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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
17
A man condemned by St. Peter for years of exploiting ice and coal faces judgment at the gate. The angel cites high prices during heat and deaths of babies, and indicates the hereafter offers no mercy for his industry. The guardian hints at a future where demand for ice and coal is greater, prompting the man to wake up and repeat the line business is business.
Camille Favre, convicted of killing a six year old girl, was guillotined at Saintes. Observers reported rapturous delight from townspeople as the execution occurred. In prison Favre tended birds, even asking to feed six of them for his final meal and promising to end the rest tomorrow.
A Birmingham Age article quotes a Trestatl woman recalling a husband who disappeared for two years and then returned claiming he had been tending a sick friend. The woman notes he informed his wife the friend was a chronic invalid.
Aunt Mary arrives unannounced and critiques the guest room while Helen and Mary debate comfort versus function. Helen reveals she secretly tried the room by visiting herself with a handbag and notes she will add missing items for a better stay.
A former member of the Holy Ghost and Us colony at Shiloh Me writes in the Portland Express Advertiser predicting the colony will vanish within five years. He recalls the lasting impact on many who joined seeking religious service and the young people who spent their prime years there.
Rita recalls a handsome but reckless suitor who caused a scene with her, then asked about her father’s objection to marriage. He later proposed to Rita’s sister, setting off tensions in the family tale from Illustrated Bits.
Oil exports to China grew from 23 million gallons in 1899 to 87 million in 1969 and about 104 million in 1908, marking a fourfold rise over ten years.
The smoke arises when volatile gases distilled from coal are not fully burned before contacting cooler tube surfaces. These gases vary from 3 percent to 50 percent depending on coal type. Adequate high temperature air is needed for complete combustion to prevent smoke.
Miss Mary Garden at a Philadelphia tea praised modern corset makers. She recounted a Sunday school tale of a wise eight year old girl saying a corset bands us together and makes us better than we are by nature.
The Wandering Jew, wearied by pursuit, stops to rest and curses the day of his birth as he laments falling behind old man Weston who is forty miles ahead and advancing rapidly.
In a dialogue section Pluto answers a rival seeker about where souls with conscience reside. The exchange ends with Pluto’s ironic line about how anyone with a conscience would not come there.
In exchange wonders how people got along without the telegraph and telephone. They did get along and were just as happy, the author notes, with the so called adjuncts of civilization surrounding them.
A plan by Senator Davis proposes making parents legally answerable when children under 16 misbehave, holding fathers and mothers to duty to shield children from harm. The piece argues morality stems from home discipline and affection, not penalties, and questions if law can improve character.
August Belmont and Eleanor Robson visited Nursery Stud near Lexington to view a couch cover made from the hide and hair of St. Blaise, the noted racehorse sold for 100000 dollars. The coat was preserved after the horse's death in 1909, transformed by a New York tanner, and now decorates a hallway at Superintendent Ed Kane's residence. St. Blaise, bred in England for Lord Arlington, won four of six as a two year old including a dead heat with Elzevir in the Mole Tomb stakes.
A proverb advises listening to a woman's words to discern what she truly means. It emphasizes attentive interpretation of spoken nuance over surface statements.
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