Shafter High Officials Lead Community Dinner Talks
Prominent speakers at the Shafter high school principals and administrators dinner include Miss Grace Bird dean of Bakersfield junior college, Herbert Healy county superintendent, and T. L. McCuen business manager. They discussed a new cumulative student record, teachers institutes, and business administration issues.
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Grace Bird
Bakersfield Junior College
Herbert L. Healy
T. L. McCuen
Kern County Union High
Shafter High’ School
E. P. Jones
Shafter High-School
Miss Bird
H. Brooks
Long Beach
Healy
McCuen
Business Managers
San Francisco
Home Economics Club
Eleanor H. Schaap
Rosella Heinrichs
Ruth Kirchenmann
Betty Spry
Helen Mayer
Shafter High School
Janes
William B. White
Walter E. Emrick
Amelia Finck
J. H. Porterfield
H. S. Delavan
Richland Grammar School
Good Entertainers Are Here Nightly at Cafe Neuman
Patrons enjoy nightly vocal and instrumental entertainment from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Cafe Neuman featuring Jan Castle of Dallas and Dick Solomon of Los Angeles. Castle is a vocalist and drummer with past ties to the Victor Recording Orchestra, while Solomon plays the ivories with evident expertise.
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Cafe Neuman
Jan Castle
Dallas
Texas
Dick Solomon
Los Angeles
Castle
Victor Recording Orchestra
Solomon
Scotland Yard Forces Public Order in Central England
Scotland Yard in London serves as the headquarters of the metropolitan police. The force covers London County and nearby areas totaling about 700 square miles and operates under the Home Secretary of Great Britain to maintain public order in this central region.
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Scotland Yard
London
Metropolitan Police Force
London County
England
Home Secretary
Great Britain
Dublin a History of the Irish Capital and Its Landmarks
Dublin, ancient seat of legends, with roots in the ninth century Danish era and Henry II. The Liffey divides the city, quays host ships, and Sackville Street spans 120 feet. Notable sights include St Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College, the Custom House, the Four Courts, Dublin Castle, and Phoenix Park.
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Dublin
Europe
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Liffey
Phoenix Park
Sackville Street
Rutland Square
General Post Office
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Trinity College
Custom House
Four Courts
Dublin Castle
Not All Pygmies Dwarfs, According to Sculptures
In Field Museum displays of Mankind, pygmies from Ituri forest in the Belgian Congo are shown in Malvina Hoffman’s bronze group with a drummer and his wife with child. They are portrayed as symmetrically formed, intelligent, and musical. men average four feet ten inches, women four feet six, with scant clothing and no agriculture.
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Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Ituri Forest
Belgian Congo
Malvina Hoffman
Africa
Inventor Richard Gatling Born in North Carolina in 1818
Richard Jordan Gatling, noted for the Gatling gun, was born in Hertford County North Carolina in 1818. As a boy he helped his father create a cottonseed sowing machine and later developed a rice sowing device. He studied medicine in Cincinnati and conceived the revolving battery gun in 1861, improved in 1865 and adopted by the U S government. He died in 1903.
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Richard Jordan Gatling
Hertford County
N. C
Cincinnati
United States
Congress
Phobia Variety Highlights Common Fears
Literary Digest cites statistics showing 16 percent fear the dark, another 16 percent fear thunder, 12 percent dread water, and 4 percent fear heights. It lists other phobias such as siderodromophobia railways cynophobia dogs myso phobia dirt keraunophobia thunder astrapophobia lightning ailurophobia cats gephyrophobia bridges taphophobia burial ergasiophobia work and triskaidekaphobia being thirteenth in a group.
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Literary Digest
Ideas that shaped Australia and New Zealand origins
The text notes Australia and New Zealand grew from race energy despite London government limits. It claims British policy viewed them as penal settlements and mentions Western Australia up to 685 and New Zealand to 1840, with French ships approaching to claim the territories.
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Australia
New Zealand
London
Western Australia
Fortress of Christophe One of the Greatest Ruins in Haiti
The Balti more Sun notes Christophe’s fortress at Cap Haitien as a towering ruin near Columbus’s early garrison site. Built by Christophe, it rises 150 feet with corridors and grim cells. It housed naval guns and cannon piles and was famed for its nearly impregnable fortress history and brutal executions from the ramparts.
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Egypt
Christophe
Cap-Haitien
Haiti
Baltimore Sun
Columbus
Europe
Endowments Drive Income for the Church of England
The Church of England depends largely on its historic endowments, many dating before the Reformation, with properties in London and other cities now highly valuable. Some endowments grant perpetual income rights to parishes and churches, while others have become defunct. A Church Estates Commission. since 1836, supervises these assets and reallocates funds to current uses. In addition to endowments, general appeals remain a major income source.
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Church of England
London
Cleveland Plains
Church Estates Commission
Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Why meats bear names differing from animals
A Pearsey's London Weekly note explains that English meat names come from Norman French after the Norman Conquest. Saxon shepherds named the animals, while Norman eaters used their French terms, turning pig into pork and sheep into mutton among others.
