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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1938
Page
8
A Marion woman flagged down an approaching fast passenger train after her car stalled on an uptown track. She attempted to push the auto free but failed, and the wheel reportedly broke as the train halted. Her quick action saved her dog Inky and prevented car destruction.
Dr Richard H Hunter of Queen's University Belfast demonstrated training lions without cruelty at the Belfast zoo. He described four stages of lion training and recounted a leopard incident where a quick jaw strike and a push toppled the animal after it charged him near the public road.
Atlanta baby Patricia Benefield, six months old, reportedly began smoking at five months by snatching her father’s pipe. She has since added cigars and chewing tobacco while remaining rare in use. her father jokes about her “cute trick.”
A Baltimore father Edward B. Pius and his wife faced federal grand jury action after their children Edward Jr and Helen testified he coerced them into passing counterfeit quarters and bills in multiple states. The boy recounted a beating when he protested, and he later served time at the National Training School for Boys for possession of counterfeit money.
Beginning Sunday January 16 special meetings will start at the Mennonite Brethren Church of Shafter with Rev J J Penner of Reedley as speaker. He will preach at both Sunday services and each evening except Saturday. A Tuesday Bible lecture in German is also planned at 10:30 am.
A notice inviting attendance at Sunday services and Sunday School at 10 a m in Wasco and the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston. It cites the weekly Wednesday 8 o’clock meeting and quotes Bible verses from John and selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
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