Ukiah News Highlights 1924 1914 1904 Local Events May Updates
Ten year snapshot recaps May 16 1924 engagement of Miss Beryle Bollinger and Donald A Keller. Also 37th wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs T M Cleland and obituaries for Mrs Kate Robertson Young Violet McGimsey. Births, marriages, licenses, rainfall stats and local college degrees noted. Twenties and thirties mini calendar cover community life with assorted trains births and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beryle Bollinger
Donald A. Keller
T. M. Cleland
Chapinge
Robinson Creek
Kate Robertson Young
Oakland
Raymond Milne
Frank V. Haapala
Fort Bragg
Hopland
van Harpe
Lee P. Riggs
Ukiah
Henry G. Sanford
Hasting
University of California
Dorothy Thomas
Mills College
Grammar School
H. O. Cleland
Mathews
Nellie Gibson
Lillian Thomas
Methodist Church Services Sunday in Warren
WARREN A. BONNER, Pastor. Mothers Day services last Sunday were well attended and spirited. Decorations by Mrs. E. F. DeMotte honored her mother Mrs. Sarah Whitney. Seven babies were baptized and nine received into the church by transfer, vows and baptism. A tableau was presented in the evening and a youth choir sang. Next Sunday the sermon is Paganism in America at 11:00 and The Best Gift at 7:30. Public invited. Mid-week devotional 7:30 led by Dr. L. K. Van Allen in the ladies parlor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren A. Bonner
E. F. DeMotte
Sarah Whitney
Ann Lee Thomas
Barbara Allen
Louisa Hinds
Evelyn Koory
Millicent Lotridge
Marhee Dahlberg
Virginia Smith
Mother
Contee Gibbins
America
L. K. van Allen
Grilk Receives Big C for Cal Baseball Honor
Jimmy Grilk of Nice, famed in Ukiah and ex-baseball team member, earned the University of California big C for baseball. He was a popular first baseman, and Ukiah fans cheer his success. Calvin Burpee of Lakeport and Frank Lucas of Upper Lake also earned university letters for sports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grilk
Jimmy Grilk
Nice
Ukiah
University of California
Calvin Burpee
Lakeport
Frank Lucas
Upper Lake
Chinese Climbing Perch Travel but Don’t Climb
A historic study notes the climbing perch travels overland between pools in southeastern Asia and southern China. It uses spined gill covers and tail wiggling for leverage, but cannot climb trees. The fish has air chambers above each gill for air storage and can drown if surface access is blocked. It grows up to ten inches, is golden olive with a dark tail base, and shows no external sex differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feco
Asia
China
Zinc Globes Carried Letters From Siege of Paris to Present
During the 1870 siege of Paris the German net halted ballons and zinc globes in the Seine carried letters to French lines. A river net at Villeneuve Saint Georges stopped the scheme, nearly forgotten until a fisherman found 3800 legible letters dated December 1870. The letters were restored to postal authorities and sent to recipients after over thirty years.
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Paris
Post Office Administration
Seine
Nnes
Villeneuve Saint Georges
Villeneuve
Oddest Horse Race in World at Siena Pelts Stunt Race
The Pallo horse race in Siena occurs biannually in the medieval town with rank dangers. Entrants come from competing communes each providing a horse and rider while royal interest and public fervor surround the event. Bribery tampering and concealed pits are cited as common strategies to injure or ruin rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siena
Cape Argus
Italy
Mexican PlaneBabes and Citizenship Rules Cited
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that children born in Mexican airplanes, territory, or ships are Mexican citizens under Mexican law. It notes naturalization and, for women, marriage to Mexicans as paths to nationality, and lists ways nationality can be lost, including holding foreign offices or titles without congress permission and aiding foreign governments against Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicle
Congress
Mexico
Sable and Marten Kinship Across Regions
The article explains sable origins from a tree-climbing weasel found in northeastern Russia and Siberia, its European counterpart the pine marten, and how early English colonists in New England adopted the same name for a similar animal. It notes color variation in the weasel and its broad regional resemblance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Siberia
Europe
New England
Modern Orchestra Traces Roots to Bow and Arrow
A Kansas City Star writer links the modern orchestra to primitive origins. He explains the string quartet and violin family arose from hunter bow sounds and early wind instruments from shepherd reed reeds, noting the evolution reflects leaps of human imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
Coon Hunting Showcases Unique Sport and Bond with Dogs
The Detroit Free Press notes a strange appeal in coon hunting driven by the bond between hunter and dog. Hunters value sport over fur, favoring a prolonged chase, while condemning den-tree destruction and tree-climbing to extract coons. Rainy nights with fog boost scent for dogs at their best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Ice Caves of Europe and America Noted in Geology
Hellprin's geology notes over a hundred temperate zone ice caves in Europe and the Americas. Highlights include the Dobschau cave in northern Hungary with 8,410 square yards of pure ice and the Kolowrut cave near Salzburg. Condersport Pennsylvania is a well known U S ice cave with others in Town South Dakota Michigan and earth lodges or souterrains used as dwellings across Europe and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hellprin
Old
New World
Alps
Carpathians
Jura
Ural Mountains
Dobschau
Hungary
Dobsina
Czechoslovakia
Salzburg
Austria
Condersport
South Dakota
Michigan
Europe
Teazel Growing in England and Europe
Teazel is a curious crop used to raise nap on fine cloth and blankets. The flower heads of a prickly plant have long bristles. Cultivation has centuries of history, mainly in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Journeys to Yorkshire mills were lengthy in olden times despite highway footpads.
