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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1936
Page
7
The article urges tightening screws on mechanical devices to prevent injuries. It cites coffee percolator handles and electric cords as common points of failure and warns about scalding from loose screws. It also notes a woman’s serious accident when a cord screws loosened on an electric flatiron.
Instructions on soap coating screws for easier threading and secure fit, plus guidance on table lighting with candles. Recommends four candles for formality, two for small tables, and using candlestick doilies to prevent wax mess. Also suggests doilies in damask oilcloth or linen for decoration and practicality.
A colorful sketch follows Orville, a naive youth from Paisley and Atwater, as he slips from a spoon fed childhood to art world illusions. He meets Minnie, discovers Van Dyck and Rembrandt, and learns elegance comes with cost, vanity, and a life of concert tickets and pretensions.
Harvard astronomer Dr. Loring B. Andrews argues sunspot activity correlates with weather, economy, wars, and crises. He cautions the link is indirect, tied to other solar phenomena, and notes prosperity tends to follow sunspot maxima, with another peak expected in 1939.
A scientist links sunspot cycles to prosperity, noting that June and 1928 marked highs and 1933 a low, with eleven year cycles and magnetic activity influencing auroras and radio reception. He explains sunspots affect heat, evaporation, rainfall, and cooler weather despite higher solar output.
An excerpt on nature’s diversity and symmetry across forests and flowers. It discusses that no two leaves or roses are identical yet universal life provides consistency, yielding form and beauty through growth and reproduction.
The text discusses constant growth limits in living forms and reproduction producing slight yet meaningful individuality. It notes species share form but differ per generation, and a touch of nature links all, while each touch reveals variety within uniformity. It explores variety as both scientific and aesthetic value.
The text argues that despite moral variety humanity benefits from uniform norms guiding right living. It emphasizes that inner creative moral impulses arise from a higher power and that adding virtues leads to the octaves of spiritual realities. Moral norms reproduce in each mind and heart, stressing justice mercy and humility.
Read the offer in this paper. The Postum Company will send a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it. Ady.
A compact note argues that thrift is a discipline of self denial. It frames saving as a deliberate sacrifice to achieve prudent finances and long term stability. The piece reflects moralizing tones about prudent spending and restraint.
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