Things that happen
Sacramento Union, 11 February 1912 By A. J. EISSING. The French government employes 120,000 women. Agriculture supports 250,000,000 persons in India. Kingston, Can., police want their pay raised from $50 to $60 a month. The Barbers’ association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all barbers be licensed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers want to increase … [Read more…]
Los Angeles Herald, 15 January 1917 Sam Withite of 724 West Eleventh street is recovering from bruises and abrasions that he received yesterday when he was hurled against the wall of a garage at 1013 South Flower street. The young man attempted to solder a can that contained gasoline when the liquid exploded.
Pioneer of Placer Is Centenarian Sacramento Union, 13 January 1917 Special to the Union. AUBURN (Placer Co.). Jan. 12. —- Squire L. S. Moffit of Forest Hill, recently celebrated his one hundredth birthday, it became known today. He has been a resident of Placer county since the early mining days, doing everything from keep books … [Read more…]
Press Democrat, 14 June 1899 Very few of us get anything worth having without paying for it. Dreyfus has secured his freedom, but in settling up with the war office for his back salary the secretary has held out 1592 francs for “lodgings” furnished on Devil’s island during the past four years and a half.
Sausalito News, 2 January 1947 from the files 25 Years Ago It happens that Phyllis Gordon lives near the railroad yard in Sausalito, and here is the letter she wrote: “Gentlemen – Why is it that your switch engine has to ding and dong and fizz and spit and clang and bang and hiss and … [Read more…]
Here is the Guardian’s announcement. Guardian’s John Berger obituary “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… … [Read more…]
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…]
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.
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…]
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…]