I love it – go get them at the lumber mill! Sacramento Daily Union, 26 January 1861 PILES! PILES ! CHAS. WOOD’S SUB-POSITORY; is the only infallible cure for the Piles ever yet discovered: whether they be BLEEDING PILES, EXTERNAL PILES, or DEEP SEATED INTERNAL PILES, the cure is equally certain. They are especially recommended … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, October 2 1851. The echoes of the midnight air were awakened on Tuesday evening last, by an instrumental performance by the Miners Band of Downieville. We do not remember ever having heard in California music equal to that with which they regaled the few who were fortunate enough to be in the … [Read more…]
It looks like reading old newspapers isn’t a new pastime and remains as addictive as ever … Sonoma Democrat > 10 December 1857 OLD CALIFORNIA PAPERS. Californian. — We are indebted to W. H. Crowell, our esteemed County Clerk, for the perusal of a file of the Californian, a weekly paper published in San Francisco … [Read more…]
Sacramento Union, 7 February 1917 Million Dollars in Gold Brought from Bay on Auto George Wittenbrock and Arthur Ryan Guard 3700 Pound Truck Load on State Highway. Trailing one million dollars in gold for 130 miles! That was the experience last Saturday of George F. Wlttenbrock, representing the Capital National bank of this city, and … [Read more…]
Sacramento Union – 5 February 1917 Cancellation of Oriental Liquor Licenses Asked The Trade Protective League of Sacramento has sent communications to the city commission and to the board of supervisors asking those bodies to cancel all liquor licenses now held by Orientals. This action by the league was taken after the city of Stockton … [Read more…]
Sacramento Union, 25 December 1916 Charged with seduction by Elizabeth Summers of this city, Oscar E. Bow- man, aged 45, now occupies a cell in the county jail in default of $2000 bail. Bowman was arrested in San Francisco Saturday.
Sacramento Daily Union, 2 January 1871 SEPTEMBER. 2d — Hon. Wm. H. Seward and party sailed from San Francisco for China…. J. S. Emery jumped from the steamer Chrysopolis, about twenty miles below Sacramento, and was drowned. 4th — A fire in Colusa destroyed the Warden building; loss, $3,000. 5th — Northern District Fair opened … [Read more…]
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 40, Number 7063, 2 January 1871 RECORD OF NOTABLE EVENTS FOR 1870 (January-February). We subjoin a record of the more prominent events and industries of the State and county for the past year : JANUARY. 1st — A. McGimsey and John Ornbaum quarreled near Cloverdale. McGimsey was killed … Colored people … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 10 January 1852 Where shall the Legislature Sit ? — This momentous question has now come up, and is being agitated by the members at Vallejo. Our Legislative reports of yesterday (received through Adams & Co.) show that considerable division of opinion exists on this subject. A great number of variously specified … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 104, 30 April 1850 REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE On the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of the State of California, &c. SACRAMENTO. — Signifies Sacrament, or Lord’s Supper. The streams known as Feather and Sacramento rivers, were first respectively named by Lieutenant Moraga … [Read more…]