Amarillo Globe 1927 publication details and rates
The Amarillo Globe issue from September 29, 1927, lists publication details including its 1924 founding date, second class matter entry, publisher editor Gene Cowe, general manager Wilbur C Hawk, and its association with the Amarillo Daily News. It also provides subscription rates for carrier and mail in Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico.
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Amarillo
Texas
Gene Cowe
Wilbur C. Hawk
BY Mail
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Back of the Smoke from Cleveland Exposition
The article lauds industrial power in Cleveland where 300 carloads of master tools run on 5,000 horsepower, showing machines that replace hundreds of workers. It highlights honing machines, punches, nail makers, lathes, and planers, illustrating how machines create further machines and advance global toil.
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Cleveland
More Cows for Cowpunchers Boom in the West Range
The romance of the range rider persists as the cattle business revives in the West. Rail rates drop, rainfall improves grazing, and modern water systems boost productivity. The Southwest holds vast grazing lands, and ranching is described as booming with renewed activity and spirit.
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West
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southwest
Land Owners Clash With West Texas Chamber Over Water District
About 500 Runnels county farmers sign a letter opposing the West Texas chamber of commerce for backing a Ballinger irrigation district and opposing a Syndicate Power dam on the Colorado River. They say landowners should decide water rights themselves and doubt Colorado River irrigation can be profitable under district taxation. Brownwood’s water plans should not rely on chamber aid.
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Associated Press
Austin
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Ballinger
R. W. Haynie
Runnels County
Charles Furguson
Syndicate Power Company
Colorado River
Texas Supreme Court
Colorado
West Texas
Brownwood
German flyer repairs ship. Persia is next
Otto Koennecke, famed German ace, landed in Bagdad with a burst tire on the Caspar monoplane Germanie. He said he found a spare wheel and would take off at 5 p.m. for Bund er Abbas, Persia, outlining his planned route beyond that.
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United Press
Bagdad
Otto Koennecke
Bunder Abbas
Persia
Magruder interview under fire over navy criticism
Rear Admiral T S Magruder faces a Navy inquiry after a magazine article criticizing conduct of the service. a later New York Times interview prompted the probe as to possible penalties. He met with Secretary Wilbur to apologize for any embarrassment caused.
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Thomas F. Magruder
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Washington
Associated Press
T. S. Magruder
Navy
Wilbur
New York Times
Saturday Evening Post
Magruder
Department
Weather delays end of Cologne flight to New York
Koennecke left Cologne last week on the eastbound flight after waiting in vain for weeks for weather conditions to make possible a flight across the Atlantic to New York. The route included Bombay Calcutta Singapore Hongkong Japan San Francisco as prior stops and illustrates the snags in early wartime air travel.
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Bombay
Calcutta
Singapore
Hongkong
Japan
San Francisco
Koennecke
Cologne
Atlantic
New York
Dover demolishes Ardcliffe Fort for rail upgrade
Historic Ardcliffe Fort at Dover England was torn down to clear space for a new railway station. The fortress dating to Henry VIII era yielded a heavy gun from a century ago during excavations.
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Ardcliffe Fort
Dover
England
Henry VIII
Benson Murder Case Characters and Rising Suspicions
In this chapter from the Benson murder saga, Major Benson discusses a possible informant Leander Pryfe on Long Island and Markham hints at building an indictment. Vance challenges Markham on the role of clues versus motive and the danger of assuming guilt in a case with public interest.
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Anthony Benson
Anna Platz
Alvin Benson
Muriel ST. Clair
Philip Leacock
Miss St. Clair
Leander Pfyfe
Paula Banning
Piyfe
Elsie Hoffman
Benson and Benson
Bigsby Ostrander
William H. Moriarty
George G. Stitt
Benson
Markham
Vance
Leander Pryfe
Alvin
Long Island
Port Washington
Colonel Ostrander
Cubby Learns Greed Brings Trouble in Blueberry Hunt
Cubby the bear grows greedy over blueberries and flees from Farmer Brown's Boy, feeling abandoned and frightened. He follows the familiar man smell back toward home, while Old Mother Nature watches. The tale ends with Cubby realizing the risk of selfish hoarding.
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Cubby
Farmer Brown
Bear
Mother Bear
Jed Thumper
Bowser
Mother Brown
T. W. Burgess
My Favorite Stories by Carolyn Wells
A comic Irish soldier in an American regiment asks for home leave to help his wife but learns she does not need him. He confesses to the colonel that he is lying about being married, admitting he is one of the two big liars in the regiment.
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Markham
Vance
Arrah
Barbs Kills Son For No Reason Headline Satire
A lighthearted column quotes a provocative headline and commentary about traffic signals, married men, weather, and fashion trends reflecting 1927 social attitudes. The piece blends satire with brief observations on behavior, manners, and seasonal mood.
Seizure of Liquor Ship Reported in British Waters
A ram boat seized off Gunkey by a U S coast guard cutter is reported to have occurred within British territorial waters Nassau authorities say C H Nesle an American tied to the case is held for trial on larceny and receiving stolen goods Nesle was transported from Bimini to Nassau for proceeding Ensign E E Hahn says the capture was twelve miles off Gunkey within the treaty limits
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Nassau
Bahamas
Gunkey
United States Coast Guard
C. H Nesle
Bimini
Gunkey Light
E. E. Hahn
Coast Guard
Fort Lauderdale
Nesle
Great Britain
Medium Floats in Air At Psychic Research Congress
Paris reports Dr. vor Schrenck Notzing of Munich cited a medium known as Karl Weber who reportedly rose into the air without visible means of locomotion. He allegedly floated 85 times in June July and August 1924 with horizontal position 4 feet 6 inches high for up to 25 seconds.
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Paris
Himsel
International Congress For Psychic Research
Vor Schrenck Notzing
Munich
Karl Weber
Notzing
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Amarillo Globe
Associated
Errs and Business Department Circulation Department
Ween
Wees
West Texas Group
Philo Vance
Joan PX. Markham
New York County
Alvin H. Benson
Wall Street
Madison Square
Peter Stuyvesant
Rubens
Antwerp
By Thornton W. Burgess
Carolyn Wells
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