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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1910
Page
2
Mrs. John Burch of Sedan Kansas leaped into a cistern to rescue her infant son or daughter after a trapdoor failed and the child fell into five feet of water. Immersed to her neck, she kept the child above water for eight hours until the husband found them. The mother collapsed from exhaustion after the rescue.
A San Juan report describes oysters growing on mangrove roots in Puerto Rico and lists fish caught by hand line or trolling at a port including red snapper kingfish Nassau grouper and balaju. It notes Captain Kerr’s claim oysters grow on trees and Porto Rico imported dried fish while exporting none. A second anecdote recalls Justice Brewer advising patience with a soft voiced horse doctor Williams in a civil case.
Jimmy Reilly, editor of a moving van in New York, recounts four moves with a family and their intelligent parrot Polly. The bird often jokes from the cage, until a trip to Westchester ends with a humorous question about the next destination.
In a centuries old practice at St Bartholomew the Great London twenty one elderly widows gathered at fore noon to receive sixpences picked from a crumbling gravestone. The bequest funded doles for widows over sixty on condition prayers be offered for the benefactress every Good Friday. The tombstone identity is uncertain but the coins remain useful to the recipients.
A clipped society note hints at intimate correspondence and coy exchanges in a Paris fashion column. The fragment mentions a flirtatious tone and a line about secrecy, suggesting romance amid public scrutiny.
In New Brunswick New Jersey Mrs Lizzie Romain of 32 Eastern avenue and her thirteen year old brother Andrew Silagi were reunited after thirteen years. Investigators call the case telepathy noting Mrs Romain awoke July 5 and began searching leading to their meeting at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Home Notes warns that girls talking loudly in buses trains or tea rooms risks mischief and danger as private matters are overheard by strangers in public places. The piece urges restraint and discretion in discussing personal affairs in public spaces.
In the first seven months of the year more than 70,000 people departed the United Kingdom for British North America seeking new opportunities and settlement.
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