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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1929
Page
4
Publisher and editor Gene Howe and manager Wilbur Hawk lead the Amarillo Globe with Associated Press news. The paper notes AP entitlement for credited dispatches and regular news. Subscriptions offered for varying periods including one week to one year.
Chairman W QO Gatton launches Amarillo Red Cross Roll Call opening November 11 Armistice Day. Membership is 1 dollar with 50 cents to national office and the rest to local charity work. volunteers emphasize public welfare and that every dollar aids a worthy cause.
The article praises Mme Marie Curie for the 1898 discovery of radium and its vast impact on science and medicine. It credits her quiet work in Paris with reshaping ideas of matter, light, and X-rays and notes radium’s role in cancer treatment and future technological progress.
An essay argues that an untrustworthy child reflects the home’s failings not deceit but hidden dishonesty shaping behavior. It cites mothers’ sweet telephone voices contrasted with private slights and trains trip excuses, noting children imitate parental standards and face honesty strains.
Helen Page loves guardian Leonard Brent who after meeting a dying man Nellin uses a fatal ruse to declare Helen not Cunningham’s granddaughter. Brent threatens exposure to force Helen to marry him while manipulating Eva Ennis and Bob Ennis as plot twists unfold and Helen faces prison or ruin.
Washington Day Book recalls two imported Italian staircases in Manhattan houses. One in Elbert H. Gary’s Fifth Avenue mansion was heavy enough to require five feet of masonry. after demolition it was smashed. The other, a circular stair at Robb’s Park Avenue mansion by Stanford White, remains though the estate sold to the New York Advertising Club. Hearst later acquired a carved stone fireplace from the Robb drawing room.
In a Wall Street bank a testing room trialed four totalizer varieties over four months. It charted each operator's motions and found one model cheaper by hundreds of dollars annually due to greater economy of motion.
The Waldorf Astoria Corp, which recently sold its former hotel and plans a new building on Park Avenue, is preparing to purchase beds and lighting fixtures for the upcoming property.
J O Dahl will spend a month visiting hotels from Boston to St Paul and Washington to observe details like water temperature, staff behavior, atmosphere, bed comfort, and elevator speed. His findings will set standards for outfitting and staffing a new hotel.
New York diary notes three bachelor brothers occupying separate Madison Avenue floors with 14 rooms each and 25 servants. One brother is notoriously shy and a joke about a red vest and yellow shoes sparked a dramatic dice win of $30,000.
A hunter trespasses in the Green Forest despite warning signs by Farmer Brown. Flip the Terrier saves Mr and Mrs Grouse, while Sammy Jay warns Jumper the Hare, who narrowly escapes. The hunter, angry, continues his trek through the woods.
The American Airship Association seeks Postmaster General approval to run a Baltimore to Los Angeles airmail service carried by rigid airships at 3 dollars per pound. The westward route passes Washington Richmond Raleigh Charleston Macon Montgomery Jackson Shreveport Dallas Fort Worth El Paso Deming Tucson Ajo Yuma San Diego. Eastward path includes Kingman Albuquerque Amarillo Oklahoma City Little Rock Memphis Nashville Louisville Huntington Cumberland and Washington.
The Dallas Federal Reserve monthly review notes a sharp fall in business failures and rapid debt liquidation in the eleventh district. Demand cooled from July and August, cotton and grain sorghum prospects are weak, ranges and livestock improve little, oil output declines from August to September, and daily Texas field flows dip across key regions. The piece ends with a quoted line and a tease for continuation.
Yesterday s answers and today s puzzle clues list numerous entries with numbers and word prompts across horizontal vertical and yesterday entries. It reads like a classic newspaper puzzle page with references to gods pronouns melodies regions chairs beers and more.
The scene opens with a stage curtain of egg shell plush and hidden strings lifting smoothly to reveal a lively revue. George White, citing a former actor grown haughty, jokes about a nose lift as the audience cheers the curtain’s billowy descent and dramatic Niagara-like drop.
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