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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1926
Page
4
A fragmented note lists Gene Howe as publisher and editor and Wilbur C Hawk as general manager of the News Department. The garbled text includes stray letters and stray department mentions with no additional factual details. The readable lines identify the two editors and their roles within the news organization.
A garbled OCR snippet lists time periods three months six months and one year with stray letters and invented terms. No coherent event or identifiable entities are present to summarize meaningfully.
In a plea for governor, Dan Moody claims strong plans for Texas and warns that Lynch Davidson attacking Standard Oil would devastate Amarillo. The piece argues oil cash funds growth, asserts Standard Oil profits are modest, and predicts a national slump if Davidson wins and targets oil firms.
Homer Wade of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce challenges Amarillo to prove cleanliness by example. Mayor Lee Bivins sets June 1 for a city wide drive to make Amarillo the cleanest city in Texas as thousands visit for the convention.
A diary style stroll through New York scenes on May 21 comments on financiers Otto Kahn and Laurant Cassidy, rising Asian shops, theater crowds, and street life. The writer muses on wealth and homeliness, the city’s confetti and noise, and the paradox of prosperity with melancholy in the background.
A detailed list of daily and Sunday programming across U S cities with time slots for news, music, concerts, religious services, and orchestras. Entries include WABC WEAF WGN KYW WLS WGN WJZ and many others with station codes and daytime/nighttime hours.
Mary Forrest and Philip Andover stroll Havana sea wall under moonlight as doubts about a possible return of the Wades fade. He hints at love and future plans while arranging access to a hacienda, with flirtation, tension, and a night ending in quiet happiness before continuing.
Johnny Chuck faces a fork in the old cowpath unsure which route to take. He pauses to weigh danger, listening to the Merry Little Breezes who test both paths. After sniffing odors from each path, he chooses the second path, believing it to be safer while the breezes assist his exploration.
In Amarillo the need for a Y M C A is urged by Mrs. A H Smith who recalls the lack of such an organization for young men. She cites a model Y M C A in a smaller city with rooms, library, games, pool, and affordable rates, arguing that clean recreation channels energy away from trouble and shapes citizens. She calls on local business leaders to champion a drive to establish an Amarillo Y M C A.
Eight building permits were issued in one hour this morning totaling $20,600. Recipients include D. J. Franks for a frame dwelling at 605 Georgia avenue worth 4,000 U. S. dollars, T. M. Nabors for a tile mercantile at 608 Johnson street for 2,000, Ben Talley for a frame dwelling at 1810 Jefferson street valued at 5,000, J. O. Whittington for repairs on four frame dwellings on North Grant street costing 990 each, and Dantile Manufacturing Company for a brick mercantile at 1008 West Fourth street for 6,000.
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