War of County Clerk Smith Versus Board of Supervisors Heats Up
The Bakersfield area faces a statewide voter registration starting today with County Clerk F E Smith forcing enrollments at two Bakersfield branch offices. Voters from Shafter Inyokern and Brown may travel long distances, pay travel costs, or wait in lines as Smith presses restrictions and political tensions rise. The piece notes rumors, financial restraint by supervisors, and hints at New Deal sentiments influencing public opinion.
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F. E. Smith
Board of Supervisors
California
Bakersfield
Clerk Smith
Shafter
Inyokern
Brown
Smith
Literary Digest
Mr. Smith
The Valley of the San Joaquin Hero of the Desert
The piece recounts the San Joaquin Valley between the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range and its transformation from desert to fertile farmland under irrigation. It honors the anonymous pioneer who cleared the land, built cabins, and started ranches, ending with a salute to the hero who remains unknown.
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San Joaquin
Great Desert
Sierra Nevada
Coast Range
Tehachapissountains
Sacramento River
Sacramento Valley
United States
Valley of the
Theodore F, Bayless
Golden Anniversary of Kern Pioneers in Bakersfield
Bakersfield marks the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stockton, long celebrated pioneers of Kern County, with a Saturday celebration in the city.
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Mrs
R. L. Stockton
Kern County
Bakersfield
Shafter Youth Dazes Town With Fire Hydrant Hit
Shafter experiences water shortage after Perry Aust 29 drives a car through a fire hydrant before Richland grammar school auditorium. He lacks an operator license and was driving a car owned by a brother, with his father present. Artesian water flow started, prompting authorities to shut off the tank to conserve domestic water while workers act.
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Shafter
Perry
Aust
Richland Grammar School
Alcohols and fatty acids linked by carbon chains described
The text explains a class of compounds with long carbon chains bearing OH groups and the fatty acids with COOH groups. Germany developed a method to convert these acids to solid alcohols, creating waxy solids with water affinity and emulsification potential.
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Germany
First wireless distress call at sea saves lives in 1909
Jack Binns aboard the Republic sent the first at sea distress call during a collision with the Florida on January 28 1909 off Nantucket. The Baltic responded racing to aid and all passengers and crew were saved during transfers after the ships were damaged. The incident prompted the 8 08 distress code adoption in 1912.
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Jack Binns
Republic
Florida
North Atlantic
Nantucket
Baltic
Birth of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Celebrated
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt recalls the founding of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828. Business leaders planned a mountain crossing of the Ohio River and invited Immortal Charles Carroll to lay the foundation stone at Baltimore on July 4. Carroll, then 93, hailed the venture as among his greatest deeds after the Declaration of Independence.
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Reine
Ohio River
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Charles Carroll
Carroll
Clleveland Plain Dealer
Balboa the Stowaway Who Reached the Pacific
Balboa, a former stowaway from Santo Domingo, hid in a wine barrel to reach Darien on the Isthmus of Panama. Discovered at sea, he proved useful aboard and rose to popularity. In 1578 he led a short expedition across the isthmus to claim lands touching the Pacific for Spain.
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Balboa
Pacific Ocean
Darien
Panama
Santo Domingo
Spain
Early English Barbering Emerges as Guild in 1461
The text traces barbering to 1461 when England incorporated barbers as a guild under Edward IV. It notes French barber-surgeons gained distinct status under Louis XIV, over 200 years ago, and in 1745 England separated barbers and surgeons into separate corporations while the striped barber pole remains a memorial of the profession.
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England
Edward IV
France
Louis XIV
Stamp Act Congress Petition on Tax Consent Emerges
Delegates from the colonies met at New York City Hall in October 1765 to protest taxes without colonial consent. Petitions argued that taxes could not be laid on the colonists without their own agreement.
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City Hall
New York
Misses Shultz Past and Peake New School Secretaries
Following three years at Shafter high school Ann Mettler left as secretary to the principal. Miss Lena Shultz succeeds in the administrative division after serving in agriculture. Miss Gladys Past becomes agricultural secretary, and Miss Dorothea Peake joins the staff.
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Shultz
Past
Peake
Shafter High School
Princight
Ann Mettler
Lena Shultz
Glenn O. Nay
Agricultural Department
Miss Shultz
Richland and
Shafter High Schools
John P. Shultz
Gladys Past
Student Becomes Secretary in Commercial Department
The senior class member of the present year takes the role as secretary to P. L. Arnold in the commercial department.
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P. L. Arnold
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Central Avenue
HG. Comfort
Shafterwater
Shafter Garbage Service
G. A. Wittmayer
E. K. Grant
New International
L St
Shafter Folk Jno
Demos
Janzen Funeral Home Ambulance Service
Sunshine Garage
H. Mayfield
West & Lowe Mining Company
Wasco
McFarland
Rosedale
Shafter Dairy
J. P. Harris
Prop
Frank Shaw
Walter Zimmerman
Standard Station
Oil and
Auto Parts
Bakersfield Implement Co
L. A. Lugs
Lufkin
Business College
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