Lions and the pirateSlade in London tale of the lions
In 1947 Billy Rose piece recalls Jonathan Slade, pirate and lion tamer, famed for facing lions in the Tower of London arena. A royal spectacle drew crowds, with Slade outwitting guards and entertaining the king, princess, and Londoners in a dramatic, feasting on prisoner rumor arc.
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Jack Dadswell
Dadswell
Jonathan Slade
Daniel
Africa
London
Tower of
Lon
Oklahoma
Jonathan
Duchesses
Rascal
Caesar
Slade
Royal Box
Tower of London Guard
Golden Dragon
Tower of London
Mr. Slade
Tower
Billy Rose
Amarillo Platform Aims for Charter Reform and City Growth
The Globe outlines a broad Amarillo platform including revising the city charter to expand representation and limits, building a coliseum and new city hall, upgrading traffic control, cleaning downtown, expanding sports and park facilities, studying permanent water, adding hospital capacity, improving English Field as an air terminal, fostering small industries, supporting culture and welfare, and expanding schools with higher teacher pay.
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GLOBE
Amarillo
City Commission
Sonsique
English Field
Minister Attacks Lengthening Skirts Stirring Washington
A Washington DC minister caused a stir by denouncing longer skirts as immoral waste of fabric needed for the world’s poor. He urged women to resist fashion changes and warned of ridicule of emancipation. The writer doubts public approval will shift with such sermons but hopes for broader seriousness.
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Washington, DC
Strong-Arm Diplomacy and Global Tensions
The piece critiques Soviet and Yugoslav brinkmanship on the Italian Yugoslav border and mocks Western leaders while stressing production as a cure for economic ills. It includes quotes from George M. Humphreys Irving Berlin Rep Everett Dirksen and Horace Bushnell.
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Kremlin
Tito
United States
Yugoslavia
Stalin
British Press Blamed as Crisis Deepens in Labour Era
Dorothy Thompson notes a sharp split between British media and public opinion amid miner strikes and nationalization. A royal commission probes press control while Labors moderates retain popularity. fears of continental Communism loom. The miners’ bitterness stems from generations of hard conditions and dragooned labor.
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Arthur Horner
National Union of British Mineworkers
Britain
Communist Party
Free” Press
England
Labor
Times of London
Manchester Guardian
Beaverbrook
Europe
United States
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Matriarchy and fashion in America’s female power
A critique of social control by men over women’s clothing. The author claims American women head a vast matriarchy yet lack say in dress styles, lamenting constant fashion changes and prohibitive costs while praising female influence in other realms. The piece satirically urges readers to imagine creating sillier hats to force change.
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Old Sol
United States
George
McNaught Syn., Inc
Polk Street Professor Recalls Norman the Pitcher
A Polk Street Professor reflects on a past as a baseball pitcher, mentioning Norman from Amarillo High School and a Simmons University stint. He recalls a game where a line drive broke his nose and notes the speaker’s humor about being in underwear on stage.
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Amarillo High School
Norman
Simmons University
Abilene
Stamford
Rule
Ozona
Rochester
Haskell
Mr. Norman
Crossword Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical Clues List
A readable OCR puzzle fragment presents numbered across and down clues including entries such as 1 Demolish 2 Bird 3 Coin 4 Heights and 39 At this plac. The list mixes partial words and abbreviations for a 15x? grid with clues for gods, notes, and generic terms.
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U. S
Offic
Britain
UNRRA
O Daniel Predicts US In For Another War And Low Mood
In Raymondville Texas US Senator W Lee O Daniel warned of another low mood and a third world war saying the nation faces trouble ahead He urged funding for a new post office funded from money now sent abroad to foreign countries as a local project in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Raymondville
U.P
United States
Rio Grande Valley
W. Lee
Pappy
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