Barstow Printer notes wartime letters and odd schemes
A Barstow weekly column reprints Verdun letters from D Beauman and jokes on war and infrastructure. It mentions a Crown Prince Tunnel with hidden hotel rooms and a subterranean brewery near Mont Homme, plus a Southern Pacific weed control plan using lake water on the San Joaquin Division. A humorously censored soldier letter from France ends with a mischievous plan to buy two mules named Corporal and Sergeant.
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Owens Lake
California
Southern Pacific Railroad
San Joaquin
German war drive near Swiea border cited in intel
A report notes a super drive prepared near the Swiea border with trains on a double track every nine minutes. It claims German knowledge of these moves spurred peace terms. Representative Alvan T. Fuller recalls an interview with M Delanney the French ambassador to Japan who said the emperor and military caste of Japan mirror Germany in methods and ideals.
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Swiea
Thither
Alvan T. Fuller
Massachusetts
M. Delanney
Japan
Germany
Wanted Feldspar and Potash Bearing Material
Advertisement seeks feldspar or any potash bearing material with 12 percent grade or better. Send one pound samples to Potash Department, Golden State Cement Co., Oro Grande, Halleck Post Office, California. May 1 to 4.
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Golden State Cement Co
Oro Grande
Halleck
California
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Rocky Mountains
United States
Pacific Coast Petroleum War Service Committee
Standard Oil Company
Frank W Chandler
DR. R. Knight
Third St
Cor
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Cal
Interstate Telegraph CO
Los Angeles
Louis Graveure
Yvette Guilbert
Mabel Garrison
Ethel Leginska
John McCormack
Hotel Trinity
Neweat
Hercules
Red Cross
Murphy Bros
Ludlow
Secopa
A. P. Ring
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