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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1925
Page
2
Fort Worth Texas July 18 cattle receipts 300 with varying price ranges for beeves stockers cows cutters canners heifers yearlings calves and bulls. Hogs receipts 600 with price brackets across medium good mixed light and packing categories. Sheep receipts 100 include spring lambs feeder lambs yearlings wethers ewes with specified bids.
Joe Cox and John Schaffer, city workers, were badly hurt Friday when the Ford roadster they rode in was struck by a gravel truck. The impact caused the roadster to roll over several times. Cox is street foreman and Schaffer foreman of the weed crew and harness at the city barn. both are at home.
Nash Motors reports May sales and production reach record highs, surpassing May 1924 by 187 percent. General sales manager K E McCarty notes a nine month streak of record months since October 1924 and an average 86 percent monthly gain over the prior year.
Summary of price quotes listing basis and per unit costs for wheat kafir milo maize oats and barley. The figures show No 1 hard wheat 1.50 per bushel and kafir 1.50 per 100 pounds with notes of additional price points for milo maize oats and barley.
Partial OCR notes list various poultry items and prices including Leghorn hens, broilers, packing stock butter at 16 cents, eggs with charge backs, and turkey terms. Mentions Old Tom Turkeys and multiple price fragments indicating a local sale or market listing.
Jerusalem reports plans to exploit Dead Sea riches, noting the sea holds about 120 billion cubic meters of water and roughly 30 billion tons of mixed salts, with potassium chloride potential. The brine is ready for sun evaporation, and the sea’s surface sits 1,292 feet below sea level amid intense evaporation.
Tokyo reports floods sweeping Seoul and nearby areas with 300000 residents at risk. Tokyo fears 2500 dead, while Hong Kong river dikes broke and Lung Shang suburb submerged. Rescue boats from Fudan swamped. troops ordered for guard duty amid shortages of water light and food.
L B Steel president of the Dalhart Chamber of Commerce will lead a delegation of local businessmen to the I C C hearing in Plainview on July 20. The trip aims to gather information to aid the Northwest Panhandle development program.
The Headquarters company of the 142nd Infantry Texas National Guard returned home yesterday after two weeks at Camp Mabry near Austin. Fifty four men made the trip and described the stay as a real vacation while noting Amarillo’s weather was preferable to Austin’s.
Here There Everywhere H. G White wife and son H. C of Stephenville visit T. A. White 206 Maryland avenue. Rex Reid son of Mr and Mrs I T Reid 806 Jackson street heads to Oklahoma for ten days with friends and relatives. Walter Crossett leads shooters for the Chris Kiser trophy with an average of .97 and 13.
A fierce exchange spans science, religion, and law as Bryan and Darrow trade views on evolution, humanity, and divine creation. Darrow argues science tolerates inquiry and rejects rigid belief, while Bryan defends religious certainty and condemns Darwinian cruelty. The dialogue highlights the trial’s broader clash of worldviews.
Minnie Reiger is held by Chicago police on suspicion of poisoning four year old Elmer Sherman whom she boarded. He recently had life insurance for two hundred dollars.
Dayton Tenn July 18 Joe Martin a monkey movie star asks leave to interplead in the Scopes case. The monkeys deny any human relation and insist they are not responsible for human crimes and seek expunging all references to their race from the record. They request Bryan and associates be barred from further claims of superior intelligence.
The railroad commission adopted interstate rates on cotton reed products and set new maximums for cotton seed products, with mileage and commodity specific adjustments. Galveston Port Arthur petitions to equalize with Houston were left unresolved, and action on most other cases was deferred.
Washington July 18 The Secretary plans to present recommendations for postal rate increases to offset salary rises authorized by the last Congress. Postmaster General New along with department rate experts will explain the proposed changes before a special congressional committee studying the local reception and adjusted rates.
Funeral services for George W. Burgesser 51 died Friday at home 407 West Eleventh Street were held at 4 30 pm in St Andrew s Episcopal Church with Rev Robert N McCallum and Bishop F C Seaman officiating The Masonic lodge led the graveside rites at Llano Cemetery The active pallbearers included G C MacDaniel J G Graves R J Broyles P H Darnall Chas A Fisk and J A Pheiffer Honorary pallbearers were Dr L V Cradit J B Gibbon Richard Logan Tom Ward Ross Baker and W A Palmer.
In Chicago on July 18 two Italian men, James Venel and Joseph Granado alias Machine Joe, were shot to death on Shields Avenue. Venel had figure in the Mosey Enright case, a noted labor leader, and the killings are tied to vendetta in the Italian settlement amid secrecy.
A brief note suggests using Globe want ads to sell any unused furniture around the home, encouraging quick turnover and cash.
Shamrock to stage a major rodeo on July 23 24 and 25 led by Roy Mayes rider of Deer Trail bucking horse from Brooklyn New York. Mayes brings a string including Steamboat White Deer Flaxseed Crazy Snake Gray Demon and I B Dam with No Name highlighted for next Thursday and Saturday. Brahma steers and a herd of buffalo and cows from Goodnight Ranch travel to Shamrock for the event stage.
Lottan Report notes staple beginning to deteriorate as practically all Texas areas need rain. Despite some counties receiving showers recently, moisture is insufficient for crops. Hot winds with withering plants, boll weevil in South Texas, and reduced cotton acreages worsen conditions. East Texas reports decent yields in places but long drought looms.
Swampscott Massachusetts July 18 police searched President Coolidge front yard and nearby beach for rumrunners after reports of two large cars waiting to receive liquor from rum row. No evidence found. cars disappeared before officers arrived as patrols extended to Marblehead.
Dallas reports 103 degrees as the U S Weather Bureau records high temperatures across the state. San Antonio and Fort Worth also report scorching heat with clear skies and strong sun throughout the day.
Kulm North Dakota on July 18 reports a valley of gunfire and counterattack as more than twenty bandits barricaded behind stones and iron girders prepared to raid the First State bank. Local defenders repelled the raid, limiting damage and preventing robbery.
W. G. Arnold, 35, arrested for peeping through an apartment window at two disrobing girls in Los Angeles on July 18, took poison and died. Police said he swallowed poison and died after the act.
The San Jacinto community band led by Dave Derden drew an estimated 3000 to 4500 people to a downtown concert near Fifth and Florida. The event featured soloists Cecil Eaton and Bailis Warren, with remarks by Tom Cotton praising San Jacinto’s growth.
Dayton Tenn July 18 The proposed fundamentalist University to be led by W J Bryan received a boost as George F Washburn of Manomet Mass and Clearwater Fla raised his pledge from 10000 to 25000 He also urged a $1 million target replacing the earlier 250000 and added 25000 toward a fund to organize fundamentalists as faith defenders in every state.
In New York on July 18 a millionaire realtor Edward W. Browning moved through an uptown subway platform with a new black bag. A youth, seeking wealth, handed him the bag but detectives seized the youth, and Browning found the bag contained only waste paper.
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