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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1928
Page
9
A humorous radio program on station C O D features Sidney Stinger Don McGrammitt and Miss Dorothy Dishwater with acts and home tips while local figures from Amarillo and surrounding towns attend a roundup of train crews, officials, and social notices outlining recent moves and arrivals.
Denver and Rock Island staffers feature in a humorous Amarillo Chronicle item describing a new brakeman's mishaps. The tale recounts attempts to count cattle aboard trains, sweeping sparks, slack in coupling, a dummy engine, and other missteps as the crew jokes about his inexperience.
C A Morse, Rock Island chief engineer, left Amarillo in private car 1925 to inspect the A C R division and its progress toward Liberal Kansas. He urged engineers to boost forces and work double time to hasten construction. H Newbert of a Seattle lumber company toured Amarillo praising the city’s buildings and enterprise. Edna Earl Northen, stenographer to J W Barron, visited Borger. J R Lyons, Santa Fe revising clerk, took a short rest period.
An advertisement touts Bia-lin as a marvelous prescription that banishes gallstone symptoms quickly. It claims to cleanse the gall bladder, purge liver poison, and purify intestines with a power one guarantee and urges readers to obtain it at drug stores today.
In Minneapolis on October 23, 30-year-old Chinese cook Hugh W. Kay was shot dead by an unidentified man who fled. Kay belonged to the On Leong Tong, whose feud with the Hip Sing Tong last week led to slayings in Chicago and other eastern cities, suggesting a broader Tong conflict.
London motor show highlights larger, more powerful cars with a rising share of six cylinder models. The exhibit tallies show around 44 percent six-cylinder power units, up from 36 percent two years prior, while straight eight and twelve cylinder engines appear in about 10 percent. Despite this shift toward bigger cars the lighter models remain popular, with price wars continuing though lower prices stop at about 675 dollars.
The text discusses engine cylinder counts and valve gear trends with six and sleeve valve models rising. It also states a legal rule that civilians may arrest anyone committing a felony and must deliver the arrested individual to a policeman at the first opportunity.
An advertisement urges home treatment for gall bladder and liver troubles. It promotes a recombined practitioner’s prescription from Write Home Drug Co at 1027 Masonic Temple, Minneapolis, listing a 28 year history and a money back guarantee.
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