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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1937
Page
4
A fragmented verse describes a sequence of hypothetical car mishaps and fatalities. The limerick style lines recount ten autos encountering trouble, with one culvert crash and subsequent losses thinning the number to one, then none. The garbled text includes stray phrases and odd spellings suggesting a wartime or playful alteration.
A Los Angeles museum exhibits an ancient crossbow. The four foot long bow features a top magazine slot holding 20 arrows, feeding each shaft as the next is fired, illustrating the long path from bow to modern firearms.
Turkeys are described as the sole native birds in the pheasant family within North America. The note emphasizes their distinct classification and regional status among local wildlife.
A reminiscence recounts first mountain views in 1912 and a trip to Denver. The narrator recalls visiting the Mint, city hall, courthouse, and Pikes Peak Tower, reflecting on perspective from heights and the humility or pride it inspires.
In the nineties many United States senators wore Prince Albert frock coats as symbols of maturity and substance. A beard also signified a man of substance in that period.
Franz Schubert born January 31 1797 at Lichtenthal near Vienna showed early musical gifts. He wrote songs and violin solos at age ten and served as first soprano in Lichtenthal choir before studies at the Imperial Konvikt. He later worked as music master in Hungary, toured with Vogl, and died in Vienna November 19 1828 after typhoid fever.
The article explains stock as shares in a company with certificates of ownership and par value, while bonds are debt instruments issued by governments or corporations. It notes par value, no par stock, and examples like coupon, mortgage, and sinking fund bonds, with distinctions between corporate and government bonds.
The article explains eel biology with a gendered lifecycle. Freshwater hosts females while males stay in brackish coastal waters. Spawning drives females to the ocean where they meet males in deep waters. Fry migrate back to coastlines at about one year old as glass eels. Females ascend rivers, males stay saltwater, then mature and repeat.
The Gothic revival reached the United States by 1839 with Richard M. Upjohn designing Trinity Church in New York City. Lefevre designed the Church of Holy Trinity in Brooklyn while Grace Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York were built by James Renwick. The Gothic style mainly touched churches in this era.
The Antici Mattei palace in Rome is famed for its extensive library, housing a vast collection on American history and diverse subjects. It contains 10,000 prints and engravings and notable paintings reflecting key American events, and is celebrated as a premier example of Sixteenth century architecture.
Kern county Y M C A leaders including W Eckmann announce a reorganization plan for Shafter. E P a chairman head a four division structure with Alfred Chandler Gaede Midgley and others guiding clubs camps finances and programs for the upcoming season.
A Pacific Rural Press writer argues that adobe correctly refers to a soil structure condition rather than texture or penetrameter properties. The piece critiques common usage and clarifies the authentic meaning of adobe in soil science.
A ground nesting bird lures predators by feigning injury to draw them away from eggs or young. When discovered the bird flutters off as if wounded, keeping just out of reach and seemingly recovering before capture.
A Washington Post writer notes cats long serve at sea with ships and Noahs ark lore. Legend says a lioness produced a cat after a sneeze when mice overwhelmed the voyage. A well fed cat is a better mouser and cats foretell bad weather by rubbing behind the ears.
Red coral has long been valued beyond jewelry for safety and secrecy. Ancient Gauls reputedly trusted coral in shields and helmets while Italians and Indians see it as protection against the evil eye. Today the world’s red coral mainly comes from the Mediterranean coast of Africa and is harvested largely by Italians. Barn owls eat their own weight in food nightly.
The earliest farming implements used crooked tree branches powered by people. These simple tools show how initial agricultural labor relied on manual effort before durable plows.
George Hay born 1566 died 1625 pioneered glass work in Scotland by using a natural cave at Wemyss on the Fife coast to set up his furnace. The cave provided a sheltered site for early glassmaking in the region.
The statement asserts no legal restriction prevents a woman from becoming president. It emphasizes equal eligibility and frames gender as not a barrier to holding the office in a constitutional republic.
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