Hinkley Looming Townsite Platted Near Barstow
H M Henning of Hinkley filed a 40 acre townsite plat twelve miles north of Barstow. He plans a hotel and commercial buildings as buyers purchase lots for immediate use. Increased interest in agricultural lands and mining development marks the region's growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
H. M. Henning
Hinkley
Barstow
Hinkley Valley
Henning
Minneapolis
Kneedler
Daggett
Colorado River
New Year Noises Bring Love and Loss Across the Sea
The speaker contrasts the old year’s grief and lost joys with the new year’s beginnings. A distant voyage and a new love across the sea are promised as drums beat and bells ring, while memories of a robin and a lover’s kisses linger at the window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robin
Road Improvement in China Widening Roads for Lights
Consul General George E. Anderson reports Hongkong government continues widening old chair and ricksha roads to allow light automobile traffic. American asphalt and crude oil are used in the improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
George E. Anderson
Hongkong
Chair
Ricksha
Industrial Radium Fight Targets Interior Policy
Jos M Flannery of a Pittsburg radium firm asserts Interior plans to destroy the industry and criticizes Lane’s proposed cheap radium method as impracticable. He says government ore lands acquisition bills threaten the sector and cites stalled radium supplies for hospitals after years of effort and large investments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of the Interior
Lane
Jos. M. Flannery
Pittsburg
Washington
Flannery
Congress
Department of Interior
West
Bureau of Mines
Atolia Camp Expands with Tungsten Operations
Atolia Camp, a fast growing western camp, employs about 300 in Atolia Mining. The company focuses on veins and pockets on Papooose, Paradox, Piute, Churchill and Spanish Lease. Dozens of new tents and frame buildings rise, Osdick property remains key tungsten area. Mahood and Feldman from Kelso Creek report strong tungsten shows and a reduction plant on their site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atolia
Atolia Mining Company
Osdick
Tungstein
Plots and Spies Seeps Into Washington Opinion
The piece laments the pervasive belief in numerous plots and spies among officials and investigators. It argues that the idea unsettles U S relations with foreign powers as secret agents and justice investigators are blamed for pervasive conspiracies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secret Service
Department of Justice
Washington
Christmas Quotes Compiled From Dickens to Kipling
A collage of holiday verses and aphorisms from authors such as Dickens Carlyle Scott Hooded in festive lines. It mixes poems and proverbs about charity hope and endurance with reflections on war and the year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Walter Scott
Democrats Take G. O. P. Material In Military Question
Washington dispatch notes Republicans resenting Wilson's perceived appropriation of their preparedness platform. The piece highlights Western splits on land and resource management, looming battles over rural carrier cuts, and opposition of the National Guard to a Continental army, with Oscar Underwood shifting to appropriations duties in Congress.
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Washington
Wilson
Bryan
Roosevelt
National Guard
Continental Army
Fred Ainsworth
United States Army
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
Oscar
Underwood
Ways and Means
House
Nevada bandit Benner captured by Daggett Constable
Nevada officer Constable Brown of Daggett captured Benner a notorious bandit after a train pursuit. Benner surrendered when confronted with Brown's revolver, discarded loot marked his escape attempt, and confessed to several Nevada robberies before boarding a train to jail. He had previously served time in Colorado.
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Nevada
Constable Brown
Daggett
Benner
Utah
Santa Fe
Desert
Brown
Sime
McLain
Berry
Colorado
Las Vegas
A Christmas Caro By Christina Rossetti
A fragment from Christina Rossetti delights in the newborn Jesus held by Mary. The speaker invokes Lord God of all and asks for closeness through trials, praising love and sacrifice for all beings.
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Jesus
Lord God of All
Lord God of
God
Angel
Star
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Minna Irving
Fast
Dears
Tiny Tim
Charles Dickens
Carlyle
Susan Coolidge
Sir Philip Sidney
James Russell Lowell
R.joice
the Bible
Lucy Larcom
Robert Browning
Charles Kingsley
Asin
Tennyson
Udward Kipling
Brotherhood
Chicago Record-Herald
Democrats
Popular Demand
Arthur W. Dunn
Montana
Idaho
Burleson
Oney
Christina G. Rossetti
Mary
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