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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1925
Page
2
Chicago hogs and cattle prices move, with hogs 25 000 head lower and various grade prices listed. Oklahoma City and St Louis market data show steady to lower cattle and hog values, with ranges for steers cows calves vealers and lambs and notes on demand and slaughter pace.
Cattle sales slow with 19 000 head cattle calves 6000 top heavy steers 11.26 erasers 6 to 7.25 short feds 8 to 9.50 grass fat cows 3.85 to 5.50 helfers 4.75 to 6.25 camera 3.10 cutters 23.50 veals 311 to 11.50 bo logna bulla 4 to 4.50 hogs 9000 uneven bulk 10.60 to 11.25 packing sows 9.50 to 10 stock pigs 11 to 11.75 sheep 5000 higher western lambs 15.25 fed natives 14.24 to 14.85 fed Texas wethers 8.75.
Fort Worth stock prices show cattle 4900 head with calves. beeves range 23.50 to 8 dollars, stockers 3.50 to 7.25, fat cows 9 to 5, yearlings 3.59 to 8.50, bulls 2.50 to 4.25, calves 3 to 8.50. Hogs 509 head higher top 12, bulk 11.75 to 12, sows 9.50 to 10.50, pigs 9.50 to 11.60. Sheep 1200 head steady. lambs 12 to 14, feeders 10 to 13, yearlings 19 to 1959, wethers 6 to 8, ewes 5 to 6, stockers 5 to 8.
Cattle numbers around 1100 with steady prices. Butcher cows 3.85 to 5.00, fat calves 4.50 to 6.50, bulls and veals up to 10.50, stockers 5.75 to 7.50. Hogs 1400 steady with top 11.25, bulk 1 to 11.25. Sheep 200 higher with lambs at 13.50.
Chicago market report lists Wheat No 1 hard at 1.61 to 1.62, No 2 hard at 1.57. Corn No 2 mixed 0 to 81, No 2 yellow 0.80 to 0.82. Oats No 2 white 0.39 to 0.40, No 2 white 0.39 to 0.40.
Wheat No 2 hard 1.56 to 1.69 dollars. No 2 red 1.66 to 1.68. Corn No 3 white 82 to 83 cents. No 2 yellow 82 to 83 cents. Oats No 2 white 39 to 40 cents. No 2 white 39% to 40% cents.
Market ledger lists Amarillo quantities for Hens and Leghorns, broilers trading around 22 cents, Springs over 234 pounds, and Old Tom Turkeys noted. Packing stock butter price 18 cents, eggs show new cases worthless with loss charged back noted at 11.20 dollars.
Athens orders prompt evacuation of Bulgarian territory and withdraws frontier guards. Paris League of Nations council demands halt to hostilities within twenty four hours and sixty hours for withdrawal verification. Greece and Bulgaria announce direct agreement through Romania for frontier redeployment and guard return.
Amarillo Real Estate board and the Board of City Development invite participation in a semiannual oil field tour next Tuesday. The delegation leaves the Amarillo hotel at 8:30 AM by way of Pantex, travels on good roads to the field, and returns by Panhandle. Call John Gilvin or the Board of City Development to join.
The Finklea Electric company becomes local distributor for the Grand Prize Eureka Vacuum cleaner. Eureka's Detroit product enters the Panhandle market with Cecil L. Morrow, district sales manager, handling company interests. Sales and service will be maintained locally by Finklea Electric.
Plainview announces another wrestling program with Matty Matsuda world welterweight champion facing Johnnie Morris of Chicago in a finish match. Erwin Hennershot of Amarillo meets Plainview’s Jack Gorman in a one hour bout. Slim Lagaston versus Joe Ackerman opens the card.
The page shows Globe Want Ads results with date codes and prices for ribs and bellies, plus a New York stocks close list with multiple company quotes such as American Tobacco, American Tel & Tel, Bethlehem Steel, California Petroleum, Canadian Pacific, and Baldwin Locomotive. The final line advertises 710 Wardward Studio for photography services.
