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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1924
Page
3
Fort Worth market on December 11 shows cattle nine thousand head with calves and heifers mixed in price ranges from $1.90 to $8. Calves fetch $2 to $6, hogs trade $9.50 to $10 with sows $5 to $9. Sheep run about $7 to $14 for lambs and $6 to $12 for feeders. Oklahoma City reports 1,500 cattle and 1,100 hogs with steers $6.25 to $6.75 and hogs $9.20 to $9.50.
Cattle 3 500 calves at 8 dollars and up, top mixed yearling steers and heifers at 11.50, bulk 6.50 to 8.50, real top 9, choice stockers 7.65. Hogs 15,000 steady, top 9.55, bulk 9 to 9.50, packing sows 8.80 to 9.15, stock pigs 5.10 to 7.75. Sheep 7,000 slow, lambs 14.60 to 15, clippers 12, fat ewes 12.80, feeding lambs 14.75.
The listing shows prices for hens of 4 lbs and over and under 4 lbs, Leghorn hens, broilers, leghorns and roosters by pound, ducks, turkeys by weight, no 2 turkeys not wanted, butter free from mold, eggs, and delivery charges. Included rates indicate market fluctuations with various weight classes and items priced per dozen or pound.
Amarillo Grain listing shows wheat basis No 1 hard at 1.45 dollars per bushel maize per 100 pounds 1.40 rye oats barley and rye No 2 1.24 indices. Cotton Grain Stocks Provisions section credits Amarillo Cotton and Grain Exchange with C Higgins and Alex Hyman & Co New Orleans contacts.
Chicago markets show hogs 72 000 steady with top at 9.90, sows 8.90 to 9.15, slaughter pigs 6.50 to 6.75, heavy pigs 9.60 to 9.90, mediums 8.80 to 9.30, liget 7.50 to 9.40. Cattle 19 000 demand semi demoralized. yearlings 14, steers 9.50 down, vealers 9.50. Sheep 26 000 weak. lambs 15.00 to 15.75, fat ewes 8.50 to 8.75, feeding lambs 14.50 to 15.25.
Hogs 16,000 head steady 8.80 to 9.85 for heavy butchers 8.50 to 9.35 for lights and pigs 8.85 to 9.90 for packer sows. Cattle 2,500 with no early steer sales. select light dealers 9.50. heifers 4.25 to 6.50. canners 2.25 to 2.50. bulls 5.50 to 8.00. Sheep 1,500 native and western lambs 15.50. culled 11. killing ewes 8 to 8.50.
Hemstitching done promptly and carefully at the art exchange venue.
The Hobart murder trial progresses with 182 jurors examined and 150 witnesses summoned as Judge Reeder vows to challenge most state testimony. Thresher C T Olivar becomes the ninth juror after Thurman is excused.
G T Oliver writes to the Globe objecting to its December 10 editorial on the Curse of Prohibition. He calls the piece defamatory and asserts Amarillo has a high percentage of law abiding citizens. He has long lived in Amarillo and denies the premise.
The Tri State Poultry Show features about 1100 birds with many breeds on display. Prize money may exceed 700 dollars to reward winners as breeders from Texas Oklahoma and Iowa Park gather for judging by Walter Burden and EF Branch with a full exhibitor list expected tomorrow.
Governor Pat M. Neff opened the state textbook commission meeting calling book destruction a disgrace to Texas. He urged contracts to prohibit burning or destroying any school books and noted bids on books across twenty one subjects with commission members and about seventy five book company reps present.
The article contrasts Mr Eastman’s record of guiding travel with affordable child growth records and creating jobs, and Mr Duke’s building of dozens of power plants in the South aiding local work. It notes ballooning civilizational progress from the Los Angeles and Shenandoah airships to astronomical study, while warning civilization remains uneven as seen in a man’s shotgun incident.
August Belmont, renowned financier and sportsman, died in his Park Avenue apartment following an illness of about a day. The cause was listed as cellulitis with blood poisoning after an arm operation. He was 71 and survived by his widow Eleanor Robson and two sons from his first wife Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan. Burial is planned at the Belmont family ground in New Port.
Rotarians commit to work for the Community Chest urging citywide support. A Santa Fe auditor praises the drive and volunteers are sought to boost contact lists and fundraising progress as a thermometer project is planned at Fifth and Polk Streets.
Chicago reports the railroad labor board will likely grant a five percent wage increase and a one percent adjustment to rules affecting the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen on twenty railroads. The decision aims to finalize national settlements with the New York Central and its conductors, based on an initial 0 percent wage increase.
Venroe Texas December 11 a brother identifies a body found in a creek near a Sherman man as 4 Battle. Identification was by his brother J J Battle.
"When the Elk Come Down" will be shown for Boy Scouts at 7:30 pm tomorrow at Central Presbyterian church. Stunts and refreshments to follow. Thomas H. Nelson says all Scouts and friends aged 12 and over invited. Wichita, Dec 11. Hog receipts and cattle prices listed from local market notes.
Potter county reports 5 905 registered motor vehicles and 1925 license fees due before January 1. Tax collector Ben Golding urges owners to pay now to avoid criminal violation and rush. only sixty five receipts issued by noon.
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