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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1927
Page
7
Dr. R M Walker city care officer says Amarillo has about twenty scarlet fever cases under quarantine with similar number unreported. He notes the illness is mild and urges immediate reporting. Four smallpox cases exist, three at the isolation camp and one on Johnson Street, with the camp praised as orderly.
George J. Williams of the Williams Sign Company reports strong demand in Amarillo and the Panhandle. He says he has turned down five to six thousand dollars worth of business recently, reflecting thriving local conditions after nineteen years in the area.
The Potter County Free Library reported an average daily attendance of 226 in April, with 4,235 books issued for the month and total attendance of 6,771. The peak day had 351 visitors on April 22 and 218 books issued on April 23. March totals: 4,677 books issued and 7,658 attendees averaging 247 daily.
Frederick Kendall formerly with Kendall and Fine in Amarillo and later with W. O. Allen now operates in Boston wrote home recounting a stop near Old South church. He asked a news vendor how to pronounce Amarillo and received a spelling lesson and the comment it must be some town. Undersea mountains stories describe Mount Laura Ethel and Congo Canyon as submerged Atlantic features.
Mrs. J A Wakefield of Dallas praises Tanlac for complete relief from bowel trouble nerves and weakness claiming a 15 pound weight gain and strengthened nerves after taking the tonic. She credits Tanlac with stabilizing her health and urges others with indigestion gas and nervousness to ask their druggist for Tanlac today.
Panhandle Boy Scouts will host a handicraft building and display at the annual summer encampment if plans by F R McMillen Ama rillo camp committee chair are realized. McMillen and his committee have worked on handicraft features and promise surprises for the scouts at camp. Much handiwork will be done in camp along with other practical tasks.
A textile instruction explains that warp threads bear the weight when linen is hung, meaning the vertical threads run along the length of the fabric and support the weight rather than the weft threads.
Boston dateline May 4 United Press reports 55 year old J Theodore Murphy a New York vaudeville actor widower of five marriages plans a sixth wedding with 27 year old New Haven resident Aldena Marie Fanion Whitney. Murphy recounts a string of wives and deaths and offers advice to lovelorn suggesting marrying younger partners to avoid aging together.
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