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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1926
Page
2
Livestock quotes show cattle steady across markets in Oklahoma City Fort Worth and Kansas City with fat steers at about 8 dollars, heifers 6.50 to 7.10, cows 5 or higher. Hogs rise with bulk around 11.70 to 11.90 at Oklahoma City and 11.50 to 11.75 in Kansas City. Sheep and lambs also traded actively in Fort Worth with lambs 14 to 15.60.
Cattle 1 000 head down on the day with cows to 7.50 and canners 3 to 4. Hogs 2 200 head up to 11.80 top with packing sows 9.25 to 9.75. Native lambs noted as lower.
East St. Louis market notes hogs 17,1500 higher with bulk at 12.10 to 12.25, packer sows 9.75 to 10. Cattle 5,500 slow with beef steers 5 to 10, mixed yearlings to 11, cows 4.75 to 6, canners 3.40 to 3.75, top bologna bales 5.75, vealers 10.50. Sheep 1,000 steady with fat lambs 1.75 to 1.75?
Hogs 45,000 traded with higher bids. Packing sows 9.40 to 9.75 dollars, heavy hogs 11.00 to 11.60, medium 11.40 to 11.90, light 11.10 to 12.20. Cattle 14,000, steady demand. fat steers 8.75 to 9.15, yearlings around 11, heavers 12 to 12.50. Sheep 13,000, active trade. fat lambs to 16.25, fat ewes 8 to 8.75.
Butter prices ease while egg prices rise in Chicago trading. Reamery extras fall to .434g, standards at .42%, extra first .42%, firsts .41 to .42, seconds .40 to .40. Eggs advance with first at .37 and ordinary firsts at .33 to .64, reflecting mixed dairy gains.
New York January 5 United States bonds listed by Associated Press show Liberty 342s at 99.20 first 4s at 101.23 second four 4s at 100.20 third 4s at 100.29 fourth 4s at 101.30 treasury 4s at 103 and treasury 4s at 106.13.
Poultry alive firm in Chicago on January 5. Fowls sold 28 to 30 cents per pound, turkeys at 30 cents, roosters 17 cents, ducks 23 to 30 cents, and geese 18 cents.
New York money market reports higher call money with a ruling rate of 5 percent and closing bids at 4 1/4 percent. Time loans hold at 4 to 5 percent with sixty ninety day loans at 4 percent to 5 percent and four to six months 4 to 5 percent. Prime mercantile paper stands at 4 to 4 1/4 percent.
Foreign exchange markets show irregular activity in New York. British demand prints 4.84 percent with cables at 4.85, sixty day bills on banks 4.80 percent. France demand 3.7914, cables 3.80. Italy 4.03, Belgium 4.53, Germany 23.80, Tokyo 4314, Montreal 99 13 16.
Potatoes strengthened with Wisconsin and Minnesota round whites sold at 4.00 to 4.25 dollars, frozen 3.85, Idaho russets 4.00 to 4.30 dollars.
Open high low close figures for wheat corn oats rye and fats from Chicago market show May and July positions with fractional gains and declines. Kansas City cash grain lists No 2 hard wheat and No 2 red with prices and white corn ranges.
Basis No 1 hard wheat priced per bushel and 7 Mile Maize per 100 pounds noted. Kafir price listed at per 100 pounds, with the figure 1.05 indicated.
A fragment from a market listing shows miscellaneous produce items and prices. It references Leghorn hens, turkeys, roosters, eggs, butter, and oats with price ranges and pack counts. The text is garbled but indicates a local produce section with 14 cent and 25 cent price points for various poultry and eggs.
New York January 6 Cotton futures closed quiet with a net decline of 25 to 38 points. Trade was subdued as investors wait for market cues and export data from major buyers.
New Orleans trading saw cotton futures end the session with a net decline of 21 to 38 points. Prices listed for January March May July and October contracts show small adjustments across the board.
New York January 5 cotton futures fell on lower cables and scattered liquidation while lack of South demand and a weaker May basis, with January not as strong as before, left the market idle. Exports stood at 41 000 as traders anticipated broader changes in the general situation.
In Chicago trade January 5 wheat futures and cash markets fell as foreign demand weakened. Russia bought 100000 barrels of Manitoba flour within the day’s activity, while export business stayed about 250000 bushels. Liverpool prices softened on Argentine supplies and slow milling. Coarse grains saw further declines in cash corn with about a one cent drop from May, as realisation pressures mount.
A sequence of fires at the Field hotel last night caused $20 000 damage. Two Dallas firemen and another person were injured while a mother escaped with a 1 year old child.
