Local Dispatch Summary From Amarillo Globe
Fragmentary OCR yields a dispatch from Amarillo Globe with partial lines. Readable bits indicate publication details and pricing notes for the issue or column.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1926
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR yields a dispatch from Amarillo Globe with partial lines. Readable bits indicate publication details and pricing notes for the issue or column.
John Hill says he cannot take the chair due to lack of time. He praises his past work for the Board of City Development and notes his company spent over $3 000 on Amarillo advertising. Hill helped gain Rock Island support for the Liberal line and was a key booster for Amarillo.
The Globe prints reader letters under What They Say. Ernest Baldwin criticizes Amarillo for disrespect at funeral processions after a car wreck injured a mourner on Tenth Street. R D Davies urges pedestrians to keep to the right to ease downtown sidewalk crowds and enhance city civility. The paper asks for readers to submit letters and offers a $5 weekly prize.
Floyd Studer declined a valuable oil lease offer from his brother, fearing profit would tempt him to pursue easy money and neglect his own business. He says staying on the straight path will likely yield greater gains within a year, as Amarillo courts prosperity and local business activity intensifies.
Captain R C Rutherford has started a chicken ranch near River Road school north of Amarillo, specializing in milk fed chickens. He now has 2,500 broilers fed on buttermilk mash with no water, and expects 3,000 to 4,000 hens within a year, hoping the infant industry will spur city growth.
A garbled blend mentions Florence Rosalie Kelly at 21 slated as New Jersey’s first woman governor and a justice of peace, plus rumors about John D. Rockefeller permits for apartments near his estate. The Hague notes King George visiting the A. S. in fall and quips about dancing with the Prince of Wales.
UPI compiled listing shows Tuesday schedules for WEAF WBAL KDKA WJZ WJZ and many others. Entries include orchestras bands lectures and night concerts with times and station call letters across major cities from Atlantic City to Vancouver and Toronto.
Luella Loder, a rising actress, schemes to secure a marriage proposal from John Rogers during a Christmas Eve spree in New York. After a tense day of filming and flirtatious bravado, she toys with his affections over cocktails and a glittering Tiffany diamond, but a sudden exit plan reveals rivals coveting his fortune and moments away from a fateful breakthrough.
A 1926 Burgess fable follows Mister Smarty the grouse who learns from two frightening encounters and a mother’s example to become truly smart yet humble. Through listening, observing, and copying his mother, he discovers learning never ends and pride fades. The tale ends setting up the next story, The Happy Wanderers.
R D Davies wins $5 for best What They Say letter on pedestrian rules in Amarillo. The piece argues for a rightward traffic rule, noting locals stroll to the left and suggesting signs at corners to educate the public as Amarillo plans an electric traffic signal system.
A letter from Ernest Balsowin urges Amarillo drivers to pause for funerals and emergency ambulances. He cites incidents at downtown crossings and hospital entrances where blocking or delaying ambulances endangered lives. He argues lack of law against blocking, but appeals to decency and common sense to yield to emergency vehicles.
A fragment notes Parchment as a popular spring footwear shade often paired with a darker tone. Mentions Wespack fertilizer and shrubbery in an unclear line, followed by a stray phone reference.
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