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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1931
Page
4
Public notices list subscription options for The Amarillo Globe including a combined daily news service. The text states various durations and prices such as one week and one month, with amounts appearing as 825 and 1.00 in the garbled OCR. The fragment references departments for News and Business and Circulation.
Metropolitan Life statisticians report 7.4 deaths per 1000 among industrial policyholders in August 1931, the fifth consecutive year-on-year improvement. Canada shows 8.2 per 1000. west-of-Rockies rate is 6.4. Tuberculosis and diphtheria decline, while influenza and cancer rise.
A collection of quotes exploring self worth through love and social standing, the global crisis tied to unemployment, and artistic drive. Dr Olga Knopf Edward A Filene Joan Crawford are cited in concise reflections on personal value work and creativity.
Sam Sherrill, living with her half brother Nelson and aristocratic stepfather Fourth Aldersea, longs for independence through travel and clothes rather than housekeeping. Peak Abbott offers marriage for money, but Sam fears loving him and faces Freddy Munson's warning as she navigates Christmas and New Year events, a city paper life, and shifting affections.
A fragment from a Sunday feature traces early practices of guarding against spirits with grotesque figures around gateways. It notes Bufalamaco, a 12th century Italian caricaturist, first drawing faces and adding words to mouths, praised as the forefather of the comic strip.
New York culture notes scan a bustling scene from Oct 9. Names like Ewing Galloway Sophie Tucker Roy Howard Karl Kitchen and Marie Dressler appear amid reminiscences of Broadway, speakeasies and a shrinking jewelry market. The piece sketches society figures, venues, and the flurry of early postwar urban life.
Radio listings show 1:15 Princeton Brown on WJZ and 1:30 Northwestern Notre Dame on WABC CBS with Ted Husing likely. 1:45 Northwestern Notre Dame on WEAF WTIC WTAG WJAR and others with Graham McNamee. President Hoover to speak Monday from the White House study. Mrs Hoover to christen the American Clipper. Evening programs include Haines at Major Bowes, Eskimo Night Club, Knute Rockne features, and Whiteman with Grofe’s Life of Knute Rockne.
Thornton Burgess presents Billy Goat, nicknamed Surefoot, as he calmly scales a sheer cliff with perfect balance while Farmer Brown's Boy watches in awe. The goat treats the dangerous ascent as ordinary, proving his sure-footed skill and fearlessness as he gazes over the world below.
The passage notes many brokerage branches operating at high daily costs, with uptown branches in the Hotel Astor and boardsrooms in nearly every major hotel. It highlights vast overheads of wire houses, instant global communication, and lavish hotel infrastructure as stock speculation peaked in late 1929. It also recalls a piano anecdote about a famous American writer secretly performing in a music room.
A compact listing of crossword clues for both horizontal and vertical entries with numbers and partial answers, including references to yesterday's solution SIA and various word-length hints for across and down directions.
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