Chinese New Year Dates Reveal Lunar Calendar Guide
San Francisco officials note Chinese New Year dawns after midnight on January 20 and declare the Year of the Horse will begin with the new lunar cycle. The article lists past and upcoming Year dates with the lunar calendar, noting Chinatown’s large New Year celebrations and historical context from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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San Francisco
Savanis
Sanlion
New York
Visi-zan
Adors Bureau
Chinatown
Une Viger
History Of California Mackay Survives Assassin's Bullet
A serialized look at John Mackay the Comstock millionaire. The 1877 shooting by Wesley Rippey near the Palace Hotel is covered along with Mackay’s bank ventures, social prominence of his wife in London, and later legal troubles and estate holdings across California. The piece notes his death in 1901 and descendants including Ellen Mackay Berlin.
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John Mackay
Mackay
Nevada Bank
San Francisco
Nevada
Ping and
Montgomery Streets
Corbett
Walter Watson
Olympic Club
John J. Sullivan
New Orleans
Bob Fitzsimmons
Carson City
Bank Messenger
France
England
Buckingham Gate
London
Royal Palace
Duchess of Manchester
Prince of
Domino Club
Wesley C. Rippey
Palace Hotel
Ripley
Corestock
Crank
West
William H. Smallman
Amelia Smallman
Carlton House
Hong Kong
Hawaiian Islands
Fourth and
Market Streets
Third and
Mission Streets
Forty-Niners Pursued in Classic Westward Tale
Historian Henry Eno and the Forty-Niners are chronicled in a Yale University Press study by W. Turrentine Jackson. The book relies on letters to describe mining life in California Nevada and Death Valley, showing the era’s trials, disappointments, and stubborn optimism.
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Davis
Tribu
Henry Eno
Cali
Ferelte
Nevada
Sastern
Enos
asjDorado
California
Calaveras
Alpine
of the Times
W. Turrentine
White Mountain
Eno
Jackson
Valiant
Tor
Yale
Pacific Slope
Everyman
University Press
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Lia Oba
University OF Nevada
Reno
Granat Bros
Jewelers
Hayward
Southland Mall
Southland
Oakland
Starbright
History of
The
Daily Review
By John Sandoval
Wales
Edward Vit
Hippey
Lucky Baldwin
Smallman
Smallmans
Ralston and Mills Bank
Bank of Nevada
Louis McLane
George L. Brander
Brander
Ethel van Wick Manter
Sexton Printers
Caldwell
Idaho
Palo Alto
Arthur Manter Jr
Sandoval
Merry Christmas
Holly
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