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Month: December 2016

Played with a Musket.

December 28, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Daily Alta California,13 July 1877 Little Rock, July 12th. — This morning, Samuel Myers’ young child, while playing with an old mus- ket, shot the ramrod right through the body and arms of Samuel Welch, a young companion. The wound is not necessarily fatal. San Bernardino Sun, 1 January 1947 Gun Accident Takes Life of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1857, 1877, 1947, accidental, bullet, Children, guns, Musket, pistol, rifle, shooting

Leon Botstein on Racism, December 2016

December 28, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Leon Botstein – President of Bard College Quote from: The Washington Post In 2016, the symbolic and significant progress among citizens of color plus real and growing inequality among whites has proven an explosive combination. Because the blame is misdirected and the real causes of their economic struggles so misunderstood, a man like [President-elect Donald] … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Botstein, Integration, Melting Pot, Minorities, Obama, racism

Arrested at Bay on Seduction Charge

December 25, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Union, 25 December 1916 Charged with seduction by Elizabeth Summers of this city, Oscar E. Bow- man, aged 45, now occupies a cell in the county jail in default of $2000 bail. Bowman was arrested in San Francisco Saturday.

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1917, Sacramento, Seduction

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — November-December.

December 24, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 NOVEMBER. 1st — A fire at Moore’s Flat destroyed a great part of the town; loss, $13,200. 2d — A. P. Crittenden appointed Supreme Court reporter vice Tod Robinson deceased … Nebraska Hotel at Watsonville burned; loss, $7, 000…. Irene Furry was thrown from a buggy near Woodland and … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: abortion, Blue Canyon, Copperopolis, Giant powder, Industrial School, La Porte, Los Angeles, lotteries, Nebraska Hotel, Oakland, population of California, Portersville, San Bernardino, Santa Rosa, Stockton, suicided, Telegraph Hill, Vacaville, Vallejo, Watsonville

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — September-October.

December 24, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 SEPTEMBER. 2d — Hon. Wm. H. Seward and party sailed from San Francisco for China…. J. S. Emery jumped from the steamer Chrysopolis, about twenty miles below Sacramento, and was drowned. 4th — A fire in Colusa destroyed the Warden building; loss, $3,000. 5th — Northern District Fair opened … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: Bakersfield, Chrysopolis, Colusa, Constable Bailey, Drytown, foul air, horse-stealing, Mare Island, Mexican independence, Pacheco, Pioneer, Sacramento, Silver Mountain

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — July-August.

December 24, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 JULY. 1st — The residence of Captain Blair, near Stockton, burned ; loss, $25,000. 2d — W. D. Walsh, while riding with his wife at Oakland, was thrown from the buggy and his neck broken …. P. Breen was drowned in Pajaro river. 3d — A party of fourteen … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: £1 notes, a rotten egg, Admiral Farragut, brutal outrage, Feather River, Georgetown, Giant powder, Grass Valley, half-mast, hay, Knight’s Ferry, Marysville, Monterey, Mormon Slough, Nevada City, Oakland, Oro Fino, San Mateo, Stockton, Yuba City

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — May-June.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 MAY. 1st — The straw sheds of the paper mill company near Santa Cruz were burned. 3d — Soundings show the removal of Blossom Rock to be complete. . . .Surveying parties for Stockton and Visalia Railroad commenced work. 4th — Creed Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles Lindley … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, Carral Hollow, celestials, CONTRA COSTA, Downieville, Earthquake, Gilroy, Grass Valley, Guadalupe river, Healdsburg, James Black, Knight’s Landing, Laudanum, Lottery, Masonic, Mexicans, Mokelumne, pistol, riot, San Rafael, Seventeen-mile House, Shasta, Sutter Creek, Wolfskill’s ranch, Zabriskie

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — March-April.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

MARCH. 1st — Particulars of the loss of United States steamer Oneida, by being run into by the British steamer Bombay, near Yokohama, received by the arrival of the bark Benefactress. 2d — Earthquake at Calistoga and Healdsburg. 3d — James Smilie fired four shots at a Mexican woman he had been living with, named … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, blind man, Blossom Rock, Calistoga, Earthquake, Fort Tejon, Grizzly Flat, Illinoistown, indecent assault, Insane, Laudanum, Mark West Creek, Mud Springs, Napa, naptha, Oakland, Petaluma, powder, presidio, San Jose, San Leandro, SANTA CLARA, SANTA CRUZ, Spirits of Israel, Sucker Flat, SUICIDE, treasure, Visalia, Yerba Buena

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — January-February.

December 22, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7063, 2 January 1871 RECORD OF NOTABLE EVENTS FOR 1870 (January-February). We subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and county for the past year : JANUARY. 1st — A. McGimsey and John Ornbaum quarreled near Cloverdale. McGimsey was killed … Colored people … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, apoplectic fit, arsenic, Benicia, Butte county, Cloverdale, Earthquake, emancipation, EVENTS, Grass Valley, Humboldt bar, Insane Asylum, Laudanum, Los Angeles, Marin county, MURDER, Oakland, outrage, Placerville, Sacramento, STATISTICS, strychnine, SUICIDE, Vallejo

OxyContin goes global

December 18, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In this L.A. Times report, the newspaper brings to light a new effort by Purdue Pharma to push the drug in the next markets, Asia, Central/South America, and elsewhere. From the article, this telling paragraph: ‘Talking about big money’ Untreated pain is a global scourge. Each year millions with terminal cancer and end-stage AIDS die … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about Tagged: cancer, chronic pain, drugs, morphine, multinational, opioids, oxycontin, pharma
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