31 Mar 1909
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1909
Page
1
City of Corona enacts Ordinance 155 fixing electric and gas rates for 1909 10 and setting minimum charges. It also restricts billiard and pool halls to ground level front rooms with street visibility, curbs late hours, and bans minor play with penalties including fines and potential jail.
The paper notes contracts for advertising are available through The Dake Advertising Agency Inc with offices at 428 South Main Street Los Angeles and 779 Market Street San Francisco.
The board of trustees includes Henry H. Holmes as president A B Tathill W A Hively Anail F Gillett and Ethan P Kidder with the position of trustee noted.
George Alexander, a Republican, won the Los Angeles mayoral race last Friday by 1625 votes over Wheeler the socialist. The Southern Pacific political machine backed Wheeler, and Parker’s crowd faces two servings of crow for Wheeler’s defeat.
The text questions Los Angeles governance compared with San Francisco as a special grand jury probes. Mr Harriman promises a new depot for Los Angeles, urging Southern Pacific to build it, criticizing the old Arcade as hardly fit for use.
Board of supervisors may take up the Temescal road's poor state, urging attention to needed repairs. Easter hats are described as oversized, likened to a tub or a mountain in cost to buyers.
Dispatches report Theodore Roosevelt travels to Africa for a big game hunt. It will take about fifteen months before his return is expected. Other wire items note a claimed South Pole discovery and tensions in Fillmore over Japanese laborers.
A vote for sewerage is presented as benefiting both finances and public health, tying infrastructure improvements to personal well being and community welfare.
The city Board of Trustees passes Ordinance No. 156 establishing the official grade for West Seventh Street in Corona from Main to Grand Boulevard. It lists grade elevations at multiple intersections, defines line conformity between points, and states enforcement steps with publication and effect upon passage on March 1 1909.
Ordinance No. 154 regulates police purposes for billiard and pool rooms and public places where billiards and pool are placed. It prohibits playing with cards and dice in such places, restricts admission of certain miners, and sets closing times. The Corona Board of Trustees declares all public places within the city limits where billiards and pool are played subject to these rules.
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