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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1928
Page
6
Classified notice style text indicates pricing and telephones for The Associated Press news service. Publication date shown as Thursday November 1 1928. No clear event or person details beyond organizational pricing lines.
A weathered southwestern prospector, George Campbell Carson, stands to win millions from copper companies for patent infringements in his CARSON'S NEW RICHES furnaces. The piece extols pioneers who opened the West, enabling later fortunes for promoters, while noting true wealth often came to others.
Henry Watts described being told to vote fourteen times in a single day by the Crowe-Thompson machine. A gang attacked him mistaking him for an opponent worker, leaving him injured. Ward bosses then paid for medical care, and Watts began to tell his story exposing the scheme.
Psychologists say children fear two things loud noises and loss of support. Fear of the dark dogs or bogey men stems from experience or teaching. Supportive talk helps, while avoiding suppression. Gradual exposure to real fears with security aids coping.
Dixie Dugan chronicles fame and scandal from Flatbush Avenue to the Jollity Night Club. Alvarez Romano stabs rival Jack Milton, Milton hospital bound, Alvarez jailed, and Dixie blooms in tabloids while courting offers from vaudeville and advertisers.
A diarist details sister Nita’s arrival in New York from Paris to push her through troubles. They stall Romano’s trial via Milton’s influence while a serialized life story runs in the morning paper. She gains a vaudeville offer worth five hundred dollars with an eighteen week option and plans a Night Club sketch starring herself.
In 1897 Queen Bess faced four rivals in a Southern turf championship aKentucky gelding a Maryland stallion and a North Carolina gray. Delayed postponements left her unfit but she led then fell behind bore a colt rose again for a neck close finish and even her colt placed second proving the mare’s famed stamina.
In Yorkville East 86th Street a cluster of four German beer houses imitates Tyrolean Tiroler Bier-Stuberl culture with waiters in Tyrolean attire, menus of German dishes, and 50 cent half liters of beer. The scene attracts crowds and becomes a local spectacle, amid satirical vignettes on city life and New York’s social rhythm.
The note hints rehearsals begin next Monday at Bryang hall. Nita contacted a writer of revue sketches for Ziegfeld and the Schuberts and is developing material. Interjections imply casting and adjustments as characters argue over ownership and auditions.
Representatives of the Italian and Chinese governments signed a pact in Shanghai whereby China agrees to pay 30000 in compensation for the killing of an Italian missionary in Nanking in March 1927. The funds will be distributed to charity and to the Italian coast.
In the 1928 Burgess tale Happy Jack the gray squirrel fears winter food shortages and plans to move into Farmer Brown's dooryard. He and Rusty the Fox Squirrel debate leaving the Green Forest, with Rusty heading south for resources while Happy Jack aims for Farmer Brown's barns. He finds his old orchard home erased by cleanup, leaving him to scout new holes for winter.
Crossword puzzle list of horizontal clues includes questions on Bizet opera heroine and various wordplays. Entries cover terms like fetter, work of genius, braided quirt, gone by, myself, deck out, depart, masculine pronoun, scan, above, sums of money, incrustations, compose, dishonest, untidy, become exhausted, stop and mineral spring.
R B Vogler manager of the Amarillo branch at 700 Polk street says business is excellent. Since the Gigantic Month of Sales began October 20 sales surpassed last year and many new credit customers have been added as Amarillo is good and getting better fast.
Jake Burkett of McAllen was seriously injured in Edinburg after swerving to avoid a collision and plunging into a deep ditch near Pharr. Doctors here gave little hope for recovery.
A dense collection of numbered miscellaneous clues covering animals foods actions constellations abbreviations rulers and astronomy. It includes ruminants without water, postscript and mint themed terms, and trivia on parrots coins flowers and musical notes.
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