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Some Nine Months in San Francisco

May 18, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I was surprised to see this in the PERSONAL MENTION column of the 24 October 1919 Santa Rosa Press Democrat. It seems that Miss Lewis has been publicly shamed by the newspaper. While they normally report casual comings and goings, business and vacation trips, this is the only time I’ve seen something like this: Miss … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers Tagged: Henry Grohe, Miss Josephine Lewis, PERSONAL MENTION, Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Drought 2022

March 9, 2022 by sergneri 1 Comment

March 9, 2022, Petaluma CA I just searched this blog for the word DROUGHT and found all the entries dated from 2020. I decided to start this journal due to the household conversations we’ve had on how we are going to ration our irrigation water this year. Water is due to become even more expensive … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: California, Drip Irrigation, drought, Eel River, irrigation, La Niña, Lake Sonoma, Petaluma, Rain, Russian River, Sierra Nevada, Sonoma County, toilet, Water, Water Rationing, water year

Aviator Opens Fire With Machine Gun, Killing Huge Whale

November 26, 2021 by sergneri 3 Comments

San Francisco Call, 21 January 1919 SAN DIEGO, Jan. 21.— Lieutenant James McCullough of Ream aviation field is declared to be the gunner who slew the whale that washed ashore at Imperial beach last week. According to reports from Ream field the whale rose two miles off shore and spouted defiance at lieutenant McCullough, who … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: aviator, leviathan, machine gun, Ream aviation field, whale, whale hunting

BILLION WILL BE SPENT ON U.S. HIGHWAYS

November 19, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Francisco Call, 8 January 1919 By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Road building on an extensive scale is expected by government officials this year. Estimates by the Bureau of Public Roads and Rural Engineering indicate a minimum expenditure on highways of $300,000,000. Deferred construction and the improvement of existing roads so that greater use may … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Thinking about Tagged: 1919, California, construction, highways, Infrastructure, roads

A Tale of Two Cities

November 14, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Francisco Call, 21 November 1918 TWO CITIES Chester Rowell, Editor of the Fresno Republican, Praises Handling of Flu Problem Here; Shows Folly of Los Angeles Attitude The following editorial by Chester Rowell, editor of the Fresno Republican, appeared in the on November 18 edition of the Call, under the heading “Two Cities.” There is … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics Tagged: 1918 Spanish Influeza, BOARD OF HEALTH, Dr. William C. Hassler, Dr. Woods Hutchison, Fresno, Fresno Republican, influenza, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Express, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco, San Francisco Call, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Spanish Influenza

Jack Murry Returns From Unavailing Search for Daughter and Her Husband

March 2, 2021 by sergneri 2 Comments

Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 12 October 1916 DAN CUPID WINS AFTER STERN RACE Jack Murry Returns From Unavailing Search for Daughter and Her Husband Jack Murray of Lytton returned Saturday, after an unavailing chase of several hundred miles in pursuit of his daughter and her husband. Murray is an experienced tracker and scout but … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: 12 October 1916, Elope, Elopers, Geyserville, Healdsburg Tribune

S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79

February 11, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.” . A NYT obituary of S. Clay Wilson . . Hucklecatt Hawaii 1h ago Sitting in the upstairs rooms of Peter Rich’s “Velo Sport” shop in Berkeley doing windowpane and reading … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Arcade, Art Spiegelman, Bent, Bill Griffith, Captain Pissgums and his Pervert Pirates, Jack Kirby, Jay Kinney, Ruby the Dyke, S. Clay Wilson, The Berkeley Barb, the Checkered Demon, the Hog Riding Fools, The Realist, underground cartoonist, Victor Moscoso, Wally Wood, William S. Burroughs, Zap Comix

Migrant Farm workers, 1940 California

January 1, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

Geyserville Press 5 January 1940 The FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H TAYLOR – Sec. Agricultural Legislative Committee of California California’s battle to escape being known the world over as the promised land of the migrant worker is still far from won. Wheezing relics of the nation’s second-hand car lots—the drab “covered wagons” of the victims … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Arkansas, California, cotton picker, depression, drought, hoping for work, labor, migrants, Oklahoma, Texas

Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86

October 28, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A NY Times Book section obituary Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86  and an Associated Press obituary were published today, 10/28/2020. From the New York Times: Ms. di Prima often spoke of the influence of her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, a tailor and ardent anarchist who had immigrated … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Flying, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: Activism, autobiographical, Beat Era, Ezra Pound, Greenwich Village, heresies, Hidden Religion, Liberation News Service, Loba, Memoirs of a Beatnik, poet laureate of San Francisco, Poetics Program, Poetry, San Francisco, the Diggers

BELIEVED DEAD IN STORM ON DIVIDE – BOLSHEVISM

October 25, 2020 by sergneri 2 Comments

Auburn Journal 20 February 1919 WEALTHY LINCOLN MAN BELIEVED DEAD IN STORM ON DIVIDE, BODY SOUGHT Lume Adams, well-to-do Lincoln man, 83 years old, was lost in a snow storm near Forest Hill early Tuesday morning of last week and it is believed he perished, as no trace of him has been found. Searching parties … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Pandemic, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Bolshevism, February 1919, Federal Reserve, gold, influenza, lost, Lume Adams, pestilence, snow storm, thrift
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