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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
4
Bassett accuses Rawson of overlooking escape options as talk turns to a hidden escape, possible killer, and a plan to question Miss Tracy for light. Williams urges caution, Rawson presses for answers, and the group considers seeing Miss Tracy to learn more.
In a tense scene in the library Miss Tracy endures questions from Rawson and Bassett about her brother Joe Tracy and his disappearance. Rawson learns Joe left with a Bangor hotel lead, while Anne confesses seeing Joe last night and hints he may be on the top floor. The officers decide to pause the questioning and return tomorrow as Anne seeks rest.
A compact survey notes that Europe controls diverse realms in the Americas with France governing French Guiana and several Caribbean islands, Holland holding Dutch Guiana and nearby isles, and Britain holding Guiana, British Honduras, Canada and numerous West Indian isles. Spain ceded its West India holdings in 1898 and Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to the United States before U S entry to World War I.
A South African report says two men searching for cattle in Rhodesia found crude cave paintings beneath a boulder. Dr. S P Impey calls the eleven figures Egyptian in style, noting musicians using unknown instruments and figures in Egyptian dress, unlike typical bushmen art.
An advertisement at 372 Pearl St. promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claiming they tone the liver to improve food assimilation. The short notice urges readers to use the remedy for digestive support.
Dr Eda M Round reports in the Botanical Gazette that fossil forests from Rhode Island and Missouri show striking plant similarity. More than half of the species are identical, though none survive today, with distant relatives now among ferns mosses and horsetails. Two extinct plant groups include vine like trailing ferns and seed bearing ferns, unknown among modern ferns.
A German scientist invents a portable artificial sunlight device weighing two pounds that fits an overcoat pocket and plugs into a standard light socket. The unit resembles a toy phonograph with a nickel-plated horn and a circular metal case, containing two carbons across which a spark emits ultraviolet rays enough to bathe a person two feet away.
Mrs Fusser John and Mr Fusser trade cheerful remarks about a cake being prepared for a cake sale in New Bedford. The Standard notes their light exchange reflecting community fundraising efforts.
Dialogue notes Hank answering a patient query about a medicine. Hank affirms benefit if directions are followed, insisting the bottle be kept tightly corked. The exchange centers on proper usage and precaution.
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