Public Notices and Historic Newsboard Habits in Rome and Wisconsin
Citizens awoke to walls as bulletin boards with Pompey and Caesar news from Rome, and a Wisconsin professor recounted empire publicity methods. Notices urged political support, rental ads, and shop listings on walls, while coal miners debated a seven hour day and a teacher probed student understanding of unaware.
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Rome
Forum
Pompey
Caesar
Westerman
University of Wisconsin
A. Vettius Firmus
Jno
Unaware germs and silly remedies spark unlikely satire
The text lampoons medical fads blaming raw foods for infantile paralysis and mixes in jokes about recipes, a grand canal project in Shantung, a soprano and conductor, temperance advice, and a rustic horse quip, all echoing a scattered, humorous column style from a bygone era.
Los Angeles Bunco Case In Corona Man Loses $1000
Sam Agnoston of Corona claims two young well dressed Italian bunco men posed as businessmen in Central Park and swindled him of $1000. Detectives Winn and Boyd are pursuing the suspects, one called Louie, and the incident is under local police investigation.
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Los Angeles
Sam Agnoston
Main Street
Bunco
the Times
Corona
Banco
Central Park
Louie
Winn and
Boyd
Death of Mrs Mary Major In Cucamonga Sanitarium
Mrs Mary J Major a comparative stranger in the city died at Cucamonga sanitarium yesterday morning at 11 oclock after years of ill health Her family moved to California from Missouri about three years ago and recently to North Main street The funeral will be at Hoover's parlors Tuesday at 1 PM Rev S S Sampson officiating She is a sister of Mrs S J Vaughan of this city.
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Mary J. Major
Oregon
Cucamonga Sanitarium
North Main Street
Hoover’s
Warrant Issued for Elmer Stoner in Car Collision Case
A felony warrant was sworn out by Walter M. Dean this morning after an incident near the fair where Elmer Stoner allegedly struck Mr. Dean’s National car and failed to stop. Stoner is to appear for a hearing Thursday morning.
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Elmer Stoner
Walter M. Dean
Dean
Mr. Stoner
California Industry and Infrastructure News Summary
California weekly notes a Norways-to-San Francisco ship service proposal, heavy rains injuring raisin crops, and SP orders for locomotives and cars. Reports cover eight hour farm labor debates, rice milling, Lockeford lighting, Pinal Dome warehouse, a San Pedro metal shed contract, and a San Francisco railroad home under way. Also listed: oil land purchases by Dohney, a large Guggenheim dredge project, big building permits in San Pedro, a $1 million beet sugar factory contract in Tracy, and regional transit and irrigation developments.
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San Francisco
Norway
Here
Fresno
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
California
Stockton
Western States Gas & Electric Co
Lockeford
Santa Ana
Pinal Dome Refining Co
San Pedro
Pacific Coast Steamship Co
Santa Fe
Marysville
Guggenheim
Yuba
Tapo Ranch
Santa Susanna
E. L. Dohney
Southern California
Dohney and Associates
Tacoma
Wash
S. M. Jackson
Bank of California
American Bankers’ Convention
Kansas City
Oregon
Washington
Strike Called Off Amid Stubborn Price Declines
The strike ends but prices continue to fall slowly. Despite the resolution of labor action the market shows persistent downward movement with no immediate reversal in price levels.
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Hamilton
A. W. Bates, Jeweler
Corona, Calif
Hao
Dame Fortune
Julia Felix
Q. Decius
Lucius
Sarno Bridge
Great Bowel
Mrs. Benton
Japan
America
Shantung Province
China
Co—O
Little Johnnie
Johnnie
Yan Bering
Jerusalem
Haystack
Hirai
Los Angeles Times
Times
United States
Mr. Wilson
Jaystuck
Hiram
Geo. M. Blair, C. R. Miller
City
West Sixth Street
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Indiana
Hiram W. Johnson
Congress
Robert C. Harbison
Mary Major
California Weekly Industrial Review
Golden State
Outer Harbor
Tracy
Whitehall Estate
Dyer & Co
Cleveland
Ohio
L. R. Eccles
Amalgamated Sugar Co
Utah
JeHef
Benicia
Robertson Yards
Fort Bragg
Gualala
Yuba City
Richmond
Taft
Kennett
Mammoth Copper Co
Red Bluff
Redding
Anderson-Cottonwood
Antelope Valley
Lancaster
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Av Corona
F. & F. Bus Line
A.R.G
Ontario
P.m
Corona Ontario
L. A
American Express
Salt Lake
the Pacific Limited
Riverside
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Denver
St. Paul-Minneapolis
J. H. Burtner
D. P
Independent Advertisers
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