California News Briefs highlights from across the state
A roundup of California items: births and deaths in San Jose. gold bricks shipped to San Francisco mint after a Sugarman Mine strike near Sonora. title transfer of the Gwin Mine in Calaveras. Granite Construction to resurfaced 17 miles of the Coast Highway near San Juan and Salinas. tax rolls rise in San Luis Obispo. Yreka Railroad seeks funds for a line to Etna. Reseda Tile expands in San Fernando Valley. coyotes targeted in Tehama. county golf plans near San Mateo. Marysville post office branch setup. Vallejo Lake fish die-offs linked to copper sulfate. Twin Quartz mine development near Camptonville. fires small in Sequoia and General Grant Parks. oil leases in Kerman District. November 4 bids open for Woodland school bonds. Marin traffic upgrades. Ross and Kentfield fight to keep station agents. Freeport bridge nearing completion. PG and E natural gas franchising in Yuba. Hawthorne Mines consolidation. Woodland sewer and water upgrades. Roseville paving aid split. California border quarantine site near Yuma chosen. new Manteca American Legion commander and officers. Fire prevention crackdown yields $500 fine for arsonist Alvinee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwin
San Andreas
Jeffrey Schweitzer
Gwin Development Company
Calaveras County
Granite Construction Company
Watsonville
San Juan
Salinas
San Luis Obispo
Richard Leland
Yreka Railroad Company
International Commerce Commission
Yreka City
Etna
Calif
Reseda
San Mateo
Post Office Department
South of Fourth Street Association
Marysville
Second
D Streets
Vallejo
Napa
Leonard Foote
Indian Valley
L. F. Lorenz
Los Angeles
Camptonville
Snowden Hill
Thunder Mountain
Lorenz
Yolo County
Woodland District
Marin County
State Department of Public Works
Gallinas Creek
San Rafael
Granfield, Farrar & Carlin
San Francisco
Ross and
Kentfield
State Railroad Commission
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
George Harlan
Freeport
Sacramento
Clarksburg
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Yuba County
Board of Supervisors
Hawthorne Mines, Incorporated
Lucky Boy Consolidated Mines Company
Hawthorne
Lucky Boy Consolidated
Hawthrone Mines
Woodland
Roseville
Atlantic Street
Southern Pacific Company
Yuma
California
Colorado River
Agricultural Department
Lyman M. King
State Department of Finance
King
Ernest Thran
Hope McFall
American Legion
Manteca
E. Doumoulin
Earl Mott
H. Shaffer
G. I. Linn
State Forest Service
W. B. Rider
Fred Alvinee
Humboldt County
Alvinee
Forest
Parker Hall
Frank E. Thompson
Rider
Two Naval Heroes Named Perry Memorial Nears Opening
Elmo Scott Watson profiles Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew Calbraith Perry, tracing the Perry family naval heritage from Christopher Perry through to the Wakefield Rhode Island homestead. The piece details Perry the elder’s Lake Erie triumph, the 1819 death, and Matthew Perry’s 1854 Japan treaty, framing a lasting naval legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Perry
Wakefield
R. L
Oliver Hazard Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry
Christopher Perry
Kingston Reds
Continental Army
Mifflin
Jersey
Trumbull
James Nicholson
Watt
Newry
Ireland
Sarah Alexander
Scotland
Christopher
America
Benjamin Rusk
Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Navy
Oliver Hazard
Raymond H. J
Matthew Calbraith
James Alexander
Nathaneal Hazard
Commodore Perry
France
Commodore Preble
Tripoli
Revenge
Lake Erie
Africa
West Indies
Mexico
Mediterranean
United States
North Carolina
John Randolph
Egypt
Naples
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Europe
Vera Cruz
Scott
Newfoundland
Japan
Also Mentioned on This Page
San Jose
H. C. Brown
Sugarman
Sonora
Sequoia
General Grant National Parks
Kerman
Watch Hill
Naval Board of
England
Newport Harbor
Detroit
Northwest
George Rogers Clark
Nelson
Harrison
Presque Isle
Erie
Daniel Dobbins
Buffalo
Ohio
Congress
Java
Decatur
Port Spain
Trinidad
Newport
Paltze
Labe Erie
Perry Hoptestead
Wabefield, RL
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