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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
3
A local reader defends the building inspector’s office stating three complete permit records exist since the building ordinance. He lists fields kept for each permit including owner name and address, builder, lot and block, street, purpose, size, estimated cost, and material. He asserts the building inspector is among the most responsible city offices, second only to the health officer.
Mary Ware’s children headline three staff moves. Alice Ware leaves Newton & Warner as head clerk to join R. B. McKinney on North Main Street. Frank Ware departs Corona Lumber for Elsinore Timber as mainsinger. Howard Ware fills Frank’s Corona Lumber vacancy after six years with the company.
Due to warm weather the Congregational and Baptist churches will host Sunday evening services on the parsonage lawn beside the Congregational Church at 7 30 pm Rev F L W Reynolds will preach All are invited to a comfortable, inspiring Sabbath evening on the lawn
Rev. Chester Ferris will preach at 10 45 with a second sermon by Rev. FL W Reynolds at 7 00 as Baptist and Congregationalists unite. Bible school Intermediates and Young People's meetings are scheduled with a union service all are invited.
Fr W Enderly of Riverside and A J Ware of Corona assume management of the Elsinore Lumber Yards in Lake City after purchasing from Holgerton Son. The company already holds interests in Perris and Lancaster yards and links with mills in the north. Frank B Ware of the city will manage the Elsinore operation and departed Saturday to begin duties.
Mrs. Robert Todd and her daughter Miss Grace Todd hosted a Friday afternoon event focused on needlework and song. Miss Myra Reynolds performed folk songs before Grace Todd served a supper, with attendees including Louise Oakey Nina Beebe Islaise Jameson Bernice Jameson Myra Reynolds Mrs. W. H. Jameson Mrs. Joy Jameson Mrs. R. K. M. Blickhahn Mrs. F. W. Reynolds and Mrs. Harold Reynolds.
Mrs W Reynolds entertained twenty ladies of the first Baptist church on Friday afternoon at her home at Tenth and Victoria. A missionary program featured reports on the Spanish mission, the YWCA international convention in New York, and a Chicago World in Chicago pageant.
The pastor will be absent from the pulpit next Sunday due to a call to San Diego. J. D. Houston, Pastor.
Authors today are described as more moral and abstinent than those of the past, with drinking and other vices reportedly less pronounced. The claim suggests an improving literary world and calls for gratitude.
The era of Balkan violence may force international intervention as warring factions threaten to erase the problem, prompting calls for decisive action by major powers to stabilize the region and prevent escalation.
In a dramatic scene at 320 West Fifty-eighth Street Mrs May Bradley trapped on the third floor was saved by Fire Lieutenant Simpson and Firemen John Mooney and Thomas McManus Mooney bravely hung head down from the roof to reach her as flames swept the building The lodging house above remained intact and damages are put at about $2000 according to the New York Evening World.
Edward Knowles, keeper of a game preserve on an island, was hunting when a herd of wild hogs charged. He fired, fled a half mile, then climbed into a tree to escape, remaining prisoner in the branches for several hours until help or safer ground was reached.
Patrick J. Dugan, 24, a Pennsylvania Railroad signalman in Philadelphia, was beaten unconscious by four men while fixing a light. They bound him to the eastbound tracks near the Fifty-ninth Street signal tower and left him to die as an express train neared. The crew stopped the train about 25 yards from his body after finding him.
The Santa Barbara county apiary inspector leads an active campaign to wipe out foul blood as part of the broader fight against bee disease. Local beekeepers are advised on inspection protocols and reporting suspected cases to halt the spread.
Miss Mary Thomas of Valley Road, Montclair New Jersey, was crossing Bloomfield Avenue when the heel of her shoe caught in trolley tracks in front of the fire headquarters. A trolley car stopped within feet and her shoe was removed before she could be extricated.
A catalog page lists prices for baby stockings, women's hose and silk hosiery, girls and misses wear, vests, knit pants, muslin gowns, princess slips and corsets. Notable items include baby stockings at 5 cents per pair and women's stockings 2 pr for 25 cents, with silk hose at 1.25 and corsets around 1.00 to 1.75.
The author praises Berlin’s twelve to fifteen miles of flawless streets from Brandenburger Tor to Unter den Linden. Wide, tree lined avenues with separate paths, spring gardens, and pristine paving expose a stark contrast to American cities. Street cleaning is a formal, soldier recruited service with strict rules and pensions, enforced by police and cooperation with transit agencies.
Professor Husmann who heads the grape experiment station in the Imperial Valley warns growers to increase irrigation attention to grape vines to secure a good shipping crop.
Orchard owners who safeguarded groves from January heat by heating methods are now purchasing automobiles, signaling a swift shift in expense priorities as harvest concerns ease and affordability rises.
Alois Senefelder, a poor musician, sketched a washing bill on Kelheim stone. The ink set hard and suggested using acid to eat away uninked stone, leaving the writing in relief. This sparked the invention of lithography.
Two men in Washington discuss bird intelligence. One recalls a woman with a clockbird that cuckooed exactly the clock’s hours. He adds the bird was wooden, a claim his companion finds hard to believe.
The article portrays Java’s "fire island" as a vast lake of boiling mud nearly two miles in circumference. In the center immense soft mud columns rise and fall as if pushed by a giant, while two large bubbles near the western edge inflate and explode about three times each minute.
Shipments from Brawley Imperial Valley show cantaloupes 3454 cars watermelons 462 cars and vegetables and fruit close to 100 cars more, with tomatoes grapes and other produce contributing to the total.
Members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange push formation of a first insurance organization to support growers. The move signals growing interest in collective risk management amid market pressures and crop threats.
A short piece extols Southern California summers noting warm daytime temperatures in Riverside Redlands San Bernardino and Corona around 100 degrees. It contrasts with eastern heat dangers and highlights cool nights sunny skies and 350 sunny days plus scenic sunsets as reasons for the region’s appeal.
The Free Methodist Church announces Sunday August 10 activities with Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. class meeting at 7 p.m. and a question box at 7 45 p.m. The pastor B H Edwards notes last Sunday’s 30 questions and invites written inquiries placed in the offering basket for evening attention.
Army bayonets are used as part of an emergency telephone outfit for forest rangers. A coil of fine copper wire connects to the nearest telephone line, the bayonet is planted in moist ground, and the ranger can report position, contact headquarters, and summon firefighters during fires.
Fillmore and Ventura county citrus growers organize to combine orders for orchard heating devices for next year, aiming to secure better pricing and reliable delivery.
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