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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth market on February 12 shows cattle at various ranges with calves and a mix of fat cows and yearlings. Hogs trend lower with top near 11.35 and sheep demand slow with lambs and feeders priced across several brackets.
Fast St Louis market notes hogs at 9 000 head with top 11 25 and lighter grades 9 50 to 10 25. Cattle offerings 2 000 with beef cows and canners steady and light yearlings sought, sheep light with few males.
Cattle 4,000 steady with steers 6.25 to 6.35 dollars and calves around 9. Hoge 1,599 lower with top 11.49 and hogs 10.25 to 13.25, pigs 8 to 8.76. This item records market quotes from Oklahoma City livestock market on February 12.
Kansas City markets show cattle yarding around 2 000 with calves 500 and light yearlings at 19.60 while steers range 7 to 8.50 and butchers 4.25 to 3.75. Hogs total about 10 090 with tops at 10.75 and sows 10.25 to 10.05. Sheep see 3 000 head and lambs from 16.75 to 17.95.
Chicago markets were closed today in observance of Lincoln's birthday. Hog, cattle, and sheep figures are noted for prior activity with varied prices across weights and grades.
Wichita Kansas February 12 hogs 800: lower top 10.75 bulk 10.50 to 10.70 cattle 300 higher beef steers 6.50 to 8.15 beef cows and heifers 3.50 to 8.00 bulls 3.00 to 5.75 veal calves 4.00 to 10.00 stockers and feeders 3.76 to 7.75. Towns and cities with many mains conduits and manholes in streets noted as prosperous.
Market listing shows prices for heavy hens under four pounds Leghorn hens springs and broilers old roosters ducks and geese stags turkeys and butter packing stock with fractional and percentage values indicating bulk poultry and dairy pricing in the Amarillo area.
Market data shows grain quotes with wheat No 1 hard at 60 cents per bushel maize 175 cents per 100 pounds kafir rye rye and barley listed per bushel with data incomplete and no clear closing figures
New Orleans cotton prices hold steady with spot rates at 24.65 cents per pound and Holiday In futures trading seen in other markets.
The Woman's Auxiliary of St An drews Episcopal church hosted a silver tea at Miss Julia Lockatt's home on Polk Street. Proceeds support Mrs bb H J Andrews in charge of the college social center at Canyon. Bishop Seaman urged college social centers and interdenominational service. About 100 guests attended.
The J U G club held a Dutch luncheon for fifty at the Amarillo Country Club with pastel sweet pea decor and cafeteria service. Mrs James O Galerie led a program on popular song music. Mrs Sam Vaughn spoke on Tito Schipa. Mrs Calli Curci and Mrs Cornelia Wolflin Patton closed with readings.
Lincoln Neb Feb 12 co ed s at Union College College View Lincoln suburb were given four days to abandon short skirts low necked dresses rouge and lipstick and adopt attire prescribed by President W W Prescott at a girls only meeting. He ordered skirts not over nine inches from the ground elbow length sleeves and rougeless faces. If not complied girls will be barred from classes.
Service men claim a new program by the Automobile Dealers association will outpace the salesmen plan from two weeks earlier. Lawrence Thomas agrees, noting service men can better assemble a stronger club program. A moved attorney praises hospitality since arriving, while a city development board meeting is canceled after two Wednesday sessions. R. O. Walkup notes a business group orders signs telling house-to-house peddlers they are not wanted, signaling local banishment of pestering by peddlers.
Nap Hill is confined in Potter County jail on a burglary charge. Hill was returned from Tulia Tuesday by Sheriff Wiley Pollard. He is said to have been tried there on a misdemeanor. Till is charged with breaking into a case at the City drug store and taking narcotics.
Archbishop Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York sails on the Munargo to Nassau in the Bahamas for confirmations and a vacation, with the Bahamas noted as part of the archdiocese's jurisdiction.
Henry Bishop and other AAUW members are asked to reserve seats for the Valentine banquet for husbands and friends Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Amarillo hotel. Call Mrs William Burger at 3115-7 to reserve by Friday 1 p.m. Yearbooks may be bought at the banquet for 45 cents.
Amarillo Armature shop at 508 West Sixth Street adds a winding system to meet rising business. Manager L. J. Symmonds says the plant can produce twenty five armatures daily and will keep prices steady despite higher copper costs.
