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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1927
Page
2
A narrator adopts a self important persona Colonel Tack amid barbed humor and frontier bravado. The piece contrasts war bravado with Amarillo housing changes and spoof scenarios including landlords, employment offers, and casual racism. It closes with a joke about turnip tops and a thank you to J. C. Heaton.
The platform outlines priorities for Amarillo including lower utility rates water gas and electric. a municipal pool and golf course. more parks and trees. expanded sewer streets viaducts and restricted cross traffic. buses routes and city beautification while protecting press and news access and attracting industries.
Elizabeth Charlotte Anderson of Converse College in Summerton is named the most beautiful girl by artist Charles Dana Gibson in a Furman University contest. The Senior student, brunette with bobbed hair, earns top honors amid strong competition at Greenville South Carolina event.
A death list from yesterday's tornado names Alvie Anderson Julius Rae Jon Barry Rebecca Blancett and many others including Michael A. Clifford chief of police Venice and Edward A. Dunn Overland Missouri. The list notes deceased men women and an infant with several unidentified victims and references a separate Amarillo letter defending Blackburn Funeral home and criticizing court decisions.
A reader writes to Tack praising the column and Amarillo justice in a letter about a funeral home lawsuit, stating detachment from the case. The missive expresses confidence in Tack’s stance and in civic fairness.
In Amarillo Texas Mr Erasmus Tack reports a heated dispute over telephone charges with the paying party vociferously criticizing tariff changes while the recipient remains silent, signaling tension over service costs and policy.
A reader letter argues against rate increases by the phone company and other utilities. The writer questions whether more subscribers justify higher charges and suggests installing per-call meters to prevent cross-subsidizing and unnecessary conversations.
A humorous essay on tacks noting their tiny heads and broad bases, how they go unseen yet cause trouble in cars, homes, and public life, and the ironies of progress as old tacks rust and persist in society with biting irony.
Sept 30 market notes show hogs at Kansas City steady with top 11.80, cattle around 9.00 per cwt for medium steers and cutters 4.85, vealers to 15.50. sheep 8,000 head with western lambs to 13.40 and natives to 12.50. Chicago hogs active top 11.80, cattle mostly 9.50 to 12.00, vealers to 17.00, sheep 15,000 with lambs 13.75 to 14.00 and fat ewes up to 6.25.
Hogs 9,000 head sold top $11.85 with packing sows at $9.50 to $10.50 and pigs around $9.50 to $10.50. Cattle 1,000 head and calves 600 with vealers $16.25 to $16.50. other classes steady. Sheep 1,800 with fat lambs $13.00 to $13.25 and fat ewes $4.50 to $5.50.
New York cotton opened steady with a decline of 3 to 7 points on weaker Liverpool cables and favorable weather outlook. Prices firmed slightly after the start but offerings grew as showers and cooler southwest conditions loomed, leaving active months down overall amid a cautious mood.
Thousands witness the Chevrolet Caravan parade through Amarillo's business district. Plains Chevrolet hosts open house with drinks music and a radio program as trucks and cars display capabilities. Caravan stays for the day then heads to Cayenne and points south tomorrow.
Marion county grand jury indicted Virgil Vandergrift president of the Indianapolis board of public works on violating the Indiana securities law in connection with the sale of stock in the Electric Oil Well Rejuvenator company.
A historic clock atop the Chicago board of trade building, installed in 1894 at a cost of 885 dollars, is slated for removal as the tower is razed to make way for a new grain mart amid unsettled weather fears and shifting December and March wheat futures.
In New Orleans on Sept 30 the cotton market fell early despite higher Liverpool cables, then rallied on trading support before renewed New York selling and private crop estimates pushed prices lower. Dec traded to 21.19 with nearby quotes around 21.50, amid forecasts of yields potentially under 12 million bales if frost comes early and varied crop projections. Potatoes in Chicago showed steady to higher prices across several regions with russets and reds priced per sack.
Poultry alive mostly steady with slight gains for springs and ducks. Fowls average around 18 cents per pound, turkeys about 25 cents, roosters 15, ducks 19 to 21, and geese 14 to 19 cents. Butter drops with creamery extras at 46 cents, standards 43 to 44, firsts 89 to 94, seconds unchanged.
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