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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1925
Page
2
West Chicago, East St Louis and Kansas City show mixed grain and livestock prices. Hogs, cattle, and sheep move with regional variances, with top hogs around 14.50 and steady or varied beef and lamb values in July 7 market listings.
Grain market notes show prices for wheat corn barley and oats per bushel or per hundred pounds. The data includes various basis numbers and prices though several lines are garbled.
A dense OCR fragment lists various farm goods and stock prices in Amarillo including hens broilers turkeys butter eggs and leather items. It also shows company stock quotes for Consolidated Gas Corn Frongucia Cructhla Steel General Electric General Motors Westinghouse Electric and other firms with percentage figures and brief notes on trading activity.
Hogs 1000 head bulk 13.55 to 13.70. Cattle 809 with 190 calves, strong demand. Beef steers 5 to 7.50. cows and heifers 3.85 to 8.50. bulls 3.25 to 4.75. calves 4 to 8.50. stockers 3.50 to 7. Sheep 159, strong. lambs 12 and up, ewes 4 to 5.
Oklahoma City livestock market report shows cattle at 1400 head steady with good cows $5 to $5.50 and heifers up to $8.50 while calves reach $7.50. Hogs around 400 head weak with bulk bids $13.40 to $13.70.
Fort Worth market notes cattle 3 500 head including 550 calves steady with beef cattle 23.50 to 10 dollars. hogs 600 steady top 14 dollars. sheep 800 steady lambs 10.50 to 13.50 with feeders and yearlings also listed. Prices span calves to stockers across cattle hogs and sheep categories.
Chicago July 7 wheat No 2 hard at 148. Corn No 3 mixed 190, No 2 yellow 106 to 114. Oats No 3 white 45 1/2.
Dallas spot cotton traded with prices listed as 2420 for the main market and 2425 in Houston plus 2445 in Galveston. The brief data appears under a Chicago grain and provisions section with open high low and close headings.
Foreign exchanges eased with Great Britain at 4.85 percent and cables 4.86 percent. 60 day bills on banks at .81 percent. France at 4.6414 and cables 4.65. Italy at 3.36, Belgium 4.6014, Germany 23.80, Tokyo 41, Montreal 100.
Wall Street totals show varied moves with American Locomotive slipping 0.52 percent and American Tel and Tel retreating 0.144 percent. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Baldwin Locomotive also down slightly while Californian Petroleum edges up about 0.28 percent.
New Orleans spot cotton closed steady a40 points higher on July 7. Sales on the spot reported with 1863 arrivals none. Low middling 23.55 cents, middling 23.55, good middling 24.05. Receipts 1495, stock 83,255.
Amarillo items report Mrs Chambers being taken home from Northwest Texas hospital. Minnie Ross returns from Memphis. new students at Amarillo Business College include Mrs Keen and Mr O Day. Local residents travel to Indiana and Colorado. Otis Williams visits. comments on weather and farming prospects near Wichita Falls and Clarendon.
Mayor Lee Bivins entertained the Glenwood Baptist church Sunday school with a barbecue at Box Canyon northeast of the city. About 280 attended, including 50 adults, and the children praised him as a real host.
Hal Roberts of Roberts Brothers and Rose and partner Kellly Kullbom tour Nebraska and Texas Panhandle praising strong demand for heavy feeders and good corn crop. They assert Omaha as world class market and invite Panhandle cattlemen to ship cattle to Omaha for profitable feeding.
R. H. Murray owner of Murray Drug stores in Ranger and Eastland leases the Hotel Palo Duro drug store now used by Sewell drug store. He will move in after Sewell relocates to 404 Polk Street and will install a new fixtures set to make the shop the city’s most modern. He pledges top service and aligns with Amarillo’s community.
Leonard Eppstein of Dallas who owns a half interest with Lee Bivins in the property is here completing plans for opening the Bivins Addition. An application has been made for a charter and the company will be incorporated as Bivins Addition. Incorporators include Mr. Eppstein Mayor Bivins and Henry Hollander of New York. He said details were not yet worked out but a definite announcement would come in a few days.
Dr. Fran cis FE Clark founder of the United Society of Christian Endeavor retires after thirty eight years as president. Dr Daniel A Polling takes over duties as head of the organization. Polling is a Portland native and former associate president.
Fort Worth July 7 Lloyd R. Price 15 hanged himself by his belt to the windshield of his automobile last night. His body found early this morning by relatives. The car stood in front of the Price home in Polytechnic. A death by own action verdict was rendered.
An earthquake shock measured at the United States magnetic observatory near Tucson at 7:15 AM local time. The temblor lasted about half an hour with observer A K Ludy in charge noting no determined direction.
In Minneapolis, Ernest Franzen attacked sleeping family members with a large knife early today, killing his wife and one child. Four other children escaped outside in nightclothes, while Franzen then killed himself, leaving a grisly scene and authorities investigating.
Washington report states a treasury policy shift ends speeches by women agents in the prohibition unit. Miss Georgie Hopley of Bucyrus Ohio resigns after assignment to work with women’s organizations. Two other women agents remain active in enforcement work with regular agents.
Washington officials receive an application from Rev. George H. Lawson of Key Port for a peaceful anti Klan gathering on August 15. Lawson calls himself anti Klan candidate for New Jersey governor. The plan follows a Ku Klux Klan parade already authorized. Other notes mention J. O. Gubeke fishing in Colorado and JH. C. Ochsner and wife returning from a trip to Minneapolis St. Louis and Missouri.
A collage of local items from Amarillo area: Fannie McClendon visits Vega ranch with parents, Deandi Fruit Co. melon guarantee and free delivery, 1925 Lubbock building records near one million dollars, Plainview Herald plans a 30 000 improvement including a new brick building, registrar E l Dohoney arrives at Texas Tech with 200 applications, and Panhandle Hardware ads for skates and tricycles. Reporter items include local deaths, rainfall trends, prisoner transfers to Huntsville, soda fountain installs, pool opening, food trends, court fines, school visits, and social events at Harding’s ranch with dances and barbecues.
The article notes a Bantu origin for a place name and ruins with a temple, suggesting ancient African civilization. It contrasts this with the Sphinx and Ethiopian rulers, then reports a volcano in the Andes erupting with flames and ash, possibly isolating two towns. It also mentions Alaska’s huge crater and a historical compare of continents.
Harry Gardner and I H Davies report from Cedar Point Ohio that 988 delegates and alternates attended the Lions club International convention with about 3000 guests. The organization lists 942 clubs and 43919 Lions. Helen Keller appeared and spoke at the meeting as the club plans to add fire prevention work this year.
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