Mild winter chatter and a weatherwise confession
A column mix of personal musings, weather folklore, and notes on local happenings. Old Tack jokes about meeting Miss Garden, discusses signs of spring, a gag about a six week police dog search, and reports on job leads and a coat theft reward in a small-town setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Ralph Kenniston
General Auto Supply Company
West Fifth Street
Old Tack
W. E. Elliott
Elliott
Carolina Street
Amusement and appeals from Amarillo News-Globe readers
A long column gathers jokes anecdotes and local notes from Amarillo and surrounding towns. Readers praise the paper and extol mushroom soup and a giant sweet potato while sharing humorous quips and reflections on charity at hospitals and the Needlework Guild's service.
Charity Guild Teas At Auditorium To Support Local Chapter
A prominent tea is planned at the club room in the auditorium Friday afternoon to support a local chapter of the Needlework Guild. Mrs. J. M. O'Brien leads as president with a full slate of vice presidents, officers, directors, and multiple committees named to oversee garment and checking tasks for the charitable movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. O'Brien
Needlework Guild
H. E. Smith
C. G. Dempsey
John Armstrong
L. C. Cardiff
William Frost
C. 8. Hatchett
George E. Erlandson
B. Cozart
N. D. Bartlett
W. A. Newlin
C. Don Hughes
H. O. Bradford
F. B. Means
Mildred Estbill
H. ©. Randolph
John Copp
E. O. Greer
Jane Ansell
Paul Barber
W. P. Strickland
J. G. McClintock
H. FE. Smith
Porter Underwood
G. G. Ordway
E. H. Ashcraft
C. W. Seibel
Bertha McGregor
John Parr
Hatchett
Sophia Meyer
President’s conversion in China and corruption in New York courts
The article weighs whether China’s shift toward Christianity signals a broader Western influence or a genuine religious change. It critiques Calvin Coolidge on campaigns, then exposes alleged court corruption in New York where magistrates buy seats, shield racketeers, and extort women with trumped up charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin Coolidge
New York
Economic conditions show mixed signals in national survey
Julius H. Barnes reports that capital investment rises and prices stabilize while bank lending and life insurance improve. Foreclosures decline and installment sales hold, but residential construction falls by 714 million, offset by public works and utility gains of 180 million compared with last year.
Funeral for Hutcheson Infant Held Today
Funeral services for the infant son of Mr and Mrs C W Hutcheson were held this afternoon at 3 o clock from Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Burial followed in Llano Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Hutcheson
Boxwell Brothers
Llano
Dear Tack Letters On Housework And Cotton Prices
A reader asks Tack for hourly housework help and half-day availability while offering good references. The note thanks Tack for a subscription payment to the Saturday Evening Post and comments on rural labor and town life with casual opinions from a young correspondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Tyler
Saturday Evening Post
Curtis Publishing Company
Navy Day Observance Emphasized by Amarillo Officer
A U S Navy officer in Texas urges Amarillo readers to observe Navy Day on October 27 1930 and to support the navy as a peace instrument. He highlights Roosevelt s naval leadership and argues morale training and civilian oversight are crucial for national defense and industrial prosperity.
