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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1938
Page
7
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs screens Sunday to Thursday May 15 to 19 at the Shafter Theatre. The feature length Technicolor animated film is praised by critics as a season’s sensation blending fantasy with drama and comedy.
Puzzle excerpt shows scattered clues and stray letters for a future issue. Readers may glimpse entries for words like to take counsel and finish lines, with several broken spellings and partial phrases indicating a themed wordfind page.
The Shafter high school agriculture judging team placed fourth of 17 teams at Davis with Floyd McClung earning high point honors for second among 51 contestants. Ripon won the contest followed by Ceres and Lodi. The next Day judging contest is at San Luis Obispo during the state F F A convention May 12 13 and 14.
The article traces how Rhodian law influenced the Laws of Oleron collected in the 13th century and show how later systems like Wisby and Louis XIV era ordinances expanded captain authority. It notes punishments from head removal for pilots to keel hauling and whipping, with limited captain power in earlier codes.
An authority in the Detroit Free Press describes the sharptail grouse courtship at daybreak. Males display with spread tails and air sacs, while both sexes move in crossing circles and stamp the ground. A sudden rampage by a male can spread among the flock. Eggs number 10 to 13, laid in a hollow nest, hatch in three weeks into yellowish downy chicks.
The article notes metal furniture in ancient Egypt and Rome as luxurious royal items. It highlights Clement, a French master varnisher in 1770, who invented tole using sheet metal as a base. Louis XV era pieces included cabinets, chairs, lamps, and desks, initially a curiosity then a fashion marking snobbery, though Clement's other works were less durable than wood.
The history traces the holding company to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, authorized by Maryland in 1833 to subscribe for stock in the Western Branch road. This made B&O the first parent corporation in the United States, with later legislative power to acquire stock in other railroads.
The text traces tulips from Turkey's festival to Holland's tulip mania, noting global cultivation and the quick rise in popularity. It cites Persian myth linking tulips to love and explains that deeper colors signified stronger affection.
Poem praising May with buds and blossoms, sunlit days, singing birds, and gardens. The speaker invokes Theodore F. Bayless and ends with a note about press advertising paying, reflecting a newspaper page tone and promotional aside.
New telephone books dated May 1938 have been distributed to subscribers, replacing the July 1937 edition. Shafter shows 216 subscribers this period versus 177 in 1937, an increase of 36 subscribers or about 20 percent in ten months.
The article explains lumberjacks drop trees along their natural lean and use a box cut on the falling side when needed. A second cut is made higher to complete the tilt as the tree totters and falls, with a warning to stand well away from the stump due to kickback.
A concise meditation on how knowledge originates in books, arriving indirectly via reflection and echo. It emphasizes the chain from written text to personal understanding and inner interpretation.
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