Week End Travel and Local Visitors Reported in Shafter
Shafter residents and guests spent weekends in Los Angeles Pismo Beach Morro Bay and San Francisco. Local trips included Portland Reno and Bakersfield with many attending family visits business stops and seaside outings across Kern County and southern California.
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Tom
B. Jones
Pacific Fruit
Produce Company
Shafter
Los Angeles
Emanuel Neumann
G. H.carmody
Bill Slagic
Bakersfield
Pismo Beach
Emil Stoller
Karl Roscamp
Henry. Schnidt
Jack Stoller
Ed Wiedenbach
Paul McCoy
George B. Neill
Wasco
Pismo
Ed Nikkel
Bank of America
Long Beach
Deoks - Nix
California
J. P. Weitz
Ruby
Glendale
South
Southern
Walt Bergen
Woods Stone
Art Schettler
Hugo Reich
LeJnie Wildermuth
Mrs
Harold Chance
Eugene
Lloyd Pack
Lloyd C. Pack
Sequoia Park
Southern California
Ditches Dug To Control Grasshoppers In Cummings Valley
Potatoes in the Cummings valley district are being protected by digging ditches around fields and poisoning the land. Grasshoppers that fall into the trenches are killed with torches as part of the pest control effort. About 20 miles of trench have been dug.
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Cummings Valley
Lights and Faces of New York Spectacle and Struggling Dream
A montage spans a Chicago to New York drift, featuring an Illinois inventor failed to market a patent and works as a stock clerk. Broadway vignettes praise performers, woes, and city life from Fifth Avenue to Radio City, ending with a skywriter miscue about war and fashion.
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New York
Illinois
Gotham
Oscar Serlin
Frankie Masters
Chicago
Winter Garden
Radio City
Charley McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Jimmy Walker
Andre Kostelanetz
Prophetic Gas Mask Marks 19th Century Hood Design
London recounts a 1825 invention where a workman created a leather hood that fully enclosed the head, foreshadowing later gas mask concepts before modern poison gas concerns arose.
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London
Mobilgas Special- premium ethylized gasolines announced
General Ferrotown corporation releases two new Mobilgas fuels, boasting high octane ratings and balanced components for improved performance, mileage, and hill climbing. Don Dawson cites research by refinery chemists and engineers, with products available nationwide in stations bearing the Flying Red Horse trademark.
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General Ferrotown Corporation
Don ‘Dawson
Dawson
Mobilgas
Shafter Merchants Fall to Wasco Trojans in League Showdown
Wasco Trojans beat Shafter Merchants 6 to 3 to lead Wasco city softball league as Demary tripled and Danzler and Hamilton added RBI hits. Ernie Neufeld started for Merchants but was relieved by Ralph Lachenmaier after two innings as Trojans’ Brite pitched a complete game.
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Shafter Merchants
Ati Wasco
Trojans
Wasco City
Merchants
Walker
Demary
Gemtes
Hamilton
Danzler
Ernie Neufeld
Merchant Chucker
Neufeld
Ralph Lachenmaier
Brite
Shafter
Rodgers
Ang Breed
B. Lachenmaier
Ee Mettler
Gaede
Duke
P. Rf
Lachenmaier
Annis
Taylor
Campoell
R. Lachenmaier
Breathitt County Volunteers Boost World War Effort
Breathitt County Kentucky sent a large number of volunteers to the World War I effort, so many that none from the county were drafted. The community’s wartime contribution highlighted by local records reflects strong enlistment and county pride.
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Breathitt County
Kentucky
Spinach Fuels Crystal City Deer Population Surge
Crystal City's winter garden district, famed as the world's greatest spinach producer, now provides spinach-fattened deer for hunters. Ranches carved from large ranches house thousands of deer that reportedly travel up to ten miles to reach spinach and thrive on it.
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Crystal City
Texas
Winter Garden
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