We open this post with a bit of normalcy. Lute L. Veirs owned a butcher shop in Santa Rosa, became a prominant citizen, ran for and was elected to the Santa Rosa City Council in 1900. He married Annie Roberts and it seems life was good, as noted in this blurb in the Press Democrat: … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, 2 September 1863 Surgical Operations in the Army. — Dr. J. H. Brinton, United States Volunteers, who is now engaged on the “Surgical History of the Rebellion,” has prepared a report of the number of surgical operations performed in the army hospitals, together with a statement of the cause of the operation … [Read more…]
Marin Journal, 1 January 1870 The Senate has approved a bill awarding Long Primer Hall $5,000 for the destruction of his printing office in Visalia, six years ago, by U. S. soldiers, on account of its advocacy of secession. The office was worth perhaps $1,000.
A NEW PHASE OF INSANITY. A Woman Declared Insane because she in a High Church Episcopalian —Her Mode or Pronouncing the Word “Amen” Disturbed a Whole Congregation. [From the New York “Herald.”] In the matter of Caroline C. Allen, who seeks to be discharged from a decree of lunacy. It will be remembered by the … [Read more…]
San Francisco Call, 9 March 1912 Coroner’s Jury at Lone Pine Brings In Unique Verdict BAKERSFIELD. March 8. — A coroner’s jury at Lone Pine, on the Mojave desert, has returned a unique verdict at an inquest. The dead man was a native of Greece. He and an American had an altercation, winding up in … [Read more…]
Los Angeles Herald, 2 October 1900 SANTA ROSA’S MUDDLE The City Officials May All Be Turned Out City Recorder Prindle Claims Their Election Was Illegal and Proposes to Sue Them in the Name of the State (By Associated Press.) Santa Rosa, Oct. 1. — City Recorder Henry Prindle today served notice upon members of the … [Read more…]
Keyword – MISSING:San Francisco Call, 2 October 1900 MISSING PRINCE IS FOUND. PARIS, Oct. 1.— Prince Ikanthor, son of the King of Cambodia (French IndoChina), who was recently a guest of France at the Exposition and who disappeared somewhat mysteriously, has been found in Brussels. A dispatch sent in his behalf says he did not … [Read more…]
CUBS COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN WITH BOMBARDMENT IN EIGHTH HAD MADE ONLY ONE HIT IN FIRST SEVEN INNINGS, BUT WILD BILL WEAKENS UNDER STRAIN Los Angeles Herald, 12 October 1908 Chance’s Champion Balltossers Pile Up Six Tallies and Win Game by Sensational Rally, Which Netted One Home Run, Triple, Double and Three Singles, in … [Read more…]
SYMPATHETIC. — The Stockton Independent relates the following anecdote: On Saturday evening, at the theater, during the performance of the “Drunkard,” while Mr. Courtaine was acting the part of “Edward Middleton,” and while performing that portion of the play which represents him as suffering the torments of delirium tremens and pleading most piteously but in … [Read more…]