California News Briefs Highlights State and Local Matters
California reports demand for ousting Dr Wilbur Selle over alleged animal cruelty at Santa Barbara State Teachers College. Western Pacific Railroad unveils a $13.5 million plan to add an all rail entrance to San Francisco and boost peninsula traffic. 1926 to 1928 tax data shows income tax declines, and per our figures California income tax receipts and overall state earnings rise from idle funds. Primary registration projected to hit 2,057,600 with July 28 deadline. Veterans loans exceed $25 million. 5,167 veterans hold contracts. Elks elect Murray Hulbert grand exalted ruler. Los Angeles eyes 1929 convention site. Flapper arrests drop. juvenile crime rises in year. California mineral output tops $377 million, titanium produced commercially for first time. Lake Tahoe shore gift donated to state parks by Bliss family. Automobile accident cost to state around $16 per capita. national burden $600–700 million. Narcotic rehabilitation program opens at Pacific Lodge near Pomona. first patients around fifty. Asbestos-like plant tested to curb brush fires in foothills. Pension for retired teachers proposed to rise to $600–$900. species fund reforms discussed.
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California
Wilbur Selle
Santa Barbara State Teachers’ College
Young
Dr. Selle
Western Pacific Railroad
San Francisco
Peninsula
Western Pacific California Railroad Company
Frank G. Snook
State Division of Motor Vehicles
Snook
A. R. Heron
State Motor Vehicle Department
New York
Charlies G. Johnson
Frank C. Jordan
Charles Hagerty
Jordan
California Veterans of the World War
State Veterans’ Welfare Board
George M. Stout
Veterans’ Boards
Murray Hulbert
New York City
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Miami
Los Angeles
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
State Division of Mines and Mining
Lake Tahoe
Rubicon Point
William E. Colby
State Park Commission
William S. Bliss
Walter D. Bliss
Miss Hope Bliss
Franci. D. Stringham
Berkeley
Uncle Sam
Pacific Lodge
Pomona
Los Angeles County
Thomas F. Joyce
Ralph Scott
California Botanic Garden
Mandeville Canyon
Scott
South Africa
Alexander R. Heron
Heron
Afghanistan in Pictures and Customs of the Afghan People
National Geographic surveys Afghanistan’s isolation yet rising world interest as Afghan royalty tour Europe. It covers origins debates, language, dress, social life, food, customs, gender norms, and the Khyber pass trade route with caravans.
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Russia
India
Egypt
Amir Uabibullah Khan
Havana
Afghanistan
Khyber Pass
Afg
Diphtheria Victory Puts Cambridge on Health Leaderboard
Cambridge Massachusetts tops cities over 100000 population in 1927 diphtheria prevention with zero deaths. Only once in five years has a city matched this record, Duluth Minnesota held it in 1925. Seven large cities had no typhoid deaths last year, led by New Haven Springfield Yonkers Paterson Richmond Canton Kansas City.
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Cambridge
Mass
United States
American Medical Association
Duluth Minn
Medical Association
New Haven
Bugle That Ended War in Wenden Museum Display
The principal museum of Wenden in Westphalia houses a bugle that signaled the end of the war. It was blown by German staff bugler Zebrowsky on the eve of November 7, 1918, to announce German emissaries crossing into Allied lines for terms of the armistice.
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Wenden
Wetsphalia
Zebrowsky
Chicago News
Divorce rate tops in southwest states says statistician
A statistician asserts the highest divorce rate is in the southwest, naming Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma and Texas. The claim highlights regional family trends and legal separation dynamics across these states.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
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Frances Willard
Calif
Selmer
Selmer Inc
Elkhart,Incl
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Wash
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Stone-Buhr Mill
S. Spring St
Exposition
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Alien
le Roy
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