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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1924
Page
4
A fragment from the Amarillo Daily Globe outlines founding date February 20 and basic publication info. It lists mailing details, office address at 110 East Fifth Street, and subscription rates for daily, Sunday, and combined editions.
Police and sheriff announce a campaign against loafing and petty crime on lonely roads and motor car parking. Officials say the plan will curb petty thievery and reduce chief annoyances of law enforcement. The move aims to remove idle hands that lead to trouble.
An editorial urges residents to swat flies early in Amarillo as spring starts. It emphasizes flies carry germs and spread disease, urging quick action to prevent a rising infestation.
In Washington yesterday Representative Blanton of Texas reportedly threw a chair at Representative Hammer of North Carolina and then wielded an appropriation bill as a weapon. An Amarillo man laments delays for women to get ready while some people live to old ages for unclear reasons and a note on two lemonades and a balloon for a nickel.
Frank Edwards recalls marching pieces from his Waterville Kansas days and his peck horn in the town band. Co B Davis of Rock Island notes cotton acreage projections from Sayre Oklahoma to Tucumcari New Mexico and freight figures for 34 000 bales rising toward 100 000. Dr R P Parcells plans a summer trout stream cottage trip with Guy Faller of Doherty interests in Denver. P F Sapp visits the Panhandle oil field and sights 19 derricks while touring with Bert Brainard of Frick Reed Oil Supply.
A fragment of reflective quips on life and art, taxes and public opinion. It muses that death comes for all, spring beauty is as fleeting as cantankerous views, and public politicking often lacks real substance. The piece notes satire on taxpayers, egotists, and the theater of daily chatter.
Eastern standard time listings show orchestras, choirs, and church services across major cities. Notable acts include Eddie Bikus Francis Moers and Mary Heidkamp with various ensembles, and programs by Rudolf Friml and other performers through WRAF WBZ WABC and affiliates.
The Mission features Dont Doubt Your Husband a Metro production with Viola Dana and a strong cast. Plastigrams a third dimensional novelty with glasses, plus Through the Dark starring Colleen Moore at the Fair and Wolf Bayne with Jack Hoxie at the Liberty as part of a three part program including The Steel Trail and a comedy Family Troubles.
Tom Bruner quotes J. M. Skaggs noting a killing frost in Kansas and harsher conditions there than the local cold. Skaggs, traveling for Moore-Poston's, has returned from east Texas and southern Oklahoma. Mrs. G. B. Richards of 609 Tennessee Avenue underwent an operation at Northwest Texas Hospital yesterday morning.
O O McIntyre sketches a bustling New York evening with dancers like Joan Sawyer, theater folk, bell boys, and crowds. He notes musical comedy preparat ions, street life, and a finished actress declining a co star with a Negro in Greenwich Village, recalling Bert Williams and Broadway norms.
Local clippings report various residents visiting places yesterday and Thursday including J H Lisle Dumas Emma Johnson Claude Wayne Purvines Panhandle T B Noack Dalhart Martha Lemons Happy and a sick note for A N Cherryhomes Amarillo hears a radio quip about a bed mounted radio bug A divorce threat over wifely lies and a Denver donor’s $1000 orphanage endowment cited as a notable civic gesture.
A writer recalls trailing a great actress to a swashbuckling play and later dining nearby. After theater, she orders a steak and onion sandwich and adds garlic, a small moment of life that lingers as the night’s remembered thrill.
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