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Grote Reber

July 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Reber From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Grote Reber Born December 22, 1911 Wheaton, Illinois, United States Died December 20, 2002 (aged 90) Ouse, Tasmania Nationality American Fields Radio astronomy Alma mater Illinois Institute of Technology Known for Pioneering work in radio astronomy Notable awards Elliott Cresson Medal (1963) Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 – December 20, 2002) … [Read more…]

Posted in: Antique Radio, Obituaries, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Grote Reber, Radio Astronomy

Every year, about election time – 27 August 1873

July 21, 2016 by sergneri 1 Comment

In our “Somethings never change” department: Every year, about election time, disappoint- ed politicians, finding themselves in a minor- ity in the dominant party, pretend to have all the political virtue of the time, declare them- selves alone worthy of holding office, and get to work to make the people believe their pre- tensions. No … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Thinking about Tagged: 1873, Demagogism, elections, Politics, Railroads

Police Court— San Francisco 17 August 1864

July 17, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Police Court— Shepheard, J. Tuesday, August 16th. The docket this morning was made up as follows: misdemeanors, 24; assault and battery, 8; drunk, 7; threats one, 1; assault, 1; assault with a deadly weapon, 1 ; using treasonable language, 1; petty larceny, 1; continued cases, 21. SENTENCES. Dennis Meagher, for a misdemeanor, came in for … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers Tagged: 1864, Police Court, San Francisco

Film of the Jeffries – Johnson Prize Fight, July 4, 1910

July 13, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

MAYOR BARS PICTURES OF FIGHT San Francisco Call, July 7, 1910 Mayor Declares Exhibition to Be Just as Unlawful as Battle Itself Movement Against Films Assumes National Proportions, but Trust Smiles Motion Films Can Not Be Displayed in City, is Declaration of McCarthy BOARD OF CENSORS IN FAVOR OF EXCLUSION Nationwide Movement – May Wreck … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: 1910, Baltimore, Great White Hope, Jack Johnson, Jeffries, Motion Pictures, Prize Fights, Race Riots

Farm Labor Rally – 1910 –

July 10, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

MACKENZIE COMES IN FOR SCORCHING Speakers Condemn Commissioners’ Report on Japanese Immigration Demand Is Made That All Orientals Be Excluded From California San Francisco Call – July 6, 1910 Edited by O. M. BOYLE The meeting last night in the Auditorium of the building trades council to protest against the alleged laxity of immigration Commissioner … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Racism Tagged: Asian, California, Chinese, farming, Hindu, Immigration, Japanese, labor, racism, White race

Tamalpais Victim – MURDER OR SUICIDE?

July 8, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

DECAYED RELICS OF BODY MAY SOLVE MYSTERY Coroner Seeks Clews Among Bones and Belongings of Sec- ond Tamalpais Victim No Tangible Connection as Yet Between Two Tragedies on Silent Mountain Rivaling the sea in its propensity for giving up its dead, Mount Tamalpais has added a fresh tragedy and mystery to the history of Marin … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: Marin, MURDER, redwoods, SUICIDE, Tamalpais

LEGATION ATTACHE IS SHOT FOR MURDER

July 8, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 5.— Wilhelm Beckert, former chancellor of the German legation, was shot here today for the  murder of a Chilean messen- ger of the legation on February 5, 1909. Beckert embezzled funds of the lega- tion and attempted to cover up his crime by making it appear that he had been burned  to … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers Tagged: 1910, Chile, German legation, MURDER, Wilhelm Beckert

Floods in San Luis Obispo, November 1885

July 6, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. Heavy Losses by Recent Floods in San Luis Obispo. [Special Correspondence of the Alta.] San Luis Obispo, November 23d.— The evening of the 15th inst., one of the worst storms that ever visited our county set in. It wrought more devastation and ruin than the county can recover from in months. The rain … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Racism Tagged: 1885, Anti-Chinese, flood, San Luis Obispo, storms

A Nationwide Boycott on all Jewish Businesses …

July 3, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A NATION-WIDE boycott on all Jewish business and profes- sional men in Germany has been clamped down by Chancellor Hit- ler’s National Socialist party. The announcement states that it will last “until Jewish life in Germany is paralyzed.” Hitler’s government, while not officially countenancing the boycott, is not expected to in- tervene. At Nazi headquarters … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: 1933, boycott, Chancellor Hitler, Germany, Hitler, Jewish, National Socialist party, NAZI

Ann Alexander – Daily Alta California, Nov 5, 1851

June 29, 2016 by sergneri 1 Comment

The whale ship Ann Alexander, Capt. J. C. De- blois, of New Bedford, was struck by a wounded sperm whale on the 20th Augnst, in lat. 5 50 S, lon. 102 W. A large hole was stove in her bottom, and she sunk so rapidly that she was abandoned. Crew saved.

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories Tagged: 1851, Sea stories, Sperm whale, Whaling
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