Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...
People in Phoenix, Ariz., have, or at least have reason to think they have a grievance. Railroads charge them $1.19½ per 100 pounds to ship their canned milk 400 miles across the border to Guaymas, Mexico. New York manufacturers pay only $1 per 100 pounds to ship canned milk 3,700 miles to Guaymas...
TIME Douglas, Ariz...
Sirs: In the Sport Column of the Sept. 21 issue of TIME we note an article with the heading "In Douglas." . . . We would be very pleased to know whether the intention of the writer was to belittle the Chamber of Commerce and Mines of Douglas, Ariz., as an organization. . . . Or was it the intention to be recorded as in favor of further punishment of the three outlaw baseball players, who have been sentenced and served that penalty for the crime that Judge Landis said they committed? Whether these baseball players were guilty or not guilty is no concern of ours...
...West, as everyone knows, there is no "organized" baseball. But the towns of Fort Bayard (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Juarez (Mexico) and Douglas (Ariz.) have teams which play in the Frontier League., Last year Chase went to Douglas, played on the team. The local Chambermen of Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best...