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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
5
John Ennis aged 69 arrived in Sacramento after seventy eight days walking from New York city and days ahead of Payson Weston’s coast to coast record. He plans to reach San Francisco by Wednesday morning to set a new eighty one day continental walk record. Arrest Chinese for Importing Slave.
The San Bernardino sheriff hunts two Mexican outlaws after they held up and robbed Juan Vera on the desert near Nee Dies. They beat him unconscious, left him for dead, and he crawled to camp. He is hospitalized. $70 was taken, one robber armed with a rubber hose loaded with iron.
Two young mothers with identical baby buggies swapped infants by mistake on the Long Beach Pike last night. Both mothers noticed the mix as the babies cried differently and ran to reunite with their own child, drawing a crowd of onlookers.
G H Waters of Pomona cannery reports a splendid peach season with fruit arriving and packed at 50 000 cans daily. J H Lobingier of Ontario cannery notes 75 to 80 tons of peaches daily and 700 tons of apricots used, with tomatoes to follow in large volumes.
A Kern county oil camp twelve miles northwest of Garden Station near Series railway siding has grown rapidly to about 200 residents. Two rigs have been ordered for delivery, and the new district forms quickly with no established name yet.
A fragment notes a political party or policy border around the discovery point. No clear event date or participants are specified. The text hints at a territorial claim or labeling around the site but offers limited factual detail for a full report.
In San Bernardino on August 24 Captain Bartlett plans a giant desert wolf hunt after August Brogart and Pearl Roberts survived a wolf attack while driving to Victorville. The pack trailed their wagon for two days and wolves devoured the quarry.
Fire roared ten miles east of Grass Valley California in Nevada county scorching 1000 acres. The blaze started as a McLeod family brush fire at Hunt's Hill and overwhelmed control efforts. It threatens the Fowler sawmill Tahoe national forest water sluices homes and barns as thirty firefighters fight the flames.
The minority members of the Senate select committee on wages and prices argue tariffs, trusts, combines and monopolies plus a larger money supply drive the price rise. They fault the tariff for protecting wealth while harming consumers, highlight sugar and woolen tariffs, and condemn meat trust methods as reducing local competition.
A 400 pound petrified tortoise discovered at Orkney Springs Virginia by two Washington men is believed to date from the era of Noah. The fossil will be presented to the Smithsonian Institution for study and display.
Brook lyn police uncover a mystery after a child s body is found turned to stone in a tenement coal bin. Physicians say it lay undisturbed for seven years with a yellowed newspaper dated Feb 12 1908 wrapped around it. No identity attached to the child.
Four hundred Japanese and Hindus sailed from Calcutta for San Francisco and two hundred more a week earlier. Officials of the department of commerce and labor are puzzled by the arrivals. Protests come from Asiatic Exclusion Leagues on the Pacific coast. It is said that if they pass immigration tests they cannot be barred by the head tax of four dollars each.
Wisconsin trains will stop supplying public drinking cups after September 15 travelers will find cup use hidden at state lines in response to a Wisconsin health board rule deeming common cups dangerous and disease spreading.
Governor Gillett may call a special session to authorize a 5 million dollar bond for California to back the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The plan would tax 4 cents per hundred dollars for five years and submit the amendment to voters in November. Louisiana meanwhile acts to outbid New Orleans, urging readiness.
New York aug 24 a police magistrate E D McMann urged legislation forcing women to cover sharp hat pin ends to prevent injuries. Two long pointed pins faced him as he questioned the style and safety of such adornments urging corked ends for restraint.
In Bari on August 23 reports indicate cholera increases in Southern Italy with Tani bearing a rising death toll. Twenty deaths were reported last night in Tani, underscoring the virulent outbreak and high death rate.
The report notes England imported 7.167.280.0900 value units for the year, reflecting sizable inbound trade. No further context or breakdown of goods, partners, or dates is provided in the source.
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