Things that happen
Updates to this post as new proclamations are discovered: Daily Alta California, Volume 21, Number 6928, 8 March 1869 AMUSEMENTS, ETC Mechanics’ Pavilion.— The attendance still continues to be large at the Velocipedestrian School. A few days ago Emperor Norton was present, and he mounted one of the bicycles to find how it went. Helios, … [Read more…]
Amazing parallels to how the contemporary press, in 2016, created Donald Trump’s candidacy for the GOP Presidential nomination and how it played out for Daniel Pratt, Junior, in 1869, at least as depicted in this story. Pratt’s life, as shown in his Wikipedia page, was a bit less charmed: A RIVAL TO EMPEROR NORTON. From … [Read more…]
I was reading an article in the L.A. Times on a “small” materials handling accident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Calsbad New Mexico today: Nuclear Accident in New Mexico and wanted to look at the site’s web page and read the information the DOE put out. So, off to Google I go and … [Read more…]
Another Narrow Escape. — Oroville escaped narrowly another fire, on Tuesday evening, April 7th, about nine o’clock. The alarm was occa- sioned by the falling of a camphene lamp in a cigar store, kept by a woman of doubtful reputa- tion. The lamp had been carelessly suspended by a string. Photographs and Ambrotypes. — Mr. … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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.