Emily Haas Attacks Shafter Letter Over Labor Claims
A reader letter from Emily Haas of Los Angeles in Liberty magazine is challenged as false and biased. The critique argues migrant workers in Shafter reside in county camps, pay for space, and earn low wages, with officials denying tainted water and poor conditions.
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Shatter
Vox Pop
Liberty Magazine
Emily Haas
Los Angeles
Shafter
Liberty
Emily
Los Angees
Kern County
R. Foraker
Kern County Health Department
Joe Smith
Clifford Baughman
Tabor
Progress Noted As Town Sees Greater Growth
The item highlights a marked improvement in the town’s development over the past year, describing progress unseen in years and noting a steady rise in enterprise, housing, and community projects. The excerpt emphasizes sustained momentum and local optimism.
Roaming Along Trinidad Sees Bumper Banana Crop This Year
The notice notes a projected bumper banana harvest in Trinidad promising prosperity. It mentions radio performers practicing long hours, Polish immigrants aiding the first glass works in Palestine, Brazil’s population near 45 million growing by about a million yearly, and government costs to keep the Washington Monument lit at 1 411 dollars in the last fiscal year. It recalls Romans shaping shrubs into animals and ships, and cites Jacksonville Florida’s historic cold snap of seven degrees below zero on February 7, 1835.
Breezy Briefs from Around the World
Brief items report bullfighters in Madrid striking, French Equatorial Africa forest resources to be developed, a $50,000 Hall of Youth opens in East London, and Europe notes vast animal populations in England. Danzig is governed by a League of Nations appointed commissioner. The Soviet embassy occupies Nanking's grand mansion. Vienna owns tens of thousands of dwellings and stores, claiming to be the world’s largest householder city. Johannesburg’s gold-reef city sees population growth of 150,000 in five years, reaching 500,000.
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Vienna
Johannesburg
South Africa
Facts From Old Newsboard on Society and Industry
The note lists social and industrial statements from a past era. It mentions Cherry vitamin C, 7,000,000 Muslims in China, 1,500 sandlot baseball teams in Chicago, the Leviathan sailing 19 times in WWI, Liberia as Africa’s remaining independent nation, English autumn foliage, historic infant mortality of one in four, now one in seventeen, and propane plus butane as refinery by products and refrigerants.
England’s Premier Recognized in 1905
A collection of world facts notes England did not legally recognize its premier until 1905, Italy grows silkworms, France uses electricity broadly, and the Philippines relies on Chinese business. It also cites English cycling tracks, wheat subsidies over 34.5 million dollars, migration trends in Great Britain, and large Scottish families.
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England
Potatoes and Progress in Kern County
Shafter potatoes drive two consecutive months of record Kern County farming output. In June 9376 carloads left the county, with 8797 being potatoes. Shafter shipped 8207 carloads, a new record, signaling strong growth for the town and county.
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Shafter
Kern County
Kew County
Quotations on Courage and Truth Across Philosophers
A compact collection of lines from Sophocles Seneca O'Reilly and Voltaire on virtue silence faith and human error. The sayings contrast the might of a just cause with the vulnerability of the weak and warn that character and integrity outstrip formal oaths.
Across Half Masts and Hollywood Ironies in Summer
An unsigned reflective column criticizes public nudity norms and sunbathing, satirizing fashion and health mores. It threads in quotes about film industry indulgence, then draws a parallel between strikes and wars, arguing common sense and justice avert conflict and noting the human toll on noncombatants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Galveston
Irvin
WNU Service
Crocodiles and Alligators Stir Public Confusion
A reader letter notes people mix up crocodiles and alligators. The piece says experts claim there are no known authentic cases of human death caused by an alligator or crocodile, despite frequent attacks and reptile reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayser
Nighttime Photography With Lightning And Moonlight Tips
The article explains placing a simple camera on a windowsill for time-exposure lightning shots and street illuminations. It covers film choice, exposure durations from two to five minutes, doubling time for colored lights, and moonlight calculations from 25 minutes per 1/100 second of sunlight to longer exposures for landscapes. Safety note about not including the moon to avoid bright baloney effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John van Guilder
Candidates lining up for irrigation district election
Nomination blanks for the Shafter Wasco Irrigation district directorships are available at Duehren's Hardware. Ten signatures suffice to place a candidate in nomination. Five divisions will elect five directors. Division 1 Charles Westenberg Wasco Division 2 John Nale Wasco Division 3 August Bender Maple Division 4 A R Duehren Division 5 A P C Hannesson. A marriage license was issued to Lenora A Fenderson and Orval W Leonard of Shafter.
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Shafter-Wasco
Duehren
Charles Westenberg
Wasco
John Nale
August Bender
Maple
A. R. Duehren
Shafter
A. Peter Channeson
Lenora A. Fenderson
Orval W. Leonard
Bakersfield
Irrigation District Delays Friant Dam Over CVWP Terms
The Madera irrigation district blocks Friant Dam construction by declining to accept terms proposed by the Central Valley Water Project, stalling the project’s progress and funding plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madera
Friant
Central Valley Water Project
Water pumping eases levee pressure on Tulare land
Hot weather harmed apricot crops in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. Growers, facing losses, raised prices to 60 dollars per ton as irrigation water is pumped from the Tulare Lake basin onto harvested land to relieve levee pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulare Lake
San Joaquin
Sacramento Valleys
Barley Yield Record Reported by W. C. Brown
W C Brown of Mendota Fresno County reportedly averaged forty five sacks of barley per acre in his field. The remark appears in a local agricultural brief detailing crop yields and farming practices.
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W. C. Brown
Mendota
Fresno County
Riverbank to host tomato celebration in August
Riverbank in Stanislaus County will stage a tomato celebration from August 1 to August 28 featuring local growers, exhibits, and community activities. Organizers invite residents and visitors to enjoy fresh produce, cooking demos, and family events throughout the month.
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Riverbank
Stanislaus County
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