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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1926
Page
8
A fragmented market note quotes bids and prices for cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle and hogs show gains while lighter weights and fat lambs hold steady or soften with overall activity around 19 000 head reported. Bulls steers and heifers show varied quotes across weights.
Livestock prices rise across cattle calves and vealers with steers and yearlings up 5 to 6 cents. Native cows gain 15 to 26 cents while fat lambs and ewes show modest changes. Prices listed for various weight classes including native steers, calves, and vealers with broad gains across the morning sale.
August 5 cattle and calves totals around 5 009 with strong to steady demand in cattle, hogs and sheep. Prices: steers 9.86 to 11.40 for heavies, heifers and cows varied. stockers and feeders scarce, hogs 9.00 to 10.00, lambs up to 14.50, Colorado and Texas lots mentioned with prices around 7.00 to 9.00 for various classes.
Wheat futures and spot quotes show No 2 hard red and No 2 red values around 1.80 to 1.87 a bushel with September and December closings noted. Corn price lines include No 2 white and No 2 yellow with values near 5.42 to 4.64, while miscellaneous grades appear with scattered figures and incomplete symbols.
Chicago August 6 grain report lists corn and wheat bids. No. 2 hard wheat around 1.314 dollars. corn No. 2 mixed 0.811 to 0.867 dollars. No. 2 yellow 0.567 to 0.786 dollars. oats No. 2 white around 0.414 dollars.
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled notes about meter 1. higher and references to numbers like 74 and 24, with incomplete phrases suggesting a discussion or tally. No identifiable persons or organizations are recoverable from the readable bits.
The Panhandle Lumber company increased its capital to 1 million dollars, becoming the only home company in Amarillo to reach the million-dollar mark. The firm, operating 20 years with twenty five yards, had raised capital from 750 000 to 900 000 on January 1.
City officials face continued typhoid fears as Santa Fe staff from Amarillo’s main office are reported dead. Early rumors named Pawerd Dewd of Amarillo, but the tale remains unsettled. Santa Fe details indicate a deadly outbreak impacting city workers and prompting investigations.
Ernest Bohm announces a city wide push to unionize flappers in New York offices. He says the Bookkeepers and Stenographers union aims to survey every flapper about unionization amid high spirits, noting the challenge of persuading office workers in the city.
A San Bernardino mother appeals via The News Globe for help locating her 18 year old daughter Genevieve who ran away with Floyd Harrison McBride in Los Angeles. She asks the girl to write to Stella Yonts in San Bernardino for forgiveness.
Culpepper denounces boxing and wrestling as unfit for preachers and condemns high schools and colleges for overemphasizing athletics. He calls Mae Murray a devilish hussy, urges support for the News and the Globe, and uses biblical trees to illustrate his sermons amid a divisive talk on morality.
Readable text indicates a Western New York golf championship to be held at Cleveland Park, with tentative arrangements and local involvement. Details are unclear due to fragmented OCR, but event is positioned as a premier regional tournament with notable participants mentioned.
Returns show Senator George Williams of Missouri leading dry opponents by wide margins for long and short term seats. Ben Harrell and Ben Cartic face easy paths in Kansas. Former Congressman Harry Hawes of St. Louis pivots late returns toward Williams in the November race.
An article recounts the Rhine land steamship bursting on the Yangtze as dried beans swell from capillarity. It explains water films driving expansion, links to ancient quarry and road building methods, and notes capillarity as a fundamental, poorly understood force.
William L. Rippy longtime manager of the Amarillo Tourist Camp died at his home on the camp grounds this morning of pneumonia He is survived by his widow and four sons W O Rippy of Portland A L Rippy of Bristow Lee Rippy of Memphis and A C Rippy of Amarillo He had managed the camp since its opening in 1924 and his body is in the care of N S Griggs and Sons pending out of town relatives arrival
Random street quotes capture local voices on growth, events, and civic groups. Residents discuss garden plots, housing expansion, Legion plans, new nurseries, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's revival.
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