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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1935
Page
3
The essay argues that a well modulated speaking voice reveals cultural heritage and character more than grooming or manners. It compares singers and public speakers, notes American life makes voices high keyed and hurried, and suggests training voices like birds or violinists to cultivate velvety, sotto voce speech for both adults and children.
A preacher warns that effort and sacrifice form the price of achievement. He contrasts artisans like a Paris violinist who sacrificed comfort for mastery with idle youth who chase ease. He argues that unearned wealth harms merit and urges Americans to develop backbone through effort to reach meaningful goals.
Jack Loreen, world buried alive champion, remains in his underground coffin at Playland at the Beach, San Francisco, after more than two and a half months buried and aiming for over 100 days. Glenn County flax harvest finished with a 60 acre prize plot yielding over 1,400 pounds of clean flax.
Nassau police announce that a man found with a bullet wound off Sands Point is Frank Conley of Watertown New York. Through clothes and letters investigators traced a hospital laundry mark to Alma Wright and then to Conley via his wife and dentist in Watertown Syracuse and Rochester locations.
Knoxville architects reveal the Davidson county jail will sit on the eighth floor of the new courthouse. Access points promise no escape routes except a ground floor sheriff’s lobox, with a penthouse laundry kitchen and women’s cell block above. An elevator connects patrol wagons to cells for rapid transfer.
A steamer whistle startled an eighteen year old horse named Bill near the Welland canal, causing the animal to bolt and fall. The incident underscores the danger of sudden loud noises to animals in busy canal areas.
A skeptical note on gold mining warns would be prospectors that modern mining demands expertise. It emphasizes that tales of easy riches mislead and that no current gold rush exists in California, despite many seeking Mother Lode prospects and costly efforts over the past five years.
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