Things that happen
I read that Joni is seriously ill. I hope for the best. Sweet Bird by Joni Mitchell Out on some borderline Some mark of in between I lay down golden in time And woke up vanishing Sweet bird you are Briefer than a falling star All these vain promises on beauty jars Somewhere with your … [Read more…]
San Francisco, Feb. 8.— lt was stated to-day that Richard Hyer, wanted in New Jersey for embezzlement, and who escaped from Detective Dalton’s custody while en route East some days ago, visited the County Jail in Oakland Fri- day last, and paid his respects to a num- ber of acquaintances there. The police officials did … [Read more…]
Simple Assault. John Haley, the jealous husband, who was as- saulted by William Lundberg with a flat-Iron, re- fused to prosecute the destroyer of his domestic felicity. But the latter was convicted on a charge of simple assault. ============================= Board of Supervisors. The order prohibiting theatrical performances after one o’clock a. m., and prohibiting the … [Read more…]
Hon. John Worth, United States Consul at the Sandwich Islands, arrived at New York, direct from Honolulu, in twenty-two days. Daily Alta California, 3 June 1869
Daily Alta California, 3 June 1869 Perjury. – About ten days since Jacob Spingler was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor, for writing an obscene letter in German to a young woman named Jennie Rohl. He was tried in the Police Court and fined $100. On the trial Spingler testified that he could neither write … [Read more…]
On Saturday, June 27, at the County Sanitary Landfill on Mecham Road off south Stony Point Road between Petaluma and Cotati, “Recycletown” will be officially inaugurated by Garbage Reincarnation, Inc., the Sonoma County Community Recycling Center, and by the Sonoma County Public Works Department. Recycletown is a place where citizens can bring used oil, paint, … [Read more…]
Guache, india ink, 9.8 x 13.9 in, 2006. The title is literally ripped from the book Juliet of the Spirits where I opened the book at a random place and found the one sentence that fit the picture. That was pasted onto the paper and became the title.
Daily Alta California,12 January 1862 (San Francisco, CA) $25 Reward. LEFT HIS HOME ON MONDAY, DEC. 30th, a boy named Wm. H. White, aged 13 years a he was accompanied by an Indian boy. The boys had double barrelled shot gun. When last seen, they were at the Presidio. The above reward will be paid … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 1 May 1871 Suicide. — About nlne o’clock last evening a woman of the town, known as “French Mary,” committed suicide by taking a dose of laudanum at her rooms in an alleyway running off to Dupont street, near Broadway. She has made several attempts at self-destruction, but was always thwarted in … [Read more…]
Marysville Daily Appeal, Volume XIII, Number 107, 6 May 1866 Riot at Memphis (Tenn.)—Large number or Negroes killed and their Houses Burned— Gen. Stoneman takes Military Possession of the City. MEMPHIS, May 4th. The Memphis Riot culminated in a great conflagration of the negro quarters on Wednesday night, and the killing of some 15 negroes … [Read more…]