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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
5
A Rural New Yorker sketch describes a barn door built from galvanized iron sheets on a 2 by 4 frame lightening the weight versus wooden doors. The sheets wrap around top and bottom edges and are fastened with galvanized tacks while top 2 by 4 supports hangers bolted to the door for mounting.
A recipe reads for three large navel oranges two bananas not ripe half a can pineapple or a ten cent can juice of a lemon and sugar. Cut oranges into bits pineapple into pieces mix with lemon juice and sugar. Slice banana just before serving. Describes it as superb weather for oysters from the consumer’s viewpoint.
Colorado City implements a reform system where entering inmates wear convict suits and prove their effort to "make good." Progress through grades grants privileges and reduced sentences, with two days counted as three for good behavior. Breaches revert to first grade with deprivation and possible chaining. Three to four hundred men are outside walls, unguarded, prepared for society.
A Kansas State agronomy expert advises early spring trunk banding with sticky substances to trap cankerworms on trees, plus spraying arsenate of lead for quick caterpillar control. The piece then questions why Philippine independence legislation is delayed, noting no clear reason for the Senate hold and uncertainty about passage this session.
A collection of witty lines left by guests in hotels and inns. Notable notes include Quin the actor at the Pelican inn near Newbury and a complaining visitor in Argentina praising the place despite garlic and earthquakes. Other quips praise bon ton while lampooning the cook and dining attire.
Oklahoma bankers and businessmen back farm boy hog raising via contracts in three eastern counties. A sow pig is provided and the boy cares for it, records all breedings, and may buy or sell pigs within a one year term, with promissory notes and transfer of ownership upon completion. A joke about a cooking school graduate follows.
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