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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1930
Page
3
The Portsmouth Navy Yard reports a Christmas gift to 7,700 jerkins valued at 33 thousand dollars. A sweeping year in review lists major events from January through December including political shifts, resignations, wars, disasters, and notable deaths worldwide.
Edson Waite urges Shawnee Oklahoma readers to stay loyal to the hometown economy. He argues local merchants offer competitive prices and reinvest profits locally, endorsing civic pride and support for city businesses.
A packed notice list shows residents traveling for illness, visits, and business from Winslow. Leo Anderson returns from Los Angeles. S P McClaren arrives to visit. E H French and wife back from Oakland. R G Cranston and family back from Victorville. G A Goss family enjoys Santa Fe scenic tours. D P Ihring of Union Oil on city business. many others travel to Gallup, Oklahoma, Flagstaff, and Los Angeles, with hospital visits and personal trips noted.
A local appeal urges residents to favor home merchants over peddlers or catalogs. It emphasizes money-saving ads, quality service, and the role of local merchants in city welfare and progress.
United Press item roundup notes a Buenos Aires canyon store burned after a street obstacle delayed firefighting. Other items report Christmas lights over mines, a rifle incident landing a man in jail, a wrecked fire truck hauled by a roadster, a car blocking by a woman ending with a runaway stop, elopement nabbed by officers, a gas price drop due to a local war, and more minor municipal mishaps.
Keith Warren, postmaster at Kayenta on the Western Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona, recalls queer cargoes and historic routes as Kayenta remains the nation's most distant post office 160 miles from the nearest rail line. Mail travels via Flagstaff to Tuba City and Kayenta using Indian-owned freight lines, with odd consignments including dinosaur track casts, garnets, and a taxidermist destined eagle carcass.
Nogales Santa Cruz Abstract & Title Co is to be absorbed by Title Insurance Mortgage & Trust Co. Miami Mutual Industrial Finance Corp of Phoenix gains control of Citizens Industrial Finance Corp of this city in a consolidation and takeover.
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