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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1924
Page
3
Fort Worth August 6 cattle and hog totals with price ranges for beef cattle calves stockers cows and bulls. St Louis August 6 hogs cattle and sheep prices. Kansas City August 6 cattle hogs and sheep with price spreads. Chicago August 6 hogs cattle and sheep with standstill trends and top prices.
Hogs receipts 500 with prices 25 lower top 0.65, bulk 9.25 to 9.69, cut outs to 7.75. Cattle receipts 400 including 100 calves. best killers steady, medium and general run weak to 40 lower. beef steers 1.00 to 7.50, beef heifers 3.50 to 6.25, cows 0.25 to 4.86, bulls 2.75 to 4.15, veal calves 5 to 7.50, stockers 5 to 6.50, stock cows 2.50 to 4.26.
Amarillo market lists hens 4 lbs and up at 16 cents per pound and under 4 lbs at 20 cents per pound. Leghorn and broilers priced per category with miscellaneous figures. Turkeys hens 8 lbs plus and toms 12 lbs plus priced. Butter mold-free and eggs with loss charges noted. delivery $6.00.
Local growers receive payments for crops with wheat at No 1 hard 1.15 per 100 pounds maize 1.35 per 100 pounds oats and barley per bushel listed. The figures indicate the mill and elevator pricing by commodity.
The Panhandle Plains Retailers first annual convention in Canyon featured a busy session with Amarillo merchants attending. A luncheon at Cousin Hall and a Palo Duro canyon picnic followed a girls dormitory visit at the college. Speakers discussed topics for merchants as committees reported and recommendations were made.Representatives from Canyon included 8 J Cole Jeff Blackburn Horace M Russell Bert Wrather Sam Montgomery E B Gish Paul Odor and R O Walkup.
Mrs. John Moore wife of The Globe’s railroad columnist is sick at the Moore home 1110 Fillmore street. The educational committee will preside over the Rotary program tomorrow with Charles Gregg as chairman. Blackburn Bros advertise heavy reductions on Manhattan shirts underwear hats and Edwin Clapp Oxfords in a semi annual clearance sale drawing Amarillo shoppers.
The Mizpah bridge club will meet at 9 30 tomorrow morning at the home of Mrs. Guy Owens 1903 Tyler Street.
Panhandle wheat supplies Amarillo flour for local consumption as Great West Milling receives the largest share of July shipments. John F. Ross logged 2017 car loads that month with 473 to Great West mill. Southwest Wheat Growers Association shipped 70 car loads and stored much locally and at Wichita Falls. Lester Stone received 308 cars. Strader 196. Farmers' Elevator White Deer 101 cars.
Hearst papers financial expert George Wheeler Hinman argues the United States is among the most heavily taxed nations after England. He cites per capita taxes from 65 to 70 dollars when including federal, state, and local taxes, totaling about seven billion dollars yearly, a burden he says the business system cannot sustain.
City commission seeks bids for a replacement police car. The current ramshackle model has served long and well but is worn and faded. Officers, though fond of the old vehicle, anticipate letting go as a new patrol car is pursued.
The new Hupmobile agency at 715 Polk Street will exhibit a full line of cars the latter part of the week. The remodeled building features a modern display room and front service station with A C Patzig in charge of service and John Wise as sales manager.
Art students, especially in small towns, face a choice between pursuing fine art or entering commercial art paths. The piece highlights profitable avenues such as lettering, poster work, sign writing, framing, engraving, architectural drafting, sculpture modeling, and photography, noting strong pay and demand in departments, advertising, and industry.
The city commission approved a white way on East Tenth Street from Polk to the Santa Fe railway, to be completed before the Amarillo Tri State exposition opens September 22. The city provides lighting at 2600 dollars yearly. four property owners must pay for equipment and installation. Eight lights per block, 400 watt standards, with anticipated ornamental lights between Eighth and Tenth on Polk to link with the business district.
Collier's Weekly notes Jacob H. Schiff left an estate near 85 million dollars with net annual income of about 1.5 percent. Most of the wealth lay in tax exempt bonds, avoiding higher surtax returns, while affecting business investment. It also mentions James J. Hill's widow receiving 365000 a year.
August 6 reports say M. Dyche an longtime Childress resident and coach cleaner remains in critical condition at the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Hospital in Fort Worth after being severely crushed by a train. He is among the area’s oldest settlers.
Paul Meadow employed by the American Warehouse and Storage company was arrested this afternoon and jailed on charges of stealing four automobile tires. The text notes a scheme converting Hill's securities into tax free bonds to boost the widow's income to 730000 dollars a year, illustrating a government tax loss.
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