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Newspaper
Holbrook Tribune News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
1
Arizona remains confident about its future despite a severe copper downturn. The piece notes Arizona’s vast output historically, and asserts wealth in the state’s rocks and skies will sustain employment and production for two million people, even as current population sits around 340,000.
The American Legion and the Elks in Holbrook announce a benefit dance tomorrow night to aid Pueblo flood sufferers. The joint event aims to unite the community in support with Legion orchestra providing music. Buy a ticket or attend to help fellow Pueblo residents.
A garbled passage notes The Ainn views cleansing habits as weak links to civilization and contrasts washing face and hands with broader cultural expectations. It touches on Tieran ideas about hygiene, effort, and societal norms, suggesting tension between personal ritual and communal standards.
Holbrook reports casing for the Adamana well has been shipped and will be set promptly upon arrival to cut off salt water. Operators believe the well may prove an oil strike as big shows have persisted, with Ada mara Company securing an Armstrong water well rig to supply drilling and domestic water, eliminating nine mile water-hauling.
In a Court House grounds baseball clash, Holbrook defeated Winslow 8 to 4 after dust storms hampered play. Reuter pitched well with 12 strikeouts, while Baca fanned 10 but suffered from limited support. both teams showed solid skill despite misplays and rough conditions.
A weary San Francisco businessman bought many ducks for a ranch near the city and sent them to his foreman Olson. After a month no eggs reached his table. Olson explains the flock’s mix up with forty five man ducks and only two cow ducks, causing no eggs to be laid.
A fluffy blue eyed baby girl named Mary grows into a schoolgirl known as May then adopts the more poetic Mae at sixteen. Earlier this year a baby boy in the family began calling her Ma, reflecting the evolving nickname choices within the household.
A Hoosier schoolmaam during Easter travels pretends to be a cler k stenographer or other worker to avoid revealing her real profession. She even touted being a widow for a week but overheard a conversation that exposed her deception, as the elevator boy and another man debated whether she is a widow or a schoolteacher.
An ornate line from William Ellery Channing extols living with contentment and refinement. It urges minimalism over luxury, character over respectability, learning, thoughtful speech, honest action, and patient growth of the spirit through everyday life.
A clever salesman explains his method to boost sales of fireless cookers. He opens by telling a woman he can help her spend every afternoon at the movies, portraying a persuasive sales approach. The exchange highlights social manipulation tactics in doorstep selling.
An interview reveals Lloyd C Henning born in Plano Illinois currently a clerk at the Navajo County Superior Court and insurance agent. He is over 21 and under 30, educated in Holbrook at a small school and at a “University of Print Shops.” He has been a carer of ten years and his view of life is bleak. He says business is rushing and to ask the jurors and the June bride.
Louis from rural districts brings hogs to local stockyards where Ben asks if they weighed as expected. Louie jokes that they did not, but he did not think they would. The exchange ends with a humorous misstatement typical in Indianapolis News chatter.
A humorous note warns readers about a man who used an Ouija board to contact famous figures including William Shakespeare Cleopatra and Gyp the Blood. The item mocks casual belief in spirit chats and highlights everyday purchases of a board at the Corner Drug Store.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for third class postmaster positions in Arizona with vacancies at Aje Cooley Duncan Florence Mayer Naco Oatman Patagonia Pima Somerton Springerville Superior Thatcher and Williams. Exams occur at Bisbee Clifton Flagstaff Globe Holbrook Kingman Mesa Nogales Phoenix Prescott and Yuma on July 9 1921. Applicants must submit two year photo portraits on admission cards and obtain forms 2241 and 2223 from vacancy offices or Washington.
Senator James A. Reed denounced the packer control bill before Congress as a government oligarchy of socialism. He warned that central control over industries risks endless expansion of state power and could surpass Kaiser Wilhelm and Karl Marx in scope. He argued the policy would trigger tragic failure and set a dangerous precedent.
Washington DC June 9 1921 illiteracy percentages by Arizona counties from the Fourteenth Census taken January 1920 define an illiterate as a person ten years or older unable to write in English or any language. The figures cover total population ten years and over by racial group.
Washington June 14. J P Morgan and other eastern financiers will raise 25 million dollars as half of a pool for livestock industry loans. The remaining 25 million will be raised by western bankers, according to an official Treasury Department statement.
Sims Ely of Phoenix is slated for the U S marshal post for the Panama Canal Zone district. Endorsement by Senator Cameron and Republican national committeeman Baumert is seen as key to a presidential appointment. Ely, in Washington with Governor Campbell for Colorado River reclamation talks, is expected to secure Arizona GOP support.
John G Emery of Grand Rapids Michigan was unanimously elected national commander of the American Legion at the national executive committee meeting in Indianapolis Indiana. He succeeds Col Frederick W Galbraith Jr who was killed in an automobile accident last Thursday.
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