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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1929
Page
4
Citizens and authorities acted quickly to curb a potential epidemic causing a serious scare. Prompt precautionary measures halted spread and no further outbreaks have occurred as Winslow returns to normal. Community cooperation is praised as key to overcoming the health danger.
The Santa Fe railroad plans double tracking between Winslow and Holbrook starting soon, creating employment for about 400 workers and boosting Winslow during a season of slack. 1929 saw airport, highway work, Harvey House, and paving, with more improvements planned for 1930.
Winslow Indian chieftain Chief Joe Secakuku criticizes US policy as half done in educating Indians by sending them out to fend for themselves after school. The Mesa Journal-Tribune notes the Indian service lacks a systematic program to secure suitable employment post graduation for youths, risking the broader aims of education and civilization.
The Gallup Daily Times becomes northwestern New Mexico's first daily with eight pages and city daily scope. Editor Charles Hillebrandt leads a paper backed by mining farming and railroad interests, aligning with the Daily Mail. Gallup also has a weekly and a semi weekly alongside the Daily Times.
A Winslow resident recalls a Daily Mail item about local dat ing histories from ten years ago. The reader plans to visit an eastern city to reconnect with distant family, hoping to learn more about a man and his wife who once visited his parents.
The article notes Winslow’s transient population due to railroad work. Most residents are from the West South or Midwest and many move as promotions or unemployment prompt relocation. It highlights the ease of finding connections through friends of friends despite rapid life in the busy town.
Roses used at a London ball honoring the Prince of Wales were imported by Murray Will from Transylvania. Pink and yellow buds arrived in a ship's vegetable room kept near 24 degrees and were exhibited at a related event aboard the ship.
Arizona archeologist Dr. Omar A. Turney argues in a forthcoming Arizona Historical Review that canal builders of Lower Salt Basin perished from political graft, artistic culture, and sex rites. He notes centralized governance, sophisticated stone tools, and rich rock art as evidence, with decline linked to dissension and weakened authority enabling attacks.
Dr. Turney notes the Canal Builders’ civilization fractured as it decayed. Images of individual races gave way to crude natural subjects as art lost its meaning. Remnants formed scattered clans producing a formless, non understandable mass of imagery.
Curios and precious stones valued at 50000 dollars were taken from the palace of the former Prince Regent of the Manchu dynasty in Peiping. Chinese police report several arrests as suspects, including two eunuchs from the former imperial court who served the ex Prince Regent.
Eleven persons in Indianapolis became the first to enjoy a weekend air excursion to St. Louis and back on December 21 and 22. The round trip fare was 35 dollars, with only eleven seats available on a T A T Maddux multimeasured plane. The plan, tied to Pennsylvania and Santa Fe railroads, aims to boost passenger volumes and introduce new travelers to air travel, with more weekend trips planned for winter and spring.
Albert Thomas and N. L. Loundden killed forty six rattlesnakes found under ore rock in Throckmorton Texas. One snake exceeded five feet in length and the largest measured twelve rattles.
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