Things that happen
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…]
If traveling in the Basque country and you see a sign that says, ATSEDENGUNERIK, fear not, it is a rest area.
In the House of Representatives in 1900, we have a Polygamist, Republicans, Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans, so much for a two party system. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900. ROBERTS’ SEAT DECLARED VACANT By a Vote of 268 to 50 the House Excludes the Polygamist. ROBERTS’ SEAT DECLARED VACANT By a Vote … [Read more…]
Letter to the Editor, Press Democrat November, 2016 Move on? Like 2008? EDITOR: Don W wrote that “this election may very well have saved the republic” and urged us drop the anger and get on with it (“Time to move on,” Letters, Nov. 10). I would have said the same thing in 2008, but did … [Read more…]
Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 6 April 1910 Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Ackerman and Mr. and Mrs. John Favour, autoed to Petaluma Friday, where the day was spent visiting Mr. Ackerman’s uncle, Eddie Ackerman, who is now near his ninetieth year. While in the City of Cackles the gentlemen also transacted urgent business. Healdsburg … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, 21 March 1851 An itinerant player, possessed of more wit than money, was a few days ago driven by the harp master, hunger, to commit the high crime of poaching, in the neighborhood of Birmingham (England,) and being unluckily detected in the act, was carried forthwith before a bench of magistrates, when … [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…]