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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
6
A fragment describes a hot evening on a crowded piazza and neighbors recalling a year of upheaval with homes shaken by tremors and outages. The tone mixes humor with concern as a passerby comments on the scene and offers light remarks.
On a sweltering New York night Mr. and Mrs. Reddy face heat and their stalled piazzas. A burglary scare hits as a police alert arrives about an open store while their daughter’s playful daydreams carry Dad to a frozen kingdom atop an iceberg.
The annual campus queen contest at Shafter High draws student interest as Monna Lattay leads with 269 votes, Rhoda Kirsch enmann has 210, and Mary Crandall has 87 as pennies are counted for each ballot.
Edward J. Haag was unanimously elected director of the Rio Bravo farm center at a recent meeting. Thomas Devlin named as alternate director and Miss Irene Wilson appointed secretary.
A town notice states the polis will open at seven and lists officers appointed to oversee the Gr andall matter and related fees. Signatures include Mrs Giddys Crandall and Mrs Anna K Pedersen with an official date of April 30, 1938.
Fragmented readable clues include entries like 1 Ethical and 6 Doomed hints and scattered partial words. The garbled text shows puzzle orientation notes and stray letters, with stray names and numbers interspersed, but no coherent clue set or grid.
A shed owned by C A Riggs was burned Monday at 1 30 pm destroying the shed and about an acre of grain. Damage was estimated at 60 dollars and the fire’s origin was listed as unknown by Warden Art Craig. The shed stood about a half mile south of Kern Academy. A second fire Tuesday afternoon burned ten acres of grass belonging to Kern County Land Company east of the high school.
Sierra League champions Shafter led team with a broad margin as the Big S Club announced track award recipients. Honorees include Elmer Unruh Ted Collins Herts Neuman Marvin Olson Johnny Thanneson Jess Combs Elmer Dahl Adolph Goertzen Harold Janzen Omer Evans Ben Meyers LaVerne Kliewer Wilbert Don Kliewer Tom Tucker Ed Evans Jack Stewart Bert Davis and others.
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