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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
8
Chicago and regional hog and cattle prices mixed with demand varied by location. Hog prices ranged around 11.59 to 15.50 for different weights, cattle showed limited activity with steers near 14.25, vealers 11.50 to 12.50, and lambs 14.50 to 15.00. East St. Louis and Wichita listings reflected softer hogs and moderate cattle interest with lambs strong in some runs.
Market report shows cattle numbers with calves and yearlings steady. Steers fetch $5.26 to $34, heifers $4.25 to $5.50, cows $3.75 to $4.50, canners and cutters $2.25 to $4, calves up to $8. Hogs top at $12.75 with bulk $12.25 to $12.65. Sheep and lambs remain steady with lambs $10.56 to $13 and feeders $10 to $11.
Auction at Kansas City shows calves 890 head with grass steers 5.59 to 8.8, cutters up to 3.50, cows 5.75 to 5.00, veals 10.50, hogs 1 500 head top 15.10, sows 11.78 to 13, packers 10.50 to 10.75, stock hogs 12 to 12.50, sheep 4 000 steady with native lambs 14.25 to 14.84. Arizona and Texas prices noted with wethert 7.75.
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In Chicago on August 28 foreign interests sold wheat opening lower by 1 to 1.25 cents with September at 1.56 to 1.57 dollars and December at 1.55 to 1.56 dollars. A rally lifted September to 1.57 and December to 1.57 before a selling push pulled back. Corn opened down then up but slipped after bulge trading. oats gained early strength. provisions were slow and slightly higher.
Chicago wheat prices show number 3 red at 1.57 and number 1 hard between 1.50 and 1.61. Corn trades number 2 mixed from 94.14 to 96 and number 2 yellow at .94 to .94. Oats futures for number 2 white range from .39 to .49 with number 3 at .38 to .40.
Wheat number 2 hard sold for 1.60 to 1.71 dollars and number 2 red for 1.73 to 1.75 dollars. Corn number 2 white traded from 0.84 to 0.88 dollars.
Price listing shows Amarillo produce with yellow peppers at 94 to 95 cents per unit and oats priced at 40 to 89 cents per unit. Indicates market ranges for number 2 yellow peppers and number 2 white oats with percentage clues in OCR text.
Spot cotton prices report mixed values with New York at 22.35 and Houston at 22.70, amid market activity. The article notes regional quotes including Dallas and Galveston, reflecting varied cotton futures snapshots.
The Denver Post tournament baseball returns will be supplied by Holman Drug Co at Fifth and Polk and by Fly Barton Drug Co No 2 at 113 East Fourth. Fly Barton will provide updates every third inning on all tournament games in addition to Amarillo games.
Sam Sullenburger is returning from Oklahoma City on business. Carl W. Sullivan, formerly Fair theater manager, and his wife drove back from an extended overland tour. Mrs. Tom Durham and children head home from Denver with brother Tommy, who was there last week. Mrs. Durham is improving after an injury. Mrs. Tom Turner in Northwest Texas hospital from a broken leg after a fall. Mrs. F Zimmerman seriously ill. Mrs. J F Witt and son returned to Wheeler after visiting Griffith Witt. Miss Sue Hudgins and Miss Marie Dodson vacationed in Madison Park and will return Saturday. Miss Mattie Bell Jack leaves for Carlsbad to teach this winter. Mrs. Charles Kennedy and Mary Kennedy return home to Clarksville. Alice Curtis will join her sister in Clarksville for two weeks. Mrs. Lawrence Nobles returns from Las Vegas with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. AB Rowley visit their son Dr. R P Parcells and return to Tulsa. Se Sneath to Abilene after leaving Southwestern Life Insurance. Mr. and Mrs. R M Boyd move to Lucerne apartments in Amarillo. Carlotta Cheney hosts Miss Mildred Nixon in from Ruston. Carl Pool and children with Mrs. F B Blanchard depart for overland tour in New Mexico. F B Develin and wife from Wichita arrive to manage engineering interests. C R Nall and children return to Sherman after visiting Mrs. O H Hargett. George Herman of Breckenridge will live at 1807 Tyler for the school year. Marjorie Foutz Joslin granted a divorce from Meredith Joslin for cruelty. sheward custody of child and the family car.
Plainview reports Hale county agent EF W Thomas resigns to become superintendent of the Texas Ranch Experiment Station at Sonora effective immediately. He served Plainview two and a half years. A successor has not yet been named. The Sonora station examines breeding and treatment of cattle sheep and goats.
E B D greets Lee and Amarillo officials as the West Texas chamber of commerce shows near 500 members. Bob Emmett thanks visitors at the packing plant and invites a full plant inspection. Colonel and Mrs. Lee depart for home praising the tour and luncheon as the tour’s high point.
In Panhandle on August 28 Col R Q Lee and party spoke at the courthouse on diversified farming and home industry. The group, hosted by the chamber of commerce at the Panhandle Inn, toured oil fields with J Sid O Keefe guiding to the fields. Lee praised Panhandle oil development noting 52 derricks and complimented County Agent M S Tisdel on poultry flock improvements.
Dallas August 28 Dave Morris a veteran Dallas hotel chef aged 60 died suddenly at his home. Morrison cooked at the old Oriental hotel for twenty seven years and prepared banquet meals for presidents and noted men on several occasions. He died in his sleep.
Hereford residents rally for the Home Beautiful Contest run by the ladies and chamber of commerce. Prizes plus a $20 award for the most attractive block. Teams to clean streets, remove dead trees, whitewash tree trunks, and raise home standards. Judging by a West Texas State Teachers College class before the county fair. Winners announced at the fair.
Plainview officials call for bids by September 3 for paving 19 blocks in the first unit of a planned 100 block residential program. West Seventh to Houston, North to West Eleventh, east to Columbia, south to West Tenth, and east to Broadway are included. Engineer R G Carraway supervised plans and specifications.
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