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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
4
The article surveys the Bowie knife's origins and name origins. It traces claims from Rezin Bowie to James Bowie and blacksmiths like James Black. Conflicting accounts appear, with notes from encyclopedia entries, Arkansas governors, and Louisiana legends.
A Tennessee blacksmith named John Sowell, who settled in Gonzales Texas in 1829, crafted a knife for James Bowie after Bowie's hand injury inspired a guarded blade. Bowie approved naming the weapon the Bowie Knife, though conflicting testimonies abound about its true inventor.
Scientists propose tides as a trigger for eruptions, noting Etna’s recent non explosive behavior. The theory hinges on lava viscosity differences, gas escape, and tidal kneading of the crust near oceanic regions. Dr. William Bowie and colleagues suggest tides twist the earth, lifting lava and provoking volcanic events.
In 1820 landscape gardener John Loudoun proposed a permanent green girdle around London a tree planted boulevard widening Euston road through Marylebone Hyde Park Sloane Street to the Thames and a route via Kennington Camberwell Deptford to Greenwich Park and back to the City Road costly and largely unbuilt only Oxford and Cambridge terraces completed as impressive but partial turnings off Edgware Road.
Bertie Baxter recently became engaged to a Braxton girl whose fickle heart ruined many admirers. At a tea-dance her fiancé boasted to friends about a new lipstick whim, and a companion teased it as orange flavored, per London Answers.
Perplexing M Poiret, famed Paris fashion designer, recently opened his New York branch. He laments to an American friend that despite his efforts his language fails him when a gown does not fit and the patron has a fit.
An article offering home made fruit drinks and summer salads. It promotes natural fruit flavors over artificial ones and outlines recipes for fruit juice syrups egg lemonades and cocoa drinks. It also suggests simple salads such as carrot salad ginger ale salad cottage cheese salad and a fruit salad with marshmallows and walnuts. It emphasizes family leisure and shared household duties during summer.
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