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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1937
Page
8
Betty and Frank plan a marriage cue at the race track as Jack and Marlene consider tying the knot after a night of bets. A lost ticket on Dandylegs triggers tension and a surprise twist as the foursome debates a future together.
Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the Goths, an ancient Teutonic tribe near the Baltic, once ravaging Roman provinces. Their split into Ostrogoths and Visigoths shaped Europe, with Ostrogoths ruling Italy 493–554 AD and Visigoths sacking Rome in 410 and later founding a Spanish kingdom until Saracen conquest.
A Paris United Press report notes that the name America was proposed and christened at Saint Die in Vosges, where cartographers led by Waldseemueller marked the new continent on a map and used the baptismal font for the christening rites.
Parson Brownlow, a Tennessee camp meeting convict turned lay preacher, rose to fame across five states. The Washington Star notes his use of Bible and pistol as weapons and his virulent invective. A postwar lecture quotes him proposing drastic hangings for anti slavery agitators and disunionists.
The article explains half masting began at sea with the term mast guiding the gesture. It notes Captain Smith citing a Seaman’s century and describes the procedure: first raise to the top of the staff then lower to mid position as a tribute to the dead.
The three leaves of the Passion Flower cluster symbolize the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Tendrils represent Christ's binding thongs. Tower-stamens pistil sepals and petals stand for the crown of thorns three nail prints five wounds three spears two clubs and the cross. The ten pods are mentioned as part of the emblematic design.
A Scots report places the salmon in the Firth of Forth at a modest pace of around 1 mile per hour. The record notes the fish travel at roughly 1 percent of a mile each hour in the same area.
A collage of brief items highlights disasters, discoveries and sports. Paracale is hit by fire leaving many homeless and casualties. a Saint Bernard mauls a child in Grenoble while a German circus act captivates Missouri crowds. Japan completes a 25000 mile round trip to London and back to Tokyo. Soviet base at the North Pole signals a future US airline route. Tennis star Alice Marble loses to Freda James in London. John D. Rockefeller Sr dies near Ormond Beach. a United States Supreme Court decision upholds Social Security constitutional. Local notes cover oil spout controversy in Los Angeles, a traffic mishap in San Diego, Laguna Beach bathing suit shopping, a rodeo fatality, UC tennis title win, and various regional events in 1950s style reportage.
The passage lists prominent figures linked to wars: Grant, Hays, Garfield, McKinley and Benjamin Harrison in the Civil War era, Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War, and references to earlier Black Hawk War and subsequent conflicts involving Roosevelt.
Geologists and engineers swarm around the Shafter Kernco 1-34 oil well as a production test appears imminent. The bit nears 8300 feet with cores taken hourly. officials offer only that progress is satisfactory and give no further detail.
Miss Greece Bird, dean at Bakersfield junior college, outlined three student types to Shafter high school students. Jess Jones, former Shafter student and college student body president, praised junior college benefits including personal faculty attention and greater chances for extracurricular involvement.
A Pearson's London Weekly writer notes that battleship construction begins years before hull work, with hundreds to over a thousand blueprints and detailed schedules. The process includes precise canvas gun covers, constant plan updates, and rapid ordering of materials for quick repairs once in water.
A Detroit News writer traces the term piece of eight to the Spanish peso or eight reales of the 17th and 18th centuries. The designation circulated across the Americas and appeared in English literature as a shorthand for pesos. Early manuscripts show the symbol and placement evolving around the P.
Oregon adopts a new cream grading law and mandates compulsory butter grades. The policy establishes uniform quality metrics for dairy products and sets grading requirements for cream and butter producers statewide.
Social gathering Friday evening in Kern River Park featured bicycle riding swimming and games. Attendees from Shafter included La Rue Livers Alvina Hildebrand Novella Stewart Edna Beese Margaret Wiebe Jessie Gwin Irwin Starrh Raymond Cyle Kenneth Little Margaret Funk Lee Stoller Lauren Voth Ted Wedel Chester Berg Wasco. Shafter American Legion Auxiliary officer installation set for Tuesday at the Legion clubhouse with Grace Annis succeeding Emable Henderson and other officers named.
Herbert Neumann received a certificate of merit from the California Bankers Association for being the top Future Farmer. The Exchange Club dinner featured Neumann and the state champion dairy products judging team, with team members Ted Collins Victor Voth and Mavin Neumann also cited as state title holders.
A grass fire began behind the Union Congregational church Monday evening about 5 30 from an unknown cause and was confined to a single vacant lot with no further damage reported. Fire crews contained the blaze promptly and there were no injuries.
Roland Curran secretary of the Kern County Water Development commission tours the county this week placing in chambers of commerce hotels and other public places a cardboard relief map showing the extent of the Central Valley Water project.
Needleworkers gathered at Grace Wey's home on Monday evening to share fancy work. Grace Nikkel read a sermonette from The Log of the Good Ship Grace and Mrs. Abe Karter led choruses. Refreshments were served by several members, with a future meeting planned at Mrs Arnold Bergen's home and details for the junior senior banquet and dance on June 4.
Notice describes indigestion causing gas and bowels, back and liver pains, dizziness, yellow skin, and breath odor. It promotes Williams S.L.K. Formula, used by World War soldiers, with a money back guarantee and Shafter Drug Store as exclusive agent offering trial bottles.
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