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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
5
Funeral services were held in the Janzen home Saturday afternoon for Leroy John Casson 11 months old son of Mr and Mrs L J Casson who died Thursday in Shafter Interment was in Shafter cemetery The baby is survived by his parents and a sister.
A fragment notes ice cream first made in America by Jacob Fussel in Baltimore in 1851. The item highlights early American dairy innovation and regional claim to the dessert's origins.
A Chicago Tribune writer notes the Newfoundland is a large North American breed with possible European fishermen origins. It remains a courageous loyal working dog, adept in water and on land, among other large breeds like the Irish Wolfhound and Scottish Deerhound, with St Bernard reaching 200 to 220 pounds.
A Washington Star writer notes circus animals have quirky preferences. Tigers and lions crave catnip like house cats. elephants like coal and need daily dirt and peanuts to avoid colic. The elephant’s backward hind legs and strong tail are highlighted. Trick horses are white due to rosin powder and grip.
The article outlines Herodotus the Father of History born in Halicarnassus in 484 B C. He left home to Samos to learn the Tonic dialect and wrote his history after travels across Greece Asia Minor Syria Babylon and northern Africa. He aided in expulsion of Lydamis and later settled in Thurrii Italy lawgivers. He died at an old age with uncertain year.
The inscription on Benjamin Franklin's tombstone, written by Franklin, portrays the body as a printer’s book whose contents are torn out and will reappear in a new and more beautiful edition corrected and amended.
A Kansas City Star item highlights a bird man who marvels at the wood thrush’s music. He says the thrush sings as if it were his own, claiming deep kinship with the bird and its remarkable song.
Joe Borneo, a Mexico City based retired racer, says he developed a new type airplane motor after 30 years in mechanics. He claims the design uses one spark plug for four explosions per revolution, has no gears or valves, and can be built as a diesel or standard motor, with reduced parts and high torque. He fears patent theft due to lax protections in some countries.
A report describes beautiful young women from Germany France Switzerland Poland Italy and Russia being used to gather military secrets across Europe. Notable cases include Countess Wielopolska awaiting trial in Berlin for espionage and Elsa Turch serving a French prison sentence for attempting to recruit spies near Ystres.
Lorain Ohio man Francis Toth twenty seven returns home after a decade of travel covering five continents. He began at seventeen sailing from the United States on a fruit liner and spent five years as a soldier of fortune in the Far East. He visited Tibet India Europe Africa Australia and South America describing Tibet as unreal and remote beyond words.
Stanford University physicist Professor Norris E. Bradbury told the American Physical Society that the heaviside a blanket of electrically charged atmosphere 50 to 100 miles above the earth is responsible for interference in radio reception. He cited how radio waves are affected by this layer as a key source of signal disruption.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer writer notes Elizabeth I imposed Sunday stock wearing laws while stock i ngs were made with handcrafts. Rev William Lee, from Nottingham, invented a woolen stocking machine but the queen denied a patent, later prompting the French ambassador to recruit him to France.
A Paris dispatch reports 2790 languages worldwide per the Academie Francaise as a yardstick to measure linguistic mastery. It notes Cardinal Mezzofanti as a legendary polyglot who spoke about sixty languages and read over a hundred, admired by Byron as a colossal figure in language mastery.
Howell N. White Jr writes in Cosmopolitan that teaching a dog resembles early child education. Dogs respond to kindness understanding and consistency, with simple language and fixed terms. Use a single word for each object and a clear routine for walks and outings.
A Washington Post writer notes pigment control in hair and explains that sorrow worry illness or shock can halt color production. An example cites a famous locksmith whose dark hair turned white in 45 minutes after a nerve shock during a deep sea dive to open a sunken vessel hatch.
An explainer notes that dextral means right handed and right eyed, while sinistral derives from the Latin left. The text discusses how these terms apply to athletes and defines straight dextral as someone who is both right handed and right eyed.
Wild huckleberries spread across the area attracting interest as harvesters note abundant berries. Local foragers report no organized picking effort yet and observers say timing may boost late season yields.
Herbert L. Healy announces the coming year’s Kern County school supervision. J. Hart Tener is general supervisor in the upper grades and head of all supervisory activities. Everett T. Calvert resigns to become Pasadena City Schools principal, effective July 1. New staff includes Miss Edna Maude Anderson art supervisor, Miss Gertrude Ganzenhuber music supervisor, Mrs Rhoda Smith physical education supervisor, D T Dawe researcher and guidance head, Bessie O Brown primary supervisor, and H W Kelly new child welfare and attendance supervisor with degrees from Stanford.
The Interior announces a $340,9920 contract to Pearson Minnis Moody Werner and Webb of Los Angeles for eight miles of canal plus a short tunnel. Work must start within 30 days and finish within 450 calendar days. The project will supply water to Walnut Creek Concord and southern Suisun Bay cities.
An Agricultural Experiment Station survey of Southern California orchards reports that careful management can keep average cultivation costs at about 200 per acre for mature citrus stock or for orchards yielding 240 packed boxes per acre. The UC study highlights enterprise efficiency and practical cost thresholds.
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