Markets Report Open High Low Close and Grain Prices
Rains disrupted Saturday markets as Chicago grain and provisions noted. Wheat No 1 hard traded around $1.60 per bushel while maize and kafir prices were shown for 100 pounds.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
2
Rains disrupted Saturday markets as Chicago grain and provisions noted. Wheat No 1 hard traded around $1.60 per bushel while maize and kafir prices were shown for 100 pounds.
Chicago December 26 United Press Jack Kearns, longtime promoter of world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, hints at a reconciliation and return to power as manager. He says a truce has been declared, vows to continue earning a share of Dempsey’s fights, and hopes to be involved in future bouts with Tunney or Wills. The piece also notes Lois Tolleson visiting Madison Street after holidays.
Amarillo receives a new insurance firm as the Amarillo Insurance Agency plans to open January 1 in room 22 of the Fuqua building. Principal figures include J. A. Warren president, with R. W. Cantleberry, M Castleberry, and another partner. The firm holds district agency rights for Federal Insurance and Bulldog Auto Insurance and represents seven other insurers. Warren has fifteen years in Clarendon insurance.
Cardinal Mercier will be operated on at Brussels hospital Tuesday in a final effort to save his life. He is suffering from an ulcerated stomach. Rear Admiral Caspr, 78, of Goodrich, retired, died in Princeton today. He once headed the Pacific fleet.
Sweeping gales along the Atlantic have killed a dozen or more seafarers in recent weeks. The palatial yacht Miramar, owned by KE N Statler, sank after departing Charleston on November 34 with no further word. The Bunny, owned by W P Pussey, burned and sank. Pussey and crew perished. The Apache raced to aid Minnie and Jimma as they ran aground in rough seas. five crew members face drowning danger. Over 1,500 lives saved by the Coast Guard this month with a notable rescue of twenty-two men from a drifting barge in the Gulf of Mexico.
A Cowhand officiated as Santa Claus at St Andrews Episcopal Church Christmas Eve festival. He presented the rector a humorous gas bill turned Christmas gift from parishioners. Children gathered gifts for the poor as a nativity pantomime and choir concluded the evening.
Grace McAfee ten years old traded a tennis racquet and 450 cents for a burro on Christmas day. A little boy led the burro away seeking cash with the racquet, but Mr. McAfee refused to keep the animal. Grace returned the beast to the boy, who had spent the 50 cents, and the family faced an uncertain outcome about the burro.
Special to The Globe Plainview All-Stars crushed Lockney All-Stars 42 to 0 at Plainview on Christmas Day. Penalties favored Plainview as the smaller Lockney team was outweighed and Plainview scored at will. Don Nix starred with an unusually deft style on the field.
A Christmas frolic and games tournament under the Advisory committee of Rainbow Girls will be held at the Polly Garden hotel Palo Duro from 8:39 to 11:30 Tuesday night. All De Molays and Masons are urged to attend and others may also attend.
W Bailew and Frank Satterfield will deliver a Hupmobile six sedan to Clovis tomorrow. The car was sold in California when a Clovis man test drove a Hup during a vacation last summer and wrote Bailew and Satterfield to bring it over.
The Oakland Motor Car Company informs dealers it will not raise the Oakland Six list prices despite a 40 percent price increase and higher material costs. The firm pledges to keep current prices while plans for a later model with over 100 improvements are priced $70 to $350 below previous lows.
In Dallas a two story frame apartment building was damaged by a blaze this afternoon. Mrs. L. R. Shinn of Corsicana carried three of her own children and nine others to safety. R. J. Gulley was injured by a falling trunk from an upper floor. Damage estimated at 16000 dollars.
Indge and Mrs F P Works of 1916 Tvner street report via cable from Kobe Japan that a second daughter has been born to Mr and Mrs Joe J Mickle Jr in Japan. Judge Works notes she cannot become US president due to birth abroad. Mr Mickle directs the University of Kobe commercial department.
Announcement of the Sacred Jubilee Choral Club, a Negro musical organization, for a program at the Municipal Auditorium at 8 o clock Monday night. Proceeds will fund a drive for a Negro tubercular hospital. The Rev J A Tyler will give a short address. Mrs Gus Hensely, recently injured, is in a hospital in Laurburg New Mexico. A Ford roadster owned by C C Durham was stolen Christmas night. A thief in England lived on a government dole for two years.
In readiness for Khi va Shrine New Year's dance the committee reports all arrangements complete at the Masonic Temple Thursday night. Many couples are expected from out of town and a general good time is assured. Tolzien Farwell orchestra will provide special music. All shriners are invited and asked to wear fezzes.
Sara Smith, 78, died after an oil stove explosion started a blaze that consumed the San Angelo house valued at about $4,000. The incident occurred Saturday as reported by United Press.
Cisco Texas December 26 Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Wood of Nimrod observed her 100th birthday on Christmas Day and is the matriarch of a large family with 160 descendants.
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