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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1925
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe lists subscription options and pricing for daily and Sunday editions in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. It notes publishing details and Associated Press rights and provides contact numbers for the news and business departments.
A 1925 tale recounts how a rancher’s mock seed prank led to actual planting of cotton in West Texas. B W Floyd’s cooperative grafting of seed to land spurred settlement, rising land values, and a shift from cattle barons to cotton farms across vast ranches.
John Fain, aide to Colonel C. T. Herring, has made a record in selling the Flagg ranch. In the past three months, under Colonel Herring, he has sold over 20,000 acres, with nearly four fifths transferred to real farmers and the owner Mr. Fain directly in charge.
Col Herring praises John Fain as energetic and bright and predicts he will make a name for himself. Fain has secured his agents and superintended the gates as land has been sold off in quarter sections.
New York reports women increasingly smoke in theaters, sidewalks, and salons with free cigarettes in shops and hotels. A neurologist notes women use almost thrice as much tobacco as men, while city gardens. public figures and Broadway anecdotes frame a culture shift in smoking among mothers daughters and even grandmothers.
Radio listings detail Friday programs: Gounod opera Faust on KHJ Los Angeles and multiple stations across the U S with orchestras, recitals, bands, theatre revues, news and markets. Entries include WGY New York WNBC WJZ Wards and others with varied times and local broadcasts.
Omaha police seek two confidence men who sold vacant houses they did not own with a plan to have them torn down or moved. A buyer inspected a house only to find a vacant lot as neighbors reported the house was moved. Another man admitted buying a house and having it razed after selling it to others. Police pursue more cases of vacant houses being moved or razed.
Rosalind Nash resigns as a stenographer to join a cabaret at Club Tivoli and spurns Jack Armstrong who is poor. She mingles with a reckless set, pursues money through Nicky Blake, and takes a position in Allen Norris’s office. After relationships unravel, she realizes she loves her boss but faces jealousy and regret.
Rosalind, in a feverish bid for escape, calls Nicky and agrees to a late outing after debating motives and plans. She clings to the idea of material gains while rebelling, drenched in uncertainty about the encounter and its consequences.
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