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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1927
Page
4
The 1927 Amarillo Globe News urges wider advertising for the Panhandle region. It lauds Amarillo as a base of supply and growing city, urges more thorough promotion of its virtues, and cites advertising legends to illustrate its central message that publicity drives prosperity.
In Vermilion Ohio Harry Williams who served 26 years as mayor lost by one vote to the chamber of commerce president. Williams cites jealousy from press coverage calling him the most elected mayor in the country as a possible factor. Voters offered no clear reason for reordering leadership.
A Pueblo Chieftain excerpt discusses a new cat focused magazine edited by The Cat Without a Name. It questions gender assumptions about the nameless creator and reflects on cats’ traits, literary attention, and the seriousness of writings about felines.
The article notes that Sheldon Clarke A Mason Day and Harry F Sinclair refuse to testify fearing self incrimination while Secretary Fall's son-in-law seeks to testify about bonds. It draws a parallel to Richelieu and La Porte on loyalty and protection of interests, casting doubt on the integrity of the parties involved in the inquiry.
A long list of characters linked to Alvin Benson and the murder case is presented, including Alvin Benson his brother Major Anthony Benson housekeeper Anna Platz Miss Muriel St Clair Captain Leacock Leander Plyfe Paula Banning Elsie Hoffman Colonel Bigsby Ostrander William Moriarty George Stitt Maurice Dinwiddie Ernest Heath and many detectives and officials. The excerpt describes a forged check motive and Paula Banning jewels as security. Leacock confesses but Vance reveals the confession as a lie to shield Miss St Clair.
New York's midtown sounds fill the day with clatter from police whistles to fire wagons. The author notes residents tolerate the din, while out-of-towners wonder how the city endures. Parallel sketches roam from Paris nightlife to Broadway cherus girls and stage dreams. A closing quip credits copyright to McNaught Syndicate, 1927.
Peter Rabbit presses on to find Mrs Peter after she vanishes, ignores danger, and nearly walks into Old Man Coyote. The chase ends with Peter learning a cautionary lesson and deciding to beware the bramble paths in the Old Pasture. Old Man Coyote notes his nonchalant appetite and warns Peter that a repeat chase could end differently.
City leaders and women’s clubs join librarian Mrs J M Delzell to invite the Texas State Library Association for a 1928 convention Amarillo hopes to host it annually or perhaps for 1929 if the plan fails Friends of Mrs A R Smith report improvement while she remains critically ill in Roswell Mrs Jerry Harper travels to be at her bedside Westminster Abbey displays 16th century tapestries in its Jerusalem Chamber after a long historic run
An Englishman Irishman and a Scotchman make a pact that the first to die will have five pounds placed in his coffin by the other two. The Irishman dies first, and the Englishman and Scotchman later reveal how they paid. The Englishman says he paid in ten pounds, taking five sovereigns from the coffin as change.
Police report Raymond Ellis, identified as Negro, stole a car near the Amarillo Athletic club and wrecked several vehicles on Polk Street before steering into a heavy truck. Arrested by Captain Lee Miller, he faces auto theft and driving while intoxicated charges. previously acquitted on two auto theft charges this summer.
The Robert Ingersoll House in Dresden may pass from public village ownership to private hands or a corporation that will repair and keep it open to visitors. An admirer offered through a Penn Yan trustee to buy from Mrs. Eva Ingersoll Brown and finance it. The house, dedicated in 1921 as a community memorial, will maintain a library and be open during tourism season.
London reports from the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance note a nine month 1926 27 drop in alcohol spending by 30 million dollars versus 1925 26 with total consumption remaining high. Beer spirits wine and other figures are listed along with causes cited industrial mood price rises and greater wine consumption among the wealthier class.
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