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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth market data shows cattle calves and beesves with ranges including cows cutters and yearlings. Hogs range from 7.25 to 7.70 for various classes while sheep and goats list lambs feeders yearlings wethers ewes and cull stock with prices per head or per cwt.
Chicago livestock figures show hogs 23 000 head slow trade with choice butchers 7.60 to 7.75, packing sows 6.80 to 7.00, slaughter pigs 6.25 to 6.50. Cattle 9 000 head slow with matured steers 10.75 to 10.90, fed steers and yearlings 8.50 to 10.50, calves 10.50 to 11, stockers and feeders 6.50 to 8.50. Sheep 7 000 head active with fat clipped lambs 14.76 to 15.25.
Hogs receipts reach 1000 with steady market and top 7.40. Cattle receipts 400 including 100 calves. market slow and weak to 25 cents lower. Beef cattle prices range from 4.50 to 8.50, cows 4 to 6.75, bulls 3 to 5.50, veal calves 4 to 9, heavy calves 3 to 7.50, stockers 3.50 to 7.60, stock cows 2.50 to 5.00.
Hogs receipts 19,000 with active trade. Good butcher hogs 7.65 to 7.70. lights 7.10 to 7.60. pigs 6.60 to 7.00. packer sows 6.60. Cattle receipts 4,000 with steady values. top mixed yearlings 9.65. calves 10.50. native steers 7.85 to 9.00. Texas steers 6.75 to 7.40. yearlings and heifers 8.00 to 8.50. cows 5.25 to 6.75. canners 2.25 to 2.50. calves 10.00. Sheep receipts 2,500 steady. clipped lambs 15.10. native spring lambs 16.75. Texas clipped wethers 8.50.
Kansas City market report shows cattle 11 000 head and calves 2 000 with slow sales. Fed steers 8.00 to 10.26, beef cows and heifers 5.00 to 8.00, hogs 10 000 steady with top 7.45 and most 7.25 to 7.45, stock pigs 5.25 to 6.00, sows 6.80 to 7.00, sheep 5 000 steady with springers 16.50 to 16.86 and wethers 7.60 to 8.25.
More than 300 licenses for dogs have been sold since a city campaign against stray dogs began. In the collector’s office records show four hundred thirty one license tags sold this year. Children visiting city hall bought tags to keep their dogs safe from the dog catcher, with some reports of tag theft and attempts to replace them.
Swift & Co lists Amarillo area produce prices including Hens 4 lbs and over 18 cents, Hens under 4 lbs 15 cents, Broilers 20 cents, Turkeys hens 8 lbs and over and toms 12 lbs and over, Butter 14 cents, Eggs strictly fresh with old case deduction 30 cents less, and other items.
Amarillo Grain notes payments to local growers by the Great West Mill and Elevator Company. Wheat No 1 hard priced at 1.00 per 100 pounds. Maize at 1.05 per 100 pounds. Oats at 0.45 per bushel.
New Orleans May 20 Speculative disappointment over bonus and warmer weather overshadowed by private condition place the estimate today at 69.6. Prospects are for unsettled cooler weather and continued large exports today. Twelve thousand bales against three thousand last year. New York reported Highly-five May notices. Nearly 600 bales certificated here yesterday. Temperatures above normal over entire belt for the first time in several weeks, but cooler forecast west again. Galveston wire also reported an estimate that Texas was only under seventy against seventy seven last year. The bonus law now appears to be viewed with less alarm in speculative circles on the idea that it may prove stimulating to general business later.
Amarillo Cotton & Grain Exchange lists J. R. McCook manager and Alex Hyman & Co of New Orleans with a telephone connection at 3004. Office location in Amarillo, Texas.
Texas cattle shipments to Oklahoma and Kansas slowed this season with light overall business on Amarillo lines. Harvey House adds cake line. New Haven electrifies to New York. Santa Fe appoints new baggage chief. Cement tonnage and grain car storage rise. Panhandle oil-town growth noted. April payroll for P&S F at Sante totals about 400 thousand dollars. Tickets for the Texas Democratic convention go on sale.
In Amarillo today J F Andrews Spearman and J A McGowan Vega traveled for business while Robert Walkup Tyler attended a retail merchants convention. Roads and travel updates mix with births visits and a rumored oil find near Cliffside well.
The Tex as Press association mails letters to its members inviting attendance at the 1924 convention in Amarillo on June 18 to 20. It highlights Palo Duro canyon camping, healthful climate, and hotel accommodations with plans for drives dinners dances and theater parties alongside the usual program.
In South Bend Indiana on May 19 a crowd gathered around the Ku Klux Klan local headquarters where a fiery cross was shown. Reverend Matthew Walsh president of the University of Notre Dame assisted police to disperse the gathering after clashes between Klansmen and anti Klansmen.
The article notes visitors and residents discuss a weed cutting campaign, saying they left their home towns to avoid disruptions. They express that they feel safe here and believe local citizenship will not engage in unnecessary protests or obstruction.
Sapulpa Oklahoma May 20 Oscar Bond veteran well shooter loaded his car with 600 quarts of nitroglycerine and collided spilling the volatile load along the roadside. He recounts facing death with life flashing before him and a shouting close call that left him grateful to survive. Bond has years of experience handling large quantities of explosives in oil fields.
Goldwaithe Texas eyes a $10,000 cold storage plant under local chamber auspices. The project follows a surge in poultry output with over 30 carloads of turkeys moved during last year’s holidays. Local farmers hold most stock and will use the facility to store turkeys and other perishables during the growing season.
The Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly endorsed in report on Sabbath observance a bill pending in the U S senate regulating Sabbath work in the District of Columbia. Debate followed the prohibition committee report with mixed views. The panel backed prohibition laws, urged church members to enforce them, and opposed state licenses for liquor prescriptions. The report was withdrawn for amendment to endorse the Anti Saloon League and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
The Business Men's Athletic club will dedicate two weekly evenings to women only for physical culture classes. A woman matron will oversee the gymnasium during these sessions and admission will be restricted to women.
In Randall county Texas crop conditions are excellent after three light rains totaling .64 of an inch last week. Excavations show ground moist to ten feet. Farmers expect more wheat this year than in 14 years unless crops fail from heiling.
The Amarillo Board of City Development funds a six folder map for auto tourists. H B Bozeman, publicity director, says work is underway and the map should be completed soon. It covers the Panhandle area within a two day drive of Amarillo and highlights nine principal highways and key towns.
Sen George Pepper announced Pennsylvania Republicans will be heartily and loyally behind Calvin Coolidge at the national convention. Pepper was unanimously reelected Pennsylvania’s representative on the Republican National Committee during the state committee reorganizational meeting in Philadelphia.
Betty Compson stars in Woman to Woman at Mission Theater. The tale of a Moulin Rouge dancer who marries, faces memory loss during war, and discovers her husband has a new wife ends in sacrifice and a fatal dance. Strong, lavishly produced and emotionally powerful for both women and men.
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