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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1932
Page
8
The notice describes cash with order requirements for Situations Wanted Lost and Found and Travel Car ads. It states the newspaper reserves rights to classify, revise, or withhold copy and to correct errors before the second insertion. Rates vary by number of insertions with per word charges and minimums.
Anne Adams promotes transfer patterns featuring a teddy bear a bowing dog a cuddly bunny and a long neck giraffe plus a chubby chick. Each pattern costs 15 cents or 45 cents for all three with 25 cents for the complete catalog. Orders to Amarillo Globe Pattern Department New York City.
The Amarillo campaign plans to raise 75000 for Community Chest activities for 1932 33. A year end summary details groceries garments shoes rent medicine and meals provided local families, with dozens of other aid measures including milk bills eye glasses and transportation support.
M K T chairman M H Cahill announced that for the week ending October 15 the railroad loaded 8659 revenue cars, surpassing the 8393 cars in the same week of 1931. It marks the first time since September 1929 that weekly revenue freight exceeded the year-earlier period.
Fort Worth Judge Bruce Young punishes juror J. T. Crowdus with three days in jail and a $100 fine for offering to influence a civil case. Crowdus was convicted by a separate jury of attempting to "thraw the case" for one litigant, with the judge deeming the penalty inadequate but legally required.
Malachi Berry set a trap to exterminate rats threatening his chickens in Kinston North Carolina. The device captured a sequence of unintended victims including the family cat a stray dog a neighbor s cat and a goose. The final night rats killed the remaining birds.
Texarkana reports the so called forgotten man La'tie Ballard aged 31 who spent seven months in jail is to be sent back to King's Creek South Carolina to answer charges in a $3.80 post office robbery. Ballard denies knowledge of the crime and worries for his family while his wife and five children endure hardship living in a tent near Maud Texas.
The Amarillo city commission on Tuesday night adopted a new water rate schedule to replace the flat 2 dollar charge for 4 000 to 7 000 gallons with graduated reductions from 10 to 35 cents in lower brackets. The scale lowers minimum charges to 1 75 cents at 1090 gallons and keeps the upper bracket unchanged, with all over 7 000 gallons priced by tier. Officials say the revision could cut 7 000 to 3 000 dollars annually from the plant’s revenue, benefiting small users. Mayor Rods D Rogers notes the city has long discussed adjusting the old May 1929 schedule and emphasizes the department does not profit heavily, adding Amarillo’s rate is already among the lowest in the area.
In Dallas on October 19 Ralph Wood, 25, a collegiate-looking man, was convicted on forgery charges. District Judge Grover Adams imposed three years on each of two counts to run concurrently. Wood, who said he had been in trouble before and wished to reform, noted he had used morphine in jail and asked for transfer to Huntsville.
A Topeka Kansas woman pleads with Oklahoma City police for help locating her husband who she says left home with all his clothes except his hair oil. The unusual note prompts police to search for him.
Three men were swept to death by a huge wave off Jamestown during a violent northeastern storm. A fourth man was saved after being hurled into shallow water by a following wave.
In Chicago on October 19 Judge Edward B. Casey considered the dispute over The History of the World fate. Defendant lawyer Robert E. Barclay refuses payment alleging misstatements. the judge sought University of Chicago input before a decision later in the week.
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