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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
8
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A district Rotary conference speaker urges fathers to invest two hours daily to guide their sons, contrasting efforts for street youths with neglectful families. He argues Rotary and service clubs should address underprivileged youth while all fathers must inspire sons to live up to parental ideals for personal and business life.
An analyst from the Christian Science Monitor reports that Soviet Russia's nationalized industries show low wages long hours and high prices. France Romania and Avatris state ventures run deficits while private railways profit in places. Australia ends Commonwealth Line nationalization after heavy losses. total 1927 losses exceed 10 million pounds.
A collage of brief items notes women smokers, a New York burglar inspired by newspaper tales, Ford ads and a “Flyers Boss Own Homes” headline, D A R blacklists in New York, New York parades, Los Angeles nine million dollar courthouse, Bremen flyers and receptions, Dr Harlow Shapley locating a universe center about 300 quadrillion miles away, and the Sinclair jury distance as a joke.
Maggie Johnson works as a stock girl at Mack Merrill stores and becomes entangled with Joe Merrill, the president’s son, concealing their engagement. After a courtroom jailbreak and a bootlegger scandal, Joe is jailed, Maggie faces gossip and family strain, and the story shifts to her resolve to protect her family and future.
A 1928 McNaught Syndicate piece laments rising lateness at social events in Manhattan. Hosts face cold dinners as theater crowds delay arrivals, with professionals blamed for the trend and Mayor Walker’s lateness noted as an influence. The column surveys etiquette, publicity, and changing youth culture, contrasting past punctuality with modern showmanship and urban bustle.
A federal court decree by Judge James Wilson cancels royalty deeds from J & Morse of McLean to Midwest Royalty on nineteen Gray county tracts. Fraud and misrepresentation are charged against Midwest Royalty. The Belt and Beasley suit seeks 50000 for breach of contract over an oil lease in Gray county. Cross petitions accuse plaintiffs of fraudulent stock handling and seek court funds. Attorneys from Amarillo represent the parties.
A Bloomberg style note from The Associated Press reports the economy valued at 320 billion dollars, calculated by Stone and Webster and Blodgett, Inc. The figure shows a dramatic rise of 4,400 percent since 1950. In New Haven, Gene Tanney receives a Shakespeare set from Yale, deeply touched by the gift.
Sally Sly schemes to place an egg in Sweet Voice the Vesper Sparrow nest as Black Pussy the cat stalks by the old stonewall. The ruse succeeds while the vigilant birds alarm the predator, and Sally Sly quietly deposits her egg in the nest. The tale ends with the next story tease.
A brisk parade of urban anecdotes and rural quips follows a traveling man in a Cleveland hotel seeking to spell Dowegiac. Jokes compare spelling, grammar, and education, with a New York City jubilee tale, Irving Bacheller memory, and a policemen’s note about a dead horse on Terpishore and Kosinsko corners.
In New York a lock of Washington's hair will be placed in the City Museum, donated by Stuyvesant Fish, Hamilton Fish's descendant, who received it eight years before Washington became president. In Bordeaux Gabriel Semple, France's top hurdler, may have wine with a meal, or he will skip Olympic plans. In Dallas Mrs Lulu Seale becomes sheriff after her husband’s death, while notes warn ants deserting nests before fires and rabbits abandoning low burrowed homes before floods.
British boys and young men aged 17 to 25 who pass health and intelligence tests may join a scheme allowing emigration to Canada where they can eventually earn their own farms. The British and Canadian governments have already voted five million dollars toward the plan.
Funeral services for Arnold Jefferson Smith two year old son of Mr and Mrs C Willard Smith were held at 2 20 this afternoon with Rev G L Yates of First Baptist Church officiating Arnold Jeffersons twin brother died last October Burial will be in Llano cemetery with N S Griggs Sons in charge
The Order of Railway Conductors will celebrate its 60th anniversary in Denver July 6 to 8 with 4000 to 5000 members traveling from the U S Canada and Mexico. Delegates from many regions will attend and a booster influx of tourists is anticipated after July Fourth festivities. Plans aim to invite other train service unions to join the jubilee.
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