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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
2
Market reports from THURSDAY MARKETS ex Hyman & Co Wichita Kansas City and Chicago cover hogs cattle and lamb prices. Hogs $11.40 to $11.89 top. cattle and calves show varied declines and steady to weak bids. sheep listings include native springers and wooled lambs with mixed demand.
Fragmentary OCR lists commodities and company names including grains oats and flax prices and a series of corporate and brand names such as American Smelter, American Locomotive, American Tel and Tel, General Motors, Corn Products, and Westin. The text resembles a late 19th or early 20th century trade page with mixed figures and listings.
Auction and market listing shows AMARICI.O PRODUCE offering hens four pounds and up, leghorn hens, springers, broilers, geese, capons seven pounds plus, and turkeys including hen turkeys twelve pounds and young toms. Packing stock butter figs and trash news are mentioned with delivery terms and pricing references.
A fragmented item notes athletes guarding eyeclanses with a new mask type. It mentions an airplane craft without hull pontoons, plus local praise for Paseyg park improvements in North Amarillo. Names include Mre., KH, Floyd and RH. A Dwelle visits from Lincoln via an Oklahoma City factory rep.
Rum runners hijackers and law enforcement clash in a triad battle for control of San Pedro harbor. Officers, smugglers, and motorists exchange gunfire as they probe cargo routes and hidden paths near Whale Point and Gye waters edge.
Disorder amid a dry wave causes whisky shortages from New York to California. Whisky worth over 200000 dollars is reported stranded near San Deze and Los Angeles whiskey prices drop from six to nine dollars per quart. New York and California markets reel as reserve stocks tighten and shipping disruption worsens. In Montana, miner Gus Roldon entombed by a mine collapse at Colisa, rescue teams continuing effort.
A stream of visitors and locals in Amarillo and the Panhandle discuss growth and business ties. Mentions include A. M 2eholz from San Antonio now heading Amarillo operations and tributes to Carmen Callahan at Centennial High School Pueblo.
Mrs Hannah Broadwater aged 7 years died at her granddaughter’s home seven miles northeast of the city this morning after brief illness. She leaves no relatives except her granddaughter Mrs Belle Broad Street and Jamil. The boy will be sent by Griggs Undertaking Co to Royd Wise County Tex on the Fort Worth and Denver train. Funeral and burial will be at Bova Friday. Firefighters use carbon dioxide extinguishers on switchboard fires and on oil tanker ships to prevent water damage.
French forces under General Colombat pushed three columns across the Mo rocco front retaking Ardouf in a bayonet charge. Riffians retreat northward after suffering heavy losses as French aviation and cavalry flank their advance.
The Reds captained by Miles Bivins and the Grays led by Gene Howe race neck and neck in a dinner tournament with winners to pay for dinners Saturday night. Close matches yesterday included Dwight Newby defeating Bill Smith in extra holes and Jeff Neely beating Ed Hardin. Charles risk defeated Wales Madden while Ed Roberts beat Ray Wheatley and Sam Vaughn downed W Gatton. More hot games expected this afternoon.
Visitors at the Plains Retail Lumbermen's convention praise the Amarillo Lumber Co ward and office at 501 Washington Street. They call the new building one of the most up to date and beautiful lumber plants in the city and a credit to Amarillo. Company officials extend an open invitation to all to visit the plant.
Police guarded the town house of John D Rockefeller Jr as crowds gathered for the marriage of his eldest daughter Abbie Rockefeller to David Merriweather Milton. The ceremony was scheduled for 4 40 pm with Rev Cornelius Woelfkin officiating at Park Avenue Baptist Church.
AP reports Sainfield Scott of Enid Oklahoma is likely to be named commissioner of pensions, to replace Wilder S. Metcalf of Lawrence Kansas who is expected to resign soon.
Associated Press reports Sir H. Rider Haggard, noted novelist, died in London on May 14. The piece notes a light item on table decoration with Venetian glass nut dishes and mentions a newly discovered subterranean world in Endlees Caverns near Newmarket, Virginia.
Notice to contractors bids due May 26 1925 by Donohoe and Ware Plainview for erection of a fourth floor addition to the Ware Hotel. Plans available from owners in Plainview or Kerr Walsh Amarillo architects. Separate bids for electric wiring plumbing and heating.
The Oklahoma City criminal court of appeals dismissed the state’s appeal against Governor J. C. Walton on charges of diverting state funds. The court found the informations improperly formed, freeing Walton who had been impeached earlier and removed in 1923. Walton reacted, calling the decision a vindication.
Potter County announces a ten day weekly publication for all interested parties regarding Lud Bourn filing for probate and letters testamentary for A Bourrit deceased. The hearing is set for the fourth Monday in May 1926 at Amarillo Court House with contest allowed by that date.
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