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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
4
Sacramento reports Governor Johnson vetoed 203 measures, shelving six major bills. He refused to sign the net container and bucketshop bills, the teachers’ pension bill, the industrial school and extension bills, and the motor vehicle and highway funding measures citing financial strain and constitutional issues.
Waste lands on Singapore island are being developed for rubber planting. Swamp areas near the city are drained and converted into a nursery for Para rubber plants, which are sold profitably to planters.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things and form a varnish on daily life. They guide even simple tasks like boiling an egg and deepen the routine with subtle charm. Manners are contagious and learned from others, spreading through society as a shared practice.
A reflective piece on dignity emphasizing pride and common sense as key accessories. It stresses the need for thorough familiarity with oneself to carry grace and balance in daily conduct.
Dr Julius Grinker of Northwestern University Medical School condemned religious revivals in a Public Library speech. He warned that emotionalism fuels epidemics in religion and crime and urged limits on sensational displays at entertainment venues.
Giles Freeman, a farm hand, owns a pedigree brown hen named Minerva that discerns hatching eggs from dud eggs. After testing with settings from Eddie Hale, Freeman found the fowl rejects eggs that won t hatch, while good eggs hatch. Freeman now uses Minerva to sort eggs for farmers traveling miles.
Cincinnati report says Miss Ida Isham, a Hyde Park teacher, ordered a sleeping game and all pupils closed their eyes. While most woke after a moment, Peggy Gordon remained unresponsive for two hours until her mother urged her awake. Doctors call it an unusual case.
Francis McMann of Los Angeles remains in hospital after surgery to remove a pin he swallowed nine years ago from his left leg. He endured eight years of illnesses and traveled across the country seeking health, passing near his heart and other vital areas before the pin finally descended to his leg, where surgeons performed the operation.
The article discusses average brain weights for men and women, noting men 40 to 50 ounces and women about five ounces lighter. It explains the brain body weight ratio is similar in both sexes. It cites examples: Thackeray 54, Cuvier 58, Gambetta 41, Byron 60, Dante 50, Simms reports an idiot boy with 59 and an ignorant man with 78 ounces.
A humorous dialogue fragment recounts mishap and misplaced injuries as Brudder Wack points out the nose sits on the face while Brudder Tump explains slipping and falling on his back in a folksy exchange.
John J. McNamara and J. B. McNamara were arraigned in Los Angeles on nineteen murder indictments tied to the October 1 1910 Times building fire and remanded to jail without bail. They faced June 1 pleas as Judge Walter Bordwell presided. jurors requested secrecy on the indictments and named victims.
The excerpt extols Leo Tolstoy portraying him as immense in every domain. It notes his heavy drinking, fearless gambling, martial boldness at Sevastopol, and relentless literary and athletic energy, describing him as balancing wit with deathly battles.
In Jail Square the Justiciary buildings were torn down and a hens nest was found among the rafters with sixteen eggs said to have lain there for about forty years. Exposure to air caused the eggs to turn to dust.
W E Henley lauds Berlioz as more than a great musician and writer. He praises Berlioz as an original and natural yet abnormal personality whose words carry value and memorable insight.
A pompous man in a green shirt recalls two hours while a professional hairdresser wrestled with his wife’s Marcel waves. The quizzical man prompts a dramatic exchange about witnessing a great struggle with the waves.
After a New York building partially collapsed, remaining walls resisted removal until a plan used steel cables attached to trolley cars. The method aimed to bring down stubborn remnants and clear the site.
Denver reports show huge salaries recorded for office boys and other staff, with some workers listed as earning 3000 to 10000 dollars annually. Revenue officers say deductions reduce taxable totals and claim many firms may be paying excessive salaries, masking wealth as net income.
William Schenck a blind fifteen year old graduated in New York city leading 450 pupils by examination percentage. He received the Davis character medal and is called a boy marvel by Dr. William H. Maxwell. He studied at the New York Institute for the Blind before joining public school No. 20 two years earlier and quickly rose to class head.
Uncle Jerry Peebles recalls Josh McGimbler as a consistent man who aged 85 and always drank liquor and coffee straight from his sasser, as he returns from a funeral.
The conceit argues that a man’s dominion over beasts comes not from strength but wisdom to harness greater natural forces. Elephants push, horses pull, and lions overwhelm him, yet he controls them by reaching for powers beyond brute force.
A humorous quip about poultry orders, contrasting aeroplane chicks with meatful birds, attributed to a grocer dispute and cited by Good Housekeeping.
In Brooklyn at United States district court Judge Chatfield questioned an applicant for citizenship. A citizen witness testified he could vouch for the man by saying he had shaved him for ten years, proving the man’s suitability as an American.
A Manchester mill owners firm keeps a pigeon used as a messenger between mills for over ten years. It has completed more than 3,000 trips, covering upward of 29,000 miles. Estimates say wire messages would have cost about 300 pounds.
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