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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1924
Page
9
A United Press report from Washington on September 27 surveys how American workers spend idle hours after the eight hour day. It notes many drive or ride in cars, listen to radio, pursue union activities, and contrasts with European patterns where reading, arts, and physical pursuits dominate.
Judge Henry Bishop offered services at the Presbyterian concession at the fair grounds where Rev. R Thomson assigned him to dish washing and hamburger prep for four hours. Plainview residents Mrs C M Abbott Mrs W H Woodall Caribel Abbott Mary Frances Woodall Minnie Lee Wilmeth and Sam Ed Woodall were in Amarillo yesterday attending the fair.
Burnett Burk was charged with driving a team of mules carelessly in Kansas City. Judge Iran S. Gardner recalled his own mule experiences and discharged Burk after the mules collided with three cars and damaged a fender from another.
An officer from the National Real Estate board will speak at a banquet for Amarillo Realtors on October 2 at the Amarillo hotel. W. E. Herrin of Chicago will be principal speaker with R. V. Morse of Houston also on the program. Tom Bruner, local board president, will preside as about 200 people attend and over 100 tickets are sold. Invitations reach Plainview with a recent local board. visitors from Canyon Hereford and Tulia expected.
A man spends much of his spare time on the same tasks he performs at work and is occasionally seen enjoying outdoor recreational activities.
A collage of quick voices from a Texas hotel interview round up includes a farmer celebrating debt relief, a boyish restaurant prank, and a sobering undertaker tale about a boy's death. Other snippets cover a fair's success, dust baths for chickens, and legal fines remitted.
In Chicago United Press reports Dr. Nellie Buchanan Cooper, president of the American Cosmeticians association, cites over 7,000 skin lip and hair preparations offered in America. She notes a city survey found 6 752% article variety with large counts across powders perfumes toilet waters creams lotions rouges and tints hair restorers and lip sticks.
Judge Henry Bishop convened a special grand jury session to review carnival concessions at the Tri-State fair. Attachments were issued for W. H. Hanes and E. C. James, with bond posted for tomorrow’s appearance. Investigations focus on alleged games of chance and gambling devices violating state law.
A United Press summary notes corn dominates U S farming by area and value. It supports swine feeding and yields corn oil syrup and starch. Annual U S production tops three billion dollars while exports remain under two per cent. The United States provides about three quarters of world corn, with vast domestic and global impact.
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