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…]
Sausalito News, 23 August 1951 page 3 http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SN19510823.2.6&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——-# THESE COMMIE LEADERS ARE BEING SOUGHT BY THE FBI JAMES EDWARD JACKSON Jr.. Southern Regional Director of the Communist party, USA age 36, born November 29, 1914. Richmond, Virginia; height 5 feet 6½ inches; weight, 160 pounds; build, medium; hair, black, curly, bald in front; eyes, brown; … [Read more…]
Knight Tours Marin Hi-ways Governor Goodwin Knight made an inspection tour of Marin county this week to study the county’s traffic problems. The tour started at the Golden Gate bridge and the next stop was the Waldo widening project where Governor Knight inspected the new Waldo tunnel. He also took a look at the Richardson … [Read more…]
Three Sausalito Bars Are Under Military Survey Three Sausalito bars are among the Bay Area taverns undergoing a military survey to determine whether they are “sex deviate hang-outs.” The survey was announced this week by the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board. The board had indicated that if the bars in question are found to be … [Read more…]
Marysville Daily Appeal, Volume XIII, Number 107, 6 May 1866 Riot at Memphis (Tenn.)—Large number or Negroes killed and their Houses Burned— Gen. Stoneman takes Military Possession of the City. MEMPHIS, May 4th. The Memphis Riot culminated in a great conflagration of the negro quarters on Wednesday night, and the killing of some 15 negroes … [Read more…]
EASTWARD BY RAIL. [FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE ALTA.] [NO. 1.] Travellers’ Tricks of Sleeping— Rations on the Road— Scenery Around Salt Lake— Fall- ing into the Hands of the Enemy— A Hail Storm in the Mountains— Crossing the “Bad Place”— Echo Canon— Trials and Tribulations— in Smooth Water Once More. Omaha, May 2d.1869. … [Read more…]