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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1925
Page
8
Monday market report from Wichita shows cattle and hogs steady with moderate volumes. Hogs near 1,200 head, beef steers around 6 to 7 dollars, beef cows and heifers about 3.75 to 5.00, veal calves near 4.00 to 5.50, stockers and feeders 3 to 7, sheep and lambs limited with small price ranges.
Readable fragment lists commodity quotes with per bushel prices for corn oats and maize. Includes U S basis values and small figures indicating price per 100 pounds and other bulk measures.
Amari Ila Produce lists items such as hens leghorn and broilers at 18¢, roosters ducks geese and stage stock, old tom turkeys at 10¢, packing stock butter 16¢, eggs in new cases with loss charged back, totals 7.20 and 17.60 for Houston.
New Orleans July and autumn contracts showed modest advances while other months posted varied results. Traders noted steady activity as prices closed mostly higher amid broad market uncertainty and interest in deferred positions.
In Chicago on July 1 markets show hogs at 12.65 to 15.50 for slaughter sows and heavy hogs 14.20 to 15.20 with receipts about 46 007. Cattle steady with yearling steers around 12.50 to 13.60 and cows 4.75 to 5.75. Sheep and lambs priced from 11.00 to 15.00 with fat native lambs around 14.00 to 14.75 and ewes up to 8.25. In East Iowa receipts include hogs 1 500 and cattle 1 000 with similar steady trends and vealers around 31.25.
On July 13 market figures show 2 800 cattle with uneven good steers at 7 25 and medium butchers at 4 50, blockers at 5 00, calves 7 50 to 8 00, hogs 400 priced higher with top 138 75 and bulk 13 40 to 13 65 percent.
Kansas market notes show cattle numbers at 35, NOH calves 7,000 with varied classes. Prices listed include heavies 12.45, grain feds 11 to 12, Wintered Kansas 9.45 to 19.75, grass cattle 6.25 to 8.50, stockers 5.75 to 5. House sales top 13.75, hogs 12 to 12.50, sows 12 to 12.50, lambs 11,000 with natives at 14.25 and Colorado ewes 7.50.
Cattle numbers reach 704 with 2 200 calves, markets steady. Beeves bring 3 50 to 9 50, fat cows 4 00 to 9 00, heifers 3 25 to 7 00, yearlings 5 00 to 9 00, bulls 2 25 to 3 75, calves 2 00 to 8 00. Hog prices steady with tops to 13 80, sows 11 00 to 12 50, pigs 10 00 to 12 00. Sheep 3 000, lambs 10 50 to 11 50, wethers 6 50 to 7 50, ewes 5 00 to 6 00, feeders 5 00 to 10 00, yearlings 4 00 to 9 00.
Wheat No 2 hard ranged 1.50 to 1.64, No 2 red 1.57 to 1.49. Corn No white 1.05 to 1.07, No 3 yellow 1.17 to 1.15. Oats No 2 white 50 to 48, No 3 white 48 to 49.
Wheat No 1 hard around 1.57 to 1.59 dollars. No 2 hard about 1.57 to 1.60. Corn No 3 mixed 1.97 and No yellow around 1.10 to 1.11. Oats No 2 white near 0.49 to 0.50. July 18.92 price reference.
New York markets report cotton futures ending steady with a net advance around 63 to 4 points. The July contract shows prices near 28.30 with key months including October at 24.65 and December 23.74, while January sits at 22.48 and March at 24.47.
A scrambled list shows stock lines from Am Locomotive to Westinghouse Electric with varied percentages, including Baldwin Locomotive, General Motors, Standard Oil, Studebaker, Texan Pacific, and Marland Oil. The items resemble a price or index snapshot with many firms and percentages reflecting market activity.
Fort Worth man Elmer Wilson, 21, drowned Sunday while seining for minnows in the Brazos river near Mineral Wells. He stepped into deep water and could not swim well.
Spectators and troops clashed at a Mexico City bull fight when rain halted the event and wounded thirteen, with several feared dead. After a downpour left the arena slick, the toreadors deemed it unsafe and fighters refused to continue. Troops ordered from the stand as a fusillade of shots rang out.
Cooper Irvin Motor company will stage a Ford trucks and commercial bodies parade tomorrow at 12 o clock. The procession starts at Third and Polk streets, travels Polk to Tenth, then Taylor to Fourth street plaza. More than 100 cars are expected to participate.
The Globes Lubbock reports J B Billingsly and wife from Colorado Texas are the proud parents of a large baby boy weighing seven pounds and three quarters. Billingsly is 24 years old and four feet six inches tall while Mrs Billingsly is four feet tall and seventy pounds. The mother and baby are reported well and the birth occurred last week in a local sanitarium.
