Land leasing bill opens Western lands to development
Washington reports final agreement by House and Senate conferees on a land leasing bill covering more than 50 million acres of federal oil gas coal phosphate and sodium lands in western states and Alaska with royalties of at least one eighth of production. Other items note March drilling in South Whittier and a string of weather and labor developments across the country.
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Senate
Alaska
Fear Eliminates Influenza, Sailors Prove Mind Over Matter
A Queensland or Oakland Enquirer report recounts Navy doctors on Goat Island testing influenza exposure. Fifty sailors volunteered to be inoculated and exposed to flu victims, yet none contracted the disease, claiming fear elimination prevents infection.
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Coal Island
Navy
Goat Island
Oakland Enquirer
Barstow News Briefs Highlight Local Events and Tragedy
Town topics note plans for the Barstow Lodge annual ball and a potential Padtock orchestra engagement. Forthcoming Fletcher opera house programs include a comic act and a Pearl White serial finale. Local visits, a fatal engine explosion near Portola, revival meetings, memorial services for Colonel Roosevelt, and weather notes accompany town notices and theater reviews.
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Fletcher Opera House
Pearl White
Barstow Union High School News Highlights Meetings
Barstow Union High School reports a student body meeting streamlining charges to the treasurer Pauline Carter and plans for a prominent service flag. Cleon Hill returns from Camp Kearney to resume work and graduate with his class. Senior class selects a shell pin and schedules a student party. The gym program expands with damberl and indian club supplies, new furniture arrives, and report cards are issued. The Sophomore class page is terse while the Junior Red Cross nears completion of weekly work with six chemises finished. Guy Harland offers school building photographs taken with help from Mr. Purviance.
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Pauline Carter
Cleon Hill
Camp Kearney
Tie
Cleon
Barstow Union High School
Orange Show Opens in San Bernardino Feb 14
Rapid progress on the Ninth National Orange Show near opening day February 14. Doors stay open nine days through February 23 with Washington birthday and other holidays during the run. General Manager I M Renfro expects record attendance and a pageant honoring peace and victory with 80 Southern California maidens and a large musical program.
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California
Seeds for Farmers From Congressman Kettner
The Printer received garden seed packages from Congressman Wm. Kettner this week for distribution to district farmers. The kits include lettuce onion tomato and muskmelon. Schoolchildren may obtain a package with a teacher note authorizing garden planting. The U.S. Agricultural Department expects a report on seed success.
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Wm. Kettner
U.S. Agricultural Department
League of Nations shaping up before Wilson return
Paris reports rapid progress toward forming the League of Nations as officials rush to complete the plan before President Wilson must depart back to the United States.
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Paris
League of Nations
Wilson
United States
Snow boosts Kansas wheat prospects in Salina region
Heavy snowfall across western and northwestern Kansas, 15 to 25 inches, provides deep soil moisture and improves wheat quality. Telegraph and telephone linemen report wheat doing better than in years, though fields remain too wet for pasture.
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Salinka
Kan
Kansas
Ireland self-rule resolution reported by House committee
In Washington on February 6 a concurrent resolution urged the Paris peace conference to consider Ireland’s right to self-determination. The House Foreign Affairs Committee favorably reported the measure this afternoon.
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Congress of the
United States of America
Peace Conference
Paris
Ireland
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Beehive Found Inside Lake Watatie Ice House
Workmen repairing an old ice house at Lake Watatie Massachusetts uncovered a bees nest between the double walls. The 10 inch space was filled with honeycomb and workmen removed about 100 pounds of honey after tearing away the boards.
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Lake Watatie
Mass
Grillett's Pharmacy Changes Ownership
Grillett's Pharmacy changes hands with W H Greenleaf and Lannis Sharman acquiring the business. Sharman will stay in Barstow as manager while his partner oversees El Centro and Santa Barbara stores. Sharman, recently discharged as a lieutenant, is in San Francisco. Gilletts will cover during his absence. The former owners plan no fixed relocation, weighing Hemet or San Joaquin valley options, and friends extend best wishes.
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W. H. Greenleaf
Lannis Sharman
Sharmen
Barstow
el Centro
Santa Barbara
Sharman
San Francisco
Gilletts
Gillett
San Joaquin Valley
Hemet
Bank of Fulton Robbery Nets $200000 In Wheeling
Three masked robbers entered the Bank of Fulton in Fulton two miles east of Wheeling West Virginia this afternoon. They held up bank employees and fled in an automobile with $200000.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Fulton
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