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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1910
Page
6
A bungling thief aiming at a bondholder breaks into a publisher’s home and finds the editor awake. The editor jokes about satire and pays the burglar with a six‑month subscription to settle the score, reflecting a comic clash between crime and satire.
A fragment describes a regal ritual called Reena 297% performed in ancient times, noting a toe kissing custom attributed to a Leo who mutilated his right hand and dating the practice to the era of Caligula.
Jimmy Reilly, editor of a moving van in New York, narrates a running tale of a family and their parrot Polly. The parrot, once witty, now asks in a grim voice where they are going next, as the moving routine shifts locations from Orange to Long Island Swampscott Westchester and beyond.
Robert Burton an antique dealer prosecuted Frederick William Hopner at Marlborough street police court for stealing an organette, spoons, carvers, pictures and ornaments. Burton had sheltered Hopner for 20 years while destitute, and Hopner’s reply to a bitter letter elicited laughter from magistrate Mead. The stolen items were pledged.
A Montana youth in Helena wore a rainbow hued necktie during a chat with Senator Tom Carter in a hotel lobby. Carter replied that he keeps only one tie at a time, wearing a black string tie and replacing it when worn. The anecdote, sourced to Popular Magazine, highlights frugal style from the senator who is described as worth millions.
A young oak grows three feet in three years while an elm reaches eight feet three inches and a willow nine feet three inches in the same period. The figures reflect early tree growth differences among species.
The article praises Malbone for truthful, intuitive miniatures with harmonious coloring and consistent character over theatrical style. It notes influences from the English school, his restraint from prettiness, and contrasts with rivals Cosway and Shelley. It mentions works in Boston and the Metropolitan, and Charleston as his celebrated home.
The American Israelite offers a derivation of the term Four Hundred. It notes that in I Kings a hundred prophets, led by Zedekiah, confronted Micaiah about Syrian action at Ramoth Gilead. The piece likens this to modern society’s four hundred and a historic muckraking comeuppance, suggesting history repeats in part.
Instructions describe soaking ordinary paper in water with sulphuric acid to imitate parchment, then drying. It also covers oiling paper with boiled oil and drying on a line, advising large sheets at once and careful handling.
A racing machine roared by at sixty miles an hour narrowly missing a ditch by five inches. Its horn blared a fanfare and onlookers joked the tune resembled a hymn, one caller asking what it was while another suggested the tune was Nearer My God to Thee.
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