England’s Cornish Coast From Penzance To St Ives
The piece surveys Cornwall’s coastline from Penzance through Polperro Clovelly Tintagel Port Isaac to St Ives, describing rugged shores historic harbors and villages famed for scenery romance and maritime life. It notes St Ives modern conveniences and a reluctant return to London.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
England
Penzance
Sea City
Mounts Bay
Cornwall
Mousehole
Newlyn
London
Marazion
Ezekiel
St. Michael’s Mount
Tintagel
Tennyson
Hawker
Mallory
Terrabil
Port Isaac
St. Ives
Ana Cen
California News Briefs 1926 Highlights Growth and Tax Issues
Glendora booms as 1926 sales show 188 acres of foothill citrus changing hands for 765 500 dollars with eastern buyers. Statewide tax debates loom as electric railways taxed 7 percent of gross receipts could yield nearly 5 million dollars in back taxes. Fire prevention funding rises under Governor Young and state forester Pratt. Undersized liquor bottles seized, and UC eyes 35 acres of the Deaf School site for dorms or gardens.
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Glendora
California
Peter J. Shields
Sacramento County
Supreme Court
Southern Pacific Railroad
Shields
M. B. Pratt
Youngs
Pratt
Charles F. Hayden
State Division of
Hayden
University of California
California School of the Deaf
Berkeley
Harrison C. Kelsey
Alameda County
Cari & Arata Winery
Fulton
Internal Revenue
William Shackelton
Sonoma County
Lexington
Santa Cruz Mountains
Williams
Nevada Press Association
Harold P. Hale
California Press Association
Reno
Friend W. Richardson
California Organization
Hale
Doings of the Legislature on the Motor Vehicle Licensing Plan
Sacramento discusses how a bifurcated session aims to let lawmakers seek public instruction but fails due to volume of measures. A proposed poll tax and motor vehicle repair licensing plan would require licenses, exams, and a five member board, funded by the license fees, potentially yielding millions in income.
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Sacramento
Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
Arthur S. Dudley
Chamber
Caminetti
Permanent voter registration bill proposed by Walters
Assemblyman Walters sponsors a bill for permanent voter registration claiming annual savings of nearly one million dollars. J. H. Zemansky, seasoned registrar now directing this work in San Francisco, prepared the measure. The law would bind citizens to lifelong registration via a registrar notified upon moving and a first registration oath lasting seventy-five years.
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Assemblyman Walters
J. H. Zemansky
San Francisco
Hunting license fees under proposed law clarified
The draft law sets fees for hunting licenses: American citizens in California pay $2, American nonresidents $10, foreigners intending to naturalize pay $10 if they complete naturalization promptly and do not claim foreign citizenship to dodge service. Foreigners not citizens or not proposing citizenship would pay $25.
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California
Community property liability rules on spouses debts
The community property is not liable for the wife’s postmarital contracts unless the husband signs a pledge or mortgage. It is also not liable for the wife’s debts contracted before marriage.
Barbers to Pass Board Exam Before Practicing
County supervisors barred from making appropriations for expenses of county officers attending meetings outside the county. This ruling would include the supervisors themselves and effectively abolish conventions of county officials.
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Tcounty
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Englands
Little Brother
Mont St. Michel
Breton
St. Michael
Cormoran
Jack the
Lizard
Poldhu
Falmouth
Megavissey
Fowey
Polperro
Mg¢N
Clovelly
Devon
Hobby Drive
Land’s End
Modesto Board of Education
Modesto High School
Tehama County
Red Bluff
P. H. Coffman
Sacramento Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Gerber
Michael J. McCann
Grass Valley
David McAllsen
Colusa
Plains
Sacramento Valley
Princeton
Colusa County
Edison Company
Redlands
A. S. Webb
Wm. J. Brown
Stanislaus County
Willows
Walls,Laird & Spicer
Alturas
Black Mountain
Watts Valley
W. S. Cranmer
San Joaquin Valley
Fresno
Superior Court
University of Redlands
S. S. Knight
Petaluma Poultry Keepers’ Association
Pittsburg
Contra Costa County
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