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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1937
Page
4
A historical note traces the wooden Indian figure’s origins from Britain to America two centuries ago. It recalls 1617 shop occupations, tobacco trade links, and depictions labeled black-boys, with carvers using pine blocks and simple assembly methods.
A Chicago Tribune writer traces the Dells of Wisconsin back to the pre Cambrian granite and Cambrian seas. Eons of submergence and emergence shaped sandstone cliffs and multicolored bluffs. The great thaw carved a river corridor through rugged formations leaving the present vivid scenery.
In Tulare County Three Rivers district pickers harvest Winter Nell pears. The activity centers on local orchards with workers gathering fruit for market distribution.
Past presidents of the Wednesday Afternoon club hosted a dessert bridge birthday party for members and friends yesterday. The 22 year old club featured a large birthday cake, floral hall decorations, and bridge games with high honors to Mrs. H. C. Neufeld.
Mr and Mrs Theodore F Bayless of Shafter marked their forty ninth wedding anniversary with a large family reunion held on Thanksgiving Day. Most children attended except Rex Bayless who is in Sawtelle hospital. Guests included Rex s wife, Debbs Bayless and family of Fresno, Max Bayless, Roy Bayless, Jess Smith and family late from Westwood, and Oliver Thomyus of Bakersfield. The couple wed November 25 1888 in Eminence Missouri after a short romance and have since traveled widely before settling in Shafter in 1927.
Mrs. Jack Kliewer hosted King s Daughters Needleworkers while devotionals were led by Miss Rubena Schultz. Richland P T A meets December 7 at 2 30 in the kindergarten room with Mrs Martha Gloeckler s pupils. open to all.
In observance of Emil Stoller's birthday on Thanksgiving Day, the Stollers entertained guests at dinner. Attending were Mr and Mrs Paul McCoy, Mr and Mrs Pete Goertzen, Sr., Pete, Adolph, Margaret and Elizabeth Goertzen, in addition to the Stollers and their twin baby girls.
Mrs. S. Zee reports a generous response in ticket sales for the church’s annual aid event set for Thursday December 9.
Mr Saddler, a contented town figure with little money, hosts visitors in a warm home filled with Christmas cheer. He explains that festive spirit comes from the heart and that church bells and children's songs travel like light and sound to spread joy.
A Philadelphia Record writer traces electricity from ancient times to Franklin. It notes Thales and amber experiments, then Stephen Gray in London who sent frictional electricity along a 200 foot packthread circuit. Gray also used pupils, including a boy suspended by hair, to show sparks from a key to soap bubbles.
The passage defines heat as a form of energy linked to molecular motion and the cause of fluidity and evaporation. It explains heat expands substances variably, diffuses unequally, seeks equilibrium, and transfers via contact or conduction or by radiation.
A Tirana correspondent reports Albanian brides bring husbands extensive clothing sets. They provide about 40 pairs of trousers and as many shirts, plus hand woven bed and table linen. Large pantaloons indicate aristocratic rank with up to 30 yards of fabric in a single pair.
The article describes the English Pointer as a field trial dog with a strong competitive drive, a trait that suits public performance. It notes rumors from the Nineteenth century that the breed was repeatedly crossbred to enhance this quality.
Banana likely originated in humid Southern Asia and spread westward. Alexander the Great encountered it on the Indus. Arabs took it to the Holy Land and Egypt, then across Africa. Portuguese brought the fruit to the Canary Islands and later the New World around 1516. It appeared in the United States in the early 1800s.
The article explains the brain's major divisions the cerebrum cerebellum and medulla oblongata and notes the gray and white matter. It cites Dr Charles Macfie Campbell claiming parts of the body act as separate brains and that the brain functions as a vast switchboard.
A Frenchman of a century ago created a reading method for the blind that changed lives. Louis Braille refined a system using perforations in paper to form an alphabet of raised dots. It evolved from earlier raised-letter teaching and became a practical literacy tool.
The text asks why people pursue fame and external approval, always seeking others' faces for judgment and craving echoes of their own voices. It examines anxiety over actions and words driven by public perception.
A Chicago Daily News writer notes France first used balloons militarily in 1794 at Fleurus. Capt. Coutelle propelled L Entreprenant above battle smoke signaling to French artillery, aiding victory. Balloons later shaped Paris siege 1870 71 with dozens lifting communications and passengers including Gambetta.
Francis A. Obert, a Massachusetts Technology Institute sophomore from Boston, works as a cream taster at a local dairy. His earnings cover his full tuition and daily expenses, illustrating a unique way to fund college costs.
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