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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1936
Page
2
The writer forecasts additional moisture before week’s end amid a humorous mix of local anecdotes. He jokes about rainfall heroism versus failing luck, notes glare at reporters, and recalls town chatter on catfish, property buying, and public notices while sharing lilting rural proverbs and social quirks.
Harrison writes to Senator Tack praising the Texas Rangers and recalling an old saying from 1874. He notes the Rangers as colorful and relentless and mentions the Centennial film The Texas Rangers shown starting Texas Ranger Day September 5 at the Paramount Theater.
Dear Tack proposes replenishing sheet water sands by drilling wells in lake bottoms to draw surface water from ponds and lakes. Water loss through evaporation could be reduced and underground supplies recharged. Potentially lake bottom land might recover, and federal subsidies for surface value appear inconsistent.
A jumble of similes and snippets introduces quirky expressions and personal names, then shifts to stray facts about ambassadors, diamonds, and historical notes. The text lists colorful phrases alongside scattered references to people and places, ending mid-sentence with an unfinished coat of sable remark.
A collection of short anecdotes notes Indians teaching early settlers farming methods to fertilize corn with fish byproducts. Thoreau on money and liberty. Rutgers vs Princeton enrollment. Havana matinee times. Goldsmith debt and poverty. Nagging Wives society in England. A span equals nine inches. Animals pant in heat. humans perspire. Lion diets in captivity. Ford River Rouge plants painted blue. Oberlin College pioneered co education.
A. A. Meredith announces that five hundred men and women will join WPA crews in the Panhandle this month expanding total relief workers on Panhandle Progress Administration projects to over three thousand. Allocation will reflect county certifications across 20 counties.
A Japanese expedition led by 24 year old Kaguo Yamagata arrives in Calcutta aiming first for the Nanda Kot peaks. If successful they plan to attempt higher Himalaya summits including Mount Everest. Most climbers are graduates of Tokyo’s Rikkyo University.
Bill Morehead pleaded guilty to theft for taking a guitar from a Mexican musician during a street fight. Judge J N Riggs sentenced him to 60 days in jail. The offense occurred on July 25, county attorney Howard Anderson said.
Postmaster W D De Grassi says no word on the new post office site after the locating inspector visited over a month ago. He expects only an official Washington announcement or press release to reveal the location.
The Potter County Commission approved salary increases for two relief case workers employed jointly by the city and county. The raise hinges on city approval. Dorothea Bair would go from 108 to 125 dollars monthly due to automobile needs, while Truman Williams would rise from 86 to 100 dollars with city consent.
In Shantung Province youths oppose foot binding and adopt an inscription declaring, I will not marry a girl with bound feet. General Han Fu-chu orders fines or possible jail for men marrying bound footed women starting January 1, 1937. Chiang Kai-shek also campaigns against bound feet.
Dallas officers captured the ring leader in a Wichita Falls residence during a Monday raid. The loot totals about $75,000 in diamonds watches and jewelry. A woman living with him was jailed for investigation.
Governor Walter Welford sustained two fractured ribs and body bruises when his cab collided with another car in Kansas City. State Senator J. K. Brostein was slightly injured.
R B Mapp, previously jailed for intoxication, was fined 100 dollars plus costs in Potter County court this morning on a habitual drunkenness charge. His fifth arrest for drunkenness occurred Sunday.
President Getulio Vargas signed a legislative act providing 800 centavos of reis about $48 000 for the Army Aviation School to buy training planes built in Brazil with Brazilian materials Engines may be foreign Stored engines may be foreign.
Two prominent Spanish figures, the Count of Romanones and Santiago Alba, pursue conciliation to end the civil war. Romanones would be released from San Sebastian prison as talks proceed. Though a monarchist symbol, the count reportedly defended the Loyalist government.
The body of 35 year old Lethard H. Davis was recovered near an oil field boiler explosion near Dumas. Davis, a Magnolia Petroleum boiler engineer, was killed Monday afternoon. He left a wife and a four year old son.
Herb Budke was elevated to the presidency of the Amarillo Kiwanis Club after Earl Scruggs resigned and plans to move to Dallas were announced. Budke has been first vice president and Carl Jenkins was elected a director replacing Sturgis Darline who moved to Houston. installation is set for September 14.
Exiled Mexican Fascist Gold Shirts chief Enrico Nicolas Rodriguez renews contacts in the United States on a second northward trip, after being expelled from Mexico for his political activities on both occasions.
Funeral services for James Anderson Balfour 12 son of the late William Balfour former Oldham County official will be at 10:30 Wednesday morning in Griggs chapel Rev W H Bessire will officiate with pallbearers Ray Turner Ed Turner Horace Moseley Pat Edwards Earl Goodrich Tate Poorry The death occurred Sunday night in an Amarillo hospital Surviving are his mother three brothers Bill Dawson and P H Balfour and two sisters Mrs Frank Picture and Eleanor Balfour all of Tascosa
Joe E. Brown leads with Caterpillar tractors in Earthworm Tractors now playing at the Paramount Theater. The film adapts Alexander Botts stories by William Hazlett Upson and uses models from latest to 1914 machines. The action shows tractors demolishing a railroad station roaming a Mississippi swamp and tumbling over cars.
Rev J C Sisemore addressed a capacity crowd at the outdoor revival opening. A three-pole circus tent at 15th Avenue and Pierce Street hosts evangelistic services nightly at 7 30. John T Sisemore directs music with a large chorus and orchestra.
Prospective jurors summoned for Monday in the 108th Civil District Court are recalled for trial start tomorrow as Judge W. E. Gee resumes the docket. The first cases of the week are set to come to trial.
Police report Sam McDade of famous Du mas area robbed of his pocketbook at Second Avenue and Harrison Street. The purse contained about $80. McDade described the suspect as a white man. A separate note mentions the ivory billed woodpecker nearing extinction, with pileated woodpecker following.
The ministry of communications and the war ministry issued an urgent appeal to protect anti drift engineers and workers in interior Pernam buco and Alagoas from Lampeao and other hinterland gangsters.
A new business, the Cactus Cafe, formally opens today at Fifth and Polk Streets in Amarillo. Miss Lorraine Long, formerly of Albuquerque, owns it and promises distinctive Mexican dishes and a unique atmosphere.
Letter writer expresses sympathy for defeated candidates and notes the difficulty of friends running for the same office It hints at prior enjoyments in sparring with disliked individuals and asks Tack why not campaign actively The snippet indicates this is a letter column from Page 9.
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