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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
17
The market page lists grain prices for soft and hard wheat, yellow ear corn, kite ear corn, mixed ear corn, shelled corn, and oats. Prices show soft wheat at 9 pounds per 1b and hard wheat at 9 pounds per 1b, with corn and oats values indicated. Open, high, low, and close levels for oats appear as 18 and 18% range, reflecting today’s activity.
AP reports Kansas City grain trading on June 27 with wheat receipts at 207 cars and mixed price levels for No 2 and No 3 grades across dark hard and red categories. Corn receipts 70 cars show negligible change with No 2 white and yellow around 91 to 99 cents. Oats or related categories cited with limited figures and fragmented quotes.
St Joseph cattle receipts 600 calves 200. Beef and yearlings steady fat cattle strong stockers and feeders scarce. Best steers around 14.60 14.65. two loads common Texas grassers 9.25. Cows 7.5 to 9.5. top 10.50. cutters 6.0 to 7.25. bulls 8.0 to 9.0. top veals 13.00. Hogs receipts 5,500. prices steady to 10c higher. top 10.80 around 215 lb. sows 9.25 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 4,000. lambs strong. top Ida ho lambs 13.90. bulk 13.75 to 13.90. Fat lambs, yearlings firm. Texas yearlings around 11.10. fat ewes 6.25 down. Kansas City market follows.
Wright and Curtiss interests plan a 70 million dollar holding company named Curtiss-Wright Corporation to acquire Wright Aero nautical and Curtiss Aeroplane and Engine Co and 10 affiliates. The new entity would offer 12 million shares, with 2 million class A preferred and 10 million common shares. Several major airlines are behind the deal, with manages continuing under current leadership.
Paris June 26 A formal statement by Mrs Mabelle Gilman Corey divorced wife of a Pittsburgh steel magnate said her engagement to Prince Luis de Bourbon cousin of the king of Spain was absolutely finished. She said she sought no publicity and wished people would cease writing on the subject. The rupture was linked to disputes over marriage settlement details.
Lincoln reports farm statistics by A. E. Anderson show Nebraska added 1,666,839 acres cultivated 1921 to 1928. Live stock markets move with hogs, cattle and sheep prices varying by weight, with tops around 10.80 for hogs and 15.25 for yearling cattle, while lambs rise to about 13.85.
Kansas City market data from June 27 lists eggs firsts 362, seconds 23 and a half. Butter creamery 47 cents, large quantities 46, butterfat 41, packing butter 25. Poultry prices show hens 27? but text shows hens 21? and broilers 39, roosters 14, springs 35 cents.
Betty Ford the 17 year old California prodigy has graduated from Stanford University after an accelerated six year schooling. She was mentored by psychologist Lewis S. Terman since age seven and showed extraordinary reading and musical talents. Betty enjoys art poetry dance swimming and social life on campus.
The Chicago Medical Society announces the modern medical budget plan to finance care for ill patients unable to pay promptly. Patients choose a physician, who estimates costs. a six percent loan funds the plan with 35 percent paid to the doctor upfront and the remainder in instalments to the physician, keeping costs low and steering away from indiscriminate charity.
Local brief notes report Leahy's store, camping gear at Levin's, plus Lee Bruce. A city plea for automatic signals by J. B. Hendren. hay crop noted west of The Globe. Hospital updates include Mrs. P. F. Little and Bernice Bruhswood. Ben Pollock buys White Star bakery. Tom Barry recovers from tonsil surgery. Frigidaire demo urged at Kansas Power & Light. Trinity Lutheran club to visit Leavenworth. B Y P U picnic postponed due to Ritner death. Ocean bottle mystery notes 1927 message return plan by British Air Ministry.
Detroit June 27 Aimee Semple McPherson announced she would spar with the devil for two minutes at Olympia arena just before the Johnny Risko Tuffy Griffiths heavyweight fight. She is in Detroit campaigning to clean up the city and said she would not talk against fistcuffs.
James A. Perry owner of the Indianapolis American Association baseball club and Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana died when his cabin monoplane crashed near Fort Benjamin Harrison after takeoff from Schoenfield. Witnesses said the motor failed at about 100 feet causing a dive into a ravine.
English visitors are urged to hear the famed Garde Republicaine military band in Monte Carlo at the Casino Theater, a concert featuring 82 performers. The event, touted as a world class recital, has been postponed despite prior enthusiasm as the notice notes. Separately, scientific research is being applied to extensive European plantations in Sumatra.
Town and country people are invited to remember the old reliable blacksmith John B Ostertag at his shop on Kan gas avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets Atchison asking community to gather for a memory event and local recognition of his work and service as a blacksmith.
Public school buildings in Atchison are undergoing a thorough summer re conditioning program led by H P Armstrong chair of the building and grounds committee. Repairs include roof work at Lincoln school fire walls and sixty new window frames to improve heating and safety. Paint sprayer use is limited to school buildings. Interior painting at the high school auditorium is planned along with new concrete steps near the high school and Washington school. Minor repairs continue under Abe Gerard the school engineer over the next two months.
A long row of classified sale items listing electric fans, baby buggy, threshing machine, paint, groceries, butter, bread, coffee, peaches, shoes, piano player, motor oil, washing machines, brooms, chick feed, flour, jars, mutton, binder, flour, acres, houses, and real estate notes. Entries include prices, brief item descriptors, and contact notes across multiple Kansas towns. Several ads reference Farmer's Cash Store and local addresses on Main Street, 1327 Main St, Nortonville, and Atchison along with various phone numbers.
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