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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
3
From a hospital in France a wounded American writes home urging all to answer the Fourth Liberty Loan with full support. The piece urges home front sacrifices and frames the loan as the good old American way, urging maximum early participation on September 28.
Editor notes urge rapid victory in World War I with Liberty Bonds. The call to action advocates buying liberty bonds to fund an American army to land in France and defeat the enemy, framed as a standing display beside casualty lists.
To the nurse The Spiker poem honors the Red Cross nurse for her steadfast care of the wounded. The poem extols her tireless duties high fevers and long nights as she tends soldiers, keeps lives on life’s highway with patience and a smile amid hardship and danger.
The United States Shipping Board programs the construction of 3000 cargo carrying ships to reach 25,000,000 gross tons. The aim is to place America first in world commerce and prevent overproduction and industrial downturn by expanding the merchant marine.
United States Borax Company files for patent to the Yermo Lode in sections 29 and 30, T 10 N R 2 E, San Bernardino California. The filing, with Mineral Survey No. 6344, excludes conflict with Constitution Lode and Lela Lode, notes boundary bearings, area 11.45 acres, and notices adverse claim rights with filings recorded in 1916 and 1918. B F Groves, Register, publication dates Sept 19 1918 to Nov 21 1918.
The Red Cross Pig Club in Carroll County Mississippi reports a $10000 donation to the Red Cross and 600000 pounds of pork for troops overseas. The club numbers 8000 members and will ship 30 hog cars to market, with hogs weighing from 100 to 400 pounds and gains of 118 pounds in a month.
Notice to bidders from Barstow Union High School District for items including two cement tennis courts with walls, an adding machine, a program clock system, steel lockers, a hot water heater, and a fifty burner gas machine. Bids due by 3 p m October 19 1918 and opened at Barstow Department Store Building.
Notice to Mrs. Clara Starr that $50 share of 1916 labor and improvements on the Modern Maid Mining Claim near Atolia in San Bernardino County will be forfeited if unpaid within ninety days of service or publication. Co owners L Carpenter and S Vermilyer state claim to forfeit under section 2824 Revised Statutes. Dates given include first publication September 6, 191s.
California Trona Company through attorney in fact S W Austin filed in the Independence California land office for patent to a 419.99 acre group of placer claims in San Bernardino County. The Trona Group No 7 Placer Mine includes 21 tracts with multiple described parcels and ranges. A 60 day adverse claim window begins with the Aug 15 1918 first publication and ends Oct 10 1918.
The People of California issue a summons in a San Bernardino Superior Court action against M W Main M Williams Maude W Main administratrix of J P Main estate and John Doe Richard Roe Jane Doe defendants. Defendants must appear and answer within ten days if served in county or nine days if served elsewhere. failure to do so may lead to relief demanded in the complaint. Clerk L M Patty signs, Deputy Clerk BEN Harrison. Jas E Byry R P Concoun attorneys for the plaintiff.
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