Amarillo Society Notes Highlights Local Club Activities
Local society items list multiple meetings and events in Amarillo. Clubs include Child Welfare, City Federation of Women’s Clubs, Travel Study, Twentieth Century, Swastika, and Blue Bonnet Needle with addresses on Madison Buchanan Mississippi and Western avenues. Recitals and church programs feature Gail Bivins, Margaret Williams, and students. A Polk Street Methodist costume recital and P T A officers installation are noted along with a Mothers Night program and a Panhandle Hardware luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Mobley
Madison Street
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
Wiley
Lew Jolly
A. L. Anderson
Twentieth Century Club
S. F.newfold
Western Avenue
J. E. Baggs
North Buchanan Street
Gail Bivins
Margaret Williams
Walter Axtell
First Christian Church
Blue Bonnet Needle Club
J. C Otterfield
Mississippi Avenue
San Jacinto
Clarendon College School of Music
Polk Street Methodist Church
Buchanan Street
J. R. Crawford
King’s Business S. S
Buchanan Street Methodist Church
First Baptist S. S
Basham’s
King’s Dry 3Oods Company
Taylor Street
Wilson P.T. A
Wilson School
Belle Bennett Missionary Society
Polk Street
Methodist Church
Mra
J. L. Scott
Missionary Societiva of
Amarillo
Belle Bennetts
Grover C. Morris
Collees
Epworth Leagues
Russell Paige
Louise Mullins
Mary Kathorne Headrick
Alice Gordon
Viola Joss
Dick Spitler
Evelyn Ingham
Evelyn Fatman
Hazel Mulline
Louise Mulline
Julia Dean
John Armstrong
Betty
Memphis
Thompson-Jordan
Sea Flea leaves Marseilles for Barcelona flight
French aviator M DeGas enko and Mechanician Bion departed Marseilles at 9 am in the water glider Sea Flea bound for Barcelona. The craft skims the water at about 60 mph, with a three inch hull draft and 65 feet wing span lifting above the water for flight. If successful, the voyage may continue to Dakar and then across the south Atlantic to Buenos Aires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marseilles
M. DeGasenko
Bion
Barcelona
Spain
Oran
Algeria
de Gasenko
Dakar
West Africa
South Atlantic
Buenos Ayres
Wespack Fertilizer for Lawn and Shrubs Ad
Advertising line promotes Wespack fertilizer for lawns and shrubs with a contact phone number 31 for orders or inquiries.
First Flight of Chicago Dallas Plane a Success
The post office marks a new air mail link connecting the Atlantic seaboard with the Southwest. North and Southbound planes completed the Dallas to Chicago run with pilots reporting unprecedented mail volumes and a seven hundred pound northward leg. The route includes Moline St Joseph Kansas City Wichita Oklahoma City Fort Worth and Dallas and New York received forty thousand letters today. Officials hail air transport as real business despite the heavy traffic challenges and ongoing railroad staffing changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Prag
Chicago
Dallas
Southwest
New York City
Post Office Department
Lnk
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Moline
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Wichita
Oklahoma City
Fort Worth
Texas
Paul Henderson
The
Nations At Transport Company
Steen
Worls
Railroads, Law, and Amarillo Freight Growth
The column discusses the unwritten law as a social issue and argues for impartial enforcement of written law amid homicide trends. It then shifts to rail activity in Amarillo, noting eight Santa Fe switch engines, rising mixed freight, heavy Rock Island and Denver traffic, and a 100 percent rise in Rock Island passenger business. T. M. Moore moves to Santa Fe passenger service and yard capacity expands with extended west tracks for more storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Copp
Rock Island
RC. Elsen
Santa Fe
Canadian
Woodward
Panhandle
Texas City
Rock Foud
Darhart
Guaymas
Old Mexico
Imperial Valley
California
Amarillo
Denver
Amarilla
T. M. Moore
Streight
Amaurillo
Flashes of Life at Walter Reed as President Gives Treats
Veterans at Walter Reed hospital enjoy confections distributed by President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge. The scene shows the first couple reaching out personally to brighten patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Prency
Washington
Walter Reed Hospital
North Pole date line used in news story first time
The Associated Press reports that on May 13 a North Pole date line was legitimately used for a news item. The piece described a dirigible flight crossing the pole and the instant worldwide reception, noting Admiral Robert Peary’s 1909 voyage as the pole discovery reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Pole
Associated Press
New York
Robert SK. Peary
Bust in Hall of Fame Depicts Roger Williams Descendants
In New York the hall of fame bust honoring Roger Williams was unveiled by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., a descendant, featuring composite likenesses of his descendants due to lack of a definitive portrait. The ceremony included presidential autograph requests and warm handclasps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hall of Fame
Roger Williams
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Aurora
Quakers urged to seek unity in life not dress
In Philadelphia Quakers at the annual Society of Friends meeting urged abandoning uniform dress for spiritual uniformity. In New York Mrs Zellah Simmons, newly divorced, described injuries from a dog leash whipping by nurse Irma Bohmert, with the maid stating the affair estranged her from her fiancé. Bohmert fined $50 and ordered deportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Society of Friends
New York
Zellah Simmons
Irma Bohmert
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Tyler
W. D. Westhay
Canyon
D. B. Wiliams
D. Roach
Cooperaton
Association
Westhay
Roach
Murray Elson
Edwin Harris
SH. Wright
C. W. Whittington
FE. R. Read
BR. J. Parsons
W. A. McIntosh
C. King
Tyler School
Maurice Mishett
Joe Williams
P.T. A
J. M. Simpson
Edith Day
Lowise Bennett
Mar
Garet Willams
Mary Wright
Virginia Blair
Fay Griffin
Lurine Gilmore
Elizabeth Jameson
Jane Harty
Reeital
Alyce Kelly
Is Mattes McClurkin
Preston Fowlkes
Emi F. Myers
Women’s Missionary Society of
Hieword
Panhandle Hardware
Amarillo Hardware
Hirvey House
Federation
Municipal Auditorium
Potter County Federation
Elteht
Ledbetter
Shino Mstacado Chepter
Cloek
Liang Estacado
Daughters of the American Revolution
Caliine
Avery Turner
H. B. Jones
Earl Watt
James O. Curtis
Clarentdon Callese
Ime
Marillo
Polk
O. V. Wray
Prop
France
Chicago-Dallas
R. Thomsen
FP. A. Lehman
W. L. Myers
Wellington
Kansas
San Francisco
W. TL. Sloan
Marceline
Missouri
Thornton Banchard
Bland
Sloan
Harry Daley
Blanchrd
Vircil Revers
Daley
C. T. Karl
Santa Fe Division
M. C. Kaufman
Cart
By John Moore
Just
Ray Allman
Pekoe
KOTEX
Little Store
Big Values Fair Theater
Wilhoit
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