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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1925
Page
2
South Omaha cattle market steady with around 6000 head. Chicago hogs rise with tops near 13.25. killing pigs and various hog weights quoted. Cattle at Chicago slow with large run. vealers 12 to 12.50. sheep higher with fat native lambs 14.75 to 15.25 and feeding lambs 15.25 to 15.65.
The Associated Press tally from Oklahoma City on September 8 lists cattle trading active with steers $5.50 to $6, cows $4 to $4.25, heifers up to $8.75, calves up to $8. Hogs numbering about 900 head moved slowly with a top of $12.50 and bulk around $12.25.
Fast St Louis market readings show hogs higher with light hogs 13.10 to 13.25, medium 12.90 to 13.10, pigs 12.75 to 14.3, packer sows 10.50 to 10.75. Cattle 5,900 steady higher, western steers 5.50 to 8.25, beef cows 4 to 5.25, canners 2.50 to 8, vealers 12.75, sheep 3,060 fat lambs 14.85, culled lambs 9, killing ewes 5 to 7.50.
Kansas City market reports show 10 000 cattle with calves 2500, varying gains and losses across categories. Higher calves and yearlings, grass fat cows and stockers mixed, hogs and lambs steady to lower amid fluctuating demand.
Fort Worth market report shows cattle at 700 head including 500 calves with steers and heifers steady. Prices listed for beeves, stockers, fat cows, yearlings, bulls, and calves. Hogs at 250 head steady with top at 12.80 and packing totals 9 to 12. Sheep market absent. lambs and feeders priced, wethers and ewes noted.
Wichita market activity shows 2 000 head steady for hogs with packing sows at 9.50 to 9.75 and stocker and feeder pigs at 11.50 down. Cattle 600 head steady with 200 calves. grassers 6.75, butcher cows 3.75 to 5.50, veals 10, stockers 5 to 6, thin cows 2.75 to 3.25, heifers 4 to 5.50. Sheep 200 higher with native lambs 13.25 to 13.50 and fat ewes at 6.
Chicago wheat and corn moved higher at the open on Sept 8. Wheat benefited from a 3 million bushel drop in ocean passage and higher Liverpool quotations, with December at 1.51 1.52 and May at 1.55. Corn climbed after initial gains as Central Illinois drought and heat stress hurt the crop, with December trading around 86 and subsequently rising. Oats firmed on corn strength while provisions lacked support.
Kansas City price report shows Wheat Number 2 hard trading from $1.55 to $1.67 in the cash grain market as of September.
Market notice listing wheat as per bushel basis No 1 hard Masse and kafir per 100 pounds and oats per bushel with figures 1 60 1 86 1 70. Prices presented for Amarillo grain market.
Amarillo produce shows number 2 red priced at 1.69 to 1.71 per unit. Corn prices for number 2 white at .92 to .93 and number 2 yellow at .95 to 1.00. Oats quotes for number 2 white at .414 and number 3 at .40 to .41 percent.
Harrison W. Noel, 20, former college student and escaped inmate, pleaded guilty to kidnapping six year old Mary Daly and is likely to be ordered confined for life after possible trial on murder charges. He confessed boastfully and is deemed hopelessly insane by Essex detectives.
Chicago markets report wheat numbers 2 and 4 hard rising to 1.67 and 1.50 dollars per bushel, corn number 2 mixed at 0.98 percent to 1.00, oats moving with white grades from 0.40 to 0.44 and 0.39 to 0.40 dollars per bushel.
The column by the Tactless Texan surveys The Lost World and notes a sharp contrast between sensationalism and science. It parries public curiosity while highlighting the era’s fascination with exploration and danger.
Karl Cullum notes Getty patrons show appreciation for Amarillo and Lubbock baseball teams by attending in force Saturday and Sunday. Mentions Campbell Kid from Dumas and Tri-State exposition popularity contest. Gazzell raises pheasants. a pet duck missing. Lawn value boosts home price. Amarillo lawns urged. John L. McCarty reports bantam chicks in Amarillo. Olin Hinkle departs Canyon for Missouri journalism school. bright future with Chicago Tribune.
