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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1928
Page
11
Report from Shanghai cites a Mohammedan uprising in Kansu Province causing civil warfare and famine with potential winter deaths. Feng Yu-Hsiang’s troops clashed with Mohammedan bands, leading to chaotic conditions and an estimated 5.93 million population in Kansu.
An old remedy claims backache and kidney distress come from dietary acids. It advises four ounces of Jad Salts daily with lemon, grapes, and lithia to clean sluggish kidneys, reduce acidity, and ease bladder weakness, plus plenty of water.
Advertises patterns for children's costumes and ladies dresses with sizing details and fabric yardage. Offers a fall winter book of 500 designs, color plates, and dressmaking tips for home sewers, postage 15 cents, address Globe-News Brooklyn NY.
Golden Light Coffee is proving a very popular blend with Amarillo roasting and blending. Distributors report extensive business over the Panhandle Plains trade territory.
The five story $400,000 building recently completed in the Southwest is described as one of the most complete hospital institutions. It features sanitation, ventilation, convenient layout with offices on the first floor and medical and surgical wards on upper floors. The facility includes blanket warmers, silent signal system, circulating ice water and metal furniture.
London schools report 40 percent of pupils use modern charm amulets such as blue bead necklaces. Folklore Society official A R Wright notes these are descendants of ancient witchcraft protections, with other beliefs in herbs, exorcism, and magical sweets believed to attract health or beauty.
Charles Shader was executed at Will County Jail at 5 50 a m the fourth man to hang for the slaying of Deputy Warden Peter Klein during the Joliet penitentiary escape in May 1926.
Frank Wright, owner of the Wright Printing Company, operates a well equipped printing establishment on Taylor Street. He recently added new equipment enabling the finest typographical work in the city and he has grown with Amarillo’s business scene over nearly a decade.
The Amarillo Poultry and Egg Company at 108 Tyler Street operates under manager C. C. Veach with a team of five. Serving a Panhandle Plains trade area within 125 miles, the firm ships poultry and eggs from Amarillo, a business in the city for over five years.
A letter read at the National Conference of the Band of Hope Union reveals Oxford University Eight's training diet relied on tradition not physiology. The captain elect, nicknamed Damm, comments that beer and port accompanied meals while one secretary abstained. Canon Ellis N Gowing supports the word damn as a harmless sport term.
Upton Jones, a painting and wallpaper contractor at 602 Monroe Street, is expanding his business with the Florman line of paints and varnishes. He has been in Amarillo for many years and employs a crew of expert workmen, growing from a small start to a leading enterprise in the city.
The Fain Janitor Service, now in Amarillo for about a year, reports a strong season. Owner TH B Fain from Tulsa Oklahoma says the firm aims to be a regional distributor for brushes brooms and cleaners. The company operates manufacturing and jobbing at 1008 West Fifth street producing sweeping compound liquid soap shampoo disinfectants insecticides furniture polish and floor dressing.
London reports that several smaller nations plan naval expansion despite disarmament. Finland, flush with funds and near a Baltic trade route, contemplates two 4000 ton coast defense vessels as it shifts toward a stronger seafaring future. The piece notes Finland’s naval history and youth appeal to sea life. It also mentions Professor Raymond Cobb teaching Japan to play baseball across university teams in San Francisco.
A columnist notes that gritty language on the gridiron is common and that a well-timed expletive can beat a constant grumble, reflecting the sport’s rough spirit.
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