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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
2
The column rants on London protestors in Hyde Park and the royal family, mocks eastern politicians at a GOP convention, and critiques war debts and relief spending. It notes public works jokes, Kentucky colonels, and a satirical take on American politics.
A columnist recalls centuries of fire caused by careless tourists and discarded flames across western forests. He cites a Montana ranch tale where hikers ignored a warning and lit a fire, igniting vast woods and billions in damages while wildlife perished.
A playful pastiche traces Agatha from a gifted child to a self driven city dancer and eventual marathon dancer. A humor column ends with wry maxims about luck breaks and everyday observations.
The fragment lists classic poems and poets such as John Greenleaf Whittier and references to lines like I remember, I remember from a speaker’s memory. It tests identifying the correct poem and author among well known titles.
California oranges come from Florida. Idaho Rhode Island weeee California New Jersey. Florida. Bacon is procured from pigs. Veins show pigs seeteeessfig trees bluefish guinea hens. Violin strings are made from catgut. Peach stones old shoes. Pumpkins are vegetables. Alfonso was formerly king of Spain. Poland Chile Mexico Spain. East Lynn Romania is a country. In Australia South America Asia North America Iceland. A leading export of Switzerland Swiss chocolate. coffee bananas.
The poem urges calm living and steady pace. It contrasts the slow tortoise with the over active person and warns that haste makes waste. It cautions against rushing tasks as it creates stress and invites negative consequences at work.
The ap lique tulip quilt pattern named Pride of the Garden offers easy steps for all ages to create varied tulip blocks with uniform leaves and stems. Priced as an affordable gift for brides to be, it includes instructions, a color chart, bed size block diagrams, and fabric placement guidance. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
If a state is given, supply its capital. if a capital is given, supply the state. Illinois New Mexico Salem Trenton Augusta Jefferson City N Dakota Dakota Albany Lincoln Baton Rouge Ohio 8 Carolina N Carolina Massachusetts Madison Boston Wisconsin
A boy in a grocery asks for a dime's worth of asa fetida to a puzzled storekeeper. When asked his name the boy replies Shermerhorn, and the keeper refuses to spell both words for a dime, jokingly ending the exchange.
A witty exchange attributes the son's thirst for knowledge to the father, while crediting the mother with providing the knowledge. The remark playfully highlights parental roles in shaping a child’s curiosity and learning.
A Toronto Globe quote recalls a hunter saying meeting a bear without a gun put him at a disadvantage. He notes he was a stranger in the country and had left road maps back at camp.
WPA workers unearthed remains 120 feet below Slauson Avenue drain in Los Angeles. Fragments of an imperial elephant tusks teeth vertebra and a skull were found with what appeared to be a human bone amid other fragments suggesting glacial epoch habitation nearly 25 000 years ago by scientists.
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