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England
Pearsey
London
Yorkshr Terrier: Tiny Toy Dog of Long Silky Coat
The Yorkshire terrier, a small toy breed, traces its origins to the Skye terrier and a Waterside terrier from the mid eighties. It is noted for a very long silky coat that often reaches the floor and marks its distinctive look.
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Los Angeles Times
York
Twain and Kipling Pun About England and America
Mark Twain joked after both he and Rudyard Kipling recovered from illness. He quipped that England and America, drawn close by Kipling, cannot be divided by Twain.
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Mark Twain
Rudyard Kipling
Atlantic
America
Kipling
England
Twain
Albinism in Birds and Mammals
A brief note explains that albinism occurs more often in birds than mammals and clarifies it should not be confused with other color changes seen in certain birds and mammals on high mountains.
Origins of Louisiana Parishes and Civil Divisions
After the Louisiana purchase the territory was split into twelve settlements called counties. By 1807 Orleans divided the land into nineteen districts named parishes, a term tied to old ecclesiastic districts. Upon statehood the parish name applied to further civil districts.
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Louisiana
France
Orleans
Birds Muscles Centered and Body Short and Deep
The Detroit Free Press notes that flight drives bird evolution shaping a compact body and centralized muscles. Feathers provide light, strong structure with hollow bones and a small head. Wings house large flight muscles on the breastbone while internal organs stay near the center for optimal gravity and minimal bulk. Subscribe for The Press.
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Detroit Free Press
Church News A Pastor Funck Services Schedule
Pastor Funck leads Sunday School at 9 30 a m and morning service at 10 30 a m on Sunday. The sermon discusses the first and second seals from Revelation 6 1 4. A German evening service is at 7 30 p m with Saturday catechism and Bible instruction from 9 to 11 30 a m.
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A, Funck
Union Congregational Church Service Schedule
The church holds a 9:50 a.m. church school and an 11:00 a.m. worship with the sermon on The Power of Whitsun tide. Alfred T. Chandler is minister and Mrs. J. H. Porterfield leads music with Alfred Smith as pianist.
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Alfred T. Chandler
J. H.porterfield
Alfred Smith
Common flag bears heart motif and full circulatory symbolism
The flag features a central heart emblem and a complete circulatory system motif as its design. It combines anatomical imagery with national symbolism to convey unity and life.
Moving oil rig on wheels marks Kern County job
A 90 foot oil rig has been placed on wheels for what may be Kern County's largest moving job. Also noted are a Keene hospital bagpipe concert for patients and a fatal Golden State highway crash near McFarland with the driver cleared of blame. Old timers of the Odd Fellows in Kern County will be feted at a gala and feminine golfers host an open day at Stockdale Country Club.
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Keene
Golden State Highway
McFarland
Odd Fellows
Kern County
Stockdale Country Club
Bakersfield News Digest Highlights Local Happenings
Wild winds and hazards accompany a Bakersfield box raid aftermath. Frank C. Smith dies after 60 years in Kern. George E. Wilson wins Bakersfield mayoral race. R W Louden re elected Kern County Historical Society president. Kern girl earns opera honors in Los Angeles federation contest. 400 attend Kern River park fish and game barbecue. 12 injured at railroad accidents in Bakersfield area. Over 3000 visit Kern General Hospital. Bakersfield Chinese Mission marks 30th anniversary. Leo Kisling hits four home runs in one game setting a possible world record.
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Robert L. Stoddard
San Francisco
Km Street
Bakersfield
Los Angeles
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
David I. Stoddard
Frank C. Smith
Kern
George E. Wilson
R. W. Louden
Kern County Historical Society
California
Federation of Arts
Kern River Park
Kern General Hospital
Leo Kisling
Delano High
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Mary Ratzlaff
Juanita Myers
Miss Ratzlaff
Margaret Hofer
Edna Ratzlaff
Evelyn Ratzlaff
Shafter
Irwin Hofer
Bert Penner
Wasco
Menno Classen
Arnold Wittenberg
King’s Daughters
Verna Balzer
Mable Schultz
Adline Kerber
Malinda Becker
R. Nikkel
Susie Isaac
Alvina Hildebrand
Aldine Boese
Fern Gaede
Edna Boese
Venona Bergen
Grace Weyand
Opal Siemens
Evelyn Unruh
Mary Neufeld
Lulu Kliewer
Esther Unruh
Alice Klassen
Linda Unruh
John Warkentine
Reedley
John Kruse
Hulda Peters
Adline Karber
Shafter Girls’ Club
American Home Economics Association
Washington, D. C
Eleanor Schaap
Ruth Kirschenmann
Vivian Bartel
Gladys Breckenbridge
Stine Road
MccFarland
E. J. Peery
Glenn
Nay
P. L. Arnold
Eileen Woodburn
Janet Woodburn
Fransquite Sullivan
Amelia Finch
W. B. White
Harold Delavan
Alfred Chandler
Ireland
Dubh-linn
Black Pool
Henry II
James II
William Tit
Parishes
Church News
Reformed Church
Union Congregational Church
San Joaquin Pipe and Salvage Co
Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, Calif
Harry A. Hopkins
Adobe
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Pacific Street
Little Brother
Federated Stores
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