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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1914
Page
2
Leeses editor promotes simple remedies for headaches and facial marks. He advises nerve control through daily five minute relaxation, camomile tea, light eating, ample water, regular rest, eye strain prevention, and avoiding powders or sleeping draughts.
The famed 36 foot six inch flat arch in Santo Domingo Church Panama City survives after three centuries. A monk supposedly designed the fourth attempt and stood under the arch as the supports were removed. Fire destroyed the church in 1737 leaving the arch as the sole relic.
The article notes two thirds of the world’s cloves come from Pemba Island off Africa between Mombasa and Zanzibar. It describes Pemba as 35 by 10 miles, jungle covered and fever haunted, with a delicate clove tree and potential yields of 85 pounds per tree that could double with cultivation. It cites Capt Craster of the Royal Engineers who surveyed the island and suggests improved plantations could boost output. The Balzac quote ends the excerpt.
In a fierce Pacific gale Captain Hodson of a Honolulu customs service era schooner clung to a rope end after being swept overboard. The rope snagged him as he was carried under and along the hull by crowding waves. He resurfaced on deck, after which the ship weathered the storm and reached port with cargo intact.
Senor Gamboa, Mexican minister of foreign affairs, is noted as a diplomat and writer. He is a novelist, publicist and memoirist with extensive works on his diplomatic career in the Americas and Europe. Born in 1864, he entered service in 1858 and has received ten foreign decorations.
A candidate dispute turns to a story about Old Hoss Tartar and a sulphur medicine mix. The tale parallels political contracts and graft, with a druggist scene illustrating the speaker’s analogy about mixing sulphur and whisky.
Report states the nation manufactures over 400,000 pianos each year. A brief note mentions preparation or warming processes and a monetary figure of seventy ADA DOA, details unclear in the fragment.
Creole cooks in Louise, Louisiana share rules for making a rich soup. Start with fractured bones in cold water, use whole spices, and avoid salt until the end. Maintain steady simmer for five to seven hours, adding water only to adjust strength.
A concise bake guide lists Apple Sauce Cake with butter sugar and apples folded into flour, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and allspice. Currants and seedless raisins are stirred in last, baked about 45 minutes in a moderate oven, then frosted when cool.
Prepare a half pint of orange juice from enough oranges and include juice of half a lemon. Sweeten with six ounces of sugar and stir until dissolved. Soak one quarter ounce gelatin in water, dissolve in hot water, add to juice and mix until just set. Fold in a half pint of whipped cream. Line a mold with orange segments and fill, then chill.
A medical advocate reports that pig skin grafts, taken from two to six month old pigs, may replace human skin for grafts. Dr. Venable claims 75 to 100 percent success, far higher than other animals or humans, enabling rapid extensive operations.
In winter camping an open tent or lean to loses heat up the chimney. Build a steep roof and place the fire near the front to reflect heat back into the shelter. Create a backstop with two green sticks and logs to three feet high. facing a rock is best if available.
A mother explains the Christmas story to her three year old during a nap time lesson about the Christ Child. The child, with serious blue eyes, asks and misunderstands inviting the man to celebrate a birthday.
Some wives feel content without always receiving the entire wages of their husbands. The idea suggests fulfillment can come from non monetary measures and personal balance within marriage.
In a letter to Dr Kilmer and Company, Binghamton New York the ad offers a sample bottle for ten cents along with a booklet on kidneys and bladder. It promises the sample will convince and notes regular fifty cent and one dollar bottles are sold at drug stores and to mention this paper in all correspondence.
Instructions describe washing and trimming celery into three inch pieces, dipping in batter, and frying in hot fat. Batter mix includes bread flour salt pepper milk and egg. Serve fried celery with tomato sauce as accompaniment.
Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves pain swelling and sweating of feet and makes new shoes comfortable. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. Do not accept substitutes. Free sample available. Address A. Olsensted Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A life insurance agent wrote thirty thousand dollars of coverage on a man who died the next week. His friend calls it hard luck, but the agent reveals he married the widow the day after the death.
A vintage advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children and adults. It claims rapid relief from feverish, constipated conditions by cleansing the bowels, with a 50 cent bottle and directions for all ages.
The Kanawha and Maumee join the U S navy in new build. Kanawha uses two three cylinder steam engines at 2600 horsepower and is built at a private yard. Maumee uses two Nurnberg Diesel engines of similar power with hull at Mare Island and engines built at Brooklyn yard from abroad plans for Pacific deployment.
In busy New York the telegraph instruments handle an average of 28,000 messages each day, reflecting the city’s high pace and constant communication flow through the era’s telegraph network.
A reflective line contrasts the extraordinary with the ordinary, noting that what remains unseen often lies in everyday experiences beyond fame or achievement. The aphorism invites readers to value unremarkable realities.
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