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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1926
Page
7
Kansas City stockyards show cattle and calves totaling 1206 and 800 respectively with steady to firm demand. Top cattle reach 14.25 per hundredweight for 160 pounds, with most sales around 12.75 to 13.90. hogs and sheep also listed with varying prices and steady demand across classes.
Chicago on July 16 reports varied quotes across hogs cattle and calves. Slaughter pigs trade at 14.00 to 14.55 a hundredweight with heavy and medium grades listed and yearling and steer prices ranging from around 6.50 to 10.35 dollars. Prices show active demand with up to date range notes for Texas raisers and mature cattle.
Fragmentary OCR note references violence with a figure of 19.75 and a value over zero. No clear persons, places, or events are readable. The text lacks sufficient context to identify who or what is involved.
July 16 report from Louis shows cattle and calf values with top quotes around 14.45 for chews and 12.25 to 13.25 for vealers and sheep. Prices for fat lambs and ewes vary, with several gilt figures recorded for native and active weather lambs.
Oklahoma City market shows cattle steady with grass cows about 6.50 to 9.75 per cwt and grass steers 5.00 to 6.25. stockers 6.50 to 9.00. Frogs 800 head weaker, prices $13.60 to $13.90. packing sows $11.25 and stockers around $13.69.
Wichita Livestock lists cattle and hogs trading action for July 16 with 399 cattle and 700 hogs. Grass heifers fetch 6.50 to 7.00, grass cove 4.50 to 5.25, veal calves around 10, fat lambs up to 12.50, ewes around 5.00, packing sows 10.26 to 10.75.
Fort Worth cattle numbers reach 2 600 including 400 calves with varied bids. Beeves bring 5 50 to 2 50 per hundredweight, stockers 5 50 to 6 60, fat cows 5 85 to 35 50, yearlings 4 00 to 9 00, calves 5 00 to 50. Hogs 300 head lower with light butchers 14 90 to 14 75, medium 14 25 to 40 50, sows 12 00 to 18 05, pigs 13 60 to 14 75. Sheep 4 200, lambs 11 to 12 60, yearlings 9 00 to 10 59, wethers 7 75 to 8 25, stockers 6 00 to 6 50.
Kansas City cash grain quotes list wheat and corn prices with variations for number 2 hard and red wheat, white and yellow corn, and oats. Prices shown include ranges and fractions, reflecting market activity on July 16. Names of price categories and decimals indicate typical exchange values of the period.
Cash wheat numbers show 2 red at 1.5116 dollars and 1 mixed smutty at 1.44. Corn bids include 2 mixed at .804 and 2 yellow at .817. Oats trade at 1 white 0.4214 and 2 white 0.4114.
The Chicago potato market shows slow movement with sacks from Kansas and Missouri at 1.40 to 1.50, Ohio sacks at 1.25 to 1.40, North Carolina barrel irish cobblers at 3.00 to 8.75, and Virginia barrel irish cobblers at 4.00 to 4.35, on July 16.
U S bonds with Liberty 3 4s at 101 and 102.9 for first 4443, second 4448s at 100.25, third 4 4s at 101.6, fourth 4 4s at 102.21, Treasury 3%5 at 101.22, treasury fours at 104.5 and treasury 41445 at 108.5.
Call money eased with highs of 4 1/2 percent and low near 4 percent. Ruling rate at 4 1/4 percent, closing bids around 4 percent. Time loans firmer with 60 to 90 days at 4 percent and 4 to 6 months at 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper at 8 1/4 percent.
Foreign exchanges show irregular demand with Britain at 4.86 and cables 4.867 to 4.870. 60 day bills on banks 4.82. France 2.4314 and 2.44 on cables. Italy 3.39. Belgium 2.8845. Germany 23.79. Tokyo 37.12. Montreal 100.12.
Opening prices showed narrow, irregular changes as investors weighed rumors of a rate move and a potential price adjustment. U S Steel common General Motors and Atchison edged higher while market leaders faced cautious trading amid ongoing shifts in industrials and bank tensions.
Mary Brecht Pulver a noted short story writer died in Lancaster Pennsylvania on July 14 as reported by The Associated Press.
Silholette straightline coats of metallic cloth or lame, lined only with chiffon or crepe de chine, are shed for evening wear. They pair charmingly with pastel colored chiffon frocks.
Bennett J Doty of Memphis Tennessee was condemned by a Damascus court martial to eight years hard labor for desertion from the French foreign legion He enlisted as Gilbert Clare and had earned the Croix de Guerre before defecting His case featured defense arguments for extenuating circumstances and involvement of U S diplomacy.
The Dixie Special train, eight cars long, carrying delegates from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and other southern states, will arrive in Amarillo at 2:18 and depart via the Fort Worth and Denver at 9:36. Local committees under President Flenniken will greet visitors. A P Callahan leads the Oklahoma group and F A Key Jr of Shreveport heads Louisiana Arkansas delegates.
The six month old Amos infant of Mr and Mrs T F Amos died at the family home 203 North Harrison Street. Funeral services were to be held at four o'clock this afternoon from the Griggs funeral chapel with Major Winters of the Salvation Army officiating. Burial will be in Linne Cemetery.
Trubes Davison of New York was sworn in as assistant secretary of war for aviation and flew over Washington aboard an airplane piloted by Captain Ira Baker from Bolling Field.
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