Bridge reopening urged for Winslow Holbrook highway section
Northern Arizona faces tourist losses as Cottonwood and LeRoux bridges remain closed due to highway department funding delays. Phoenix leaders arranged financing to repair Apache Trail and a new road section. Locals warn repairs may wait until next fiscal year starting July, risking further damage and detours.
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Cottonwood
LeRoux
Winslow-Holbrook
Arizona
State Highway Department
Wickenburg
Hain
Highway Department
Holbrook
Winslow
Chevelon Pass
Public urges Winslow street reform action
Following a Daily Mail call for better streets, Winslow residents show strong interest in curb and gutter work. The piece urges the city council to fund a single project using bonds repaid in five or ten years, to eliminate dust and improve property values.
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Daily Mail
Sur
Winslow
Council
Women in Politics See Baseball Game As Symbolic Victory
The Miami Bulletin notes a White Plains event where the Women’s Republican Club and the Westchester County Board of Supervisors staged a baseball game on the greensward. The piece mocks the idea, arguing politics has shifted from a manly pastime to an art and laments the “silk-stocking vote.”
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Miami Bulletin
White Plains
N. Y
Republican
Westchester County Board of Supervisors
Shakespeare
American Language Gains New Words From Forum Contest
Readers submit coined terms reflecting American usage from sothers and sisbros to aneumocrat mega phonia matri money and radiorator. Forum prize prompts lots of inventive proposals for new everyday words and phrases.
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Arizona Republican
Forum Magazine
Forum
United States
Herrick Returns Home Bringing a Message of Cheer
New York dispatch reports Ambassador Myron T. Herrick has returned from France for his annual vacation. In a City Hall address he praised the Lindbergh trans Atlantic flight as a providential signal of renewed Franco American goodwill and friendship. He noted he carried a French government memorandum urging outlawry of war.
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New York
Myron T. Herrick
France
City Iall
Charles A. Lindbergh
St. Lou
le Bourget Field
Herrick
Ile de France
Eas
Lindbergh
America
Curious notes and quips from a 1927 NEA roundup
A collection of sharp one liners and brief items from 1927. A 92 year old Los Angeles woman takes a 20 minute flight and hints at owning one. A western editor retires with a fortune and oil in his yard. Mme Kollontay comments on women subduing emotion for work. The piece lampoons credit, gossip, and current events with light humor.
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Los Angeles
Spirit of St. Louis Lands on French Soil in Friendship Start
The narrator notes the Spirit of St. Louis touched down in France as part of a lasting chain of mutual respect and friendship that has endured through the ages.
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St. Louis
Newman Trial Delayed to September Term in Phoenix
Ace Newman superintendent of construction for the Lightning Delivery Co of Phoenix will not face murder trial in the death of Sherwin Riggins on June 1 until the September term. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment as habeas corpus action to release him for lack of probable cause was taken under advisement.
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Prescott
Ace” Newman
Lightning Delivery Company
Phoenix
Sherwin Riggins
Newman
Hyams Elected Civitan International President
Sanford Hyams of San Francisco was elected president of Civitan International in Nashville Tennessee on June 29. The new leader is described as a proponent of liberty and jury trial principles, reflecting a strong belief in due process.
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Nashville Tenn
Sanford Hyams
San i Francisco
Civitan International
Our Own Webster Editor Man Runs Paper With Clear Style
A concise profile sketches a newspaper executive known for steady leadership and frank editorial voice. It highlights his practical approach to running the operation and earning readers’ trust through consistent, direct communication.
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Webster
Scattered quips reflect gender roles and humor of era
A collection of light jests on marriage, independence, and social norms. One line mocks a hotel clerk relationship while others joke about willfulness, charity, hobbies, and a drunken court case. The Shenandoah gag and wedding sleep anecdote close the snippet with social satire.
What a Wonderful Feelin It Is Song Verse
A nostalgic lyric praises spring after winter with a car owner’s top speed excitement. The narrator describes taking a vehicle to the shop for fixes, hearing the bill, and driving home to a waiting family. The piece blends automotive imagery with a warm, domestic backdrop.
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Dolly DeVere
Crop Report Ritual In Daybreak Washington Post
Rodney Dutcher explains how the government crops report is kept secret until minutes before release. Reporters line up for copies as a master clock ticks and the data is sent nationwide by telegraph in a high tension rush.
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NEA
VY Arhington
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Crop Reporting Board
Byrd’s New Monoplane Similar to Polar Crossing Craft
New York June 29 AP The America triple motored Fokker monoplane patterned after Byrd’s polar crossing craft is larger. It carries Byrd Bert Acosta George Neville and Bernt Balchen. It measures 71 ft wingspan 48 ft length 12 ft height with 735 sq ft wing area and weighs 5640 lb. It carries over 1200 gallons of gasoline expected to fly up to 500 hours with a radius over 4600 miles. It features a 800 gallon wing tank a nose engine and two wing side motors. A dump valve empties fuel to aid forced landings. Two rubber boats with air generators pumps signals and food are aboard plus fishing gear. The boats can stay afloat 30 days with food for Byrd and aides.
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New York
America
Richard E. Byrd
North Pole
Byrd
Bert Acosta
George O. Neville
Bernt Balchen
Paris
Clendale First Carload Shipment Reported
A fragment notes the shipment of a first carload from Clendale, with unclear details about the cargo or destination. The brief indicates a local transport event and ongoing activity in commerce or industry.
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Clendale
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Rotary Club
Rotarians
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Hawaii
China
Mme. Kollontay
Mexico
NEA Service, Inc
Hyams President
Lodge
BY Rodney Dutcher
Ieca Abstract and Title Co
Holbrook Arizona
B. L. Young
Kinsley Avenue
Vo. O. Wallingford
SE Enginee
Heard
Phoenix, Ariz
Healtl’ ‘Insurance
Don Adams
Special Representative Business Mens Assurance Company
of. America
W. Maple St
Winslow, Ariz
Wwe
John L. Sweeney
Charles D. McCauley
Law Butte
Qld Flks Puisding
Chester W. LaPrade
Jackson
West Second St
Robert Fenton
Chiropractors
Beck & Beck Res
Robinson& Robinson
Patho-Neurometer
Second St
E. C. Gilpin
X-Ray Laboratory
Elks
Marcelling
Jessie Dunlap
Milady
Kensley
M’dell Shipley Payne
Olds Bros. Lumber Co. Builders and Contractors
R. Wiggin
Kinsley Ave
Phoke
City Electric Shoe Shop
F. A. Mazza
Winslow, Aris
Rww Wa Tailor
Bill” O’hara
Wwews
Cresswell Transfer Co
Berkovitz Trading Co. Inc
Fhone
Tuadertakers
C. A. Robbins Mortuary and
Winslow Undertaking Parlors
East Second Street
A. Dean
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