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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
4
A Chicago Tribune reader describes building a two story doll house from an egg box with wood, glass substitutes, wallpaper, velvet carpets, lace curtains, and DIY furniture. Materials totaled 79 cents with a grocer providing the egg box and small craft purchases.
Little Fay buys a ten cent stamp and gets eight pennies in change. Jay double checks the coins, then wonders aloud if the two cent stamp price is correct, given the amount and change. The riddle hinges on the math of ten minus eight equals two, but the implied price may be misread by the puzzled clerk.
An article explains making an Austrian top entirely from wood using a pine handle and a broom handle or hardwood stock. The top uses a three fourths inch hole and a one sixteenth inch index hole in the edge to wind a two foot cord for a strong pull to launch the spinning toy.
A boy argues with his father about grammar and a man living across a river. The boy recalls a prize for grammar and contends that the phrase over the river is correct because the man lives in a house on the bridge.
Dialogue shows a teacher asking where the lesson starts and Tommy replying that it begins with rod and ended with rod yesterday and today he rubs his back. The exchange highlights corporal punishment in a classroom context with Tommy describing ongoing discipline.
The article describes a vast subterranean world under New York City with stores restaurants art galleries and offices beneath Broadway and Ann Street. It notes thousands work underground daily and that urban growth pushes more space downward as subways spur daylightless commerce.
In Rewster Washington Philip Strange and Helen McGraw wed after a summer where thousands of turkeys helped save a potato crop. McGraw ran a turkey ranch beside Strange’s potato farm and drought and bugs threatened both, until a joint solution kept birds and tubers together. The ceremony styled as a union of the potato king and turkey queen marked the end of their romance.
Lawrence Kan a fourteen year old Indian girl Ellen Ellen of the Chickasha at Haskell Institute reportedly earns six hundred dollars a week yet spends only a few cents in town. The article portrays her as financially prudent and contrasts tribal wealth with external depictions of Indians.
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