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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1913
Page
3
A collection of old weather lore from animals and farm life. Cats sneeze and wash their heads to foretell rain while cows, sheep, and cattle habits supposedly signal coming storms or fair skies. The piece compiles numerous folk beliefs about animal behavior predicting weather.
The guide explains simple shadowgraph methods using a light source, a wall or sheet, and cloths to study silhouettes. It notes rabbits or foxes appearing on a whitened wall amuse viewers and describes basic hand shadow shapes formed above.
Observing groups of circular dots with one eye or half-closed reveals a honeycomb like pattern. The effect arises from contrast and opposition of black and white on the retina. Although dots share the same size, intense irradiation makes white circles appear larger than black.
The office boy enters and overhears the boss announce his grandmother has just died. The boss reacts with sarcasm and reveals she left him a fortune, then declares resignation and quietly ends the exchange.
A curious demonstration from the Pathfinder describes using two identical thin glasses a candle a damp blotting paper to create an air tight seal. The lit candle removes oxygen and the heated air expands driving some air out under the paper. When cooling the upper glass draws the lower one into a joint that clings, making a seal.
Instructions describe cutting a cardboard boomerang to pattern size. It explains resting the piece on the back of the first three fingers of the left hand with the blade sloping, guiding balance and craft steps.
The passage describes a simple skill where you lift the item with one hand and flick it with the second finger of the right hand, causing it to fly away and return to your lap. It emphasizes practice and technique.
Instructions for making Walnut Shell boats using a walnut shell cardboard match seal ing wax and white paper. Remove nut fragments seal the shell with cardboard attach a match as mast and fasten a paper sail via two holes.
An ordinary india rubber band stretched and released by its own elasticity develops a negative electric charge that remains for some time. The effect is not dependent on rubber quality and can occur with thin walled tubes. Sudden contraction is essential. Slow release yields no charge.
A playful set of jokes explores wordplay and puns about doctors camels weary wheels and other items. The exchange includes quips on character, temperament and language puzzles with quick punchlines and a joke about a miller, an ark and a dog.
Dr G K Hutton recalls a bitter cold emergency to Hebron 71 miles away. Eskimo drivers and dogs haul a sled over broken ice and raging seas in darkness to reach a missionary whose people are dying. The perilous crossing ends with a fragile victory over nature.
In a late parliamentary scene the venerable ex senator lingers in the parlor with the young people. His daughter proposes a close call of the house to retire all nonparticipants while she and Charlie discuss a question of personal privilege.
David Grayson in the American Magazine extols the campfire as friendly and companionable. He describes how its fitful light reveals vast forest vistas and then returns to somber mystery, offering warmth whether lively or reflective.
An unimpeachable old gentleman refuses a dissolute young Hotspur's demand for honorable combat. The youth threatens to publicize his cowardice, but the elder quips that he would rather fill twenty newspapers than one coffin. The exchange highlights the veteran's calm resolve.
An illustration shows a simple two circle fence trap with a gate opening into a circular enclosure. A lamb is placed at the center. the wolf enters the outer circle, circles the area, and pushes the gate, which springs shut, trapping the animal.
Mr Raymond confronts a neighbor at dusk threatening the neighbor's pup Nero. The neighbor explains Nero is Johnny's dog and hopes manners will improve. Raymond insists Nero bites and threatens harm and is met with Johnny's wounded reply about the pup's reach.
A short humor piece recounts Tommy calling for a drink after bedtime. His mother orders him to sleep, he resists with brief silences, then asks again and pleads when warned of a spanking, finally proposing she bring a drink during the punishment.
Quick fire questions blend wordplay on cooking figures and misdirection. Jests compare pastry cooks to billsticker scribe puns and tease puns about wind bells, letters, fires, and authors. The humor leans on phonetic twists and double meanings.
A tale from the To peka Capital about a blooded Thomas cat living in a store. The cat refuses rats and mice, provoking the storekeeper to starve it into action, while rats hold a convention urging relocation, ending with a note that many fail to hustle.
A device designed by a Pennsylvania inventor shapes golf balls by stamping them with a rotating die. The apparatus features a metal base a bifurcated arm a revolving die a vertical plunger and a side lever. Pressing the lever raises the plunger drives the ball into the die and rotates it to stamp the entire circumference.
A humorous tale shows an office boy caught in a serious lie. A kind clerk warns that truth-twisting leads to consequences, while the boy jokes that the boss will exile him to travel when grown. The scene captures workplace discipline and moral humor from the Weekly Telegraph.
In a domestic vignette a boy explains to his mother how he alternates using the sled with his little brother. He says he takes it downhill while the brother uses it on the way back, illustrating shared play and family cooperation.
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