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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1925
Page
1
The piece surveys how war and debt shocks reshape currencies and credit, cites Caillaux and U S finance, laments on political fights shifting from slavery and tariffs to schooling and religion, and recalls Mussolini and other figures while recounting a controversial murder case involving Dr A C Blazer and his deformed daughter.
Tonight and Tuesday fair and warmer. Temperature highs and hourly readings shown from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Amarillo. The Coffee Shop at the Amarillo Hotel is famous for food. Triple A Taxi rates 35 cents for one, 50 cents for two.
Colonel Cornelius Pacely Coble, aged 93 and long regarded as the oldest Texas Ranger, died at midnight at the home of his daughter Mrs J R Roberts in Dallas. Born Oct 26 1826 in North Carolina he came to Texas in 1854 and served as an Indian scout and frontier protector on the Mexican border. He organized Wichita County’s first post office and served eight years as county commissioner before moving to Lubbock and later ranching on Amarillo Creek. He and his wife Mary Cabarella Bullard celebrated a Golden Wedding in 1957 declining years with three children.
Clifford C. Easterling, who married Ola Lee Moseley on October 25, is jailed in Denver on a bigamy charge. The Plainview man formerly worked for Santa Fe at Slaton and Plainview. C. C. Moseley of Plainview filed the complaint alleging Easterling has a wife in Corpus Christi from whom he never divorced. Sheriff Sam Faith left Plainview for Denver to return Easterling for jail here.
A congress of irrigation commissioners and engineers from several states will be called soon to discuss reclamation work in the Arkansas River valley. Oklahoma official E. E. Blake reports inspections of five New Mexico sites. four dam sites exceed 1,000 feet, and federal aid support is considered likely.
Dr. Harold Blazer described his daughter Hazel born in Dillonvale Ohio in May 1891 as a greatly deformed invalid with spinal meningitis. He said she could not walk talk eat or help herself and that he stopped practicing medicine in 1924 due to numb spells. The trial involves a charge of slaying the “human husk.”
The Amarillo district court convened this morning and at 1:30 p m the docket was before Judge Henry Bishop as the grand jury received its charge. Bailiffs named W F Cobb J W Minter and A L Ridings. foreman M W Cunningham. First cases include D L Payne charged with murder and transferring jurisdictions from Crosby to Randall to Potter counties. Armistice Day causes a court pause Wednesday. List of grand jurors includes Cunningham Thompson Burgess Lemons Wheatley Hall Randall Cornelius McKnight Riggs Canode Pattinger.
Late today Coach A B Haye closed an agreement for Amarillo high to play Miami high here Wednesday afternoon instead of Electra whose team will meet Wichita Falls on ruling from Austin in terscholastic authorities. Before Cooed 925 211 down.
Virtually every business house in Amarillo will close all day November 11. The closing committee of the Business Men's association asks that all businesses close to allow citizenship to join the Armistice celebration arranged by the American Legion. Many employees will participate in the festivities, with expectations of a big day in Amarillo.
The Cambridge Harvard footbridge over the Charles River will be named after John W Weeks, a graduate of Annapolis. If it's pictures you want to see, to the Mission. American Warehouse Co storage.
The Northwest Texas conference opens in Canyon with Bishop James K. Dickey presiding. Rev Virgil Fisher of San Jacinto Methodist church will deliver the opening sermon Tuesday night on The Universal Planting as Amarillo sends a large delegation. The conference serves about 50,000 members across Epworth Leagues Sunday schools and missionary groups.
Mrs George Nalle daughter of Gov Miriam A Ferguson is sued for 9239 plus 1500 damages for allegedly refusing to pay her share of a commission on a state highway bond contract secured by W L Pierson and Company. The suit was filed in the fifty third district court of Travis county.
The Amarillo Municipal Band gave its first public concert yesterday afternoon in the Auditorium before 2,000 listeners. W. C. Wylie led the group, praised by citizens, with plans to expand to a first class organization by spring and to hold park concerts next summer.
Wellington November 9 Mrs. G H M Strong early county pioneer died at her home near Abra. She owned extensive farm and ranch lands in the county and held substantial business property in Wellington.
Government reports as of November 1 indicate a probable crop near 15.39 million bales with a lint yield around 166.4 pounds per harvested acre. Ginnings to date total 11.20 million running bales, about equal to expectations, while New York futures jumped on the government estimate of 15.386 million bales.
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