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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1926
Page
7
Wichita Kansas August 25 cattle 600 steady grass fed steers 6.25 grass heifers 5.76 - limit 407.50 butcher cows 5.00 5.50 veal calves 12.50. Sheep 200 steady fat lambs 12.75 ewes 5.00 76.00 hogs 800 steady top 13.35 heavy sows 5.75 4 9 10.00 stock pigs 12.50 13.00
Kansas City markets show mixed moves with cattle and sheep. Cattle receipts around 16 000 and 2 000 calves, high demand for yealings, top cattle around 14 dollars, hogs higher with top near 14 29, packers slow late trading. Oklahoma City reports 1 000 cattle steady to higher, hogs up to 14 29, cows and bulls range 4 60 to 10 60.
Hogs steady with best hogs at 14.00. Cattle count 5,560 with calves 2,500 and Western steers at 6,857.89. top heifers 10.50 and choice vealers 10.45. Sheep numbers 4,000 with fat lambs 14.50 and fat ewes 4.00 to 6.00.
Chicago market records 15 000 hogs and 16 000 cattle with mixed results including lower fed steers and yearlings and higher sheep native lambs at 14 50 while Fort Worth shows cattle and calf prices steady to higher with calves 5 60 to 9 00 and hogs improving to 14 50 for light cuts and 18 00 for pigs avoiding excess detail.
Agricultural market note from Chicago dated August 25 lists grain prices for wheat corn and oats. Wheat No 2 red 1.564 and No 2 hard 1.87 71.88. Corn No 2 mixed 0.78 No 2 yellow 0.794. Oats No 2 white 0.594 and No 3 white 0.589.
Kansas City August 26 Wheat No 2 hard 1 242671.36 No 2 red 1 28 1 293/4 Corn No 2 white 77 78 No 2 yellow 80 1y Oats No 2 white 942 240 No 8 white BBR 39
August 06 Chicago report notes potato firm Reneas and Mescuris dismiss Irish cobblers amid a questionable Nebreka pounds white issue. Names and places appear obscured in the damaged text.
August 2 report from Chicago notes butter quotations with creamery entries and varied flotation. Prices for firsts and seconds are listed, but OCR errors obscure exact figures and continuation.
Secretary Kellogg and Ambassador Sheffield discussed Mexico's land and oil laws and the Calles government at the State Department. They stressed that U S intervention is unnecessary and that American rights must be safeguarded. Sheffield provided a firsthand view of Mexico City tensions and possible approaches to the dispute awaiting the latest American note.
Metzger butter and milk product demand has surged. The firm expanded by purchasing a 60 by 140 foot lot beside the North Fillmore Street plant and plans a much larger addition. Carl Metzger reports a 50 percent business increase in twenty days and says immediate expansion is needed with nine delivery trucks in operation. Construction will begin once new plans are drawn. The plant opened recently as a branch of the Dallas creamery.
A collage of quotes from residents including May Peterson and Slim Crews discusses local moods and civic topics. Other remarks touch on district fair literary contests, a proposed field in Lipscomb county, a future Denver ball game, a new school building name, and a child’s postoperative recovery at St Anthony’s sanitarium.
Three Amarillo speakers join a teachers convention at Canyon State Teachers College from August 30 to September 3. Miss Laura V Hamner W A McIntosh and Rev R Thomson will address sessions with 1000 to 1200 teachers from the Panhandle and plains. Florence Parker from Mississippi State College is expected as the farthest speaker.
Cash commitments total 406 000 with 60 000 signed up as landowners hold out for high prices. Bivins Herring and Fuqua each contribute 5000 to fund deeds and titles for terminals and right of way to the Canadian river. Rock Island prepared to complete railroad to the river tapping oil fields by late November but eminent domain battles may delay. Attitude shifts toward cooperation as momentum returns to push rails toward oil fields.
London reports that British women’s hair is deemed unsuitable for wigs and trans formations. F Chew of the Guild of Hairdressers notes many bobbed heads yield poor hair, while better quality material is imported from Italy Bavaria and Tyrol where hair is exposed to sun and breeze.
A London quip features a stranger asking for a criminal lawyer and a cop replying that none has been proved to exist, reflecting local wit in a concise vignette.
The Rev W J Wright a WaCo Texas Baptist leader and Ku Klux Klan adherent prints a book asserting Klan political aims and endorses Klan actions. He claims the grand wizard Hiram Evans ordered Dan’s removal and Bloodworth replaces Moody supporter as Texas grand dragon amid campaign disputes.
Fragmented overheard quotes from Polk tournament chatter mention Lamesa's early exit and Denver teams, Amarillo wrestling prospects, Stecher potential arrival, and related sport talk with unclear attributions and garbled names.
Fragmentary report shows cotton and crude market prices with monthly quotes. Numbers like $15.00 and $17.08 appear alongside months and crude readings, reflecting a historic commodity price roundup.
Damaged text fragment lists items and numbers with unclear placeholders. Contains names and a price like 283 but no clear event, date, or location. Readable shards suggest a public sale or notice but key details are missing.
The readable portion presents unclear phrases and names, offering no coherent event, date, or location to form a complete notice. Further context is required to determine the subject and involved entities.
Fragmentary text shows distorted phrases and names suggesting activation or events but lacks clear facts, dates, places, or participants to identify a coherent news item or outcome. No verifiable entities or actions emerge for a reliable summary.
The readable fragment mentions a reseaging event with unclear spellings and no identifiable entities. No clear persons or organizations are extractable from the text. The item remains incompletely legible.
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