Anderson Valley Club Holds Yuletide Meeting
The December gathering at Mrs. Minnie Lambert’s North Bush Street home featured a Christmas party with readings by Miss Audrey Doak, a large decorated tree, and gifts distributed by Mrs. Van Voast. Mrs. James Clow of Willits attended as guest of honor. plans for officers and the January meeting were set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Valley Club
Minnie Lambert
North Bush Street
van Vonst
James Clow of
Willits
Edna Holliday
Emily Miller
Maud Elledge
Prudence Thompson
van Voast
Hosesses
Leila Romer
Thanksgiving Program At Saturday Afternoon Club
The Saturday Afternoon club celebrated Thanksgiving with a program led by Mrs. Mark Pike at the clubhouse. Rev. Claude F. Mosher spoke on The Thanksgiving Tradition, a choir sextette sang hymns, and Mrs. William Bromley discussed Martha at the Veterans Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. A tree planting was approved, and a three course Thanksgiving lunch was served by listed hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Pike
Olive E. Busch
Pike
Claude F. Mosher
Stetson
C. A. Bernhard
G. M. Bigear
William Bromley
Martha
Veterans Memorial Opera House
San Francisco
W. D. L. Held
E. J. Reynolds
W. H. Higgins
Ida J. Holloway
William Davis
M. J. Lyon
Repairing Residence in Deolan Canyon Home
Mr and Mrs Joe Bingham employees of the state hospital have occupied their newly bought Yelin Payne property in Deolan canyon. They are making extensive repairs and alterations. Mrs Will Myers of Redwood Valley suffered a flu attack at the start of the week and remains seriously ill. Dr Bennett reports improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Bingham
The
State Hospital
Yelin Payne
Deolan Canyon
Will Myers
Redwood Valley
Bennett
Ukiah Recreational League reports 1934 35 season results
The Ukiah Recreational League furnished 167 contests across basketball baseball softball tennis and football to 420 players from 35 teams during 1934 35. Receipts totalled 630 96 with expenses and two supervisors totaling 664 88 leaving a 33 92 deficit. Admission for most events was 10 cents with free entry for high school freshmen and under.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukiah Recreational League
Board of
City Trustees
Fred L. Creen
Creen
E. B. Christensen
Leon Hooper
Ukiah Rodeo and Fair Association
Prophetic sermons at First Baptist Church San Francisco
Rev. D. M. Dawson leads Sunday services with heart searching messages. An afternoon service is scheduled Friday at 2 and the final service tonight at 7 45. Bible school meets Sunday at 9 44 am with next Sunday topics If the Foundations are unsafe and A Sure Cure for Blindness. Special music planned. C F Mosher, Pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Dawson
First Baptist Church of
San Francisco
Bible School
C. F. Mosher
Methodist Church Service Schedule and Sermon Title
The Methodist Church holds service Sunday with church school at 9 45 a m and sermon at 11 o clock titled The Margin of Good ness Anthem by the vested choir Junior League meets at 11 y m High school and Intermediate Leagues at 6 30 p m The pastor speaks on Sarah Adams great hymn Nearer My God To Thee at 7 30 p m Wednesday prayer service at 7 30 p m Minister Mark Pike Ph D
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Adams
Mark Pike
Eversole daughter takes Lakeport law office
Valberta Eversole, daughter of Mr and Mrs E A Eversole, who has worked as secretary in Attorney Keith C Eversoles Ukiah office for a year and a half, heads the Lake county law offices recently opened in Lakeport. Mrs Charles Whittaker of Potter Valley was here shopping. Mrs George Pickle visited from Potter Valley for a pleasant call on the Dispatch Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valberta Eversole
E. A. Eversole
Keith C. Eversole
Ukiah
Lakeport
Lake County
Eversole
Charles Whittaker
Potter Valley
George Pickle
Dispatch-Democrat
Fragmented musings on public life and ethics from a 1930s page
A string of satirical observations on trust, moral example, and public figures. Notes on a fire chief in Fort Bragg, Dreamland profanity, Brisbane's aviation plans, and a dig at radio stars. Mentions Ukiah ministers, service reliability, and a jab at 1929 goals with Gene Tunney hinted at entering politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Bragg
Ukiah
Amendment Compels Voters to Register In January 1936
California voters must re register under a Supreme Court interpretation of amendments to the political code. The ruling upholds a 1933 permanent registration law but establishes permanent registration starting in 1936. The decision followed a petition by William M. Kerr, Los Angeles registrar, seeking supplies from H. E. Russell to implement re registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Supreme Court
William M. Kerr
Los Angeles
H. E. Russell
Unicorn horns and Babylonian myths explained by disguise
A Cleveland Plain Dealer writer links ancient unicorn myths to misread bull carvings in Babylon. Greeks later mythologized a one horned creature whose magical horn drew pilgrims like Winters, who hunted unicorns by disguising as a young woman and using perfume to charm the horn from the animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old
Babylon
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Arabia
India
Morocco
Aoman Hiad
Shovel-Tusked Elephants Used Big Jaws as Dredge
Pathfinder Magazine reports on 20 000 year old shovel tusk elephants shaping swamp bottoms for water lilies. Fossils found in Gob desert confirm swamps, with evidence of American distribution in California Nebraska and Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Gobs
Main
Earth
Gob
America
California
Nebraska
Kansas
Pathfinder Magazine
Spiders and Stars Use of Webs in Instruments
Tri-Bits Magazine discusses uses of spider webs in scientific instruments. Spiders marked aseperira drademata on gorse bushes are collected in York to wind webs across forks, producing about 40 feet per insect. Webs enable finer, more distinct markings for telescope eye pieces and other delicate devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Eperira Drademata