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United States Navy
Panhandle
Texas
United States
Congress
Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
Army
Mahan
Minnesota
Massachusetts
California
Andrew Carnegie
England
Navy Department
Amarillo
Ralph H. Smith
Amarillo Man Is Hijacked Near Deal
Luther Dobbs employee of Amarillo Oil Company reported to police he was hijacked Sunday morning a mile from Deal on the way to Panhandle. Three men in a Model A Ford robbed him of 15 to 22 dollars. One suspect, about 25, five foot eight, light complexion, with a scar from eye to mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Dobbs
Amarillo Oil Company
Deal
Panhandle
Potter County to set bid date for $400000 courthouse
County commissioners expected to fix this afternoon the date to receive bids for Potter County's new eight story courthouse. Proposals due before late November. plans costing about $400000 already approved and plans copies to be available after Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Secretaries to Meet at First Baptist Church Monday
Secretaries of all departments and the organized classes of the First Baptist Sunday school will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday evening at 7 o clock at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Sunday School
Atticus Webb Fierce in Rum Denunciation
Dr. Atticus Webb denounces liquor at First Baptist Church arguing prohibition saves souls and boosts church membership. He cites rising education numbers and studies by Fisher and Bevan to claim Americans drink far less today due to the Eighteenth Amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atticus Webb
First Baptist Church
Dr. Webb
Churches of Jesus Christ In
America
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Arthur Bevan
American Medical Association
A. W. W. Woodcock
Webb
German Demand Full Satisfaction for Baden Disaster Victims
The German minister in Rio de Janeiro was instructed to demand satisfaction and full damages from Brazil after 27 German subjects were killed and 29 injured when Fort Copacabana fired on the Hamburg America line steamer Baden at Rio. The Brazilian government promised punishment for those responsible as the Baden steamed out of harbor amid the Washington Luis government’s fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Rio de Janeio
Brazil
Fort Copacabana
Baden
Rio
Washington Luis
Radio Leaders Call for Lasting Naval Pact and Peace
A radio address links Premier MacDonald and Premier Hamaguchi to a promise that treaties can endure and aid future conferences. The speaker urges that international confidence be maintained so agreements survive and expand, warning that no race in naval armaments should be allowed to build again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacDonald
Great Britain
London
Hamaguchi
Japan
Tokio
Gravel Truck Victim Dies in Local Hospital
Earl Everett Shuster 37 dies after gravel truck accident last Saturday in Tascosa. Survived by wife, 6 year old son Francis, father Charles, brother Clayton of Anthony Kansas. World War II veteran with 89th division and Army of Occupation in Germany. Funeral arrangements at Blackburn's Funeral Home with burial in Kiowa Kansas.
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Earl Everett Shuster
Tascosa
Francis
Charles
Clayton Shuster
Anthony
Kansas
Shuster
Germany
Blue Lodge
Wichita, Kansas
Khiva Temple
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Denver
Order of
Blackburn
Grievance Spreads As Fate Denies Comfort to All
A reflective verse line contemplates a person living either in a cottage or a castle and facing a shared grievance. The speaker notes that fate withholds relief, prompting widespread sympathy and a universal complaint.
Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Market Summary
Livestock prices and volumes from Kansas City and Chicago show mixed trading. Hogs 11 000 in KC with top $9.36, cattle 30 000 in KC and 27 000 in Chicago, steers 600 900 lbs $10.26 13.00 in KC and $11.50 13.50 in Chicago, cows $5.00 7.25, vealers $10.00 12.50, lambs around $7.26 27.85. Direct and weighed trades varied with market softness in some categories.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Chicago
Allied Chemical & Dye
Allegheny Corporation
Thy Allis Chalmers
American & Foreign Power
American Canvaseee
American Car & Foundry
American International
American Locomotive
E BO
