Blackberries.— This palatable berry is now to be gathered in the richest profusion above and be- low the city, on the banks of the Sacramento river, and also in the swamps of Yolo county. On yes- terday they were a drug in the market. Sacramento Daily Union, 6 June 1855
A Meteor. — One of these astronomical phenomenon, afforded our citizens an opportunity of observing him at full length last evening, “tail and all.” The meteor darted out of the starlit sky at a point forty-five degrees above the western horizon. It shot westward, traversing about one-half of the space between the spot whence it … [Read more…]
TO THE INVALID, DYSPEPTIC, NERVOUS, WEAK AND LANGUID. Do you feel prostration of the nerves, the body or mind? Are your limbs continually weak and tired? Do you feel languid and exhausted and incapable of exercise or labor? Are your nerves unstrung, your spirits low, and a general feeling of exhaustion, inanimation and weakness, pervading … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 3 June 1869 In the Senate, to-day, the bill for woman suf- frage was defeated by a vote of 9 yeas to 22 noes.
Hon. John Worth, United States Consul at the Sandwich Islands, arrived at New York, direct from Honolulu, in twenty-two days. Daily Alta California, 3 June 1869
Daily Alta California, 3 June 1869 Perjury. – About ten days since Jacob Spingler was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor, for writing an obscene letter in German to a young woman named Jennie Rohl. He was tried in the Police Court and fined $100. On the trial Spingler testified that he could neither write … [Read more…]
On Saturday, June 27, at the County Sanitary Landfill on Mecham Road off south Stony Point Road between Petaluma and Cotati, “Recycletown” will be officially inaugurated by Garbage Reincarnation, Inc., the Sonoma County Community Recycling Center, and by the Sonoma County Public Works Department. Recycletown is a place where citizens can bring used oil, paint, … [Read more…]
Guache, india ink, 9.8 x 13.9 in, 2006. The title is literally ripped from the book Juliet of the Spirits where I opened the book at a random place and found the one sentence that fit the picture. That was pasted onto the paper and became the title.
Daily Alta California,12 January 1862 (San Francisco, CA) $25 Reward. LEFT HIS HOME ON MONDAY, DEC. 30th, a boy named Wm. H. White, aged 13 years a he was accompanied by an Indian boy. The boys had double barrelled shot gun. When last seen, they were at the Presidio. The above reward will be paid … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, 1 May 1871 Suicide. — About nlne o’clock last evening a woman of the town, known as “French Mary,” committed suicide by taking a dose of laudanum at her rooms in an alleyway running off to Dupont street, near Broadway. She has made several attempts at self-destruction, but was always thwarted in … [Read more…]