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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth August 1 market results show cattle receipts at 600 with a steady market. Beeves sold 3.50 to 9.60, cows 3.00 to 5.50, hogs 15.65 to 19.25, and sheep and lambs receipts 150 with steady demand. notable prices include spring lambs 19.50 to 12.50 and yearlings 19 to 11.
Unofficial figures put the thirty six Panhandle counties total at 623900 bales with 440868 to 513700 bales shown for included districts. Excluded Potter Oldham Hartley Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill Lipscomb Ochiltree Hansford Sherman and Dallam are expected to contribute over 10000 bales.
John Moore and J A McGee report regular service between Amarillo and Dalhart. Forthcoming changes include Lemaster becoming traveling yardmaster and Santa Fe freight totals for June 1925 rising to 145 593 cars from 129 256 year over year. Platinum prospecting in Africa continues despite heavy rains.
The Amarillo market listing shows per bushel and per 100 pounds prices for wheat, kafir, Milo, oats, and barley. Values range with barley and other grains quoted around 1.55 to 1.90 dollars, indicating a volatile feed grain session.
An old trade notice lists poultry and egg pricing including hens and Leghorns, broilers by breed, hogstets, turkeys, packing stock butter, infertile eggs candling notes, and egg refunds. It presents scattered prices such as 15 cents for hens, 10 cents for old tom turkeys, and 7.50 for certain egg charges.
New York reports indicate the second half of the year began with revived business confidence. Oil stocks lagged in the rally while grain featured July wheat at steady gains and hog prices fell sharply. Cattle advanced modestly as mutton strengthened late, with overall sentiment improving despite some volatility.
Cheyenne Wyoming August 1 Judge T Blake Kennedy who ruled for Harry F Sinclair in the Teapot Dome lease annulment case recently today granted the governments petition for an appeal The case goes to the eighth circuit court of appeals where a ruling will be sought on whether Kennedy exceeded his authority in excluding evidence offered by government counsel in the first trial The majority of the errors were predicted
In Dayton the Ku Klux Klan held ceremonies honoring William Jennings Bryan with a fiery cross burned Friday night. In Cleveland Klansmen in regalia burned a cross inscribed in memory of Bryan as the greatest Klansman of our times.
The past week brought 1.6 inches of rain to Canyon and more to Randall county. Crops are in promising condition with about fifteen thousand acres of cotton expected to yield three quarters of a bale or more per acre. Farmers prepare land for wheat and await a large harvest after years of strong growing conditions.
Senator Smith Brookhart of Iowa and Daniel F. Steck, his Democratic rival, run neck and neck in a statewide recount led by the elections committee staff. The panel reports Steck ahead by sixty eight votes after a re audit of ballots from twenty four counties.
From Pekin dispatches the clash at Nanking raises fears of renewed anti foreign sentiment. Initial reports claimed casualties among Britons and Chinese with a Britisher captured by students, later revised to injuries and one Chinese death. Chinese troops aided British marines to restore order as J Clarke was beaten and left unconscious.
Atlantic City August 1 Senator George H. Moses chairman of the joint postal committee said at hearings today that postal rates are almost certain to be reduced at the next session. He noted a 20 percent rise in postal receipts this June over last year and argued the government does not operate the mails for profit, making a rate reduction likely.
Firefighters answered a midnight alarm at 800 Adams Street. The house was unoccupied, and authorities believe spontaneous combustion sparked the blaze due to water shortages hindering firefighting. Neighbors say the property belonged to Mrs Willingham.
Forrest Warren announces that he and C S Conlee will continue the successful real estate business once led by W K Cazzell in San Jacinto. All listings formerly handled by Cazzell pass to Warren and Conlee. Conlee recently moved to Amarillo from Texico where he led a public school. The couple resides at 102 Carolina Avenue. Tom C Ivey, a Lubbock cattleman, visited here Saturday.
A compact guide on turning a busy entrance hall into a unified room. It emphasizes selecting an artist designed wallpaper to absorb competing lines and openings, using bold color to unify walls, rugs, draperies, and upholstery, and creating a welcoming, room like passageway.
Bob and Charles C. Bridges purchase Panhandle Grocery at 495-07 East Fourth Street from J. R. Strickland and take control. Both bring years in the business as plans for extensive improvements are announced and stock expanded to include fresh vegetables.
The Rev Solon Johnson of First Presbyterian Tulsa will preach in the pulpit of Central Presbyterian this morning. Birch Campbell, cattleman of Canyon, visited Amarillo ranchmen on Saturday.
A false alarm sent Scranton firemen to a West Scranton warehouse where police found two large stills, 1000 gallons of alcohol, and equipment worth 15000 dollars. Nearly twenty men fled. two were later captured.
Miss Kate Early Parker arrives from Wichita Falls to stay with her father TE L Parker at the Amarillo hotel. Parker had spent the summer in New York City.
Mrs Ida M Blankenberg of Tulsa says she will fight to prove she is Lotta Crabtrees daughter and entitled to a share. She plans to hire new counsel after J Weston Allen withdrew, and her brother John W Crabtree is held in contempt.
Brooklyn August 1. Colorado researchers Dr C K Cadle Dr Grant H Johnson and Paul L Hoefler of Denver depart aboard the Bull liner Fas tern Glade bound for Cape Town to join an expedition for Bechuanaland in Kilahari desert seeking Darwinian proof. They describe the Kilahari natives as perhaps the lowest race on earth resembling apes in some traits. Cadle notes no habits of whites have been observed.
F. W. Fairchild, linked with Currie and Spann for seven years, takes charge of the fire insurance department at T. M. Bruner and Company. Bruner expresses confidence in Fairchild's extensive experience and strong value to the firm.
Miss Alvis Smith of Miami won first prize in the Object contest. Paul Miller Tulia route A took second prize and Mrs. Gertrude McBride of Dalhart won third. The editor is away on vacation and the contest photo is not printed today. The Globe hopes to renew the contest soon.
Opinion urges a self funded interstate flying militia on the Pacific coast. It calls for rapid construction of flying ships and training to outpace Asiatic and European programs, arguing war danger could be averted by investing in air defense and production.
Hurlwood, Lubbock County's newest town, will be opened to investors on Tuesday, August 4, according to Claude B. Hurlbut, local realtor, who with W. M. Wood of Buda, Texas is developing the town. It lies twelve and a half miles west of Lubbock on the proposed Santa Fe branch toward the New Mexico border.
In Canyon this week a yellow Bermuda onion weighing one and a half pounds was exhibited, sent by F W Friemel of Umbarger ten miles west of Canyon. The onion, grown from a plant, supports Friemel’s claim that plants yield bigger onions faster than sets. Also exhibited was a plum twig with one hundred plums from a tree owned by Mrs J D Bybee of Canyon, underscoring the region's suitability for plum culture.
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