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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1937
Page
7
A devotional notes piece urges lay down burdens of life and find true rest in Christ. It contrasts restless modern tempo with scripture, citing Matthew 11 28 30 Hebrews 4 1 11 and 1 Peter 5 7 to urge faith over unbelief and encourage quiet, active trust.
A fragment reads that society is like air or light we constantly breathe and see by, reflecting on human dependence on unseen forces shaping vision and life. It hints at philosophy of perception without clearly identified author or origin.
Federal Market News Service data show alfalfa prices reaching new highs in southern California over six months of the 1937–38 season. Demand remained strong due to rising dairy and beef cattle herds and widespread sheep feeding in Los Angeles and adjacent counties.
W. H. Hitchcock, president of the Kern County Chamber of Commerce, and Frank F. Latta of Shafter, led a program marking Sebastian Indian Reservation. Hundreds gathered at Grapevine near El Tejon ranch to witness ceremonies on the ranch owned by a Los Angeles business syndicate headed by Harry Chandler, once the site of a California Indian reservation.
The county lists its sources of plaque placement for historic sites including Fort Tejon and Tule River relocation events. The Kern County Chamber of Commerce El Tejon Parlor Native Daughters of the Golden West Bakersfield Parlor Native Sons of the Golden West and the Kern County Historical Society oversee the effort.
Rex Beach’s The Barrier features Alaska’s first interior paper Yukon Press in its plot. The film plays Friday and Saturday December 3 and 4 at Shafter Theatre. Harry Sherman and the Fairbanks Alaska College Museum staff helped secure and return the copy safely.
Lew Ayers will also perform in Hold Em Navy. The Yukon Press emerged from an Eastern missionary effort to print hymns in the Alaskan Indian language, with an $800 press shipped north. Bettles, now in Seattle, published the first Bettles newspaper in Fort Adams Alaska on January 1, 1894, after moving the equipment. The print of The Barrier impressed him, recalling 1898 mining prospects and frontier life.
A film overview notes stars Leo Carrillo Jean Parker and James Ellison with Otto Kruger Robert Barrat Andy Clyde and Sara Haden. The piece mentions direction by Les and quotes a Petaluma resident about today’s best household buy eggs from Jax Pedersen.
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