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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
4
The Amarillo Daily Globe notes its founding date February 20, 1924, entry as second class matter, and evening and Sunday morning publication by Globe Publishing Company at 110 Bad Fifth Street. It mentions Associated Press membership and news dispatch rights.
Rates listed for one week to one year with prices including one week at 8 and one year at 1.50. The text shows garbled placeholders but indicates carrier subscription options and respective durations.
Former U S weather chief Dunn attributes the cyclone that devastated the South to irrigation. He says the Southwest with its growing irrigation projects breeds storms and warns that spreading water over a hot desert region may trigger violent weather. He places the cyclone’s birthplace in Arizona and Southern California and urges meteorologists to find countermeasures.
A civic mobilization urges volunteers to combat weeds described as Jason sown soldiers invading yards alleys and vacant lots. Citizens of draft age encouraged to enlist and intensify removal efforts as weeds resprout relentlessly across streets and corners.
In Amarillo chatter and interviews a Texas firm’s 80 000 tons of piping from a New York company spurs talk of pipelines to Panhandle fields. Rumors link Dorset Carter and Plains pipelines to crude flow and large acreage bonuses. A bridge party scene hints at a looming divorce as angles of industry and everyday life mix.
A mosaic of admonitions on observation and conduct. The piece notes that youths are constantly watched, shaping future job prospects, and cites stories from David and a printer’s joke. It warns against arrogance, hypocrisy, and false modern piety while stressing discipline and honesty as paths to success.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous radio broadcasts and live performances from New York to Chicago and beyond. It mentions sopranos, tenors, orchestras, and clubs with times and stations like WN and WLW, noting events in Philadelphia Pittsburgh Montreal and Buffalo among others.
In a Nassau Street style column from May 8, McIntyre paints New York as a city weighed down by debt and booming gambling tipster networks. He cites heavy charges in hotels and a culture of charging, with anecdotes of a youth running up a $1,358 hotel tab on a $45 weekly salary and rumors of the Savoy Hotel demolition. Beebe the ornithologist and subway life propel a chronicle of urban hustle and idling vigor.
C R DeLong and W C Smith visited Vernon yesterday along with M B Welsh L D Clark and others from Panhandle Hereford Columbus oil interests and Oklahoma City. J C Penney secures a 10 year Vernon lease set to open August 1. Vernon boosters plan a Brownwood motor trip with the band tagging along for the drive.
The Mission shows Dont Doubt Your Husband with Viola Dana as star in a tragi comedic take on early married life. The Fair presents Through the Dark with Colleen Moore and Forrest Stanley plus other features including plastigrams and Wolf Bayne.
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