Notable Shafter Publisher Listing Details
M G Comfort Publisher announces publication every Thursday from Central Avenue Shafter Kern County California with annual 200 payable in advance. Advertising rates available on request. Entered as second class matter August 1 1996 at Shafter post office under March 3 1879 act. Telephone 57.
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M. G. Comfort
Central Avenue
Shafter
Kern County
California
Postoffice
St Shafter
Autumn Reverie in a California Twilight
A reflective meditation on seasonal change from summer heat to autumn quiet. The prose links moods of youth and restraint with nature’s cycles, praising autumn’s stark beauty and the coming winter as a pause for reverie before harsher realities.
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California
Columbus Had Freckles Day Honors Explorer With Human Touch
Columbus had freckles and the occasion on October 12 recalls how he added a new hemisphere to the globe. Citizens will celebrate with flags raised and schools reciting, noting Columbus shared human flaws with greatness and endured tragedy and misunderstanding.
Bert Meek California Public Servant Remembered
The obituary honors Bert B. Meek a California citizen, engineer, rancher, olive grower, highway builder, banker and publisher. It highlights his role in opposing the Bay Bridge opposition, serving three governors as legislator prison director and head of Public Works, and his tireless public service for the state. He loved California and his death is noted as a tragedy, yet his legacy endures.
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Bert B. Meek
Sterling
California
Bert Meek
United States Army
Navy
San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Department of Public Works
Highways of Tomorrow and the Public Safety View
Frank T. Sheets argues in Public Safety that modern highways, though advanced, remain insufficient. He envisions future networks with multi lane super highways, central dividers, city terminals, and all weather surfaces to reduce accidents and traffic congestion as long term national investment.
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Frank T. Sheets
Mr. Sheets
August aid records show Kern County elderly cash total
In August, Kern county issued old age assistance totaling 18054 dollars and 3 cents to 990 recipients in cash. The note specifies August and the exact cash sum and recipient count.
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Kern County
Typical Texans and parades in old California days
A fragmentary column recounts an Anta Monica parade with a postmaster and congressman eyeing governorship, jokes about nudism and beer, then critiques international affairs and bores. It closes with garbled snippets on Texans and misread dialect.
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Anta Monica
Calif
California
Jim Farley
Jim
Around the Corner and a Firefighter Hero
A spring afternoon leads Doris Sedgwick to the cinema and then to a dramatic city fire. Flames engulf a wooden factory as brave firefighters rescue workers and a neighbor’s daughter while a crowd cheers the fearless ladder rescue and honors the young hero Joey.
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Doris
Joey
Topper at Shafter Theatre Leads October Screenings
Nine groups of judging bodies unite over October film lineup at Shafter Theatre. Lead feature Topper, a Hal Roach Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer farce directed by Norman Z McLeod stars Constance Bennett Gary Grant Roland Young and Billie Burke. Also showing The Life of the Party and That Certain Woman with cast including Penner Raymond Hilliard Hunter and Davis.
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Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Shafter Theatre
Norman Z. McLeod
Constance Bennett
Gary Grant
Roland Young
Billie Burke
Thorne Smith
Topper
RKO
William A. Seiter
Joe Penner
Gene Raymond
Harriet Hilliard
Parkyakarkus
Lawsuit Seeks 2329 Injuries Judgment Over 1937 Collision
Attorney W. R. Bergman of Bakersfield represents J. W. Garland and Virginia Mae McCain in a suit against J. E. Klassen seeking a $2329 judgment for injuries from a September 23, 1937 collision in Shafter.
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W. R. Bergman
Bakersfield
Virginia Mae McCain
J. E. Klassen
Shafter
Cuban Town on Stilts Batabano Described as Little Venice
Batabano in Cuba, a town on stilts with canals for streets, sits on the south coast 36 miles from Havana. Known as the Little Venice of Cuba, it is a sponge community en route to the Isle of Pines in the West Indies.
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Isle of Pines
West Indies
Batabano
Venice
Cuba
Havana
Flytrap and frog tale in Wilmington woods noted
A florist in Wilmington, North Carolina, found a growing flytrap and seized a small frog as it devoured prey. The frog, though young, displayed unexpected strength before dying, a detail cited from Popular Mechanics Magazine. Lemons are picked green, not ripe, by size.
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Wilmington
N. C
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Name Change Customs in the United States
The article notes that while May Change Name One is not legally required to use his parents' name, it is customary to do so. It also states that in the United States any person may change part or all of their name at will, as long as the action is in good faith and for an honest purpose.
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Azores
Columbus
Elks
Mussolini
China
Japan
Sam
Wilson Minzer
Wilson
Doris Sedgwick
Doris
The
United States
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