Tri-Bits Magazine
Derby Not Always Popular in Britain’s Turf Classic
The Derby began as a modest event, first run at Epsom in 1780 and won by Diomed for Sir Charles Banbury. With only nine entries, the program needed a cockfight to bolster interest, and few journals reported it beyond noting a single horse carriage accident on the return. In 1794 Daedalus, owned by Lord Grosvenor, won as four runners contested the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London Morning Post
Epsom
Charles Banbury
Horge Shay
Lord Grosvenor
Daedalus
New England Pioneers Shaped Hawaii’s Early School System
The brig Thaddeus left Boston on October 23, 1819 carrying 17 missionaries and educators bound for the Sandwich Islands. After five months at sea the vessel reached Hawaii in March 1820, introducing Hawaiians to the American standard of Irving and to the American schooling approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
New England
United States
Irving
Thaddeus
Boston
Sandwich Islands
Jeffersons Rules compiled by Thomas Jefferson
A list of aphorisms including never put off till tomorrow what you can do today and never trouble others for what you can do yourself. It urges prudent budgeting, warns against unnecessary purchases, and advises patience and self control to ease pain and anger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
Beetles and Ants Show Incredible Proportions of Power
Scientists cite Answers Magazine notes that the beetle is the strongest living thing relative to size, carrying eight and a quarter ounces on its back, about 40 times its body weight. Ants drag loads four to five times their weight and move rapidly, while spiders boast extraordinary speed for their size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Answers Magazine
Africa
Mount
Everest
Mica and potash feldspar share the same elemental makeup
The light colored mica found in soils, called sunglass, contains the same elements as potash feldspar. Black mica biotite adds iron and magnesia, placing it with ferro-magnesian minerals hornblende and augite which differ by alumina content. Hornblende appears as black shiny crystals in granite. Agnite is darker and richer in basic material, often with basic feldspars like anorthite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-Yorker
Greenwich Village’s 200-year name story in New York
The piece traces Greenwich Village from early Dutch Bossen Bouerte to English Lunder suburb, noting a deed from 721 mentioning the Bossen Bouerte alias Greenwich. It explains how the area evolved from a suburb to part of New York City while retaining distinctive older families and the enduring name Greenwich Village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich Village
New York
Manhattan Island
New Amsterdam
Lunder
Greenwich
Bossen Bouverte
Drowning Myths and Realities From Public Health Service
The United States public health service debunks the belief that drowning persons rise three times. Many drowners never surface after submergence, while a struggling swimmer may sink and rise several times depending on air expelled and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Public Health Service
Gaelic in Nova Scotia and Inverness County
The passage notes Nova Scotia as Scottish in heritage with Longfellow's Evangeline shaping views of French and English relations. It mentions Gaelic influence in the province with bagpipes at parliament and newspapers partly in Gaelic. Inverness County reports 72 percent Gaelic speakers, versus under half in the Scottish Inverness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nova Scotia
Longfellow
Nova
Localisms and provincialisms across regions
A brief note on local language uses noting that terms vary by area. It cites Providence and Baltimore to show shoes tapped and heeled versus chaffesoled and heeled and explains a policeman’s billy meaning Haltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence. BR
State and County Relief Merger Looms Shoulder to Shoulder
Dr. Omer Mills, relief administrator from San Francisco, met with county supervisors and SERA committeemen to discuss uniting the Emergency Relief Administration with the County Welfare department. The dialogue follows November action directing a survey and consolidation move echoed by Martha Toles and county officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omer Mills
Emergency Relief Administration
San Francisco
County Board of Supervisors
SERA
Emergency Relief
County Welfare Department
Dr. Mills
Martha Toles
Relief Administration
Community Dance at Grange Hall Potter Valley Tonight
Potter Valley hosts a community dance at Grange hall tomorrow night with Kelly's Vagabonds providing a five piece orchestra. Mrs Kellogg will supervise the supper service. The Vagabonds also play for the Freshman dance at the high school gym this Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange Hall
Potter Valley
Kelly
Kellogg
Pen Taylor to Leave Santa Rosa for Honolulu Paper Post
Announcement in Santa Rosa last Tuesday says Pen Taylor, Pacific Coast Paper company manager for the northern counties, will become manager of the Honolulu Paper company. Ed Dwyer will succeed Taylor in the job he has held for 19 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rosa
Pen Taylor
Pacific Coast Paper Company
Honolulu
Ed Dwyer
Taylor
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Democrat
Mendocino County
E. P. Thurston
Nauranen
Baptist Church
Takes Lake
Walter Sandelin
Dreamland
Brisbane
Art
Ukiad
Lambs of
Wall Street
Gene Tunney
Spiders and
Jefferson
Penn Taylor
Roberts
Bob
Wiliams
N. State St
Mason's Union Oil Service Station
South Side
Big Oaks
Cowan
Groco
North Bush
H & H Furniture Company
Eureka
P. O
Calif
W. E. Vows
Upper Lake
L. D. Slaughter
Norton St
T. B
P. H. Anderson
Box
Albion
Mendocino
Mom’s
South Oak Street
Paramount Market
Harold’s Tavern
Macfarlane
Broadway
Oakland
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