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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1928
Page
2
Notice lists the United Press item and indicates postal processing at Winslow Arizona with the second class mail designation under standard preparations. The fragment notes a date and a small monetary figure associated with the listing.
Judge Harrion W. Ewing sentences Ot and his wife the Kourims to three years birth control for marriage only. He says his aim was to prevent divorce and further children while they live on 24 dollars weekly. The couple, initially stunned, remained together and faced a national chorus of praise and criticism from birth control advocates and moralists alike.
Reports describe six days of floods and storms on the Caspian Sea causing boats to be lost and hundreds of people rendered homeless near the Volga deltas. Fishing stations and livestock losses are noted as severe, with destruction described as widespread and persistent.
The report of the secretary of commerce shows output gains in mining agriculture rail transport and factories outpacing population growth while employment in core trades falls. It credits efficiency gains and higher individual output with 3 000 000 auto industry related jobs and 5 000 000 in higher education, arguing prosperity stems from resources and thrift not WWI.
President elect Hoover departs Callao aboard the Maryland bound for Antofagasta Chile. A Bolivian delegation will join in Antofagasta. Thousands in Lima bid farewell as gifts and an ancient Inca robe are presented. The voyage continues with a Peruvian escort ship and possible stops in Havana and Mexico.
Italian lightweight Roberto Roberti will sail from Genoa on December 12 bound for Buenos Aires to fight Luis Angel Firpo, Roberto Nino, or Clemente Sanchez, as announced by the Buenos Aires national association which has contracted his services.
The western division of the U S chamber of commerce awarded its next annual session to Ogden Utah. Delegates urged Congress to fund forest conservation measures and expand mineral resource development. Resolutions called for stronger support for the western forest experiment station the bureau of mines and the geological survey.
A Thursday trading session saw widespread declines with losses ranging from one to more than twenty points for many issues led by Montgomery Ward. Case Threshing Machine and Russia Insurance fell more than thirteen points as bonds followed stocks lower and the time rate climbed to 7 1 4 percent. Cotton slipped while wheat and other grains edged higher.
Dr. Amy L. Daniels of Iowa University urged year round use of foods rich in vitamin A to prevent flu colds and pneumonia. Milk eggs cod liver oil and similar foods build immunity, with seasonally appropriate diets and consistent habits key to staying well during winter.
Chicago reports a new top price for prize beef as Dick the grand champion Hereford yearling sold for 8000 dollars at the livestock exposition. The $7 per pound surpasses the prior $3.60 record set in 1926. Dick weighed 1150 pounds and was raised by Clarence Goecke of State Center Indiana.
R Hall Davis, head of an Atlanta car sales firm, was shot dead as jealousy is blamed for a second killing in the city within seven days. W L Shippey, a shipping clerk, surrendered claiming Davis pursued his wife. Detectives study a memorandum of women's names to identify the man in gray who killed M Brandon earlier in the week, believed to be an estranged husband.
San Francisco mayor James Rolph comments on United States prohibition commissioner James Doran’s remark that San Francisco is very wet. Rolph quips that he wouldn’t know where to take anyone to buy a drink of liquor. The exchange highlights local attitudes toward enforcement and availability.
Ezra McVeagh alias James Kelley, an army deserter, recants his lake bluff furnace confession and heads to Chicago for further questioning. He still admits attacking Edna Kelly, a Lake Forest teacher, on October 10 while in custody aboard a train under Lake Forest Police Chief Lester Tiffany.
Mrs Ide Fritchman 52 says her husband John Fritchman shot Josephine Alamanto 20 and then killed himself after a months long affair. The Mexican girl is hospitalized with two wounds, left leg and abdomen. Fritchman admitted playing around with the girl, per police.
The Central Arizona Light and Power Company filed a rate increase with the corporation commission. If approved, the new rates would raise annual revenue by about 45,000 dollars and affect almost every class of electrical service, with the change taking effect January 5.
Funeral services held for James P Lavin president of the Arizona Bar Association. The ceremony took place Saturday in St. H ligenke Renbes and included a sermon by Rev. 2 bishop. Details indicate a Tucson connection for the decedent.
Prescott announces a new bank to be named First National Bank of Prescott with capital of 100000. Bert Tilton, a local businessman, will serve as president. The bank has been chartered by the federal government and will be a member of the Federal Reserve System in San Francisco.
In Albuquerque on December 6, deputies, acting on a telegram, detained Eddie Murdock a lightweight boxer, misidentified as Pau Murdock alias Kid Murdock wanted in Oklahoma for bank robbery. After three hours of explanations and long-distance calls, the boxer proved Oklahoma authorities had arrested someone else.
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