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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1937
Page
7
Reverend Harold J Martin Canadian priest and president of the Canadian American league was elected at a Montreal meeting. He once played baseball with Frankie Frisch at Fordham University and pitched twelve consecutive wins in earlier seasons.
Practical guidance on enhancing tub bathing with perfumed and plain Epsom salt blends, floating soaps and nail brushes, plus towel racks and tub dishes. It also covers sleeping comfort with blanket sheets, their history, materials, patterns, and use to maintain warmth, citing Western Newspaper Union.
Westinghouse factory workers in Philadelphia assemble the massive 200 inch Palomar telescope socket and yoke. The piece will transport to California for mounting atop Mount Palomar, with a four room powered base and oil bearing supports. Navy engineers foresee three more years until the telescope reaches its full sky turning capability.
Sour milk and buttermilk are interchangeable in recipes. Clean isinglass by rubbing with a damp cloth dusted with baking soda. Creamed yellow cheese enhances boiled dressing for salads. Grease molds with butter to turn out jellies neatly. Snack idea: biscuit dough squares wrapped around cooked sausages with cheese, baked ten minutes, served on toothpicks.
The essay discusses how common things and customs evolve with time. It contrasts past fashions and habits with present trends in clothing, architecture, and structural design, noting the shift from Gothic to modernistic styles.
Christian Brodersen of Valley Stream recounts the 1903 Lulu Bohlen wreck on the Liberian coast. After hitting rocks near the Sanguien river, survivors fled to River Cess where natives looted the post, forcing a week of terror. A returning landing party found captains and crew in peril, and later gunboats shelled coast villages to punish wrecking and cannibalism.
The text explains aphasia as speech loss from brain issues or psychological causes. It notes Michel Ney born in Saarlouis, France, son of a cooper, who joined the army in 1788 and rose to general in 1796. It mentions Ney leaving Napoleon’s army and the title Bravest of the Brave, with his actions around Napoleon’s abdication and Waterloo.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions household tasks and arranging flowers for the table. The readable text suggests a home setting and chores but contains incomplete phrases and unclear details.
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