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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
3
The piece traces sausages from their tenth century origins to German spice infusion six centuries later, notes a 1700-variety Swiss exhibit led by Germany, and recalls farm life where sausage making was a royal pastime. It adds a note on substantial German immigration to South America, about 435 000 people.
Lord Decies and his bride Vivien Gould drew a large Brunswick crowd as they left for Jekyll Island for their honeymoon. The duchess smoked a cigarette in public and bowed to cheers at the depot before boarding the boat to the exclusive resort. Edwin Gould invited them to his cottage on Jekyll Island, a private retreat of prominent American families.
In Chicago Elizabeth Kane and Emma Carpenter, co owners of a restaurant, trapped a nightly thief with a skeletal key using a revolutionary musket and an empty revolver. After lights out they confronted the intruder who fled when police arrived.
The occupant rejects an agent's sale, noting the dictionary is 20 years out of date and defines Janitor as the care taker of a building, joking that he's the care maker.
A witty caption rails at changing tastes as a critic jokes about having a portrait painted while a luxury car fades from fashion within a single year. The quip contrasts art longevity with fleeting trends and consumer frenzy.
In Oklahoma a farmer boy found a five foot mummified body near Okmulgee consisting of two heads four arms and four legs joined at the shoulders. Locals recall a missing tribal youth said to have wandered into a cave years ago and never viewed as different. Physicians conclude two persons shared one body and could not have been separated surgically.
May 2 report from Jolo says the Dutch have taken Palmas island sixty miles south of Mindanao, lowered the American flag and raised Holland’s. Washington reportedly will not protest, deeming Palmas valueless with a small Filipino population and no American authority present.
Kansas City officials refused a license for a shoe shining parlor advertising "pretty girls will shine your shoes" and plan an ordinance to ban women from shining shoes. Juvenile officers flagged the issue but found the workers were not underage. The city council must decide, while two girls continued shining shoes last night.
A girl student sent an odd absence note to her teacher claiming a “worryment” and asking pardon because Annie, absent, must go to the hospital with her sister’s sore eyes. The phrasing blends social humor with school life in a quaint, mistaken expression.
A new society in London aims to aid lonely bachelors by mending their socks and performing other charitable, mild deeds. The group plans to provide practical comfort and neighborly support in the community.
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