The Daily and Sunday Amarillo News Item May 14 1908
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1928
Page
6
Amarillo storm sewers curb floods and boost health
The city’s new storm sewers drained flood waters and enabled street flushing, reducing mud and germ laden dirt on paved roads. Officials commended Prairie Oil and Gas for open discussions on gas franchises, while naval experts debated Britain’s submarines expanding into air capable ships and their wartime status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Moody
Prairie Company
Germany
Wyoming seeks funds to buy historic Fort Bridger
A Wyoming campaign seeks public funds to purchase Fort Bridger in southwest Wyoming. The fort dating back to 1843 would become a stone museum with preserved guard houses quarters and parade grounds under local guardianship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Fort Bridger
Jim Baker
Austrian senator pushes strict anti vice bill in bundesrat
Vienna May 16. Dr. Berta Piehl a Christian socialist proposes reintroducing the prohibited books index a state morals commission a jail for prodigals and immorals stern censorship and strict press laws to curb vice. She says morality is eroding with nakedness on stage and in posters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bynternational
Vienna
State Commission On Public Morals
Austria
Bundesrat
American Senate
Berta Piehl
Piehl
Vienne
Maggie Johnson Declares Love and Family Ties Over
Maggie in a Christmas season romance with Joe Merrill ends as he attempts to leave her for Japan. Maggie rejects him, defends her family, and vows to stay with her parents and sister Liz. Court scenes unfold as Liz is arrested, then freed on bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Margaret Petheridge Johnson
Lizabeth
Mack Merrill
Maggie
Joe
Inen
Merrill
Mr. Merrill
Japan
Mrs. Merrill
Maggie Johnson
Millicent Russell
Millicent
Mia
Mre
Miss Johnson
George Merrill
Pop
Mrs. Johnson
Mat
Ches
Ches Rivers
Len Johnson
Joe Grant
Den
Mr. Mer
Liz
Mom
Andlizabeth
Elizabeth Johnson
Kathleen Norris
Mary Pickford Fairbanks
Thoity Thoid and New York Life in 1920s
A nostalgic snapshot of Manhattan scenes and people from the 1928 McNaught Syndicate piece. It recalls street lingo, places like Pennsylvania Station and Columbus Circle, figures such as Ray Low and Grantland Rice, and social spots from Lambs to the Little Church Around the Corner. It blends nickname lore with vivid city details and a comic subway fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan
Penneylvania
Pitth Avenue
West 57Th Street
Columbus Circle
Ray Low
Marbridge
Ethel M. Kelley
Ben Hampton
Harris Merton Lyon
John McGraw
84Th Street
Irvin Cobb
Peacock Alley
Weat 144Th Street
H. T. Webster
R. M. Brinkerhoff
Ray Rohn
Polly
Lillian Russell
John Bunny
Dog
The
Lambs
Victor Herbert
Evening Mail
Burns Mantle
Grantland Rice
Rube Goldberg
Channery Depew
Dewey's
Ham
Metropolitan
Greater
Gretna Green
Dr. Ray
Museum of Natural History
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Sally Sly Invades Nest in Old Orchard Tale
In the Old Orchard tale, Sally Sly the Cowbird lays an egg in Little Friend the Long Sparrow's nest near the ald stone wall. Birds worry the egg may be mistakenly taken by predators, while allies vow to guard nests and deter Sally Sly from further intrusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Friend
Long Sparrow
Mra. Sparrow
Sally Sly
Sally
Chippy
Jenny Wren
Jenny
Sammy Jay
Sammy
Sunshine the Yellow Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Robin
T. W. Burgess
Laughing Around the World Master Frets Ohio Visit
Fred Kelly revisits his Ohio boyhood and hires a horse and buggy. A former playmate, now a man, retells his wife’s sister dying after visiting, delaying work. He explains she died after failing illness, brought by a Dayton night dance incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Kelly
Ohio
Kelly
Baptists Endorse Prohibition Candidates in Nashville Vote
The Southern Baptist Missionary Union convention representing 440000 members unanimously passed resolutions endorsing only presidential and vice presidential candidates committed to enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment and the National Prohibition Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chattanooga, Tenn
Southern Baptist Missionary Union Convention
St Louis Schoolma'am Inherits $100000 Ranch
Miss Mabel Cobb a 27 year old Mary Institute English teacher in St Louis inherits a $100,000 Australian ranch from an uncle she never met. The three Sharpe brothers left England fifty years ago to seek fortunes, leaving the property to Miss Cobb who plans to teach while deciding how to use the ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
ST. Louis
Mabel Cobb
the Mary Institute
Australia
Benjamin Sharpe
England
Yale Student Party Plans Russia Tour This Summer
Richard Henry Diggs Jr of Baltimore will lead eight Yale undergraduates on a Russia tour this summer. Diggs studies under Professor George Pierce Baker in Yale's drama department and aims at exploring Russian theater with like minded students. A newly described spring outfit features a flesh colored gored broadcloth skirt and a double breasted jacket with a black velvet collar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YALE
Russia
International News Service
New Haven
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Porteffies
Amerille
Pony
Globe-Mews
Gene Howe, Publivher and Béiter, Wilbur CG. Hawk
Geneva
Menager
Seerees
Dee
Eeeee
the Close
Great Britain
Sub- Britain
My Best Girl
Bell Syndicate
Kathleen Norrie
Grant
Mrs Johnson
BY C. O. Mintyre
Roger Wolf Kahn
Young Kahn
Irvin S. Cobb
McNaught Zaciate, Inc
Sistah
Dayton
Baptists
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