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…]
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…]
Daily Alta California, 19 February 1886: The captain and crew of a coffee-laden vessel from Rio Janeiro had a thrilling experience. During a storm the water got into the hold, the cargo became completely saturated, and the whole mass rose like yeast. With a shock that shook the vessel to her centre, the decks burst … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 19 February 1886 HAMAN’S HAND. Following Up a Dead Man’s Projected Fraud. AN OLD NOTARY’S CONFESSION. W. H. Flesher’s Dramatic Work in Using a Dead Man’s Hand to Sign a Will — The Infringement Suit Against the Sutter street Railroad. There are not a few people who will remember that shortly after … [Read more…]
WHAT ENGLISH WORKMEN SING. “The Secularist Manual of Songs and Ceremonies ” has recently attracted some notoriety, from the allusion made to it by Gladstone in a recent speech. It is the creed and song-book, so to speak, of the revolutionary working classes in England, and a correspondent furnishes some specimens of the rhyme it … [Read more…]
In the following New York Times article, the malcontents who are “squatting” at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge can be deemed to be the same as outlined in the letter to the editor from the Sacramento Daily Union, 5 August 1851 : First the NYT article: Opposing Factions Take to Facebook in Oregon Wildlife Refuge Dispute … [Read more…]
We were buddies in the year I went to Ephrata Junior High, or was it before that? I don’t recall when Bill died, but I recall we were pals with John Hann, Mike Parks, and others, Terry Kearns? Jeff Chambers? I don’t recall Bill’s funeral, I know he is buried in the Protestant section of … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, 5 August 1851 A duel was fought at Vicksburg on the 12th June, be- tween General Freeman, the Whig candidate for Con- gress, and General Smith of Jackson, the Democratic nominee. At the fifth round Smith was wounded in the shoulder.
Sacramento Daily Union, 5 August 1851 An Ordinance establishing a Chain Gang, and providing for the government thereof. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Sacramento, as follows to-wit: Sec. 1. That a chain-gang shall be and is hereby organized for the punishment of such persons as shall be … [Read more…]
I’m reading an old newspaper, in which is some advice on how to irrigate prune orchards with dynamite: DYNAMITE DOUBLED PRUNE CROP. How a prune crop jumped from 3000 pounds to over 8000 pounds in the dry year of 1913 is told by Geo. N. Tyler of Santa Clara county, who did the dynamiting which … [Read more…]