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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1929
Page
8
The item lists department roles for the Amarillo Globe and Telephones, noting News and Business Department and Circulation Department with figures 8 HS v 7.60 2.50.
Pampa hosts its first public meeting linking the chamber of commerce with the Board of City Development. Speaker A B Davis urges civic work, noting that fifteen directors guide city growth and that “Fifteen Men Cannot Build a City.” The discussion echoes Amarillo’s civic efforts.
A father teaches his three year old Helen to string beads. She concentrates on play but diverges to other toys while he strings a long necklace. He warns that without watching she will not learn, yet Helen remains elsewhere. The piece argues children play in their own way.
Fred Kelly returns to his Ohio childhood and encounters a former playmate Regio who hails him to a corn field job. The man cites a wife’s sister visiting and then mentions she died shortly after arriving, shaping a tense, reflective moment.
Mildred’s love for Stephen, entanglements with Pamela and Harold lead to a risky pursuit as Huck frames Stephen for theft. The taxi chase through First Avenue ends in a gunfight with Frean wounding a gunman and the thieves escaping, with police alerted and the case unfolding in chapter XXXIX.
D C McIntyre recalls a bygone theatre era on a Bowery revival night where a dime a copy song book seller hawks nostalgic verses amid popcorn and lemonade. He notes examples from the past including The Story of the Baggage Car and The Dishwasher's Dream, and observes social pretensions at a Park Avenue tea with Ring Lardner.
A fragment recalls a woman attending a Dayton dance and an incident with a Black man grabbing her wide hatchet headgear, which kept the speaker from going to work. The terse dialogue emphasizes disruption and social tension surrounding the event.
In Emporia Kansas a Santa Fe passenger train collided with 500 stampeding steers near a pasture killing 66 animals and injuring many more. Passengers trainmen and locals organized a frontier style roundup to corral the herd back to the pasture.
In St Louis on May 9 doctors watched a new electric device demoed by Dr. Franz Haseler. The alarm clock like apparatus promises precise throat probing beyond normal sight, shown to the ear nose and throat club.
Bishop Paul Jones of the Fellowship of Reconciliation argues that the United States should have fewer battleships. He spoke at a St Louis dinner, saying fewer ships would aid world peace and reduce the reach of presidents and marines.
Crossword puzzle list with across clues including numbers and hints. Mixed garbled text lists many entries such as roofing material incline and clergymen and includes notes like Associated Press 929 and various clue fragments.
Kansas Attorney General says the state board of censorship cannot censor spoken words in talkies. The board may still judge scenes and censor subtitles but has no jurisdiction over sounds.
Burgess recounts Beauty the Wood Duck guiding twelve ducklings as they learn to balance play and feeding along Paddy's pond. Mrs Wood Duck warns, tests and teaches the youngsters while watching for Snapper the Turtle. The tale ends with a foreshadowed next story.
Frank H. Rose of the Montana National Buffalo Range received an order from Salt Lake City for bison milk for lab use. He captured a wary cow by roping and securing her, then milked her after several attempts. The milk tested 7.9 percent butter fat and was pure white.
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