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1918

Charles Wakefield Cadman

January 26, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

While correcting the San Francisco Call, 26 October 1918, I ran across this article: ANNOUNCE SECOND TRIO CONCERT Provided the embargo on concert gatherings is raised before the date set for their second concert of the season, the Shavitch-Saslavsky-Bem Chamber Music Trio will give their next programme at the Italian Room of the St. Francis … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: 1918, 1918 Spanish Influeza, Charles Wakefield Cadman, From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water, San Francisco, Spanish Influenza, St. Francis Hotel

Patriotic Porn

August 24, 2021 by sergneri 3 Comments

I love the “Prisoner of Zenda”, the film with Ronald Coleman; it is chaste, full of gallantry, sword fights, mistaken identity, doppelgangers, moat swimming, rogues, and a princesses who denies her “true love” for her duty to the throne of Zenda. A good swashbuckler is a rare thing. In the Geyserville Gazette, 6 September 1918, … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Feminism, Uncategorized Tagged: 1918, chivalry, feminism, Geyserville Gazette, Patriotic Porn, patriotism, Porn, World War 1

SALOONS REFUSE TO OBEY ORDERS

July 13, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

More news from 1918 – a couple of telling articles: Red Bluff Daily News 29 October 1918 SALOONS REFUSE TO OBEY ORDERS BOARD OF HEALTH STOCKTON, October 26 —The saloon keepers of Tracy, backed up by the attitude of Mayor N. S. Dwelly, are keeping open today in defiance of the order of the city … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Pandemic Tagged: 1918, BOARD OF HEALTH, gravedigger, obituaries, saloon keepers, Spanish Influenza

EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED

July 12, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The newspaper article below seems too familiar to our current state in July 2020: San Diego Union and Daily Bee 29 October 1918 EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED Health Board Renews Request For Wearing Masks and Suggests Precautions. Two deaths and 40 new cases summed up the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Pandemic Tagged: 1918, face masks, gauze masks, masks, Spanish Influenza, vaccination, vaccine

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