American Rolling Mills
American Smelting & Resin
Americanteel Foundrys
American
el & Tele
Works & Elec
Anaconda
At&sfrr
Auburn Autowee
Aviation Corporation
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio RR
Best & Company Wewenee
Bethlehem Steel
Borg Warner
Borg Warner Weteneee
Briggs Mfg Co
Seeweetenee
Brunswick Balke Gollender
Bucyrus Erie
Bulova Watch Oe
Burroughs
Byers
Eneeeerenen
California Packing
Eee
Canada Dry Tae Pr
Wong Boy
Case Co
Seen
Canadian Pacific
Aeee Tee Celotex Company
Cerro de Pasco
Calumet & Heclawee Chesapeake Corporation
CM & St Seanedesvee
Cri&pwreeeee
Chrysler Corporation
Coca Cola Company
Continental Baking A . Wae
Crucible
Cutler Weed Een Ewes Eeeereeee
Neeee Cuba Company
Curties Wright Sceessveeseees Cctild
Wright A Csssecreetes
Davison Chemical 4
Delaware & Hudson Beteteee del, Sac & West R
den & Rio Grande West Pfd
Paneeeweee
Detroit Edison
Drugs, Inc
Tee Dupont
AB Electric Auto Lite
Electric Paw & Light
Grigsby Grunow
Peeeee Bly
Great Northern
Great Western Sugar
Feeee
Hahn Dept Stores
Arene
Houdaille Hershey
Bry Hudson Motors
Hupp Motors
Illinois Central RR
Steeee Oy
Kresge & Company Senor
Kroger Grocery & Baking
Lambert Company
s+ceesee
Liggett & Myers
Weer
Loew's, Inc
Perro
Lorillard Tobacco
Sesseseee
Ite
Ludlum Steel
National Biscuit
Seenee
York Central RR
National Cash Register
Northern Pacific RR
Eens
North America
Ene Eenee
Paramount Publix
Pathe Exchange
Wee Gi
Packard Motors J CG Penney Co
Ly Penneylvania RR
Pillsbury Flour Mi
Public Service of NJ
BS Pullman
Ee Ereceeserece
Keith ‘Orpheum
Remington Rand
Rep Motor Car
Og Rep Iron & Stee
Reynolds
Y Simmons Company
Southern California
Ediso
Ue Standard Brands Inc
Standard Com
Tobacco
Standard Gas & Electric
Big Stone & Webster
Bay
Stewart Warner
Studebeker Corpels
Texas
Union Pacific
United Aircraft & Transport
United Corporation
Serene
Unite Fruit
U Garden
Vale Carbide
U. Pipe & Fourndry
Us ‘Steel
Wren
Western Pacific
Western Union Sheveseve
Westinghouse Electric
Westinghouse Air Brakes
White Motors Co
Woolworth
Fort Worth Livestock Prices Reported October Sale
Fort Worth market activity shows hogs at 9.00 to 9.50 for fat hogs with 1200 head traded, cattle offerings around 7.00 down for slaughter steers and 6.00 down for grass stock, fat cows up to 5.00 with butcher grades 4.00 to 5.50, steer calves to 7.50 and stock steers 6.00 to 6.50, sheep 700 head with fat yearlings steady and fat earlings at 5.50.
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Fort Worth
Associated Press
Cotton opened steady but softer in New Orleans market
In New Orleans on October 27 the cotton market showed steady to easier sentiment after weaker New York response. Liverpool bids were stronger than expected, lifting December to 11.00, January to 11-17, and March to 11.88, down 5 to 9 points from opening. Early trading remained quiet with reduced cotton goods activity cited as a cause for the softer tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Cautton
Liverpool
New York
One Cent a Day Pays $100 a Month Policy Offer
The Postal Life and Casualty Insurance Co. of Kansas City invites readers to obtain a new accident policy paying up to $100 a month for only $3.50 a year. Over 60,000 already hold this coverage. Send name, address, age, beneficiary and relationship to receive the policy with ten days free inspection.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Co
Moriarty Bldg
Kansas City
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Miss Garden
O. W
Mary
Lindbergh
W. F. Cogdell
Friona
West Ninth Street
A. A. Thompson
Jackson Street
Marie Antoinette
Pat
Mike
Charles Chapman
Las Vegas
New Mexico
W. A. Kirk
Down
Silverton
Kirk
Stevenson & Kirk, Real Estate and Loans
Briscoe County
News-Globe
Mr. Kirk
Stevenson & Kirk
Howdy
W. P. Cagle
Clarendon
Farmers’ State Band
Polk Street
F. L. Hill
Pampa
Confucius
Hutcheson
U. S. Navy
E. E. Baker
D. V. Baker
Washington, D. C
Edgar A. Guest
Jno
F. Clarke
Amarillo Building
Seea Bow
Seer
Atlantic Reign
Barnsdall
Cosden Oil
Gulf of Penn Ae
Humble
Nee Ae Seer
Seeee A.rr
Internat
Pry
Mexican Seaboard
Eeetereeree
Petroleum Corp
Phillips Oe
Prairie O. & CG
Prairie Pipe Line
Tees
Royal Dutch
Shell Union
Sinclair
N. J
Calif
Sone
Indiana
Texas Corp
Tex Pac Ld & Trt
Tide Water Ass
Tex Pac Cl & Oil
Ory Vacuum Oe
Warner-Quinlan
The
F. Clark Brokerage Co
Svessves
Bert Hart
Victor
Rca-Victor Co
T. E. Swann Co
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