On his seventy eighth birthday Thomas Edison offers terse judgments on young men and women calling youth unprogressive in manners. He endorses a world court with enforceable decrees and lauds Coolidge as an ideal president while noting belief that a third party is dead.
St Andrew's Men's Club of St Andrew's Episcopal Church held a Wednesday night gathering at the parish house. The event featured a tasty dinner by the Women's Auxiliary and Young People's Service League, plus talks by Bishop E. C. Seaman and other leaders. Music included violin solo by Miss Sadie Claude Curix and voice and piano selections by local performers.
Cecil Lamont editor of The Saskatchewan Co operative News Regina Canada visits Judge L Gough Amarillo. Lamont says 91000 Canadian farmers join three wheat pools controlling 100 million bushels of wheat. Cooperative marketing started in 1906 with 60 percent of Saskatchewan farmers in the movement.
Mr and Mrs C L Hall of 407 North Buchanan street left Saturday evening for Channing to visit Mrs Hall s sisters Mesdames Deal and McAllister and families Also Mrs E G Placey of 703 North Grant street who had been ill is now greatly improved And Mrs Adams of 1001 North Lincoln street is reported quite ill this week
A vintage health pitch touts Marmola Prescription tablets as a simple, effective weight loss aid. It claims the tablets reduce fat without dieting or overexertion, sold by druggists worldwide for one dollar per box. Address: Marmola, General Motors Building, Detroit, Michigan.
Snow gives way to flood danger as Syracuse Ogdensburg and nearby river valleys report rising waters. Ice jam dynamited at Bouquet river. Oswegatchie and Onondaga creeks flood lowering areas forcing evacuations and bridge closures. Harrisburg reports highways submerged with seven feet of water on a route between Lock Haven and Bellefonte.
Public records list numerous property transfers and trusts with buyers sellers and lot and block identifiers across various neighborhoods. Amounts range from 10 to 5 800 dollars. dates not shown.
A 1925 county records list shows multiple warranty deeds and deeds of trust in Amarillo areas. Transactions cover Fasours and Hughes additions with payments from $10 to $67,000, including properties in S. J. Hts., Summers, Mirror, and Amarillo Heights. Transfers involve Gordon Cummings, A. Richards, Buckingham, Burgess, Puckett, Rhodes, Wasner, Hancock, Long Bell Lumber Co., and others.
The River Road Parent-Teacher Club will hold a box supper Friday night to benefit the Amarillo Community Chest fund and playground equipment. Public is cordially invited.
The Amarillo Globe force gathered at Hotel Palo Duro Wednesday night for a kickoff banquet and monthly meeting series. Gene Howe led remarks praising cooperation across departments and an internal group formed to boost the paper, with D. W. Wible elected president and Clarence Martin and Henry Ansley in key posts. The event featured The Three Musketeers dance trio as entertainment.
A long list of certified copies and instruments filed for record in the county clerk’s office on February 11, 1925, detailing numerous parcels in Amarillo and surrounding blocks. Transfers include lots 6, 10 11 12 blocks 214 221 222 and others, with prices ranging from 175 to 5000 dollars and mentions of Standard S and L associations, United Savings Bank, and various buyers and sellers.
The Amarillo Rotary club met at the Amarillo hotel with Albert Boyce reciting Gettysburg. Walter Barlow discussed flour milling history and modern equipment. Joss Cunningham claimed Amarillo spends $100000 yearly on flowers. Less Williams noted Williams Sign and Poster is the state's largest private poster firm with twelve employees and an $18000 payroll. Tulla hosts first monthly trades day despite bad weather selling livestock and farming gear.
Dr. Curtiss W. Welch, Nome Alaska physician, battles a diphtheria outbreak aided by anti-toxin arriving after a record mush ride. He telegraphs sister Mrs. J A Bettcher of New Haven Connecticut that they work night and day to overcome the epidemic aided by his wife and Emily Morgan of Wichita Kansas, a Red Cross purse donor in Alaska.
A brief ad states a mixture including buckthorn bark magnesium and Adlerika as an evacuant for constipation. It claims quick action within about one hour with no gripes and notes relief from gas in the stomach. Ran Dal Drug Co.
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