Fort Worth Livestock Prices Mixed Across Markets
The Fort Worth market shows hogs at 1,700 head slow with midrange butchers at 10.80, cattle 5,000 with calves and various cuts, sheep 1,800 steady with top yearling prices around 30.25, while Kansas City and Chicago figures reflect similar shifts in hogs, cattle and vealers, with mixed changes across regions.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Associated Preas
Ave
Idaho
Colorado
Chicago
Cattie
Kansas City grain and Chicago markets mixed on wheat upturn
Wheat and corn futures rallied in Chicago after Canadian wheat news and rust reports. oats and poultry hold steady. Prices for No. 2 red wheat near 1.97 at Kansas City. corn No. 2 white around 1.03. butter and eggs steady in Chicago trade. Liberty bonds quoted with various maturities in New York.
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Chicago
The
Associated Press
Kansas City
Aug
Tactless Texan reveals big press break and desert dinner
The columnist boasts of invitations and a $500 plus article sale offer from Field & Stream after a Colorado trip with Wails Madden and Tone Chisum. He previews a readers get together, recounts a hearty Amarillo dinner, and jokes about home cooking versus restaurant fare as he prepares to discuss the water question tomorrow. He notes his number 2774-W for free restaurant testing and mentions O. W. in a light, humorous tone.
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Wails Madden
Tone Chisum
Colorado
Tone
Amarillo
Globe
Field & Stream
O. W
Foreign exchange rates and bar silver figures
The report lists Great Britain demand and cables at 485 11-16 and 4255-16, sixty day bills at 481 1/2, France and Italy demands around 391 3/16 and 544, Belgium 14.60, Germany 24.77, Tokyo 47.48, Montreal 99.87. Bar silver quoted at 4 1/2 and Mexican dollars at 40.0.
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Associated Press
New York
Aug
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Tokyo
Montreal
Manholes on Sixth Street Need Attention Says A Neighbor
A letter to Tack requests repair of troublesome manholes on Sixth Street between Harrison and Tyler. The writer notes cars damaging them and asks for action by city officials.
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Mr. Tack
Sixth Street
Harrison
Tyler Streets
Dear Old Tack Letter Calls for Health Ordinance Fairness
Norris N. Wells of 410 Pierce St urges equal health rules for large and small food establishments. He cites fruit handling in stores and pie display practices, asking the paper to publish the issue and seek a public remedy.
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Norris N. Wells
Pierce St
Texas Lore From a Native Aims to Stir Imagination
A Springfield Missouri letter dated July 3 1927 presents a humorous and expansive portrait of Texas by a native writer Mrs H G Walker Ak R 1 Box 702. It sketches Texas as vast in geography and character with playful assertions about its rivers land and pride and ends with a whimsical note on Texan identity.
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Springfield
Tear Taek
North America
United States
Canada
Rio Grande
Trinity
Pacific Ocean
U. S
Panhandle
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Ak. R
Letter writer asked to publish name of Blake letter
J A Oden argues for printing the author of a Blake letters column. He notes Blake was convicted of murdering Fred Conner who befriended him by giving a ride. Conner was found shot and left by the roadside. Oden questions mercy if the victim were a family member and insists Blake has been convicted despite his claims of innocence.
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Robert Blake
Blake
Fred Conner
Conner
Panhandle
Amarillo
Texico Adventist Camp Meeting Attracts Attendees
The Texico Conference Seventh Day Adventists hold their annual camp meeting at the fair grounds with Rev. F C Gilbert and Prof J Thompson in attendance. Gilbert will narrate his Japan earthquake rescue and speak on Was Jesus the Real Messiah. Thompson aids the youth division as meetings run through August 14.
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Fair Ground
F. C. Gilbert
Thompson
Sabbath School Department
General Conference
Washington, D. C
Gilbert
Japan
Jesus
Brother seeking covert search for Harvey Hawkins
A letter requests help locating Harvey S. Hawkins who has been missing for a year. The writer W T Hawkins from Russellville Arkansas asks an investigator to find him, offering payment and noting the brother’s physical description. The motive is family distress and urgency.
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Mr. Tack
Harvey S. Hawkins
W. T. Hawkins
Russellville, Ark
Prisoner Work Proposal Sparks City Letter
A reader named Mrs. MRS. R. E. WILLIAMS writes to Mr. Tack advocating prisoner labor programs in Amarillo. She argues inmates could perform useful work such as painting to reduce welfare costs and support families, noting one jailed painter who could contribute before August. She urges clever plans to employ prisoners and repay debts while emphasizing humane treatment.
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Mr. Tack
Amarillo
Green Line Cafe Closed for Remodeling
The Green Line cafe will be closed until about September 1 for extensive repairs redecoration and new equipment installed by proprietor FE T Woodie Wood announced. New tables a new counter and decorations will be added to fit the furniture and better service is the goal.
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FE. T
Woodie) Wood
Weodie
Sacco Vanzetti Protests Spark Global Demonstrations
The article reports mass meetings and protests linked to Sacco and Vanzetti. In Boston police tighten security and bar meetings. 14 000 officers remain on alert. Paris and London demonstrations draw thousands. Buenos Aires labor actions unfold.
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Paris
Bois de Vincennes
United States
London
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Vanzetti
Buenos Aires
U. S
Old Tack's Plan for a Bigger, Better Amarillo Fairer City
A 1920s Amarillo program outlines goals for lower rates, cleaner streets, more parks, and expanded public services. It calls for a municipal pool golf course viaducts Bivins Lake public access and reduced costs across utilities while promoting growth and livability.
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Old Tack
Amarillo
Bivins Lake
San Jacinto
Give and Take Across the Earth
A poem by Edgar A. Guest from 1927 contrasts the lifegiving act of giving with the dying plant that yields nothing. It emphasizes growth through generosity, the exchange of life’s lessons for wisdom, and the moral that true treasure comes from what we give back to the world.
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Edgar A. Guest
Sacco-Vanzetti protests and mine strike report
Reports describe Sacco-Vanzetti sympathy meetings in several cities with police guarding officials' homes while protests continued and arrests for literature distribution occurred. Separate to this, Colorado coal mines in the Walsenburg district report 57 percent idle with 659 of 1100 workers at seven mines showing for work. The Robinson mines suffer heavy layoffs, while other mines in the area see limited activity.
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Philadelphia
Emanuel Presbyterian Church
United Mine Workers of America
Wilkes-Barre
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Los Angeles
Sacco-Vanzetti
Chicago
Worchester
Massachusetts
Webster Thayer
Fuller
New Haven
Connecticut
Colorado
Associated Press
Trinidad
Colo
Walsenburg
Robinson
Pictou
Ideal
Keblar
Cameron
Lester
Manila permits cabarets and dance halls to resume
Manila will allow cabarets and dance halls to reopen after protests by social workers and educators led to a yearlong ban. Venues may operate within a half mile of the city borders for now and nowhere farther.
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Manila
Luther Bible Inadvertently Sold With Bundle Near Man
A Bible once owned by Martin Luther was accidentally included in a bundle sold near Man with no extra charge. The buyer likely knew of the error and left before the blunder was noticed. Pointed shoes dating to 1 A D were found in London during Bank of England excavations. Roma women’s leather shoe soles from about 1800 years ago were uncovered. Jefferson City Missouri Public Radio debuts Crime New Hour on WOS to broadcast fugitives and related tips statewide.
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Man
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Londo
London
Jefferson City
Missouri
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