The bumper sticker
I removed my Bernie Sanders for President bumper sticker today. Kind of sad but I’m keeping it in my shed as a reminder of this eventful campaign 2015. I’ll take the lawn sign down after the California Primary.
Thinking about
Grand Champion Baby
PROOF IS CITED DETROIT—(U.P.)—The Negro fath- er and white mother of a 29 month- old child picked as Detroit’s “grand champion baby” said today the award proves there is fairness and democracy in America. ” Madera Tribune, 4 December 1950
News Publishers Face Challenge, Dec. 1950
SAN FRANCISCO —(U.P.)— The right of newspaper readers to be informed through their constitu- tional guarantee of freedom of the press is worthless unless it com- bines with an economic freedom for the men who publish the news. John B. Long, general manager of the California Newspaper Pub- lishers Association made that as- sertion before … [Read more…]
100,000 lines
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/ Text correction statistics Number of registered users: 4,174 Number of users who have corrected text: 2,283 Total number of lines of text corrected: 6,315,791 You (J Sergneri) have corrected 100,000 lines of text (rank 15 of 2,283 text correctors). Text Correctors Hall of Fame 1. Wes Keat 1,156,488 2. annh 580,961 3. AJD 387,630 … [Read more…]
Healdsburg Enterprise, 26 May 1906
Under the PAGE ONE heading: PERSONAL ITEMS CULLED FROM ENTERPRISE OF THIRTY YEARS AGO: … When, ere many years, a through overland road shall pass through here, it will give the Easterner a glimpse of our verdured hills, of our rich alluvial valleys, of our rushing, sparkling mountain streams, of old Russian River, kissed by … [Read more…]
COUPLE PLAY ADAM AND EVE.
COUPLE PLAY ADAM AND EVE. Estes and Wife Start In Bathing Suits and Return Clad In Skins. Healdsburg Enterprise, 1 January 1916 After living in the Maine woods near Bingham as “Adam and Eve” for two months Walter F Estes and his wife of Gray, Me., have returned to Boston. They emerged from the woods … [Read more…]
JAP LABOR FOR FARMS OF VALLEY – 1945
Madera Tribune, 1 October 1945. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Approximately 3500 Japanese prisoners of war now are being transferred to the San Joaquin valley in California for harvest work, the War Department disclosed today. The Japanese are being taken from Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, and Camp Clarinda, Iowa, at the request of Gov. Earl Warren and California members … [Read more…]
Welcome to Bartholomew Park
As you enter the Bartholomew Park, you will be surrounded by vineyards, gardens and in the distance a replica of the majestic Villa built by Agoston Haraszthy in 1861-2 for his family overlooking the property. The Count opened the Villa with a grand and elegant masked ball. The Count’s original Villa was destroyed, and in … [Read more…]
Women’s Suffrage
A post to capture clippings on women’s suffrage as discovered: Los Angeles Herald, 19 May 1911 CHICAGO WOMAN REFUSES TO PAY TAX UNTIL GIVEN VOTE CHICAGO, May 18.—Miss Belle Squire, member of the No Vote, No Tax league, who last year caused something of a sensation by refusing to pay taxes unless given the right … [Read more…]
Civil Service & Executive privilege
Daily Alta California, 19 February 1886 WAR ON CLEVELAND. Senator Edmunds’ Fires a Gun at the Federal Administration. REFUSAL TO SHOW DOCUMENTS. A Formal Arraignment of the Attorney-General and President by the Republican Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. WASHINGTON, February 18th.— In the Senate, to-day, Edmunds, on behalf of the majority of the Judiciary … [Read more…]