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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
2
A court case titled Barstow Printer versus J Evans, the lessee, editor and manager, appears as a legal action noted in the local docket. The filing involves property or contractual disputes typical of a landlord tenant or publishing agreement. The summary reflects the formal caption without narrative details.
Two young artists in Philadelphia, living and working in a studio with improvised meals, faced financial strain. One mornings their talk turns to complaint as the younger declares this "fine way for gentle men to live" and jokes about a recluse who cooked his own breakfast for nineteen years, highlighting stark hunger.
Mrs. Madison praises a breakthrough in her color psychology after her husband cites an outsider, Dawson, who suggests a link between diet and horse coat color. The exchange reveals a humorous clue about the stables and racing. Dawson claims ten more bays than grays explain the effect.
The battleship Constitution known as Old Ironsides will not leave Boston. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt states it will be moved within Charlestown yard to a new berth at the Little Mystic stream end after the Wabash training ship’s removal. The transfer awaits dredging to protect the vessel’s bottom.
A hotel manager cites a cunning ad in Atlantic City promising special rates to single men. He says the line lures mothers with marriageable daughters to believe many single men will gather there, guiding their daughters toward the hotel. He ends with a wry remark that the more the marryed, the better for matrimony prospects.
A historical OCR fragment lists a tomato soy style preserving method. It details four quarts of ripe tomatoes boiled four hours with vinegar salt spices and sugar then bottled. It also describes a second recipe using twenty five large tomatoes onions peppers celery seed mustard seed and vinegar boiled two hours and bottled hot.
A brief recipe describes lining deep saucers with pastry to form shells. Bake until lightly browned, cool, and fill with strawberry jam or fresh berries cut into pieces. Top with whipped cream for serve ready dessert.
Rut cold mashed potatoes from yesterday with bitter and milk. Beat an egg, mix, heat until hot in a greased pan without sticking. Cool until firm. Shape into balls, coat with flour, and bake on a greased pan until browned. Serve piled hot.
The article recounts Benjamin Franklin arriving in London in 1724 to work as a compositor and writing his early tract Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity Plea sure and Pain. It details the scarce surviving copies and dramatic auction history linking Henry Stevens James Lenox and the British Museum culminating in a sale to the U.S. government.
The Atlantic contends that a grand passion tolerates financial quirks, yet money talk strains Romeo and Juliet as couples debate allowances. The piece notes affectionate spending, rivalry over accounts, and the need for fair sharing, ending with a playful jab at calling in the apothecary.
Judge Frank Carter of Asheville North Carolina told the grand jury that modern conditions threaten government and that the telephone provokes immorality. He said it has raised the cost of living by at least 30 percent and harming young women by encouraging boys and girls to say things over the phone they would not say in person.
A New York politician at an Albany luncheon declares that underpaid girls make ends meet by leaving the middle empty. The remark elicits a stunned pause as listeners demand how such a claim is possible.
An elderly writer recalls the dawn of Pennsylvania oil, noting canals and land speculation by Smith & Brown of Portland. He mentions an 1824 letter from Connaught Pa and an uncle St John Smith who built a profitable oil refinery. He describes primitive life, the value shift after oil’s discovery, and his approaching eighty-seventh birthday.
A stockbroker, busy and nervous, rejects offers of confidential information. He eventually concedes one item would be useful and asks what the caller can get. The broker then bluntly answers Out, delivering a sharp punchline.
A newspaper note argues that moving pictures could become essential aboard first class transatlantic liners as motion on shipboard fades. It praises cinema as ideal evening entertainment for passengers tired of moonlit dances and concerts, noting film holds broad appeal across ages.
Mrs. Clara V. Mott reports in the Baltimore American that many Americans honor Barbara Frietchie for waving a flag under mistaken troops. Frederick residents preserve relics from her era and a Barbara Frietchie Association, formed over a year ago, helps maintain her memory and the reinterment of her body last Memorial Day in Frederick.
Carnegie staff studied active volcanoes at Kilauea crater Hawaii in 1912. They sealed lava gases in glass tubes without air contact and sent samples to Washington. They also condensed over half a pint of water from a gas in the volcanic plume.
A report notes the navy yard could install a new berth at the Tom location to expand dock capacity. Officials cited planned construction and potential impact on harbor operations.
A London Chronicle note discusses Yoshio Markino’s essay on memory and imagination in the Nineteenth Century, contrasting Japanese loud reading with Western quiet etiquette. It cites how Japanese scholars read aloud to enjoy ears as well as eyes and notes Western norms against noisy behavior in public reading spaces.
In sixteenth century England middle names were illegal for commoners, with royalty the only exception. The law punished first offenses with whipping and harsher second offenses with the removal of thumbs or ears. Full names aided clear legal identification, as illustrated by examples like John Jones versus John Siegmund Jones.
Quotation from Detroit Free Press notes an extraordinary man who defies common expectations. The piece emphasizes sharp observations about his unusual behavior and a specific claim about missing a train just before a wreck.
In a brief exchange the narrator dismisses slang as stale while affirming the authority of the man they work for. The scene centers on recognition of the employer and a casual judgment of language.
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