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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1928
Page
2
Community notes promote a football game with Sandies versus Kansas Jayhawkers and Lib ral youngsters. Anecdotes blur politics, urging fair voting and neighborly civility while snippets cover local lore, a stray German police puppy, and humorous vignettes about life and weather.
Tupelo Mississippi October 6 congressman John E Rankin member of the cotton investigating committee appeals to President to have the Agriculture Department base its monthly cotton estimates on present crop conditions shown by deterioration reports and ginner reports He accuses the crop reporting board of inflating figures harming farmers.
Marietta Robinson thanks supporters and Federated Club for helping her travel to the fair and asks readers to donate a dollar to the Crippled Children's Fund. She urges others to skip a movie and contribute, hoping funds will aid hospital care for cripples and praise Mother Duncan in Oklahoma City.
A letter to E R Tack defends Prohibition and criticizes enforcement while praising improvements in Amarillo under prohibition. It argues the law is broadly supported and would endure, and contrasts with Moody’s stance. the writer also supports a debt relief fund and praises President Hawk’s fair leadership.
J. H. Gouldy defends constitutional obedience and condemns widespread slander as Tammany Hall, once a great charitable institution, is challenged for intervening in behalf of democracy while proclaiming that truth is mighty and will prevail.
Tack answers questions in order. 1 City Manager Jeff Bartlett guides lost silverware claims tied to garbage disposal. 2 landlords must provide trash burners and garbage cans. 3 Gumps rights owned by Fort Worth Star Telegram prevent reruns locally. 4 Madame Chernoff’s articles are written by E R T. trick question about Ansley ends with a comment on the conundrum.
Borger Texas notice invites Mrs Tack and Col Erasmus Tack to a Box Supper and program at Spring Creek School No 2 eight miles east near Mideo Boiler Shop. Event set for 7:30 p m Friday October 12 1928 with a personal note on education and politics referencing Catholic schooling.
After 10000 miles of campaigning Senator Joe Robinson heads toward Amarillo for a Texas address. He abandons prepared scripts, relying on live delivery and forceful voice to connect with audiences.
Cameron County grand jury ruled that claims by Sid Hardin of 10 000 illegal votes and of John N Garner spending 100 000 in his campaign are without foundation in its report released yesterday from Brownsville Texas dated October 5.
In a World Series frame the Yankees push four runs across as Ruth, Gehrig, and Meusel drive hits and runs. Cardinals see hits and outs with Pipgras, Koenig, and Paschal contributing key plays amid a pitching duel and fielding miscues.
The American Legion will assemble in San Antonio on Monday to begin its national convention marking the end of its first decade. A dozen candidates for national commander are in the field led by figures from the Midwest and South with candidates from Arkansas to Minnesota. Notables from abroad and the United States will address the gathering in the city auditorium as a world championship rodeo and other entertainment headline the program. An unprecedented air show with 1,000 planes is planned for Friday, Oct. 12, with a massive air mail shipment and a grande parade featuring tens of thousands of veterans and families.
The attempt to merge the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad with the St Louis Southwestern and the Kansas City Southern, started before the Interstate Commerce Commission over two years ago by L F Loree and associates, was formally abandoned today.
East St Louis livestock shows with hogs cattle calves and fat lambs prices noted. Cotton markets in New York New Orleans and Liverpool ease with modest rallies and demand uncertainty. Butter eggs poultry and a brisk New York stock letter flag gains and mixed movement among major names like Chrysler General Motors and International Paper.
Albany New York October 5 tentative plans for Governor Smiths second stumping tour prepared by the Democratic national committee were under consideration today. The governor will spend a day in New York meeting party leaders and then travel southward to Virginia North Carolina Tennessee Louisville Chicago Missouri and coast cities Baltimore and Boston with speeches amid tariff prosperity and prohibition discussions and a reaffirmation of 18th amendment guarantees.
John J. Raskob and wife create a $1,000,000 relief fund in memory of their son William, 20, killed in a July car accident. The "Bill" Raskob Foundation received a charter from Delaware state authorities yesterday to aid needy children.
Horace Russell announces opening of advanced and elementary Boy Scout leadership courses on Monday night October 15 at Central Presbyterian Church. Classes will meet in Fellowship Hall and the Christian Endeavor room for ten weeks and certificates will be awarded upon completion.
A dense OCR snippet shows ticker style listings including National Biscuit, Packard Motor, Pan American Petroleum, Phillips Petroleum, Sinclair, Southern Pacific, Studebaker, Union Pacific, Texas Gulf Sulphur, United States Steel, Victor Talking Machine, Willys-Overland and Woolworth. The fragment reads like a stock market roundup of prominent firms and their cross listings across rail and oil sectors, indicating a period bond or equity board. Names such as Sears Roebuck, Shell, Union Oil, Texaco, and other majors appear alongside railroad names like Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific.
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