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Newspaper

Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Feb 28, 1952

Page

20

Magazine California subscription offer and gift tie

A local newspaper advertises Magazine California as a biweekly supplement for subscribers, urging readers to renew now. The ad promotes a custom tied gift with hand painted name and vivid colors, offered by Harold's Custom Neckwear at 632 W Sixth Street, Los Angeles 17, California, for five dollars plus postage.

California P.p C.o.d’s Harold's Custom Sixth Street Los Angeles Cal

Pioneering With Fuller a California Family Chronicle

Mary Louise OBrien reviews a biographical sketch of William Palmer Fuller and the W P Fuller & Co legacy. The volume, drawing on earlier works and New Hampshire and Massachusetts records, covers a century of paint oil and glass business, gold rush era exploits, and the Fuller family’s service to California and the nation.

Fuller William Palmer Fuller W. P. Fuller & Co Elmer E. Simmons Marjorie G. January W. P. Fuller, Jr Mary Louise O'Brien New Hampshire Massachusetts William Farmer Fuller A. H. Brawner W. P.fuller&co

Country Carnival cooking advice from Marguerite Fenner

Marguerite Fenner, head home economist for P G and E, explains how to cook better meals at lower cost in Magazine California's Country Carnival cooking schools. She has led demonstrations in Mill Valley and elsewhere with more sessions planned across about 20 towns.

Marguerite Fenner P.G Miss Fenner Magazine California Mill Valley

Automobiles and Courtship Across Time

Peter Potts Dere sd reflects on a columnist claim that cars widen dating options, arguing Americans long used every transport era from boats to rail to reach partners. He recalls wagons, dances, and a lightnin rod joke, urging readers to keep moving and stay fit with humor about progress.

Concord Jasper Punkinville

California Gold Rush Camps Along the 49er Highway

The excerpt recalls Downie and his men during a starving period as hundreds of gold hungry migrants streamed into tin diggings. It notes three owners of Tin Diggings who supposedly gathered a tin cup of gold each, highlighting California’s dramatic gold rush era and the romance of the era along a historic highway. It also mentions the Air Force Library network with 118 main libraries in the continental United States and 35 overseas.

Downie California Air Force Library Se

Reader's Digest offered at half price to new subscribers

An early advertisement cites Cecil B. DeMille praising The Reader's Digest as a tool against communism and urges employers to provide issues to employees. It promotes a trial offer of eight issues for one dollar to new subscribers, with a request to enlist friends and colleagues.

California Cecil D. deMille deMille

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