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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1924
Page
4
The Amarillo Globe, founded in 1924, publishes evenings except Saturday and Sunday morning, issued from 110 East Fifth Street. The paper carries Associated Press dispatches and local news.
Rates listed for different durations include one week and one month with various phrasing. Includes mail subscriptions daily and Sunday in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico with six months and yearly options noted.
Friends of Tony Chisum celebrate strong turnouts at the Amarillo Tri State fair motor races on September 29 1924. Despite early opposition, Chisum guaranteed no deficit, and the events drew monster crowds. He foresees Amarillo becoming a permanent auto racing center with two ble races yearly, one in July and one during the Tri State fair, with profits returning to the fair association.
Supporters applaud Mrs. Ferguson’s ballot listing as fair and decisive, warning against removing her name on a technicality and urging voters to choose the best governor rather than bias. Also notes Hereford visitors, the Darnalls and Peggy Sowell at the Tri State fair with Philip B. E. Darnall.
Daily broadcast schedule listing stations KYW WMAQ WON WEB WGN KH WLS and others with times for children bedtime stories theatre organs orchestras bands news and special concerts across Chicago Saint Louis Omaha Davenport and Kansas City. Program notes include Silent Night tributes and varied musical acts from 2 PM to Midnight across multiple stations.
L. 8. Grimm notes that current weekly pay for school teachers equals what he once earned in a month. He contrasts past and present wages, highlighting perceived pay growth.
L H Coats sues Emma Coats for divorce on abandonment after one week together. Margaret Treadwell sues Seth Treadwell for divorce on desertion. The Lyles of Dumas are guests at 311 Louisiana Ave. Mr. and Mrs. J D Brady host. Judge E C Gray, Higgins Democrat, visits the city.
The narrator wanders Amarillo and Lubbock observations mix with sly jokes about a new flower shop and a fictional Tactless Texan. A memory of a Sunday Globe paragraph,老 gossip about a clubhouse, and a comical dream sequence follow a portrait of social nerves and a surprising kilts reflection.
A diary style stroll through New York City scenes notes Edna Ferber meeting in the morning and a wander through Central Park with sights like a petrified tree and an elephant shaped rock. It recalls Greenwich Village gatherings, St Pauls Market and Five Points, with riffed remarks on old drug store lore and wartime gossip.
A Sunday page by John Moore weaves a mother’s shock over a child traveling alone from Wichita Falls to Phoenix with rail crews ensuring safety. It shifts to urban sketches about Ring Lardner’s yard sign misfire, Great Neck’s theater crowd, and a Pullman Porters club ball, ending with a runaway cart and a sleeping girl on Fifth Avenue.
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