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STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — November-December.

December 24, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 NOVEMBER. 1st — A fire at Moore’s Flat destroyed a great part of the town; loss, $13,200. 2d — A. P. Crittenden appointed Supreme Court reporter vice Tod Robinson deceased … Nebraska Hotel at Watsonville burned; loss, $7, 000…. Irene Furry was thrown from a buggy near Woodland and … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: abortion, Blue Canyon, Copperopolis, Giant powder, Industrial School, La Porte, Los Angeles, lotteries, Nebraska Hotel, Oakland, population of California, Portersville, San Bernardino, Santa Rosa, Stockton, suicided, Telegraph Hill, Vacaville, Vallejo, Watsonville

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — July-August.

December 24, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 JULY. 1st — The residence of Captain Blair, near Stockton, burned ; loss, $25,000. 2d — W. D. Walsh, while riding with his wife at Oakland, was thrown from the buggy and his neck broken …. P. Breen was drowned in Pajaro river. 3d — A party of fourteen … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: £1 notes, a rotten egg, Admiral Farragut, brutal outrage, Feather River, Georgetown, Giant powder, Grass Valley, half-mast, hay, Knight’s Ferry, Marysville, Monterey, Mormon Slough, Nevada City, Oakland, Oro Fino, San Mateo, Stockton, Yuba City

Save the Fish – 1888

November 14, 2015 by sergneri

Happily, I found this opinion piece from the Dec. 27th, 1888 Marin Journal. I’m happy as it shows we have been aware of the problems of over fishing and pollution “way back when”, one hundred plus years ago. It is disheartening to see that some of the same problems exist today. Marin Journal,  27 December … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Environment, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: 1888, Fish, Giant powder, Marin Journal, Paper Mill creek, preservation of the species, Russian River, salmon, Sonoma creek, spawn, trout, trout hog

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