• Commonplaces
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sergneri

Commonplaces

Aide-Memoire

Author: sergneri

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

ATSEDENGUNERIK

December 12, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

If traveling in the Basque country and you see a sign that says, ATSEDENGUNERIK, fear not, it is a rest area.

Posted in: Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: ATSEDENGUNERIK, BASQUE, REST AREA

WAGING WAR ON VAGRANTS. 1896

December 11, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Francisco Call, 26 July 1896 WAGING WAR ON VAGRANTS. Fresno Officers Attempt to Drive Them From the City. FRESNO, Cal., July 25.— Constable Shaw and deputies are taking steps to rid the city of numerous rough characters, who come with the annual influx of laborers during the fruit season. The Supervisors have allowed laborers … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Thinking about Tagged: 1896, labor, laborers, vagrancy, vagrant

World’s longest rail tunnel begins regular service in Switzerland

December 11, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Gothard Base Tunnel Opens And we can’t even get the SMART train to run from Cloverdale to Larkspur.

Posted in: Thinking about Tagged: gothard, rail, swiss, tunnel
« Previous 1 … 57 58 59 … 78 Next »

Copyright © 2025 Commonplaces.

Omega WordPress Theme by ThemeHall