Turkey Association
W. 8
Noel
Noble Conner
B. H. Pearson
Sulphur Springs
Conner
L. B. Platt
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Longhorn
Is Press
JP. Morgan
Morgan
Harrisburg
Theodore B. Appel
State
Sudbury
Mass
Henry Ford
War Department
Staten Island
Orhorities
York
Shington
Ivan “Itch
Jugo Slay Legation
Gov
Ernest C. Thompson
Confederacy
Crecte
Third and van Buren
H. B. Sanborn
Ross Rogers
John McKnight
L. C. Thompson
Leves
Sigman Furniture Company
Williams-Orr Company
Henry Thomson
Ordway-Saunders Company
National Congress
South Plains
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