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WOMAN KILLED ON STOCKTON STREETS

September 6, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

WOMAN KILLED ON STOCKTON STREETS. (By United Press) Hanford Sentinel 19 December 1918 Stockton, Dec. 17. – Mystified by the murder of Mrs. Alice Kroyer, the police Monday admitted they had learned nothing that would clear up the identity of the murderer who killed her with a blow from an iron bar late Saturday night. … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories Tagged: MURDER, murderer, police, Stockton

A Few Notes About the Future of Work

November 25, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Seems that themes come in batches, the newest theme for me is the old Jetson’s promise of leisure time replacing work, somewhere in the future we’d all work at what we’re good at and there would be enough (food and other goods and money) to go around. I’m firmly convinced that since the dawn of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: AI, Artifical Intelligence, Economics, Future of Work, Government, innovation, MIT, money, Politics, productivity, Skidelsky, so-so technology, startups, Stockton, technology

A horse race came off at Stockton

April 4, 2018 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Joaquin News, Stockton: A horse race came off at Stockton on Saturday last, and the Journal thus deplores its inability to furnish the time : Our reporter unfortunately lost $5,50 together with eight drinks, and came home with sufficient building material in his hat to construct a brick house he has under contract, provided … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: 1851, Dame Rumor, horse race, Stockton, Stockton Journal

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

SYMPATHETIC

October 31, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

SYMPATHETIC. — The Stockton Independent relates the following anecdote: On Saturday evening, at the theater, during the performance of the “Drunkard,” while Mr. Courtaine was acting the part of “Edward Middleton,” and while performing that portion of the play which represents him as suffering the torments of delirium tremens and pleading most piteously but in … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers Tagged: Drunkard, Stockton

Charley Parkhurst – Pioneer, Stage Driver, Farmer, Woodman, Etc – 1880

December 23, 2015 by sergneri

TOO STRANGE NOT TO BE TRUE A Woman Passes for a Man for a Quarter of a Century in California. “Charley Parkhurst,” ‘Pioneer, Stage Driver, Farmer, Woodman, Etc, Dies at the Age of 67, and is Found to be a Woman. WATSONVILLE, December 31st.~The Pajaronian, to-morrow, will contain the following : On Sunday last, in … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Obituaries, Sea Stories Tagged: Charley Parkhurst, Farmer, MAN-WOMAN, Mariposa, Moss Ranch, Oakland, Pioneer, Stage Driver, Stockton, Watsonville, Woman, Woodman

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