Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 6 April 1910
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Ackerman and Mr. and Mrs. John Favour, autoed to Petaluma Friday, where the day was spent visiting Mr. Ackerman’s uncle, Eddie Ackerman, who is now near his ninetieth year. While in the City of Cackles the gentlemen also transacted urgent business.
Healdsburg Enterprise, 24 December 1910
Mr. H. H. Button, the Knights Valley booster, went to Petaluma Saturday for a brief stay. From the City of Cackles he took passage to San Francisco where he transacted important business. Mr. Button is in high enthusiasm over the proposed Fitch Mountain cut off for the road to Alexander and Knights Valleys, and says he will begin active work in the petitions very shortly.
Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 22 February 1911
Wiseman Made Good Last Saturday
Saturday last Fred. Wiseman, the Sonoma aviator, made good his promise to fly from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, or forever leave his machine in the City of Cackles. His time for fourteen miles was twelve minutes and twenty seconds, breaking by a considerable margin the worlds speed record for biplanes. Although the atmosphere was smoky, he was quickly picked out by a number of the citizens of the county seat who had good points of vantage, and when he first came to sight there was a mighty cheer rent the air and the whistles and sirens of all factories in Santa Rosa did their best to help out.the victory of a Sonoma county boy who came sailing home in this own, home made machine. He landed within a half mile of the city limits, and would have continued on further, but for the loosening of a wire which got mixed up with the propeller, forcing him to make a quick descent. The aviator carried a number of dispatches from prominent Petalumans to those of Santa Rosa who are in the public eye, and who were particularly honored in being able to assist in the history making event.
Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 26 July 1911
Petalumans See the Light
Last Thursday evening, during the mimic warfare between the “hostile” fleet of the Pacific and the Presio and other San Francisco harbor defenses, the rays from the searchilghts
of these forts were plainly visible in Sonoma county, a few of the flashes having been seen by Healdsburgers. But in Petaluma the display was pronounced throughout the evening and caused a great deal of comment in the city of cackles.
It has been said by some that the chickens of that city got up and laid another egg, thinking that sunrise had come, and that now the poultrymen are seriously considering the advantages of putting in a powerful electric search light to enable them to double their egg production.