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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1935
Page
11
Secretary Wallace pleaded for wheat farmers to vote in Saturday's control referendum to clarify the adjustment law. He urged participation in a radio address, saying the AAA was necessary to equip farmers with the tariff-equivalent to balance differences in foreign markets as a relief for tariffs on industrial products.
A historical catalog shows assorted grocery prices with items such as chewing gum rhubarb turnips shoe polish coffee pickles canned meats soup and vegetables. It lists per unit prices and bulk quantities including lard, beans, tomato products, and baking powder with several cents to dollars figures.
A Paramount matinee for children shows Shirley Temple Our Little Girl with a contest to prize the three girls who most resemble the star. Entrants register at the theater office as the event begins at 19 oclock.
A long row of classified pleas asks for housing trades jobs and goods including free rent in Bellview Gardens, coat barter, tractor work, farm and dairy labor, and house cleaning. Individuals list contact routes in Amarillo area seeking work, furniture, a suitcase, a lost dog, baby clothes, and child care options.
Tulsa story recounts Ted Baxter a 40 year old man jailed after a ploy to gain riches as he bragged of a forged bank book and fake stock holdings. He staged a whirlwind campaign to appear wealthy claiming assets and a large trust to impress merchants, bankers, and real estate men.
Henry Huff, a 50 year old farmer from Farmington, Missouri, confessed to killing Henry Mayes 31 years earlier after saying he could not sleep. Huff, who faced first degree murder charges, waived preliminary hearing and was held without bond. He is married with no children.
A ten room suite in the city’s largest office building housed office furniture valued at $600 and employed a stenographer a housekeeper and a valet. Baxter arranged with a railroad to build a one mile spur to his proposed tank building plant but the housekeeper wrecked the place. After a week’s unpaid work she alerted police who found Baxter with snipes an FERA order for a dental work and no money. The FERA order lists Baxter as a guest at a federal transient camp and officers found his remaining wealth packed in a shoe box.
An advertisement extols Ovaltine a Swiss food concentrate now made domestically. It claims increases in appetite weight and nerve poise with daily use. A Bridgeport Connecticut mother reports her child gained 25 pounds in one week after starting Ovaltine.
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