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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1936
Page
6
Oliver P. Arnold, assistant vice president of Denver National Bank in Denver Colorado, is among eleven arrested suspects in a large mail robbery conspiracy. The charges come from United States postal inspectors and pertain to extensive robberies.
A quip from Willie about marriage asks whether one should wed a woman who is an excellent talker or the other kind. Willie replies with a playful response clarifying the joke.
The article notes rising competition among Venice gondoliers this spring linked to Italo-Ethiopian war effects. It describes night rides through misty lagoons, ghostly bridges, and funeral barges, contrasting solemn processions with festive water parades during Redentore and September Doges palace illumination.
Tourists favor gondolas as a picturesque Venice transit though merchants prefer motor launches and steamers along the Grand Canal. American visitors note gondolas’ form and the gondolier’s strokes as they glide with light rolling on lagoon waters.
Wilmington man Louis L. Lehan proclaims himself the most dog bitten postman in America after being snapped at score or more times and sustaining 14 bite wounds. He jokes about government stripes for each bite.
Houston Zoo curator Hans Nagel, famed for decades of field work in Africa, recounts harsher dangers from captive animals than wild ones. He lists injuries from a lion, boa constrictor, stork, rattlesnakes, kangaroo, bobcats, hyenas, elephants, and a zebra, plus long hospital stays after incidents in 1923 and beyond.
A forty year old hardwood finisher from Chelsea Massachusetts has been nominated for the presidency by the Socialist Labor party.
Castle of Henry VIII life and forms a vital factor in the European situation, a famous fort built to guard Great Britain from invasion by the River Thames is for sale. This is one of the piquant con invasion, and made the famous declaration: I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and a king of England too. Other surviving Tudor fortresses are Deal and Walmer castles.
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