Salome Sun

"Published in the 1920s out of Salome by noted humorist and co-founder of the town, Dick Wickenburg 'Dick Wick' Hall, the Salome Sun reflects its publisher’s comedic tone in every way. With a constantly changing hand-drawn masthead, the paper proudly boasts with each issue that it was “made with a laugh on a mimeograph.” Often published as one double-side page, the paper was likely intended to be supplied to service stations, such as the one Hall owned in Salome, or other road stops for the traveler passing through, as each issue contains short quips written by Hall about road trips, Yuma County, stories about the desert and driving in the southwest. The paper also often contains cartoonish illustrations of common southwest wildlife, from snakes to scorpions and cacti, as well as regularly featuring a cartoon frog by the name of the Salome Frog who regularly declares that he cannot swim.

Many of the issues of the Salome Sun are not dated. Issues without specific dates published on the paper have been given an estimated time frame for when they would have likely been published."

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