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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
8
A patient reflects on an appendectomy and the path to recovery. The writer notes relief at the doctor’s plan and contemplates optimism after a heavy health burden with a hint of humor about the clinic experience and a signature from Mrs. BE Williams.
Exhibition at Barstow Mining Bureau ready for shipments as railway rates set. Henderson and Nicklin offer information and prices. Kramer Hills sees 1000 gold assays as an eastern company advances gold properties. Water near mill site, operations to begin early 1930. Oasis Service Station opens on West Barstow Highway near old mill with plans for a garden spot. Barstow residents urged to patronize home industries to boost local economy and property values. Huntington Leach spent part of Christmas with Dr. H H Chapit and family. Mrs Frank Moore returns to Barstow after ranch rental at Shafter.
Mr and Mrs Harry Martin recently returned from San Francisco where they visited their daughter Lucille who is taking a nurses course there. Mr and Mrs W B Cockrell, parents of Mrs Steve Vihel, and I W Cockrell a brother, and Mrs P W Cockrell and baby visited the Vihel family Saturday and Sunday.
For sale a water grade harrow and oral plows listed with a disk attachment. Item appears as available for inquiry with no clear contact details or location provided.
A key found near the Postal Telegraph office was turned in as belonging to an advertisement owner. Mrs. Leslie Curtis and her daughter Betty visited Barstow last week and returned to Inglewood early Christmas morning.
The article highlights Richfield gasoline powering world endurance records and race victories in 1929. It cites pilots Bobbie Trout Herbert Fahy Tex Rankin Norman Goddard and Goebel Wilkins Goebel’s and other champions achieving landmark distances speeds and efficiency across coast to coast air events including National Air Races transcontinental flights and pole-to-pole feats with Richfield prominently cited.
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