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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1929
Page
3
Norma overdraws by 13.76 due to a hat and overspending while Jerry covers the shortfall with a loan. After a tense dinner, Jerry reveals his entire month’s salary in singles to teach her budgeting. They adjust to save 50 monthly and build a bank account, improving living and debt-free status.
The British Office of Works introduces a patent vermin trap to destroy rats and mice on demand. A rosin and pitch mixture is spread on wood with a bait in the center. rodents step onto it and become stuck until a cleaner arrives, a method used widely in the General Post Office.
The piece describes the nineteenth century Gent as sketched by Albert Smith in the 1847 Natural History of the Gent. It notes his fondness for spirits oysters stout ballet girls and Haymarket night houses. He taverned with peelers and rarely reached home before dawn.
Samvat short for Sanskrit Samvatsara means year and is the common time reckoning in India except Bengal. Christian years convert to Samvat by adding 57 to the AD year, a method used to align calendars across eras.
A single slug species is noted to have about 30,000 teeth. Snails commonly surpass 14,000 teeth arranged in 130 rows, while another snail variety contains 21,000 teeth in 140 rows.
A brief quotation from Horace Bushnell declaring that nature offers no promise for society and no remedy for sin, reflecting a theological stance that ethics and reform require more than natural causes. The line suggests a moral critique of naturalistic explanations.
A U.S. Bureau of Fisheries report urges farmers to drain and repurpose swamp ponds for fish farming. It details pond location, construction, and management for bass sunfish crappie and catfish, noting fertilization boosts yield two to fourfold and fingerling bass can fetch about $20 per thousand.
Thomas O Edgar of Washington, last survivor of the gallant company that crossed the Rio Grande in 1846, lives to ninety eight in Missouri. He served in the navy during the Mexican war but cannot recall his ship and resists hero tales. He is in excellent health.
Washington reports twenty two Indian girls from four tribes have formed a club to study fine arts and native music. The group aims to extend home study services to feminine members of every tribe, with organizers including Mary Little Chief and White Flower.
A Moscow delegation of snoopers tested provincial officials and found guards and a yardmaster asleep as Soviet raiders seized every movable piece of equipment in a railroad yard near Voronezh. A switch engine was moved while the guards slept, highlighting lax protection and operational gaps.
Albert Dowdell, a former coal miner from Durham who left the mines in 1923, entered Oxford University and quickly excelled in history and economics. In four years he earned five scholarships, rising among the aristocratic sons of the rich.
Out of the roundhouse a group pulled a line of cars loaded with valuable freight. They sounded the fire alarm and waited for the railroad fire brigade, which never arrived. The next morning railroad men reported the counter revolutionaries had stolen a whole freight train, while the G P U police smiled. Now all negligent officials are in jail.
Prince Amaradhat Krimakara has arrived as the new Siamese minister to the United States, expanding diplomatic ties with Washington. The portrait marks a ceremonial strengthening of bilateral relations between Siam and the United States.
Algiers Morocco announces a yearly legacy distribution by the mayor from a rich merchant Hemet. Awards go to French fathers of large families who work, live in Algiers, have spotless character, and present employers' certificates. Amount is $8 annually.
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