Archer City Texas July 13 J A Gowdy manager of the Young County Lumber yard and his 17 year old son Roy were killed by gas in a water well they were digging on their ranch near Scotland twelve miles southeast of here They had dynamited shale and after waiting an hour Gowdy descended to help his son also succumbing to the gas The boy sent his sister to fetch help before both died
Belton Texas July 13 The case of H G Twyman charged with the death of Dell Thames at the Gatesville boys school years ago was dismissed on motion of the district attorney due to absent witnesses. Twyman served as military trainer at the state school in 1921. Dell Thames died and officials alleged injuries caused his death. Twyman denied the accusations.
Judge George Calhoun of the fifty third district court awarded the state a 12000 judgment against the Grayburg Oil Company for gasoline sold to the federal government. The ruling states that such gasoline is subject to the state's one cent per gallon tax. Approval of the tax on federal transactions was upheld as applicable.
Anly Woehr, third baseman of the Beaumont Exports in the Texas league, was named manager at a board meeting held July 13 in Beaumont. He will succeed Dutch Bernsen, who has served as business and playing manager this season.
Cattle from northern counties and eastern New Mexico move into Dear Smith county for grazing. Henry Hastings, livestock inspector, reports dipping 1,500 head from New Mexico and a large herd from Dalhart arrives for pasture. Cattle graze in western Dear Smith where rains have improved grazing. Also notes Ecua dor textile mills pay child workers about 1.80 weekly.
Evangelist Howard S Williams concluded a seven week revival in Herrin Illinois drawing about 169000 total attendance with 700 converts. Businesses closed for noonday prayers and police report کاهش gambling and bootlegging decline as Williamson county ends a period of fear and gunmen seeking peace.
Judge F P Work is ill today. D E Van Steenwyk leaves Tuesday morning for a business trip to Northern New Mexico and Colorado. Solon Byrd reports wheat on R A Campbell land yields forty seven bushels per acre, average about ten. Cotton is good, some knee high. First Baptist choir to Box Canyon picnic. Residents and visitors pass through town including Mrs Maddox, two Dallas children, Mrs Bailey and Mrs Page of Coleman visiting Mrs Salter and Mrs Heaton. Mrs Rue visits Dalhart with sister Mrs Cammack, who recently had surgery. Still family returns from Childress. Mrs Upton Jones improving after surgery at Northwest Texas hospital. Mrs Colgin of Fort Worth visits daughter Mrs Dooley. Miss Hattie Watts ill, moved to Indianapolis with Mrs Blanchard and Mr Smyers of Clovis. Miss Lucille Donnell leaves Amarillo Friday for San Francisco then Portland Oregon to enter Oregon University. She worked at Marinella Beauty Parlors this past year. J Ray and C P Johnson trip to Twin Sixes oil well. C W Whittington leaves this afternoon for North Plains trip. Byrd Solon returns Sunday from Armstrong county trip. Dr and Mrs R McMeans leave for Galveston. Rock Island officials in town over new time card.
A humorous family exchange centers on Aunt Belle joking corns on her feet while the carpenter Willie retorts TL did not see any corns. The playful banter evokes a rural storytelling tone with a quirky folk humor thread.
The Housewife article describes making a table pad by cutting asbestos into two equal parts, gluing unbleached muslin on both sides, to create a satisfactory pad. It presents a simple DIY project with step by step styling.
Delegates from towns east, south and west of Lubbock will travel to Plainview on July 20 to attend a joint hearing of the Texas railroad commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission and rail heads of the Santa Fe, Quanah Acme and Pacific, and Fort Worth and Denver lines. The session will discuss future railroad construction in the Panhandle and South Plains, including branch lines from Chitdress to Lubbock and a Santa Fe link from Plainview to Dimmitt.
Mrs R H Brown of Goodnight tends a famed flower garden. A visitor from Cisco Colonel Lee presidents of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce admired the blooms and received a bouquet without payment. Brown plans to exhibit at the Tri State fair in Amarillo.
A. S. Stinnett reports progress on a Rock Island project to connect Amarillo with the Panhandle and western Oklahoma and Kansas. A review in Amarillo with L. C. Fritch and other officials discussed a potential Amarillo to Cheyenne Oklahoma line, possibly extending to Amarillo as a key regional feeder. More plans are expected to follow soon.
Chicago July 13 Directors of the Grain Marketing company abandoned cooperative enterprise and met to finalize arrangements for dissolution. The principal issue on the agenda was the disposition of receipts from stock sales.
Swampscott Mass July 195 Harrison is named director of the War Finance Corporation succeeding Frank W Mondell who resigned. Harrison previously served as assistant to Eugene Meyer Jr managing director and was secretary to former Agriculture Secretaries Wallace and Houston.
A scrambled local page lists multiple beauty shops and services. Names include Spirella Corsetieres, Milady Beauty Shop, Elk Beauty Parlor, Schwarts Marcelling, and Wilson Beauty Shop with varied phone numbers and addresses. The item also notes garment and graduation gift offers and a clerical job ad.
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