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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
4
A fragment notes a postal routing item at the Winslow Post Office in Arizona, indicating its status as second class mail matter. The terse line suggests official mail handling and classification procedures at the local office.
Winslow prepares to dedicate its newly completed high school with a ceremonial event expected to symbolize faith in the community and belief in modern education. The building is described as fully up to date with features prioritizing student health and safety and will inspire pride and better citizenship. The Winslow Daily Mail issues a commemorative extra edition for the occasion.
The piece notes Russia seeks American goods as it expands with a New York to Black Sea steamship line, tractors from Cleveland, a tire factory at Yarovslavl, and 25 American technical contracts. It argues industrial ties, not formal recognition, shape the evolving partnership between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The North American Review prints an interview with Al Capone in which he allegedly says he and his gang leaders spend no less than $30,000,000 annually in Chicago to bribe authorities and politicians. Capone denies the interview from a Pennsylvania prison cell.
A Douglas Dispatch editorial denounces slow progress on the Douglas-Rodeo highway oiling project. It contrasts Arizona and New Mexico practices with Arizona’s fragmented contracting and calls for a single contract to finish the 54 miles, noting public frustration and higher costs from multiple contractors. The piece also quotes a playful poem excerpt about travel.
Senor Don Ernesto Arguetto, newly named Honduran minister to the United States, presents credentials to President Hoover at the White House. This ceremony formalizes Arguetto’s role as Honduras’ diplomatic representative to the United States.
A recent Senate secretary report details seven pages of expenses for maintaining the vice presidential automobile, listing the costs as part of government expenditures.
A 1927 28 fiscal year record lists the car upkeep items for the secretary’s vehicle. It notes the chauffeur’s annual pay of 2220 dollars and itemized small supplies including soap cloth and goggles. Cleaning alone cost 261.35 dollars for the year with a 35 cent seal reproduction in September.
The U S Department of Agriculture refutes two common beliefs about wool quality. Through annual identification, weighing, and testing of sheep in eastern Idaho, researchers show weather affects wool less than individual variation, supporting constant culling of low yielders to improve overall flocks.
Zane Grey the author is due at Green River and will begin a month long sight seeing trip through northern Arizona and southern Utah. The party will explore the robber route country once a bandit rendezvous and Grey will revisit old haunts near Rainbow natural bridge.
Thomas W. Wakefield a 30 year old electrician at Miami Copper Company died by a gunshot at the family home in Miami Arizona. Police found a shotgun nearby and a neck wound after Wakefield locked himself in his room following a visit with a sister in Long Beach California. The health authorities listed the cause as suicide. Separately Phoenix reports the state agriculture department investigates a cotton infestation in Graham County.
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