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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1929
Page
4
The Winslow Daily Mail profiles Patrick J. Sullivan, an Irish immigrant who became a Wyoming sheep herder turned stock raiser and finally the United States Senator. The piece frames his life as a classic rags to riches tale proving that chance favors the persistent and entrepreneurial poor.
Prescott Evening Courier reports hunters killed eleven buffalo in Houserock valley Kaibab forest drawing lots to hunt in a preserve. The piece condemns the slaughter as cruel and argues for humane control or corral confinement to protect the herd and honor the buffalo as a historical resource and symbol.
Captain Edouard W. Morrison, the namesake of the Morison hotel in Chicago, died alone in an old fashioned house he refused to leave. He was worth $3,900,000, aged 93, and had outlived all his friends. He was noted as a gay spendthrift and famed as a Windy City playboy for many years.
A Winslow note on culture follows a high school comedy drama, showing how performance builds confidence and character in students. It urges wider access to art through music programs and art exhibits, proposing loans of master prints to foster appreciation and broaden cultural contact.
A reflective piece laments aging and memories of bygone friends. It contrasts the comfort of living in sunlit days with the loneliness of recalling names from youth. The speaker urges acceptance of aging and warns against lingering in solitary reminiscence.
This week lists meetings and programs in Winslow including Eastern Star banquet and officer installation at Masonic Temple, Icons Club noon program at Community Hall, Junior Pew PTA meeting at Winslow High School, Rotary Club luncheon at the Guild Hall, and Blue Lodge officer installation at the Masonic Temple. Also Methodist Ladies Aid, church social, Temple Chapter meeting, Loyal Arch Masons, and Sunday church services across Winslow.
In London the Queen of Spain visits often and hires a chauffeur car from a local firm. Each stay proves profitable as higher bids come for a fresh vehicle, with the firm noting eager buyers ready to pay premium prices.
A historic vehicle carried royal guests on a ceremonial route. Officials described the carriage as emblematic of tradition and prestige, with security and protocol key to the procession. Fans and locals lined the streets as the royal party observed a series of regional landmarks.
Unclear readable text reports a Baton Rouge event involving Anne Poster and a man named Poster linked to a 200 penalty or pledge. The fragment mentions a time and a demand for testimony or payment but details are obscured and cannot be confirmed.
Washington December 17 AP reports cattle ticks causing heavy losses are diminishing as conditions improve in California and southern states. Dr John H Mohler testified to the House subcommittee that 22 counties and 22,000 square miles were released from quarantine across Alabama Arkansas Florida Louisiana Oklahoma and Texas, with Oklahoma fully cleared. He urged continued eradication efforts in Arkansas Texas Louisiana and Florida and in Mississippi.
Miss Evelyn Mathewson of Detroit, aged sixteen, earned her private pilot's license from the Department of Commerce last week, reportedly the youngest girl pilot in the United States. Alfred E. Smith foresees transoceanic airships landing passengers on skyscrapers in New York, with a five story building and a 200 foot dirigible mooring mast atop the Waldert Astoria hotel complex, promising passenger service on Fifth Avenue within seven minutes after docking. He predicts transoceanic airship traffic will become common in a relatively short time.
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