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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
4
Nancy Crowell faces fear after a snake chase in Aunt Sarah’s pasture and finds help from Phil Fleming. Misidentifications spark awkward tension before a late-night tea of truth as Nancy realizes the man she admires is the married Charley’s brother, leading to a quiet, hopeful ending.
The passage traces Texas history through kingdoms and empires, noting it has served under Bourbons Bonapartes Hapsburgs and Montezumas. It says Texas has repeatedly shifted political forms and now stands as a king of empires within the world’s greatest republic.
Alfred Loewenstein Belgian financier dubbed the man of mystery in European finance arrived in New York on a pleasure trip. He is rumored to plan investments in American power industries while his vast fortune and secretive background spark wide curiosity.
Mr and Mrs J L Daniels and daughter Eva tell how their stray cat wandered from Columbia South Carolina to Sumter and back. They moved near Ridgewood club years ago and placed the cat in a box in a car to be rid of it. The box end up 50 miles away. The cat returned after 14 days with her kittens deserted the day after arrival in Sumter. The cat is thin but well and remains in Columbia.
Alpine Texas residents purchase Valle la Cienega ranch near the Davis Mountains to run as a dude ranch for visitors this summer. Pete Crawford, a veteran cowboy and border officer, appointed manager, brings cattle ponies to the 35000 acre property to recreate pioneer cowboy life for travelers from around the world.
Tom Stephenson of Lexington Nebraska, once with Northumberland Fusiliers, helped capture a German outpost near Hargcourt. Eleven years later he met Henry Warsaw, now a Chicago packing company salesman, who sold him meat for his butcher shop in Kansas City Missouri.
John Payne of Melbourne died childless leaving a fortune exceeding 2.5 million dollars. His will devised a residuary trust for supposed children with sons to inherit three times each daughter, a provision never possible. The widow receives 15,000 immediately and 25,000 annually, while the gardener gets 15,000. The home is to be destroyed by fire as soon as practicable without stated reason.
Crawford runs a longtime ranch using 50 year old equipment and veteran guides for deer bear mountain lion and turkey hunts each fall. He notes many adults crave living as cowboys while admitting most veterans avoid the city visitors.
New York report shows soldiers from Washington Oregon California and Massachusetts scoring highest on army intelligence tests per Dr Carl Brigham. Dr Walter V Bingham notes wartime demands from General Pershing for workers with specific skills and cites Camp Devons in Massachusetts and Camp Lewis in Washington as abundant sources of high grade men.
Cairo reports the Queen Hetepheres carrying chair, believed made for Queen Hetepheres by her son King Cheops about 6,000 years ago, has been restored over two years and delivered to the Cairo museum. The gold inlaid chair reflects pyramid age craftsmanship, with preserved joints despite decayed wood. New wood matched the original, and the gold case and hieroglyphics were mounted.
New York reports that the fashion of short skirts sheer stockings and cloche hats eases baggage handling for ocean liner trunk smashers. While passengers carry fewer trunks the handlers must still manage the female gear, a chief baggage man says.
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