California News Briefs Highlights Local Developments
California briefs report about $3000 raised for Campbell building for scouts and Camp Fire Girls, Antioch field day and banquet, Miller Chandler elected Watsonville police judge, re-elections of mayor and officials, Richmond hospital permit for $75000, Del Norte officials curb highway flowers, Pickwick to build $30000 office, Luella Lofgren crowned Butte County spelling champion, Humboldt abalone limit set at ten, Davison visits Rockwell Field for Army air depot site, Nevada moved to California mineral division, US Bureau of Mines notes US refinery capacity led by California, PG&E to extend lines into Henleyville, Fort Mason land purchase for aquatic park, Pickwick granted cross-Bay operation, San Jose hotel financing completed, cattle losses near Salinas, bean planting in Lompoc Valley and drought impact on acreage.
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Boy Scouts
Campbell
Antioch High School Girls’ Athletic Association
Miller Chandler
Watsonville
Lindsey Webb
Carey H. Baker
Charles A. Palming
Merrill Swisher
Richmond
del Noret
Pickwick Stages System
Fourth
Eureka
Luella Lofgren
Richvale
Speller
Butte County
Miss Lofgren
Butte County Farm Bureau
Minerva Scott
West Liberty
Chrystal Johnson
Rio Bonito
Humboldt County
Senate
R. F. Fisher
H. C. Nelson
Nelson
Fisher
Humboldt District
San Diego
Army Air Depot
F. Trubee Davison
Rockwell Field
Lower Bay
Victor C. Heikes
San Francisco
United States Geological Survey
Nevada
California Division of Mineral Resources
Utah
California
Salt Lake City
United States
United States Bureau of Mines
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Henleyville
Tehama County
Black Point
Fort Mason
Northwestern Pacific Railway
Golden Gate Ferry
Carquinez Bridge
Oregon Border
Pickwick
State Railroad Commission
Imperial Valley Leads U.S. Cantaloupe Movement in 1928
Imperial Valley produced and shipped nearly half of the cantaloupes nationwide in 1928, with 14,075 cars out of 28,892 total. California other than Imperial sent 8,000 cars, Arizona moved 5,224 cars, placing California and Arizona as the top shippers by car volume.
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United States
Imperial Valley
California
Arizona
Ninth Pacific Slope Dairy Show set for Oakland dates
The ninth annual Pacific Slope Dairy Show will run in Oakland from November 18 to 23, dates fixed at a recent executive committee meeting. The committee also discussed appointing directors to represent western states and Hawaii.
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Pacific Slope
Oakland
Western
Hawaii
Whittier Sixth Annual Avocado Show Highlights Week
The sixth annual avocado show in Whittier ran May 6 through 12 with strong crowds. The event featured a large tent sheltering fruit displays and notable commercial exhibits including a creditable array of automobiles.
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Whittier
Beekeepers Push Riverside as Site for Federal Bee Station
The San Bernardino county farm bureau beekeepers group led by secretary Ivan V. Knorr urges Southern California beemen to influence locating the proposed Federal field station in the far west end of the state. With imminent government funds, about 25000 dollars could fund the project, and Riverside is proposed as the logical site.
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Beekeepers’ Department of the
San Bernardino County Farm Bureau
Ivan V. Knorr
California
Riverside
Breeding Ladybirds For Mealy Bug Control In Australia
Australian researchers from the Department of Scientific Industrial Research have developed a profitable, large scale method to breed ladybirds as a natural enemy of the mealy bug. Breeders grow sprouted potatoes in dark rooms, infest them with bugs, and release the ladybirds to feed. The process continues by capturing the ladybirds and their offspring for distribution.
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Australia
Department of Scientific Industrial Research
California Lettuce and Peas Peak Amid Weather Gain
A California Crop Reporting Service bulletin notes the east bay area and state at peak shipping for early vegetables. Cold spring delayed growth but warm weather boosted ripening, lowering yield but improving quality. Spring lettuce arrives at high prices. over 10 000 acres to lettuce this year. Spring peas yield high, potato harvest progressing with 75 percent crop rated, down from 85 last year due to frost and reduced acreage.
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East Bay
California
California Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Hogs Killed by Coyotes Prompts Nearby Trapping Bounty
Richmond Logan, a Palo Cedro Millville area farmer, reports coyotes have slain 110 hogs in recent weeks. Nearby, three Winters brothers on Oakrun have quit farming to trap coyotes for the bounty.
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Richmond Logan
Palo Cedro
Millville
Logan
Winters Brothers
Oakrun
Fifty Carloads of Burbank Cherries Ship to Chicago
Fifty boxes of choice Burbank cherries, the first of the 1929 crop, were shipped to Chicago in refrigerated cars. The cherry season is well under way and thirty carloads are expected to be shipped east this season.
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Burbank
Chicago
Szechwan Farmers Feed a Nation Despite Isolation
National Geographic highlights Szechwan province as the Garden of Asia where 60 million people rely on terraced rice farming, monsoon rains, and primitive tools. It describes laborers, tenant farmers, rich estates, and the vital salt industry at Flowing Well near Chungking, plus Chengtu’s ancient walls and irrigation system.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
China
Szechwan
Tibet
Great Republic
Chengtu
Texas
Yangtze
Asia
Chung-king
Tszhu-ching
Marco Polo
Li Ping
Paris Police Adopt Folding Armor Gear for Protection
The Paris police, in plain clothes, are equipped with folding armor including steel headgear and a steel shield sheet, along with bullet proof vests, for protection against bandits as reported by Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Paris
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Helpful Booklet Free Better Ways to Wash and Clean
An advertisement invites readers to write Pacific Coast Borax Co Department W 100 William St New York for a free copy of a booklet on modern laundry and cleaning methods. The notice promotes household care tips and borax usage.
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Pacific Coast Borax Co
Dept. W
William St
New York
Adv
Rest of the chat echoes literary quotes exchange
A brief dialogue captures two speakers admiring quotations from Tennyson and Longfellow about a new book. One compliments the other on the book and the stylistic use of quoted lines.
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Tennyson and Longfellow
Russ Ball Blue tonic for chickens advertised
A Grocers advertisement touts Russ Ball Blue as a good tonic for chickens. The large package is highlighted as a notable buy for poultry farmers and home coop care.
No Leisure “How's business?” Joke in a kitchen ad-lib
A playful exchange contrasts a busy business tone with a comic line about a can opener in a modern kitchen. The quip highlights humor in everyday work life and bustling activity.
Castoria A Trusted Baby Remedy For Colic And Fussiness
Castoria offers quick comfort for fretful babies with safe vegetable ingredients. It is promoted as harmless for the youngest infant and useful in emergencies for constipation and colic, with mothers advised to keep an extra bottle. The ad notes benefits for older children and references an accompanying book.
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Kings River
Salinas
Lompoc Valley
Santa Barbara County
Crowded Szechwan
Bayer
Castoria
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