The Panhandle Lumber company increases its capital from 700000 to 900000 at a Monday stockholders meeting. A. C. Houston of Wichita heads the firm with extensive Amarillo expansion, employing over 125 workers across twenty seven yards and a new sash and door plant.
Washington dispatches report Representative Oldfield charging the aluminum industry influence by Secretary Mellon as a stimulus for a probe. Other items include funding for Geneva disarmament delegates and a joint committee to lease Muscle Shoals, plus tax cut limit changes and interior spending reductions.
A prominent businessman was slapped in police court by a policeman this morning. He was fined 25 dollars for contempt of court, later remitted, and he filed assault charges against the officer in county court. City officials were investigating the report this afternoon.
Representative J. R. Donnell of Bell county resigns from the Texas legislature to manage a Hillsboro produce house. The move was announced in a letter to the Temple Telegram and resignation sent to Gov. Miriam Ferguson yesterday.
Budapest reports a massive counterfeit scheme centered on forged 1000 franc notes. Prince Ludwig Windisch Graetz of Hungary is detained amid allegations of involvement with the operation, which officials say may implicate other nobles including a titled lady. Authorities traced a note via a valet wife and an Amsterdam banker before Bank of France detectives intervened.
A 20 year old woman in Amarillo, an orphan with tuberculosis risk, seeks work as a bookkeeper or stenographer. She has toured Smarillo seeking employment, wears shabby clothes, and hopes The Globe and Big Brother aid her find a job. Reports note the informant and address details.
In Memphis on January 6 the Piggly Wiggly Corporation and Clarence Saunders announced a settlement ending a two year legal war. Saunders will pay $150000 to the corporation over two years, the firm waives its claims, and Saunders drops litigation. A related suit by stockholder E A Guilfoyle against officers was dismissed under a consent decree.
Henry Horn a Channing merchant visited town Monday and, after recent dental work he feels much improved. Roy Cullum predicts a busy Detroit visit with significant business as a dealer school. Judge Anderson notes many runaway youths and several recent reports. Claude high school expands Home Economics with Miss Edna Walker leading two new units. May Peterson-Thompson heads to New York City for a concert tour starting soon with performances across major cities. Mrs Thompson plans a six week Am arillo tour return. Ruth Booth sues Marritt Booth for divorce in Potter County. Ben Jackson to be tried at Vernon for allegedly stealing a Willys Knight from S F Clark. A Book of Revelations chart is secured for M Zion church by Rev Washington for Berean club lectures. Miss May Desper cites Christian Science church memberships under 100 but 150 average attendance, yet over 700 attended a Sunday lecture.
Abel Navarro charged with murder in the first degree was bound over to district court by Justice Landis without bond. Navarro killed Francisco Quiroz New Year's morning. Ernest Northcutt is Navarro’s attorney.
James L. Smith aged 18 is dead and Herman Buckland a city employee is severely injured after a collision between their automobile and a streetcar in Beaumont Texas early Tuesday. Smith suffered a base of skull fracture and other injuries.
Arthur J. Mann former Kligraph of provisional Klan No. 1 in New Haven dissolves the local chapter affecting about 600 members. In letters to the press and Walter F. Bossert he blasts the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Georgia Inc. as moronic anti American and a menace under leaders Hiram Wesley and others.
Broadway legend Irving Berlin wed Ellin Mackay in a municipal building ceremony after a hurried telephone engagement. The couple then slipped away to celebrate, with a luxury honeymoon planned aboard the Leviathan door-to-door from New York. Berlin’s father-in-law Clarence Mackay approved the match despite earlier misgivings. The pair, both of strikingly different backgrounds, prepared for a long honeymoon aboard a state-claimed ship, as a surprise to many in society.
A digest of random city notes ranges from the Italian ambassador in Turkey citing feminism as domestic virtue to Mustapha Kemal’s consort quipping on marriage. Other items mention a sword duel fatality in London and assorted quirky local reports.
The column muses on the vastness of the universe and the many galaxies, cites religious imagery, and critiques newspaper ethics and consolidation. It predicts a strong 1926 prosperity outlook, with mergers seen as intelligent strategy and a warning to proceed with caution only from aging conservatives.
In Waco on January 5 Lloyd Haynes age 33 and his wife age 23 were found dead from gunshot wounds in a bed room. The two were discovered in each other’s arms with two empty shells nearby and a pistol on site. A double tragedy leaves friends baffled while authorities investigate and the coroner holds verdict.
Ross Rogers was the guest of honor at a noon dinner by the Noon Day Club at the Amarillo hotel. Ed Hardin praised Rogers for choosing Amarillo, noting the new partnership with Farnest benefits the city. Attendees included Walter Barlow and Colonel Thompson among others.
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