California Development Board Maps Plans for Colonization
The California Development Board launches a campaign to attract settlers from Belgium and elsewhere, proposing equal opportunities for Americans and foreigners. It calls for legislative action, rural credits, an Australian-style amortization plan, a lifelong land payment term, a one million dollar colonization fund, and cooperative mortgage guarantees as gilt-edge securities.
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California Development Board
California
Belgium
San Francisco
Development Board
Agricultural Department of
University of California
State Department of Agriculture
Landschaft Co-Operative
Europe
Joint Committee
National Marketing Commission
David Lubin
New Management at Barstow Printer Abbrs
Barstow Printer appoints Oswald Wilson and his son J Harold Wilson to editorial and business management. They pledge to develop Mohave Valley and seek citizen and landowner support to make the paper a credit to Barstow and California. G E Capps signs off with season greetings.
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Barstow
Oswald Wilson
J. Harold Wilson
Mohave Valley
Mohave Vall
Beern
California
G. E. Capps
South
GONZALES SOMBRERO IN RING IN MEXICAN PRESIDENCY FIGHT
Four revolutionary leaders challenge for Mexico’s presidency as Carranza Gutierrez Villa and Pablo Gonzalez vie for power with Zapata contesting control of the capital. Carranza moves 2000 troops from Vera Cruz to Tampico and seizes four gunboats, while the State Department weighs American warship withdrawals amid foreign pressure.
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Mexico
General Carranza
Vera Cruz
General Gutierrez
Aguas Calientes
General Villa
Pablo Gonzales
State Department
Agua Calientes
General Zapata
Carranza
Tampico
Huerta
Washington
Holland
Russia
Spain
United States
Square Up Day Planned To Start New Year
Towns promote January 1 as square up day to settle debts and quarrels and begin the new year with goodwill. The idea spreads nationwide as communities back a day to clear financial and social disputes.
State Department of Agriculture Urged in California
A committee report presented at the fruit growers convention calls for a unified California Department of Agriculture. It urges combining 18 to 20 existing bureaus under one strong state executive and reorganizing horticultural laws for economy and efficiency, led by C. C. Teague of Santa Paula.
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California Development Board
University of California
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
California
Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
C. C. Teague
Santa Paula
Teague
San Jose
County Lands Dominant in San Bernardino County
San Bernardino county holds more public lands than any other county in the United States and accounts for about one third of all public lands in California, totaling 7,128,094 acres.
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San Bernardino County
County
The
United States
State of
California
Supervisors Head to San Diego for County Exposition Plans
Supervisors Pine Jones and Horton and Supervisors-elect Kincaid and Riley left Tuesday for San Diego to inspect the Southern California building and the exhibit plans for the county exposition set to begin January 1. They will be away for several days.
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Southern California
Pine
Jones
Horton
Kincaid
Riley
San Diego
Tax Delinquent List Expected to Grow This Year
Tax money by mail report shows over $100,000 in taxes received through the main demands while Tax Collector Desmond estimates a large delinquent list. The tax deadline passed Monday night and those unpaid are placed on the delinquent list with a special surcharge for delinquents.
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Desmond
Government to provide $25,000 for Needles bridge
The board of supervisors was asked by telegram to raise $25,000 to cover the county share of a new bridge over the Colorado River at Needles. The request came from the government prompted by Congressman Kettners suggestion, with Arizona also to bear $25,000 of the bridge cost.
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Board of Supervisors
Colorado River
Needles
Kettner
Coke Company
Kenilworth Ward
Riverside Delegation Probes Citrus Station Site
Riverside business leaders visited San Bernardino to interview local citizens about the citrus experiment station location. San Bernardino chamber of commerce and the National Orange Show committee favor Riverside, opposing the San Fernando Valley option for growing the fruit.
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Riverside
San Bernardino
Chamber of Commerce
National Orange Show Committee
San Fernando Valley
Victor Valley Water Project Discussed
Land owners in Burbank hall discussed a reclamation project for Victor Valley. Advocates said data proving sufficient water exist to convince the United States reclamation bureau that the plan is feasible has been collected.
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Victor Valley
Burbank Hall
South Main Street
United States Reclamation Bureau
California Legislature Hints at Dismantling State Assembly
A plan to abolish the 80 member State Assembly will be revived in the forty first session opening Monday January 4. The bill proposes a new Legislature of the State of California with the people retaining initiative referendum and recall.
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Boynton
Carr
Cartwright
Campbell
Gates
Owens
Cohn
Avey
State of
California
NOW PAYING TAX ON WAR CRIME
The United States begins a wartime tax on European crimes, collecting pennies from everyday items and services. Citizens pay through December 31, 1915, as stamps and levies drain value from gum, tobacco, theater seats, bonds, licenses, and many other goods.
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U. 5
United States
Europe
Uncle Sam
Russians Near Cracow Presses Austrians From Cracow
Reports from Lemberg say Austrian lines are retreating with heavy losses as Russians advance toward Cracow. German officers command at Cracow placing weapons on key landmarks to draw fire. Galicia evacuees face famine amid the retreat.
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Cracow
Lemberg
Galicia
Ban on It's a Long Way to Tipperary at Newport Navy Station
Navy station at Newport bans the march song It's a Long Way to Tipperary per Lieutenant Commander Evans citing Wilson's neutrality order. Also notes rice crop movement on the Sacramento River with $225,000 shipped so far, plus a theft of flour for Belgian relief and a safe break at the Camino, and reports the first U S operation using scopolamin twilight sleep for appendicitis in Union Hill New Jersey.
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R. I
Tipperary
Naval
Evans
Wilson
Sacramento
Butte
Glenn
Colusa
Belgium
K. A. Ablin
Pier
San Francisco
Union Hill
N. J
Charles V. Niemeyer
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