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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth and Kansas City market data dated May 14 show cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep trading with wide price ranges. Fort Worth totals include cattle 3 300, calves 700, hogs 1200, and sheep 1200 with varied bid prices across classes. Kansas City reports cattle 8 000, calves 11 000 and hogs 9 000 with prices from $4.50 to $10.60 for cattle and $6.55 to $7.20 for hogs and lambs around $14.50 to $15.25.
May reports show hogs at Chicago rising with top at 7.59 and heavy, medium, and light classes all higher. Cattle activity noted with matured steers to 11.75 and fed cattle between 8.60 and 10.75, plus other beef, veal, and sheep values in the 13 to 14 dollar range.
Hogs 15000 higher choice butchers 7.40 7.45 pigs 6.25 6.75 sows 6.35 6.40 Cattle 3000 steady native beef steers 7.50 8.50 Texas steers 7.25 8.75 Yearlings 8.90 light weaners 10 10.50 beef cows 5.50 6.75 bulls 4.50 5. Sheep 1000 steady clipped lambs 15.25 springers 17 17.15 clipped ewes 7.50
Hog receipts reached 900 with prices up about five cents and tops at 7.20. Cattle receipts at 700 including 100 calves, market steady with strong demand for top grades. beef steers 6.50 to 8, beef heifers 4 to 8, cows 4 to 6.75, veal calves 3.5 to 9, stockers 3.75 to 7.65, stock cows 2.5 to 5.5.
Local market listing shows poultry prices with hens over 4 pounds at 18 cents per pound and under 4 pounds at lower rates. Broilers, leghorns, and blacks at 20 cents, old roosters around 6 cents. Turkeys hens over 8 pounds at 12 cents and toms over 12 pounds at 10 cents. Dairy prices include butter 16 cents and eggs strictly fresh.
Amarillo area prices show wheat at 1.00 per bushel basis No. 1 hard Milo maize at 1.00 per 190 pounds and 1.05 per 190 pounds Oats priced at 0.49 per bushel indicating market rates for local producers.
Amarillo public schools will hold their annual all day exhibit Friday with a holiday for students. The event showcases departments from the high school including Commerce Domestic Arts Manual Training English History Latin Spanish Science and Mathetics. Visitors will be guided by teachers and officials from 10 20 a m to 6 p m at the high school and ward schools.
Police and sheriffs were called to protect about 25 Klansmen from a newly organized Ku Klux Klan chapter in Ballston Spa New York. A crowd gathered after a meeting and a fight broke out near the hall before Klansmen were escorted away.
Tom Witten of Trenton Missouri addressed the Amarillo Kiwanis club urging business leaders to engage with youth. He promoted neighborliness, urged support for boys and girls, and highlighted community health and activity through regular exercise as keys to better business life.
Mrs Edith M Mullins of Granite Ohio offers her fox terrier to Amarillo for the rat campaign. She bought the dog a year ago to rid her farm of rats and says the animal did the job so well she has no further use for him.
Weatherford Texas May 14 a fire caused about 150000 in damage striking the business district. Firemen from Mineral Wells aided by checking the flames which destroyed two frame cottages a barber shop a garage and a photograph studio with most losses in the lumber yard of W J Milmo.
The Hanson post of the American Legion held a brief session after the regular meeting last night. The executive committee discussed post business and appointed a house committee to handle duties.
W L Milstead general field manager for Corona Typewriter will demo a new Corona model at Russell and Cockrell's store in Groton N Y tomorrow. The unit features a standard single shift and weighs the same as existing Corona machines.
Names and movements fill the Panhandle with residents visiting, shopping, and traveling. Individuals from Canyon, Vega, Spearman, Dumas, and Amarillo are listed, with notes of illness, moves, and business. Mrs. Griffin is critically ill. Babb family home address given. Tharp returns from National Guard officers’ school. Turner to discuss apple crops.
Washington notes Wayne B Wheeler, anti saloon league counsel, told the house judiciary committee that a petition from the Bootleggers Union of America supporting a 2 75 per cent beer change to the Volstead Act is a fake He warned the measure would bring multiplied millions to brewers and showed photos of alleged brewer wire entanglements to defeat enforcement.
In London on May 14 Prime Minister Macdonald said in the House of Commons he would not call a conference with the United States on interallied war debts until conclusions are reached from expert committee reports.
New York will see Jackie Coogan the boy actor sue in local courts against Adams-Bach Handkerchief Manufacturing Company and Charles E Wey and Company both of New York for damages over unauthorized use of his name and photographs in advertising. Each suit seeks 10000 dollars.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church national convention opens in Austin on May 14 with full participation of women in deliberations and conduct as a principal subject for action. Delegates began arriving in the city for the gathering.
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