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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1935
Page
4
The article argues for sweeping state government reform in California. It critiques a costly machine of parasitic, nonessential jobs funded by taxpayers. It cites $300 monthly expense accounts and $500 monthly salaries as emblematic of waste. Reorganization is urged to eliminate fictitious posts and streamline state operations.
In Los Angeles the University of Hawaii students staged a quirky display during a game with a California team. They used phonograph records of their school yells transmitted via loud speakers to rally their side from afar.
A shepherd dog named Maggie Gridley has a new litter of ten puppies. Her record over the past five years shows a batting average of 130.
Rev P B Fitzwater D D directs the world’s largest Sunday School class through The Shafter Press an outreach linking readers across thousands of papers. As Moody Bible Institute Chicago director his interdenominational scope reflects Moody’s multi church faculty while he presents Bible lessons Homiletics apologetics and theology to this broad audience.
A poem extols leaving civilization for a remote canyon camp by a river. The speaker seeks solitude in a mountain stream, laments city life, and envisions a simple, nature bound existence under stars with birdsong and whispering winds. The verse contrasts the wild camp with commerce and vice, celebrating rural peace.
An archival survey outlines California counties San Diego San Francisco San Joaquin created February 18 1850. It traces San Diego San Francisco and San Joaquin histories from early explorations Mars Ser ra Serra and Portola era through agricultural abundance water resources and notable landmarks. The document lists populations and areas and notes economic strengths such as harbors irrigation and major bridges.
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