Martin Jarett announces a new Jarrett's Fashion Shop to open within weeks on Broadway Street south of the courthouse square in Lub bock. The store will offer the same high quality merchandise as the Amarillo outlet, completing plans for a Panhandle expansion.
Mrs. T. M. Caldwell concluded a two week stay in Amarillo and departed for Los Angeles. She was accompanied by Mrs. Lora Caldwell, the elder Caldwell, who plans to spend the winter in California. The senior Caldwell is 83 years old and has traveled to California alone on prior trips.
Vice President Charles G. Dawes urged reform of Senate rules before 5,500 people in Portland. He said the crusade would end debates that waste time and empower individual senators to block progress, relying on the common sense of the American people.
Honolulu reports continued, exhaustive search for naval seaplane PN-9 No. 1 missing after a near nonstop flight from San Francisco to Honolulu. Navy ships patrol a wide Pacific area seeking the aircraft, its commander John Rodgers, and four crewmen amid reports of distant sightings and wreckage.
Harry Glass and Lloyd Doolittle of the Hoover company visited Amarillo yesterday to view the City Light and Water display setup for Hoover sweepers. They praised W. B. McSpadden and the firm’s progressiveness, noting the notable Hoover window on Taylor street drew much comment.
J. H. Silmmn a carpenter of 2000 Buchanan Street was arrested at noon on reckless driving charges. An accident at Sixteenth and Fillmore Streets this morning left a child injured though not seriously. It was reported the driver did not stop.
Jury was secured this afternoon in district court to try Luther Hughes on a prohibition charge. Hughes had been found guilty months ago, but the criminal court of appeals at Austin granted a new hearing.
The interstate commerce commission fixed a tentative value of 476 million 120 thousand 978 dollars for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe system as of June 30 1916. The system runs 10875 miles of own line and leases 1684 miles, with a total capitalization of about 634.9 million dollars and own book investments of 534.2 million. Separate valuations were set for many subsidiaries and protests may follow before rates are fixed.
Griggs Undertaking acquires Wichita Casket stock of goods in Amarilloy and adds it to Griggs stock. The Wichita company maintained stock for the jobbing trade. C W Charlesworth, local manager, will relocate to Florida.
Amarillo public schools start the 1925-26 term as W. A. McIntosh reports all schools organized and functioning well. Senior High lists 745 pupils with enrollment expected to rise. multiple principals and staff named across Senior, Junior, Tyler Street, Wilson, Johnson Street, Buchanan, McKinley, San Jacinto, East Ward, Glenwood, Summitt, Fred Douglas and other schools.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled proposed changes in Santa Fe grain rates from Kansas and Colorado via Kansas City to Texas Gulf ports as unreasonable. The plan, first raised last May, would send substantial grain exports off the direct line, prompting protests from Wichita grain handlers and other railroads.
The hearing began with chairman Atchison advising on a proposed rate territory. R N Vandoren of the Chicago and Northwestern argued railroads seek 11 percent, asking only 5 percent due to emergency needs, noting freight prices and costs have risen since 1911. Fred S Jackson of the Farm Bureau leads the opposition against any rise.
Ernest Thompson confirms the Amarillo hotel dining room will reopen Thursday with a new cooling system. Several local figures share remarks on hunting, golf, oil fields, and business asides in Half Minute Interviews. The page also notes fundraising for railroad back salaries and local chatter about quail and quail shooting.
Three naval officers killed in the Shenandoah disaster were laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with military honors. Lieut-Com. Lewis Hancock Lieut. J. B. Lawrence and Lieut. E. W. Sheppard were buried, while Lieut. Commander Zachary Lansdown's burial followed later. Officials and widows attended under chaplains from the Navy and a reserve chaplain.
G G Ordway arranges for an additional loan for the firm in Dallas as Amarillo grows rapidly. Ernest Thompson announces cooling at the Amarillo hotel dining room to reopen Thursday. Townley guests from Tulsa return from a world trip, with family ties noted. Hoover reports illness of Crawford Reeder Hoover, and Palo Duro cave relics gather interest with pottery fragments advised by Harvard professor Kinder.
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