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Newspaper

Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 23, 1936

Page

7

Obnoxious Football Player Sparks Coach Confrontation

In a tense moment a coach questions two players unfit for the squad while a player complains about a 90 yard remark. The exchange highlights team discipline and coaching style.

Wifey and Hubby Discuss Debt Worries

Wifey frets aloud about owing numerous bills they cannot pay while hubby dismisses concern as unnecessary, arguing they should not worry about others' troubles.

Unclear Exchange Cited in Fragmentary Text

Fragmentary OCR shows lines with phrases about a simple question and requests for money. No clear event, names, dates, or organizations are established. The readable items resemble a casual dialogue snippet rather than a complete news item.

Globetrotter Hattie and Fragments From a Primer

The fragmentary text sketches Hattie, a cosmopolite raised for travel, who runs away at seventeen to marry a local seller. It mentions travels of ancestors with Stanley in Africa and Arctic expeditions, a blimp over the South Pole, and a submarine voyage quest, with moral notes on travel and brief era snippets.

tHattie Hattie Stanley Africa Arctic Phineas South Pole North Pole Paris Omsk Vienna Peiping Wappinger Falls Raedeker iIt

Scrambled Letters Contest City Names Puzzle

A bulk puzzle lists scrambled city names to rearrange into American cities such as Philadelphia Albany and New York with additional mixed terms. It includes verses about gardening and a set of vocabulary checks defining words like pedigree and defalcate, plus a geography capitals question set and a Connecticut capital misstatement.

Phildeliaptha Albany Nwe Ykeor Chillicoeth Obsnot Los Angisee Cegphia Keon Nas Cofrancis Palmheaeb New Orineas Imalm Hartdorf Jacksonilelv Connecticut Asee Providence New York Florida Pennsylvania Rhode Island New Jersey

What is living Wage

A fragmented dialogue about living wage and personal circumstances. The lines hint at varying conditions affecting earnings, mentioning a cottage and an automobile as possible factors in affordability.

Smart Bowed Junior Miss Frock Advertises Washable Wool

Two piece outfit features a girlish frock with velveteen bow and belt. Made in washable cotton tweed for school or metallic shot wool for evening, blouse separate for mix and match. Pattern 9601 in sizes 10 12 14 16. size 12 needs 2% yards 54 inch fabric and % yard 5 inch ribbon. Send fifteen cents for pattern.

Sewing Circle Pat Dept Order Form Details

Plainly write NAME ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER and SIZE. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pat Dept 282 W Eighteenth St New York.

Pat Dept Eighteenth St New

Skeletons Discovered in Armor Near Venice Battle Site

Workers excavating for a new canal near Stra in the Venetian district uncovered fully preserved skeletons clad in armor. A sword rested between ribs of one skeleton, suggesting a battlefield death. Ancient weapons and ornate vases with hand painted designs were also recovered, the colors remarkably intact.

Venicé Stra Venetian

Bashful Irishman Proposes in Whisper to Lady Friend

A shy young Irish farmer in Kilkenny loved a girl and could not utter the words marriage. After much thought he decided to speak in a whisper one evening, seeking a discreet proposal without saying the dreaded words aloud.

County Kilkenny

Morality and Mortality in Beecher's Viewpoint

A quotation highlights Beecher's belief that morality equals the character and conduct expected by one's community, stressing social norms shape a person's life and duties within their circle.

Henry Ward Beecher

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