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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1927
Page
15
Financial briefs from the Associated Press summarizing stock moves and market sentiment received locally. Major indexes show mixed trading with investors weighing economic data and corporate results.
Norwegian envoy criticizes disarmament failings at the League of Nations session in Geneva. Citing secrecy and power politics, C J Hambro urges inclusive leadership, warns of great powers locking out others, and calls for November preparatory talks to proceed as planned.
Receipts 2 500 cattle include beef steers and yearlings moderately active with steadier to higher demand. Hogs 4 000 with uneven demand and top around 11.40. sheep 6 000 as fat lambs slow and ewes down to six dollars.
Wheat receipts 205 carloads with No 2 dark hard near 14 146 percent. No 2 hard around 1 30 145. No 3 values noted. Corn mostly unchanged with No 2 white around 9 14. No 2 yellow near 9 914. oats up 14 cents for No 2 white about 46 548. Close figures listed for September December and May contracts.
U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show hogs at 4 000 head steady to 10 cents higher than Wednesday with top 11.50 on 220 lb hogs and steady stock pigs. Cattle activity 4 000 with calves 800, beef steers steady to 15 cents higher. weighty calves strong to slightly higher. sheep 9 000 very slow with lambs 25 cents lower on bids, top native lambs 11.85.
Kansas City news notes daily market prices for September 8. Butter creamery 46c packing 26c. eggs firsts 29c to 31c. candled receipts 27c. seconds 24c. Butterfat 36c. poultry bids quoted for light hens heavy hens and ducks. Potatoes at 2.50 per 100 pounds.
Bud Widick will not play prop 1 football this fall to focus on business. He received offers for eastern play but chose not to sign. His decision keeps him busy with Atchison men and county men, arranging up-to-date fashion fittings.
A garbled clipping notes varied items from Teahy's, mentioning men at work and an Ady Saban tour. readable bits imply local notices or brief items about public life. further specifics are unreadable due to OCR damage and fragmented wording.
Mrs. Ida M. Walker, secretary of the Kansas Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion, will decorate three American soldier graves in France during the national convention month. She will place flowers on two graves per mothers’ request and plant a flag on the third for Harold R. Andrews. Her voyage aboard the Leviathan departs New York September 10.
Milwaukee 6 10 2 beat Minneapolis 4 9 5 as Eddleman Thomp son Benton Kenna shared pitching duties. Kansas City fell to St Paul while Louisville defeated Toledo 8 0 with Moss Meyer Milstead O Neil on the mound. Chicago edged St Louis as Root Hartnett Sherdel O Farrell did the batteries in a low scoring contest.
Clyde Woods 22 of Kansas City was killed and George Wallace of Liberal seriously hurt when struck by a speeding car while repairing a tire on a parked vehicle north of Liberal. Paul Custer 22 of Liberal was exonerated by a coroner's jury which found death an accident.
Leavenworth Kansas reports Hubert T Johnston, 17, of Indianapolis, arrested on an auto theft charge after finding and possessing a car owned by Hubert T Johnson of Indianapolis. Johnston reportedly confessed and awaits service on a federal warrant in the county jail. W B Dalton recovers in Topeka after a mild stroke, returning to work with signs of recovery.
A brief quip notes rising egg prices and a local response about keeping hens. The exchange mentions a neighbor who keeps a farm and raises chickens as a possible solution.
Town and country residents are invited to remember that John B. Ostertag is active in his shop on Kansas Avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets in Atchison.
In Chicago on September 8 two blast and fire incidents on Prairie Avenue and South Wabash Avenue killed three and burned others. Police suspect rival bootleggers bombed the sites. authorities found a large still at Prairie and arrested 13 men near the earlier scene.
A crowded page lists various ads including sow sales with piglets, seeds, a vegetable market near Memorial Hall, fruit and produce offers from Armstrong Bros. and Treat Fruit Farm, a service battery company ad, a 6 room house for sale, rooms for rent, eggs and peaches for sale, Concord grapes and various fruit items, a pineapple can sale, and general merchandise from Logeman's Market and Armstrong Bros. Furniture and rental notices appear alongside employment requests and plain farm produce offers.
Multiple rental notices for cottages and rooms across town. Listings include 5 room cottage on Doniphan lake, 2 large rooms for light housekeeping at 1014 Parallel, 1 room unit for 1 or 2 ladies at 1105 Kansas Ave, and several furnished or modern housekeeping rooms with baths, phones, and references across Kansas Ave, Nith Street, and 4th Street. Some include a garage, gas, and electric lights.
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