McFarland Hosts First Harvest Festival Week
The American Legion hosts McFarland's first annual harvest festival starting Wednesday October 14 for five days of parades amateur shows coronation ceremony a Tehachapi High versus McFarland High football game a rag parade contests dances and a Golden State Shows midway with the auto scooter premiering in this district
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Attorney General declines to prosecute Brite brothers
San Francisco Attorney General A. S. Webb refused to take on the prosecution of John and Coke Brite, accused of a triple murder, at the request of Siskiyou County District Attorney James Davis where the crime occurred.
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Siskiyou County
Classified Advertisements Listings For Sale and Rent
For sale 1934 Chevrolet Master 2 door in like new condition priced at 535. Contact Phil Adams after 3 p.m. at 600 Philippine St Taft California. Also for sale potatoes cotton diversified farms and stock ranches listed by O Reynolds Box 935 Earlimart California two miles east on Ducor highway. Wanted to buy or lease a ranch about 40 acres in Shafter district. letters to Box M The Shafter Press.
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O. Reynolds
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Shafter District
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Shafter Press
Hawaii Potatoes Rise on West Coast Markets
Hawaiian potato production expanded after 1860 and now exports mainly to California Oregon Washington and Hawaii ships. In 1935 foreign farmers sold farm products to the United States worth 1.4 billion dollars, a potential gain for American farmers if tariffs had differed.
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Hawaiian Islands
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California Cotton Co op Sees High Grades and Profits
The California Cotton Cooperative Association reports a dominant high grade harvest in the San Joaquin valley with 2,400 bales of good middling out of 3,400. Arvin gin uses a natural gas engine and a new seed grader, with 1,000 bales ginned to Oct 1. By Oct 3 total ginned reaches 6,657 bales as premiums lift grower returns about $5 per bale versus last year.
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California Cotton Cooperative Association, Ltd
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Madera
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California Drug Addiction Survey Warns of Far East Threat
A Sacramento report by the California Senate Interim War Council warns Japan exploits heroin and morphine to influence China and the Far East. Senator Sanborn Young and Jack D. Metzger say addiction could pave the way for a Japanese military advance.
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United States
Portland Grabs PCL Title With Fifth-Game Win
The Portland baseball club won the 1936 Pacific Coast League championship by defeating Oakland 8 to 3 in the fifth game of the post-season playoff series.
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Retribution on crops and pigs ordered by a farmer
A blunt remark claims crops were destroyed and pigs killed by a man described as a gentle farmer in the White House. The speaker asserts almighty Providence enforces its laws beyond any human plan, reducing crops further.
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A. J
Jack” Zimmerman Notary Public Insurance
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G. A. Wittmayer
Prop
T. V. Little Complete Machine Shop and Welding
Janzen Funeral Home Ambulance Service
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Landon
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George Brent
Madeline Carrol
Chicsale
Richard Arlen
Lady Be Careful
Lew Ayers
Mary Carlisle
Buster Crabbe
Mary Boland
Julie Hayden
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