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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1912
Page
6
The text praises mountains as sacred, living beings whose majesty comes from their gentler, timeless charms. It describes heather, gorse, ferns, and hidden waters as the mountain's true spirit, with music and dawn larks conveying a divine message beyond mere altitude.
The United States Geological Survey notes a unique asphaltic material in Austria used as a medicament under the name Ichthyol for erysipelas and eczema. The raw material comes from a fossiliferous deposit near Seefeld in Tyrol and is processed by dry distillation, sulphonation, and ammonia neutralization to yield the commercial ichthyol. The exact chemical composition remains undetermined.
A reader quotes Emerson in response to a remark about everyone having a unique gift and the world being full of singularly stupid people. The note contrasts belief in gifts with the idea of doing one’s duty, invoking grand artistic phrases to emphasize individual effort.
A crowd of hundreds gathered behind the Hotel Astor in New York to help Miss Martha Marr recover her smuggled Irish linnet Colleen. Proposals ranged from ad placements to noisy tricks as dusk fell with the bird still free and Miss Marr distraught.
In Irmingham a white woman Titmore faced trial over a cow theft from Adelaide Williams, an elderly Black woman. Evidence showed a hoodoo spell backfiring on Sallie Williams, making her behavior worse and prompting assertions about credulity in her race.
Chicago Alderman James A. Kearns warns that clever young tricksters using self starting car devices threaten public safety. He urges an amendment to require all cars be made small boy proof to prevent runaway engines in crowded streets, a task police cannot fully monitor.
A narrator recounts colorful con artists in Central and South America. Jim Dugan of Curacao runs scams with a fake life insurance seal and a lucky lottery tale at his bar. Another American in Buenos Aires produces fake Van Dykes and manipulation of a gullible elderly woman to extract ten thousand dollars. An Nicaraguan colonel spins a watch club scam drawing thousands of public workers into a dubious scheme.
Lawrence Wheat, known as Larry, won the role of Stub Talmage in The College Widow after telling producer Henry W. Savage he was an actor. The producer doubted his looks but Wheat replied he did not want to look like an actor, arguing the type mattered more than appearance.
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