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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth market totals show cattle at 3 percent up with calves 50 head steady. Hogs steady with top 10.35 and sheep at 50 head steady. lambs 12 to 14 and feeders 10 to 12.50. Bulls, cows, stockers, and yearlings listed with varied ranges.
Hog receipts reach 700 with prices about 5 lower. packer top at 9.99. bulk 9.65 to 9.85. top mat outs 9. Cattle receipts total 200 including 1990 calves. market described as around steady or light with insufficient test to gauge a strong trend.
Kansas City market report shows cattle around 4000 head with calves 899, top yearlings $9.75, fed steers $7.25 to $9.50, cows and heifers $3.50 to $6, bologna bulls $3.50 to $4.00, top yearlings $10. Hogs total 19000 with bulk sold $9.69 to $10, sows $9.50 to $9.60, stock pigs $6 to $7. Sheep 1000 head higher with lambs $16.75 to $17.35.
East St Louis hogs 1 900 head lower with butcher grades 10.15 to 10.40 and killing pigs 8 to 8.50 while cow and bull prices hold. Cattle 1 000 steady 3.50 to 4.50 with canners 2.15 to 2.35 and vealers 11.50. heifers 4.50 to 6. bulls 4.50. Sheep 500 higher with Nebraska fed lambs at 13.35 and best ewes at 25.
Chicago markets report hogs 26 000 active top 19.60, sows 9.60 to 9.90, slaughter pigs 7.50 to 8, heavy hogs 16.20 to 10.60, cattle 9 000 higher with heavy steers 11 to 11.25, fed steers 8.50 to 11, fat cows 4 to 5.50, bulls 4 to 4.25, sheep 7 009 active with prime lambs 18.75 and 17.75 to 18, clipped 14.50, fat sheep 7 to 8.50.
Amarillo Texas based Cotton and Grain Exchange announces Fr C Higgins as manager with Alex Hyman & Co of New Orleans listed and contact number 8004 for inquiries.
The notice presents price points for farm products including hens over and under four pounds with Leghorn and Springs varieties, turkey hens and toms by weight, old toms, and no.2 turkeys. Butter and eggs prices are shown with a delivered price of $12.00.
A playful mishearing turns a kitchen appliance into a comic figure as a hireless cooker conflates Alsace Lorraine with a movie queen. Neighbors share laughs over the unlikely culinary confusion.
Santa Fe trains add coaches and mail cars while schedules stay steady. Freight tonnage for the week ending Nov 22 rises 19,823 from last year to 1,010,122. The Rock Island auctions rails and a large German loan hits the New York market.
The extract notes Santa Fe and G. W. Baker discuss the heavy burden on taxpayers from court costs and operations as a major cost.
The text notes high costs linked to lawyers, promotions of Santa Fe fireman P A Grove to locomotive engineer, and a $144 million railcar buying surge led by a Pennsylvania order for 10 000 freight cars. It cites 5135 mail cars in service with 2992 steel, 160 new steel mail cars built and safety efforts amid standardization. It mentions Cisco Northeastern plans a 40 mile extension from Breckenridge Texas to Throckmorton and reports Lois Dale a Texarkana woman lawyer appointed county and probate judge. It also recalls William J Fahy’s 25 year sentence for a $2 million mail train robbery at Roundout Illinois.
A columnist notes the average American man is a good loser, paying bets cheerfully and bearing business losses with calm acceptance, illustrating social restraint and resilience in competitive situations.
A man prefers losing a ten dollar bill and its whereabouts to suffering a quarter lost through a pocket hole, a small pecuniary mishap noted in a humorous excerpt.
A Rhode Island Red owned by Mrs. R. G. Covey of Toppenish Washington set a new official egg laying record by producing 300 eggs in a year during the Washington State College laying contest.
Stamp collectors in Paris have seen 18,686,329 francs realized from 11 auctions of the famous Renotire collection. The eleventh sale drew 1,984,640 francs. A blue 1 para Romanian‑Moldavian stamp dated 1851 sold for 51,000 francs.
Globe want ads list 1.5 cents per word for auto parts. Address 113 W 7th and 1183 West Seventh.
A sermon contrasts ancient Roman child exposure with Jesus teachings on little ones. It condemns harming children and invokes Christmas Eve as the birth of the most noble spirit who gave his life for others, calling readers to rejoice and honor the holy day.
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