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COURTED TO THE WHIR OF SAW MILL WHEELS.

March 12, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Petaluma Argus Courier, 3 March 1900 COURTED TO THE WHIR OF SAW MILL WHEELS. W. H. Joy and Mrs. Weiberts of Healdsburg were married in Santa Rosa Thursday. The wedding is the outcome of a long acquaintanceship extending over several years, both parties spent in the Mill creek redwoods near Healdsburg. Years ago Joy was … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories Tagged: 1900, Edith Joy, Effie Beresford Joy, Healdsburg, Mill creek, Mrs. Weiberts, Nellie Joy, redwoods, social pleasures

THE PRESENT CONGRESS

March 5, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Healdsburg Tribune, 5 March 1927 THE PRESENT CONGRESS passed out of existence at high noon on March 4th. Its present session has certainly been a dismal failure. We think of no outstanding measure that has been given to the people. Several good measures were before them, but the democrats and republicans seemed to be afraid … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Politics, This Day in History Tagged: 1927, BOULDER DAM, Democrats, Healdsburg, Republicans, Senator Hiram Johnson, Volstead act

STATISTICS OF CALIFORNIA— 1870 — May-June.

December 23, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 MAY. 1st — The straw sheds of the paper mill company near Santa Cruz were burned. 3d — Soundings show the removal of Blossom Rock to be complete. . . .Surveying parties for Stockton and Visalia Railroad commenced work. 4th — Creed Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles Lindley … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1870, Carral Hollow, celestials, CONTRA COSTA, Downieville, Earthquake, Gilroy, Grass Valley, Guadalupe river, Healdsburg, James Black, Knight’s Landing, Laudanum, Lottery, Masonic, Mexicans, Mokelumne, pistol, riot, San Rafael, Seventeen-mile House, Shasta, Sutter Creek, Wolfskill’s ranch, Zabriskie

Healdsburg Enterprise, 26 May 1906

April 2, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, History, Thinking about Tagged: California, Healdsburg, Russian River, Sonoma, Sonoma County

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