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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1924
Page
2
Hogs 87,000 for sale with top 9.60 and ranges 7.60 to 9.60 for various classes. Cattle 40,000 steady with yearlings 11.25 to 12.59 and feeders 7.50 to 8.50. Sheep 20,000 higher with native lambs 14 to 14.25 and feedings 14 to 14.50. Holiday influence weakens trade.
Cotton grain and provisions terms at the Cotton and Grain Exchange in Amarillo Texas with manager C Higgins and broker Alex Hyman and Co New Orleans invite comparison and contact details.
In Kansas City at NSAS market numbers show cattle totaling 33 000 with calves 7 000 and very slow demand. Hogs 14 000 sold lower with top at 9.26 and sows around 8.26 to 8.35. Sheep 4 000 higher with top lambs 14.25 and natives around 15.65 to 14.00.
A fragmented market listing shows prices for hens and turkeys by weight, with figures for broilers, leghorns, ducks, and roosters. Includes butter priced per unit and delivery terms with a total quoted value of 10.50 dollars.
Mrs. Owen wife of Capt B J Owen director of the Agricultural Engineering Institute suggested hair dressers use of hot air to dry hair as a model for drying wet crops. Her husband quickly developed the concept into a workable method with satisfactory results.
Austen Chamberlain becomes foreign secretary in Premier Baldwin's cabinet while Winston Churchill returns as chancellor of the exchequer. William C. Moyer, a Ku Klux Klan organizer, is to be expelled after pleading guilty to stealing sacred vessels from St. Mary's Cathedral in Burlington Vermont. D B Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, must answer questions from the Railroad Labor Board under its authority.
Special Master Commissioner Ray Wheatley will sell at public auction on January 6 1925 at the Clarendon courthouse for cash all right title and interest of C T Word Laura J Word Lola Word R Word and W D Word in cattle work horses saddle horses mares and mules described in a 1921 chattel mortgage to Commerce Trust Company. Dated Amarillo Texas November 17 1924.
In Brugg Switzerland on November 17 leaders from the United States England Germany France Czechoslovakia Switzerland Holland and Hungary agreed to create the Green Internationale. They will open a permanent secretarial office to organize a convention planned for next year in Warsaw.
In Christ Church Westminster a famed actress gave a recital in a church, an unusual event for cinema and opera fans. She read Whitman’s hymn to the American people, followed by a Tagore prayer and verses from Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Ode to the West Wind, with the church packed.
Notice of sale under order of sale in equity from the US District Court Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division. Commerce Trust Company versus party. Judgment and decree rendered June 16 1924. Sale action compelled by court order and subject to applicable terms.
A heated exchange reveals intense distrust and a suggestion of personal crisis tendencies within a troubled relationship. The dialogue hints at lasting strain between two individuals as one voices strong repulsion and concern over possible harmful influence.
A Missouri corporation seeks foreclosure on a decree issued November 17 1924 against C T Word and others for 277373.79 plus 6 percent interest and 10000 attorney fees. Levy covers extensive tracts across Donley Hall Oldham and Potter counties detailing Survey numbers and acreages, including blocks under various original grantees such as John Gibson FE L R R Co B and B S F.
The notice lists multiple 640 acre tracts in Potter County Texas and adjoining Oldham County, each with survey numbers, block numbers, certificate numbers, and original grantees such as BE L & R Ry Co G C S F Ry Co D W Ry Co F L R R Co J H Gibson and B S F. The combined total reaches 15 977 5 acres and includes a separate 779 acre tract in Potter and Oldham Counties.
Oklahoma City market shows cattle demand with forty nine hundred head including heifers at 4.50 to 5.50 dollars and Panhandle cows around 4.15. Canners and cutters traded 2 to 2.50 with bulky stock 2.50 to 4.25 and top valves at 7 dollars. Hogs around 700 head, lower, bulk trading 9 to 9.50 dollars.
Fort Worth livestock sales show cattle at 15 600 head with calves and heifers varying from 1.76 to 7.60 per hundredweight and prime cows down to 2.15. Hogs at 2 000 head weaker with tops near 9.50 and sows 8.00 to 8.50. Sheep 600 head steady with lambs 12 to 18.25 and feeders 9 to 12. goats 1.50 to 3.50.
Hog receipts 1800 market 15 lower, packer top $9.20, bulk $8.90 to $9.15, top cut outs $9.25. Cattle receipts 5300 incl 700 calves, market active and steady, beef steers $5.25 to $8.10, beef heifers $3.50 to $7, beef cows $3.25 to $5, baby beef $6 to $7.59, bulls $2.75 to $3.50, veal calves $3.50 to $8, stockers and feeders $3.50 to $6.40, stock cows and heifers $2 to $4.75.
In a classroom exchange, a student named James confesses he is spellbound while addressing the teacher. The teacher questions why he is not spelling a word, prompting a brief, bemused moment as James explains he is in a trance.
Oxford reports a novel idea to dry hay and farm crops using hot air. A woman suggests the method and experiments are advancing, exploring practicality and potential benefits for farmers.
Alfred Madison of Traverse City confessed to police that he killed his wife with a hammer and disposed of her body in a Michigan river near Mesick. The report notes other unrelated items featuring John Ervin Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, and Clarence Darrow in separate contexts.
A street cleaner in Amarillo pauses his work to catch a little girl’s bouncing ball. The moment shows how the spirit in which work is done can matter more than the status of the job, raising smiles and a sense of shared humanity.
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