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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1929
Page
4
The item appears as a brief AP syndicated feature with credited prose. It notes the Associated Press and United Press services and includes boilerplate publication rights and mail matter language. The readable content is limited and lacks a clear narrative or events.
Arizona press critics split over the dedication of the Grand Canyon bridge. Nogales Herald and Mesa Journal-Tribune decry the $10,000 spent, while northern cities back the statewide event, citing boosts to tourism and press coverage.
A prominent writer argues that city consumers pay a dollar for goods earning farmers thirty cents, highlighting reform needs. The piece notes services from farm to table add costs, including washing, grading, packaging, and delivery, which farmers do not provide directly. It concludes city buyers would incur extra charges if farmers offered full services.
A report states that the United States holds diamonds valued at four billion dollars, a figure likely new to tax assessors and prompting official scrutiny.
Prescott Journal Miner reports scientists increasingly favor Barringer impact theory for the Arizona crater. A meteoric iron body struck the plains at many miles per hour, driving into rock and creating a wide scar with displaced strata and meteoric iron. The piece argues a cometary mass explains the crater’s size, ground disturbance, and lack of alternative theories.
The Pennsylvania Crime Commission urges harsher penalties for second and fourth offenses, granting judges discretion on life terms for fourth offenses and broadening the major offenses. It cites Dean Roscoe Pound on urban crime and stresses stronger firearms laws and bandit-control measures. The report notes 1925 violence with 12,600 lives lost and a spike in gun murders.
Chicago reports Edwin Carewe, veteran film producer, remarried Mary Aiken Carewe, the 1920 Lake View High School standout known as the prettiest and brainiest girl. The couple wed Sunday, eleven months after a Mexican divorce described by Carewe as a business matter due to incompatibility.
A collage of misprints and wry observations from 1929 covers the Senate secrecy joke in Lenroot, reporter fee disputes, Texan air tips, Detroit melting pot notes, a runaway team in Evanston Kansas, Watman praise, stock market blurs, tariff remarks, and a farm relief quip from NEA Servicer.
The Field Museum in Chicago unveils a life size prehistoric ape like Neanderthal figure representing Mousterian era Western Europe. The display illustrates the earliest known human existence with complete skeletons found in caves from the Mesolithic period.
Major George H. Kelly historian and former Arizona publisher spent a day in Winslow sharing optimistic views on state growth. He cites rising Phoenix real estate, thriving copper districts, strong stock herds, and bumper spring crops boosting prices, with outlooks for tourism and development across northern Arizona and state banks Flush with funds.
New York June 18 Lou Gehrig hit his eighteenth home run in the first inning of the Yankees opener against the Red Sox at the stadium, extending the major league lead. Ed Morris pitched with Earl Coombs on the bench.
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