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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1928
Page
2
Columnist apologizes for misattributing a Roswell team to Roswell High School. Alleges Institute and high school alike, notes a 74 to 0 loss, jokes about a Sandies game, discusses local hunting and crop prices, and recounts a Panhandle farmer tale with humor and local color.
A nostalgic reminiscence blends childhood terror with farm life. The author notes panthers near the farm, a brave return with a two pound butter-filled bucket, and a tale of a jailed or questioned negro who jokes about stealing roosters. He also reports a surge of mud hens signaling a hard winter and a photographer’s duck pictures for Field & Stream.
Interior Secretary Work now RNC chair renewed the contract January 1 1928 arguing the renewal clause was mandatory. Attorney General Sargent disagrees stating the contract is invalid since the option clause was kept secret from bidders when the oil was sold in 1922.
London reports the Church of England faces renewed internal conflict as the Revised Prayer Book division between bishops and the opposition persists. A Lambeth Conference in 1930 looms to settle ritual, discipline, and potential alliances with Protestant churches or Rome.
A bright sun pushed Amarillo temperatures from 42 at 7 am to 62 by 1 pm, dispelling a looming cold wave and snow. The Panhandle saw a brief fringing storm from the mountain blizzard. frost may return tonight. Fire departments logged minor incidents at 303 Alabama and 2110 Harrison with minimal damage.
A collage of notes covers safety in insurance, a Wall Street conference in Atlantic City with claims of high returns, and remarks from Henry Ford and Lord Melchett on capital and labor. It mentions voluntary pieces about Catherine the Great and Voltaire, and ends with Sandy McBeth, 77, carrying 50 votes for Gov. Alfred E. Smith in Miss. All Dixon.
Eighteen cases were scheduled for appearance in police court this morning. Judge S D Ridings nearly set a court record by levying 400 in fines against 43 people. Fines totaled 108 yesterday. One transfer driver was fined 2 for stopping his truck in an alley to cash a bank check, with the judge noting transfer men have special parking privileges only during deliveries.
Air liner passengers mostly reserved return trips and praised the Zeppelin's new liner amid a city welcome. Frederick Gilfillan of Lucerne complained of tobacco bans, while Lady Grace Drummond Hay enjoyed the voyage and hoped to repeat. Dr Eckener and crew plan a Washington visit and breakfast with President Coolidge before wreathing the Unknown Soldier tomb. The Zepelin display thrilled crowds as they arrived by train, were greeted by Acting Mayor McKee, paraded to City Hall, and billeted at the Hotel Warwick.
London experts warn the summer insect plague could trigger a repeat of the 1918 influenza disaster. Dr. Moore Hogarth of the College of Pestology says increased insect activity mirrors conditions before the 1918 outbreak and household hygiene must target insects to curb germs and flu spread.
A Cleveland paint company and a Wooster brush factory offered free paint and labor to 100 communities to mark town names on roofs. Civic groups promote mark your town weeks while governors and firms in Arkansas Ipswich and Pennsylvania railroad enhance rooftop legibility for pilots.
Cologne report notes the Jugendherberge, Germanys largest youth hostel, has welcomed its 5000th guest since opening last December. From December to February it had 300 visitors, and in the past six months an average of over 275 wanderers daily have used the shelter.
A Lille barber claims the world record for the fastest shave using a straight edged razor. He shaved himself completely in 27 seconds and finished with no scratches on his face.
The Chesapeake Bay yields about 11 tons of fish per square mile annually and supports over 40,000 coastal workers. More than 50 million pounds of edible fish plus 390 million pounds of menhaden are harvested yearly, with shad and herring returning in spring and oyster beds sustaining winter activity.
Amarillo deputies chased two men posing as federal officers after a beer joint incident and a downtown hotel poker game ended in a brawl. In London a pre Christmas census aims to create an electoral register for 512 million women voters with a simple age question.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the vice presidential nominee, expressed puzzlement at the warm welcome in Oregon Idaho and Utah as he traveled by train. He told crowds that Republicans often vote for Governor Smith in New York and planned to discuss religious tolerance at Ogden Utah amid Mormon influence.
Belgrade police Corporal Nicholas Dronjak is being checked by the Yugoslav Foreign Office and the American Consulate to confirm if he is the heir to a rumored 25 million dollars left by his Portland born uncle, Nicholas Prodanovich, who died in 1922 without a will. Dronjak provided proof of relation five years ago but has heard nothing since.
Unfailing summer rise in ads for cooks and maids as Park Avenue helpers desert to seek new posts in Long Island and Westchester lodges.
A ghostly poem describes an empty house as a tomb where tapping ghosts, staring chairs, and silence drive a speaker to dread. The craving for a living voice and smiling faces to banish terror is expressed, with fear of leaving the home if no one speaks.
Hogs ease with top at 9.80 for 200-270 lb pigs. Cattle: 7,000 head, calves 1,600, slaughter class prices mostly down 25c. Yearlings and cows varying by weight, milk-fed venders mid-teens. Sheep and lambs steady with good to choice types around 12.50 to 13.50 for lambs. East St Louis reports similar weakness for hogs and mixed cattle, calves strong, yearlings steady, cows and bulls mixed.
In Cork the Irish Free State declares an end to a five year solo conflict. The so called one eyed gunner of the Saorstat, Cornelius Healpaawn, yields to De Valera’s ceasefire order and surrenders after police and troops closed in by night on his home near Cork.
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