California News in Briefs Highlights From 1919 Era
Diverse California items: Dinuba population rises to 3400. Fort Bidwell Indians fair Sept 8–10. San Francisco votes on railroads purchase. Secret marriage of Harold Bell Wright and Mrs Duncan. Walnut Creek plans walnut packing plant. city charter expands police inquiry after midnight. Federal oil probe underway. cotton prospects vary by region. Blythe plagued by aphids. O Connell to serve seven years. SLO supervisors fund Paso Robles fair. Globe Cotton Mills incorporated with $7.5 million capital. 13 LA men named directors. Modesto July construction $54,550. year total $1,130,216. Windbreaks urged in Butte County. nanny goats travel Nevada City auto camp. Sacramento raises teacher salaries by $211,920 yearly. Merced canyon fires threaten redwoods. Texas work horses boosting Kern shipments. Geyser property to harness steam for power. Agriculture standards adoption opens shipping inspections. water conservation survey underway led by Tibbetts, Kieffer. Chansler-Canfield Oil files in Kings County with land lease of 220 acres.
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United Railroads
San Francisco
Harold Bell Wright
Winifred Mary Potter Duncan
Los Angeles
Walnut Growers’ Association
Contra Costa County
Walnut Creek
Sacramento
California
Blythe District
Aphis
Daniel O'Connell
McNiel’s Island
San Luis Obispo County
Paso Robles
Globe Cotton Mills
Butte County
Modesto
Elizabeth Hughs
Oroville
Federated Women’s Clubs
Nevada City
Sacramento Board of Education
Merced Canyon
Camp Curry
Merced Grove
Redwoods
Yosemite Village
Lost Hills oilfield front line Kings Kern counties
In the Lost Hills oilfield front between Kings and Kern counties ace will develop for oil. In Sutter county many people work in fruit orchards and canneries and parcel post orders fill small requests. The Yuba City Post Office is the busiest in its history with an average of two tons of peaches shipped by parcel post daily.
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Ace
Lost Hills
Kings
Kern
Sutter County
Parcel Post
Yuba City
Naval Seaplane Squadron Returns After 24 Hour Seaboard Flight
Errant seaplanes from San Diego to San Francisco, tied up in fog and fuel shortages, were all accounted for. Planes Nos. 4 and 11 landed at Moss Beach after minor mechanical issues. crews endured little hardship thanks to emergency rations. Squadron of eleven F-5L seaplanes, each with two Liberty engines, pursued a nine hour flight, while Aroostook shipped ahead to Mare Island. Commander J H Towers said return to San Diego will occur once all planes assemble. Lieutenant Commander C P Mason led the squadron aboard plane No. 7 with pilot Woysign Rolirback.
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San Francisco
San Diego
Moss Beach
J. H. Towers
Aroostook
Mare Island
C. P. Mason
Woysign Rolirback
Minimum wage act for women announced in San Francisco
The Industrial Welfare Commission issued a minimum wage order effective September 25 affecting over 0,000 women and minor workers in factories printing bookbinding engraving and lithography. The base pay is 16 dollars weekly for experienced workers with learner provisions and staged increases for adult and minor learners, plus rules on part time and night work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Industrial Welfare Commission
California Apple Crop and City Budget Figures
The California apple crop is expected at about 6,185,000 bushels, down from last year by 500,000. Chico city government costs rise by 26,895.60 for the year as per the City Clerk’s report. Sonoma county contesting work to expand, Napa Farm Advisors handle labor placement with more help available. A $300,000 pottery plant is planned to move from an Eastern city to the Santa Clara valley by company officers.
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California
Chico
Morrison
Sonoma County
Napa County Farm Advisors
Santa Clara Valley
Ompany
Enrollment in U. C. Expected To Set Record
Berkeley crowds expect record fall enrollment at the University of California. First two days show Saturday and Friday freshmen and new students, with returning students to register Monday. Last year surpassed 10,000. this year 11,000 is a conservative estimate amid Columbia’s anticipated record. Recorder James Sutton believes Cal will maintain last season’s high mark.
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Berkeley
University of California
Columbia University
New York
James Sutton
Plans to include 2000 acres in a national forest
Santa Cruz Farm Center pushes a proposal to add 2000 acres of virgin redwood timber in the Hihn Sulphur Springs area of the Santa Cruz mountains just below Loma Prieta to a national forest. The District Forester supports the plan after review. R E Burton of Santa Cruz Farm Bureau led discussions with the forester.
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Santa Cruz
Sikyland Farm Center
R. E. Burton
Santa Cruz Farm Bureau
Hihn Sulphur Springs
Santa Cruz Mountains
Loma Prieta
American Doctor Prisoner in Mexico
Information received on Saturday indicates Dr. Paul Altendorff, once ordered to leave Mexico as an undesirable foreigner, was seized from a train at Monterey and transported to Mexico City where he remains imprisoned.
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San Antonio
Tex
Paul Altendorff
Mexico
Monterey
N. S
Lila
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico City
Soviets Aim to Rule World Through Alliance and War
Komo Poland report says Soviet Russia seeks a Germany alliance to wage war on France, then conquer England and eventually America. Bolshevik leaders, corroborated by East Prussian press interviews with Bolshevik chiefs, predict full control of Poland within three weeks and a ten kilometer Danzig corridor neutral zone.
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Poland
Russia
Germany
France
England
America
Danzig
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Golden State
Dinuba
Fort Bidwell
Texas
Kern County
Healdsburg
California State Department of Agriculture
Federal Bureau of Markets
Shipping Point Inspection Service
Fred H. Tibbetts
Steven E. Kieffer
Raymond Matthew
Rea
Chansler-Canfield Oil Company
Santa Fe
Kings County
Abraham Krotoshinsky
Abraham Kreptoshinsky
Argonne Forest
National Farm School
Abraham
Seventh Infantry
Whittlesey
U. C
U. S
Hermes
al Ce
Pacific Coast
Board of
Standard Oil Company
Italy
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Winston-Salem
N. C
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