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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1928
Page
6
Old Amarillo newspaper fragment shows publication details for the Globe-News Publishing Co and a March 27 1028 date. Subscription rates are garbled and unreadable, with references to Sunday and six month terms. The text mirrors a typical 1920s editions header and pricing line.
The Texas Panhandle Plains Dairy association to hold its first annual show in Plainview on April 5 and 6, the only exclusive dairy show in the Southwest and the second in the nation. Amarillo urged to send delegates, learn dairy progress, and plan an Amarillo Day to show support for the industry. Travel by auto from Amarillo takes about two and a half hours. Santa Fe schedule permits a round trip in one day.
The Kate Adams, a famed side wheel steamer, will resume regular service on the Ohio river between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati this summer. The nostalgic river packet boats brought color to the era, and many regret their decline in favor of newer transport methods.
A writer laments a modern mutiny aboard the British warship Royal Oak over a jazz band being forbidden. The piece contrasts contemporary sailors with Nelson era crews who endured harsher fare and harsher discipline, implying the band dispute seems trivial by comparison.
The essay argues that American restlessness has shaped the nation from westward expansion to global industrial and financial influence. It notes $15 billion invested abroad, a wave of young expatriate agents, and ships carrying American goods as the country extends its empire and changes world civilization.
Jill Justin and brother Tony attend a harvest festival in Elliston W Va. A hold up leads to Jill’s kidnapping and rescue by Jack Stuart who marries her. Years pass with wealth from a mine deal fueling jealousy and intrigue involving Nita Rayelle Francois Le Tarte and Pat Sweeney as family life faces trials and a casino lure.
A New York lecturer argues newspaper columnists act as modern preachers while readers seek sharper thinking. The piece surveys vaudeville roots of columns, editorial liberty, and the public’s varying regard, noting absinthe use in speakeasies and a dramatic Casino windfall tied to Pat Sweeney.
In a Green Forest tale, Bobby Coon wrestles with curiosity about distant cousins and Scrapper the Kingbird. Peter Rabbit taunts him, hinting at Nosey, then unexpectedly presses Bobby toward Scrapper as daylight fades, setting up a meeting.
A humorous exchange between two American travelers in Europe reveals rival pride over wealth. One boasts he can buy or sell, calling himself the rich Mr Cohen of St Louis. The other counters, the famous Chicago merchant prince, saying he can outbid or outlast him without effort.
Virginia City authorities struggle to locate the $30,000 missing from the Virginia City Bank after convicted robbers Fitzsimmons and Moore allegedly hid the cache in Six Mile Canyon. A map led searchers to a tin can but not the money, with locals and a surety company left puzzled.
In Mahach Kala Turkestan March 27 the death penalty was used to deter assaults on girls. Two Persian Soviet citizens were executed for luring a 19 year old girl Mary Saltikova and her illegitimate child to their apartment by a fake ad. The two were hanged and a third received ten years hard labor.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Fermisfeen, both 83, marked their sixty sixth wedding anniversary at their London home. Born near each other and married at seventeen, they spoke of a long, happy life together and of staying true to each other despite aging challenges.
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