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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1929
Page
8
The fragment shows a masthead and ad pricing details from the Amarillo Globe with Associated Press credit. It notes exclusive rights for AP dispatches and lists contact numbers, including News Business and Circulation lines.
A disputed argument questions Dr Harold Clark of Teachers College New York who claims college education harms earnings. Proponents argue education enriches life beyond wealth, citing George Horace Lorimer on money and the things it buys.
Lieutenant Herman H. Hanneken of the U S Marine Corps stands as a figure echoing Rudyard Kipling’s military tales. The piece compares his actions and bearing to British privates in India, suggesting character and leadership matter more than the uniform.
Daily Wonders by Alice Judson Peale urges adults to rediscover the world through a child’s eyes. It contrasts the marvel of new feats like a transatlantic dirigible with routine city scenes to inspire attentive, curious observation in adults and their children.
A street encounter unfolds as Moses Rabinowitz explains he is jailed as a victim of a lawsuit witness. The joke centers on miscommunication and a punchline about being a "press er of pants" and a Jewish judge questioning his identity.
Mildred Lawrence loses a fox fur on a train, identification follows as Stephen Armitage helps recover it. At a Junior League ball Pamela Judson attracts Stephen while Mildred wrestles with her growing interest and Pamela’s flirtations. Stephen lingers between work and social life as Mildred weighs his intentions.
A columnist sketches underworld figures labeled two gun so and so's as mere youths. He notes their cigars and gloves, their behavior, and how they recruit weak accomplices. The piece contrasts old frontier shootouts with modern urban gang dynamics and previews show business missteps and cultural quirks of 1929 New York.
In a Burgess bedtime tale Farmer Brown's Boy plans to trap Jimmy Skunk to stop nightly chicken losses. A string of failed traps and puzzling counting leads him to realise the mystery of vanished poultry has paused, with Jimmy still under the henhouse and no chickens missing.
A fragment depicts a crossword puzzle list with clues such as Woman and Destiny and a dialogic line about “Lunching with your hero” spoken by a character to Mildred. The scene hints at a continuing tale with a note TO BE CONTINUED and a prompt about a dress for a special event.
Special Washington correspondent reports Texas state hospitals cared for 7,985 mentally ill in 1928 up from 3,985 in 1910, with 145.7 per 100,000 population. First admissions declined from 1,815 in 1926 to 1,580 in 1927. In 1928 there were 3,886 men and 4,099 women treated.
The list presents a crossword style grid with clues for across and down entries. Items include public officer authorized to attest documents, kimono sash, falsehood, carbonated dessert drink, and verbs for conduct and upbringing, among others.
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