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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth cattle, hogs, and sheep listings show mixed changes with calves and heifers priced up to $8.00 and bulls to $4.00. Kansas City reports higher cattle and steer quotes, with top hogs around $10.69 and veals near $12.50 to $13. Sheep also higher, native lambs $12.50 to $13.00.
Hogs 11,500 head, good light hogs $19.75 to $11. Top $11. Pigs $9.75 to $10.25. Pack er sows $5.25 to $8.90. Cattle 3,000, steady. western steers $6.50 to $37, beef cows $4 to $6.25, vealers $8.75 to $9. Sheep 2,000, steady. fat lambs $12.50, culls $6.50, fat ewes $3.50 to $5.00.
Chicago markets show hogs 15 000 higher to 11 dollars bulk 10 50 to 10 85. Cattle 11 000 steady mature steers 11 to 11 40. Texas cake fed 9 to 10 40. Light stockers 3 75. Vealers 9 50 to 10. Sheep 14 009 active native lambs 13 to 13 28 range lambs 13 50 to 13 75 calls 9 to 9 25 fat ewes 5 50 to 6 50.
Hog receipts 409 with prices 9.50 top and 9.20 to 9.45 bulk. Cattle receipts 700 including 300 calves with beef steers 6 to 7.50, beef heifers 2.50, beef cows 3.25 to 5, bulls 2.25 to 4, veal calves 3 to 7.50, stockers and feeders 3 to 6.25, stock cows and heifers 2.25 to 4.
Donald Maginnis of New Orleans charts activity with PREWITT and SULLIVAN reporting from Chicago tied to J. S. Bache & Co. on market movements and investment outlooks.
The notice lists hens of 4 pounds and over at 13 cents per unit, leghorns and other poultry varieties with varying weights and prices, turkeys hens eight pounds and over and toms twelve pounds and over, butter prices nine?teen? cents per pound, and eggs with delivery charges and infertility adjustments. The fragmentary ad references case numbers and delivery terms, presenting a snapshot of a late 19th or early 20th century grocery and poultry market.
Prices paid to local growers by Great West Mill and Elevator Co show Wheat at No 1 hard 1.15 and 6? cents per unit, Corn 1.35 per 100 lbs, Oats 48 cents per bushel, Barley listed but not filled. Measurements and some figures are incomplete due to OCR errors.
W. M. Levin of Williams Department store travels from Dallas to New York with a buyers crew to source merchandise for the Texas chain. The Williams store, based in Texas, is the youngest unit.
Sidney Braunig of the Regent la dies ready to wear and shoe store has returned from a thirty day buying trip in northern and eastern markets. He reports purchasing a large stock for this fall trade. A tiny kodak film can be enlarged into a photo at Gray. he knows how.
Wheat movement has peaked with 2 003 cars inspected locally and 2 409 900 bushels tested by J R Ross. He notes shipments from the Panhandle extend beyond local yards and Wichita Falls. Texas Wheat Growers predicted around 3 000 000 bushels to be sold this year.
A continuation of an advice column reveals predictions for readers from Amarillo Texas. Entries cover marriage prospects single status within eighteen months divorce near courts but saved, health with iron in blood and climate change, and staying put until fall for a better opportunity.
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