County Farm Bureau drive boosts Cochise agriculture
County Agricultural Agent R Adamson reports a strong March push for County Farm Bureau organization across Willcox and nearby communities. Activities include fruit tree orders, 54000 sweet potato and tomato plants, multiple pruning demonstrations, grafting work on Persian walnut, a rabbit drive with US Biological Survey, aviation field pest control planning at Douglas, and cooperative livestock marketing formations. Additional marketing buys, poultry culling demos, incubator aid, and a Cow Testing interest highlighted progress for farm and home programs.
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Witteos
Deir This
U.S. Biological Survey
Aviation
Douglas
U. S. Biological Survey
Arizona Packing Company
Phoenix
Globe
Farm Bureau Association
Large copper sale and German demand cited in Tucson report
The eastern brokerage note reports Conduit and Cake purchasing four pounds of copper with no price announced. It notes Germany remains a steady buyer of American copper, with estimated daily takings between 500,000 and one million pounds. Transactions are cash and barter in rare cases.
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Tucson
Apel III
D. T. Higginson Company
Connec
Germany
Altar Valley Land Dispute Seen by State Officials
Governor Campbell and state land commissioner Rudolph Kuchler travel to Altar Valley in southern Pima County near the Mexican border to review lands involved in a dispute before the state land commission. The visit follows a Sunday departure to inspect the contested area.
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Altar Valley
Phoenix
State Land Commission
Campbell
Rudolph Kuchler
State Land Com
Missioner
Pima County
Bread labeling flaws draw city weights and measures warning
Phoenix officials urge bakers to correctly label loaves as weighed, not by misleading averages. Inspector Rayvired Dyas notes that bread sold as 1 pound must show true net weight and that mislabeling as 2 pounds or 18 ounces is a misdemeanor. Violations require marking the net weight on the label or wrapper with percentage allowances for freshness and stale bread after three days. Testimony from Frank Lee and Margaret A. Dickles references the rooming house on West Monad Street.
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Phoenix
Rayvired Dyas
Weights and Measures Department
Haw
Ins
Better Salaries for Phoenix Teachers Hit by Conference
April 12 report of county superintendents urges higher pay and better living quarters for teachers. They argue improved compensation and housing retention keep good staff. existing living arrangements are sparse, lonely, or substandard, with calls to provide homes that feel more like a real residence.
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Phoenix
Ranel
Mo.t
Gambling May Be Douglass In Agua Prieta
April 22 news from Agua Prieta reports gambling may return within days if Pablo Gonzales organises an agreement with Sonora's governor. Gonzales aims to resume Sonora highway construction and secure licenses to allow free state work. He is due back from Hermosillo for confirmation on gambling revival.
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Douglas
Gamblias
Agua Prieta
Pablo Gonzales
Municipal
Sonora
Gonzales
Hermosillo
State Engineer outlines road work and completions
State Engineer Thomas Maddock returned to Phoo gely and detailed upcoming highway projects. The Topack Ostman road near Needles to Kingman will be surfaced, with the road transferred to Coconino county for Flagstaff to Wil-Name work. A Pis pact to Peach Springs route will replace Nelson canyon, and a camp will start there. Douglas Road in Cochise County should finish by July, enabling a Phoenix to Clifton trip in about nine hours after Pinto Creek area in Gila County bids.
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Moenix
Thomas Madduck
Phoouly
State Highway Department
Topack Oatman
Maddock
Needles
Kingman
Pis
Peach Springs
Nelson Canyon
Douglas Rodeo Road
Cuchiseewutty
Madda
Mexico State Line
Florence
Pinto Creek
Gila
Cmnty
EC Small
Yaqui nine year old found hanged by playmates
Tucson reports a Yaqui boy named Jim Montezuma aged nine was found hung beneath a culvert at Third Avenue and Nine Street. Witnesses say Mexican boys about 17 cut his wrists and hung him with wire, early Sunday morning to evening, before he walked home. he survived with non permanent injuries and authorities investigate possible motives tied to his thriving newspaper business.
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Tucson
Jims Montezuma
Third Avenue
Nine Street
Jim
Professor Ruswell
Bien School
Young Wife Ends Life With Poison In Phoenix
Mrs Freidth Lee twenty one years old soon to be mother ended her life Saturday night by overdosing on creosote prescribed for medicinal use in recent weeks. A coroner jury in Justice Henry Sullivan's court Tuesday returned a verdict death by own action caused by creosote poison.
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Phoenix
Freidth Lee
Henry Sullivan
County Attorney of Yavapai censured by cattle group
At a Red Rock meeting the Oak Creek Cattle Growers association adopted resolutions condemning the Yavapai County attorney and his predecessors. The move followed the dismissal of two Molina brothers who were arrested about ten months ago on copper Oak Creek incidents.
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Yavapai
Jerome
Prescott
Oak Creek Cattle Growers’ Association
Red Rock
Molina Brothers
Upper Oak Crook
Real estate agents cut rents in Douglas Arizona
Real estate agents in Douglas Arizona announced rent reductions from 10 to 50 percent to aid miners and other workers whose wages have fallen. Some store buildings also lowered rents by about 10 percent.
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Douglas
Ariz
Smelter Closure Signals Production Halt in Bisbee
In Bisbee on April 15 the Calumet and Arizona Mining company announced a partial shutdown after an annual board meeting. About 57 percent of workers will stay, with 15 000 tons of ore monthly to be mined and stocked, while the Douglas smelter closes and ore shipments to Tombstone and El Paso decline. The firm will retain roughly 280 employees across mines and plants, restart once market conditions improve, and continue essential plant operations to finish beds and repair smelters.
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Bisbee
Calumet and Arizona Mining Company
John. Greenway
Douglas
Ajo
Jay
Caluet
Arizona
Calumet
Michigan
Calumet and Atizens Mining Company
Warren
Willy
Ye Wu
England
France
Italy
Germany
Tne
Sterday
Tombstone
Maysa
Thataturdas
Oaly
Contaims
el Paso Sau
el Paso
Annouinces
J. P. Davis
Bunker Hi Minds Company
Stl Loes Leasors
Tomglas
Bughs
Withough
Leniora Hive
Ork
Davis
Leasors
Ft le
el Paso Stetor
Sult
Bis
Bis Companies, and It Is Expected Closing Will Be Announced By May Tat
Mit
Davie
Thas
Ory
Plas
S Company
Wor
Mendoza Issued Passport Rule for Crossing Line to Mexico
Late last evening in Agua Prieta immigration inspector for Mexico received word from Mexico City that every person wishing to cross the line into Mexico must have a passport. No exceptions can be made.
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Douglas
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