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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1928
Page
15
Market brief with dairy and poultry prices for heavy hens and leghorn hens, eggs and ducks listed under wholesale terms. Grain markets show Kansas City wheat and corn receipts with bid ranges for No 2 through No 3 grades, plus oats and soft and hard wheat price highlights.
Livestock prices in St Joseph and Kansas City on February 9 show hogs steady to 10 cents higher with top at 8.35 and lighter weights quoted from 8.15 to 8.35. cattle and calves varied with beef steers dull, yearlings and stockers steady to strong, vealers up to 14.50. fat lambs and sheep mostly steady with lambs around 12.65 to 15.15 and ewes about 8.50. Poultry and eggs in Kansas City unchanged with butter and eggs steady to firm and assorted poultry prices listed.
Local items report many residents improving including Joe Howard and John Reinhard's boy. Mentioned are T J Ritner, Chester Bauman with an infected finger, Mrs J W Edmiston with grippe, and Henry Dickey a farmer south of town. A Kansas City bank advert and a February sale offer wares at discounted prices.
Washington reports the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City raised its rediscount rate from 3 to 4 percent. The move tightens monetary policy as banks face higher borrowing costs and potential impact on lending.
Benjamin G. Dawes chairman of the Pure Oil Company testifies before the Senate Teapot Dome investigating committee in Washington. He adopts a pipe with an inverted bowl and resembles his brother the Vice-President, a gesture noted by observers.
Lieutenant Lebrix and Costes, French trans Atlantic aviators, plan a cross country hop to San Francisco after reaching New York. They expect stops in Detroit, Chicago, Omaha, and Salt Lake City en route. They aim to depart saturday morning for New York and may return to France by steamer.
In Haverford Township near Philadelphia a young couple, Bella Alexander 17 and Louis Shapiro 21, were found dead in a car from gunshot wounds. Alexander died later at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Shapiro likely died instantly. They had planned to marry in two weeks. the girl had postponed the wedding.
Herman A. Hill a south side hardware merchant was chosen by Wichita city commissioners to replace C. C. Dehner. Hill won on the eighteenth ballot after more than an hour of debate. C Q Chandler of First National Bank declined the post due to business obligations.
Mrs. Myrtle Withey, 25, charged with murder in her husband William Jewell Withey's death, was released on $5,000 bond. A March 12 date for her second trial was set after a jury deadlock in the first trial.
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