Claude October 27 list shows faculty and pupils leaving town to study or teach elsewhere. Names include Mary E. Thomas at Megareel Texas Ruby Vibert at Gorin Paul Hood at Lake View community Bettla Smalley and Elna Smalley Canyon College Hazel King C I A Nettle Wiseman Wayland College Plainview Alice Grumpke Oklahoma University Norman Omaha Grumpke Amarillo Business College Raymond Best Amarillo Business College.
An advertisement promotes Edwards Studio inviting readers to call 710 for picture services.
A visiting group of eastern investors and bankers praised West Texas Panhandle prospects after a Texas Utilities Company banquet. Leaders including Lawrence White of Spencer Trash and Company of Boston and Judge Kelso lauded local citizenship, with plans announced to spend about 3 million dollars in the region over five years. The party travels the Texico cut-off and Pecos Valley lines, touring assets and meeting Hereford business men and utility executives.
Hot Springs Arkansas drew 265 500 visitors this year ranking as the nation’s top park. A note recalls the first clock made in England by Pat Lightfoot in 1335. Polk Street farmers fear a drought in August while Mascaria Peridas dies in Manila at 152. The speaker ribs cigarettes as a possible cause.
Secretary Wilbur and Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones spoke in Philadelphia before the chamber of commerce praising Paul Jones legacy. Wilbur highlighted sacrifice and service of navy personnel while Hilary Jones defended aviation and asserted the fleet remains the ultimate seapower. He quoted I have not yet begun to fight as a message to all sailors.
Local transfers note W L Freize returning to Amarillo after two years as Tulsa Federal Bakery manager. Ill health updates for Mrs Finklea and Mrs Cox on Taylor street. Halloween carnival set for Friday 7:30 p.m. at Fast Ward school with separate classroom programs and refreshments. East Amarillo choral club meets 7:30 p.m. at Rev Z B Pirtle home. Mrs Crow improving at Northwest Texas hospital. baby of Mrs McGuire with pneumonia improving. Mothers Club of East Ward school meets Thursday 3:30 p.m. at the school. important business to be discussed.
Dennison crepe paper prizes offered in the San Jacinto Halloween carnival for best costumes for children under eight and over eight. The event highlights local youth activities and merchants supporting the fair.
R R Taylor the Santa Fe assistant innkeeper is absent from duties due to illness. A newlywed asks whether he has paid the “easy payment” on the wedding ring.
The article argues inheritance taxes discourage middle aged men from starting ventures by risking estate losses after death. It says laws may require constitutional amendments, condemns taxing a corpse, and urges taking wealth while alive to avoid deterring enterprise.
Jim Hagan boasts a five or six year golf streak while D P Garrison of Hereford claims a victory over him on the Hereford course. Henry Hastings notes crane harvests in Deaf Smith county and farmer frustrations with protected birds. Lawrence Johnson, Summerfield mayor and police chief, admits a saddle theft. Horace Ansley recalls rabbit hunting and pulling three rabbits from a single hole. James Morrison of Hereford reports Bermuda onions 36 by 175 feet yielding $200, then $100 from winter turnips after irrigation.
Lubbock county farmer J. W. Letsinger and his two children sue the Panhandle and Santa Fe Baliway company for 90000 alleging negligence after Letsinger’s automobile was struck by a Santa Fe passenger train at a grade crossing. Mrs Letsinger and a three year old daughter were killed and two older children injured. Brownsville and Abilene briefs note a man seeking a marriage license and a poultry exhibit event scheduled January 7 to 10 with the National Rhode Island Red club meeting.
Charles E Hammond, once a Sherman businessman and one of the southwest’s wealthiest landowners, has died in San Antonio. He was a brother-in-law of E B Hunter of Sherman and is survived by a son and a daughter. The notice includes remarks about land and windmills, reflecting local business commentary.
Judge W R Ewing was dragged 40 yards after brakes failed on his car at his ranch near Miami. He spent seven hours in the cold with a broken hip and several fractures, pinned under the vehicle with a cautionary note about no help coming. He was later moved to Amarillo for treatment and remains in satisfactory condition.
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