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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
5
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union poem fragment urges readers to greet life with energy and strive for goals. The lines celebrate waking the soul to ecstasy and action, rejecting passivity.
A collection of recipes and kitchen tips detailing savory dishes. It covers broiled young guinea hen with olive oil and watercress garnish, a fruit cake, caramel pie, kedgeree with halibut, President Tyler's pumpkin pie, and seasonal dishes like mincemeat, plum pudding, walnut salad, lamb with rice, and chicken with green peppers.
Mrs. I J Kolar of Oklahoma City credits California Fig Syrup with restoring her daughter Louise Alice from whooping cough weakness. The advert claims the vegetable laxative cleanses the stomach and bowels, improves appetite, weight, and energy, and notes over four million bottles used yearly.
The text explains copper tempering remains unchanged from ancient practice by adding small amounts of tin and other metals to impart hardness, retaining traditional methods used to strengthen copper.
Nature Magazine notes a rare case of a parrot born in captivity with a bird hatched inside a San Antonio shop.
A Pasadena resident Y Posthuma sent a December 1913 employment letter to a Colombian mining firm. The envelope shows delayed handling by Colombian post authorities until February 1920, after which attempts to locate the addressee failed and the letter drifted toward Pasadena for eight years. Posthuma pursued another job meanwhile.
A vintage advertisement claims greasy dishes cause fatigue and promotes 20 Mule Team Borax as a solution. It asserts adding a heaping tablespoonful to the dishwater would cut grease and dramatically increase suds eight to five times.
Lady Millicent Hawes former Duchess of Sutherland comments on current dress styles describing modesty as concealment of ugliness and praising dinner gowns as lovely. She notes they are remarkable for latitude rather than longitude with a lighthearted laugh.
The Swedish government’s push for high educational standards has led to a surplus of university graduates at Upsala. Officials worry there are no employment opportunities for the growing number of graduates.
Visitors to Fort Wayne's Lakeside Park may see colored lights by the water and think they are for beauty. The lamps feed a hatchery fish population by attracting insects, which are drawn to the light and swept into feeding streams. The system both nourishes fish and reduces nearby pests.
Advertisement claims Papes Cold Compound tablets rapidly break up a cold in a few hours. It emphasizes pleasant taste and quick relief, suggesting singers and general readers can conquer colds fast. The copy promotes a single tablet as the breakthrough unit.
The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is presented as a valuable pangram for typist practice. It contains every letter of the alphabet, aiding keyboard familiarity and speed drills across practice sessions.
The Philadelphia Bulletin quotes a social aside about personal attire noting that she dresses as little as possible. The remark captures a blunt, humorous attitude toward fashion expectations of the era.
Letters from readers claim Peruna cured a bad grippe attack and restored health. Charles L. Gunther of Louisville describes weight gain appetite return and constipation relief after using four bottles. Ad urges readers to buy at their druggist today.
Billeys L of Bureau Box 286 Phoenix Arizona reports a life saving discovery that helps asthma patients and others with lung trouble. The note describes the discovery and invites interested readers to learn more.
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