A Mothers Dilemma and a 1928 Outlook
Arthur Brisbane discusses the ethical dilemma facing Mrs. Ruth Snyder as she nears execution in January and whether her 6 year old daughter should witness it. The piece weighs mercy versus memory and cites Gov. Smith’s potential alternative of life imprisonment. It also surveys Harvard’s prosperity forecast, a Kyiv unrest note, and other 1927–28 news items.
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Star Company
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Ruth Snyder
Torch Fires Bridges at Bon Carbo Mine Area
Denver dispatch reports two bridges near the Bon Carbo mine southwest of Trinidad burned in a suspected arson during the ongoing coal strike. The 5 span Denver & Rio Grande Western bridge and a parallel county road bridge were damaged, with repair estimated at five days. The mine closed as a result while workers in surrounding districts returned to some sites and more diggers went back to work.
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el Paso County
Tax vote move to cut corporation income tax
By a party line vote the house ways and means committee backed a proposal to lower the corporation income tax effective on payments due March 15. The item appears in a short Washington dispatch with unrelated ad snippets following.
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Amarillo Weather Tonight and Tuesday Outlook
The forecast for Amarillo and vicinity calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. West Texas should see fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with highs around 71 and lows near 49.
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West Texas
German Fliers Give Up Ocean Hop After Damaged C-1230
Reports from Hongkong describe Red troops massacres in Kwangtung with hundreds killed in a single town. In the Azores the Junkers D-1230 failed to take off from Horta for Harbor Grace after weather and sea conditions thwarted a Newfoundland crossing.
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New Jersey death trial opens today for widow and poultry raiser
A jury was formed swiftly to try Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl and Willie Beach for the murder of her husband in Mays Landing New Jersey. The panel included two Quakers who refused to take an oath over capital punishment. Alfred Lilliendahl, age 9, sat with his mother as the case began amid a crowded courthouse and reporters noted the rapid court proceedings.
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George Remus
Cincinnati
Remus
Sam Love
United Press
Mays Landing
N. J
Margaret Lilliendahl
Willie Beach
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Lilliendahl
Alfred Sas
Beach
Santa Fe clerical workers to receive gift in salary hike
The Globe notes Santa Fe railroad clerical staff will gain a 6.44 percent pay raise retroactive to August 1, 2027, affecting about 7,600 workers and about 250 Amarillo office employees who will see back pay of roughly $4,250 in total. The nationwide annual payroll cost is projected over $1.87 million, with Amarillo payroll rising by over $25,000 yearly.
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Aumnel 1
Satterwhite Tours State Prison Farms Inspection
Amarillo representative Lee Satterwhite completed a tour of state prison farms in Austin. He and Mrs. Satterwhite stopped over on their return to Amarillo. The former speaker did not disclose the investigation’s purpose or findings.
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December Term of County Court Opens
The December term of county court opened in the morning with Judge Sam Motlow handling civil docket settings. The criminal docket will be taken up next Monday, described as heavy. Blackburn ambulance Phone 6211 Griggs ambulance Phone 4511.
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War scare appears to ease after three days of publicity
London reports a perceived end to a world wide war scare as statesmen express confidence no nation is ready for war. Lithuania and Poland deny aggression and shift blame, while France Italy Yugoslavia Albania pause mutual recriminations over recent treaties.
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Jurors Chosen in Salmon Case at Groom Trial
Two jurors selected at noon in Panhandle for the trial of Mrs Madge M Salmon on a charge of murdering her husband. 90 veniremen examined, defense jurors indicate insanity plea. District Attorney Curt Douglas seeks the death penalty. Trial opened before Judge Ewing. Salmon shot her husband on September 9 at their Groom farm home. she was hospitalized weeks later.
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Salmon
Groom
Dallas Airmen Die In Crash At Love Field
Two Dallas airmen Jack Gage 18 and J C Gillespie 26 were killed when their plane crashed from a 400 foot altitude after entering a tar spin near Love Field in Dallas. Both worked for a commercial company and resided in Dallas.
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Chief Gaither Ill at Home With Throat Ailment
Chief of Police H. L. Gaither is seriously ill at his 1006 Harrison street residence. His throat ailment has physicians alarm and is blamed on continued warm dry weather and an apparent throat epidemic.
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Harson Street
Parents of companionate marriage bride to wed again
Kansas City dispatch reports E. Haldeman-Julius, father of the bride Au brey Roselle, and his wife, plan a second marriage to repudiate their church ceremony. He denounces religious wedding rites as hypocritical and plans to wed anew with his spouse, declaring the union was stained by the original ceremony. Further details continue on page two.
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Josephine Haldeman-Justus
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Two Flights Up by Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Bayne house
In this opening chapter from the novel Two Flights Up Mrs. Bayne and her sister Margaret maneuver greeting a steady flow of callers and rumors in a faded parlour. Holly, aunt Margaret, and Mr. Brooks mingle amid whispers of Holly’s husband and social skirmishes as the Bayne household hums with unseen activity.
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Rinehart
J. Norman Lind
Furness
Holly
Margaret
Mr. Brooks
Rossiters
Eve
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