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England
Europe
Somerset
Gloucestershire
Yorkshire
Origin of Knives and Forks In Tudor Times
The knives used at meals evolved from the dagger and hunting knife, first cutting food as fingers served as forks. In Tudor times, large ruffs made it hard to reach the mouth, prompting the use of a crude fork as a substitute for fingers.
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Mesdames Thomas and Maxwell
F. E. Allen
Geo. Wilcox
Carrie Garsey
L. W. Babcock
F. E. Rea
P. W. Handy
Oliver Meyers
San Francisco
Teachers Institute
Bennett Pemberton
J. A. Pettis
Sylvester P. West
Covelo
Sonoma County
Redwood Valley
Tom Jameson
Jos. Rea
Joshua Grindle
A. A. Heeser
Henry Brown
Mendocino
O. L. Crawford
Bert Cleland
Tom Farrance
Frank Howell
Orr's Hot Springs
Chas. A. Reynolds
Littleriver
Marguerite Thomas
W. P. Thomas
A. J. McDonald
Manila
McDonald
Mollie Randolph
L. H. Spencer
Mendocino County
Alice Broback
Boonville
J. W. Rawles
Alex Sankey
Ralph Greenough
Kate van Allen
Cecil Dutton
W. S. van Dyke
Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth Moore
Victor McGarvey
J. H. Barker
Rene Duncan
Abbie Elliot
J. R. Thomas
E. Horton
Hazel Ford
Bessie Bartlett
Helen Westerman
Ukiah High School
Marks’ Hall
Alma Atkinson
Cecile Clarke
E. L. Cunningham
Carl Hoag
Earl Snell
Lillian Poor
Almon Roth
Effie Cooper
Susie Davis
Elfreda Pierson
Martha Brunner
Alexandria Thompson
Arthur Knowles
J. B. Sanford
Santa Cruz
Fort Brage
Glen Blair
Sarah McLeod
Lake County
Anderson Valley
D. Gobbi
Eva Curtis
Orr
Hot Springs
Branscomb
A. Waldron
San Joaquin
Joe Ternsky
Fountain Ranch
George “Ood
Cape Horn
John L. Day
Board of Regents of
The
State University
Frank L. Carpenter
A. O. Carpenter
Donahue
Martin van Cleveland
Opera House
Susie Gibson
Dispatch-Democrat
Carrie van Allen
Republican Press
Maud Weger
J. Buckle
Minnesota
Round Valley
May Hutsell
Winfree Burger
Herbert Thompson
Bertie McGimsey
Russel Burger
Jennie Burger
Hettie Ornham
Mattie McGimsey
Chas Murray
Little Charlie Wallach
Grandpa
Stanford
California
G. C. Wilkinson
Rebecca Morrison
J. L. Roberts
Lizzie Howell
Point Arena
Chester Brown
Sheriff Standley
San Quentin
Ukiah Park
J. M. Allanson
Jacob Duncan
Sonoma
Northwestern Pacific
San Rafael
Petaluma
Santa Rosa
Healdsburg
Cloverdale
Willits
Ft. Bragg Eureka
Northwestern
Pacific
Redwood Empire
Cleland Funeral Home
Paul M. Mathews
Nelson McClure
Ukiah Township
Frank W. Reynolds
H. M. Burke County
E. L. Williams
Volney van Dyke
Geo. W. Davis
J. E. March
James R. Elder
Guaaldate
Ire County Recorder
A. J
Fred) Chalfant
County Recorder
D. C
J. M. Rupe
E. M. Corbett
James E. Busch
Justice of the Peace
J. A. Hoffman
C. H. Duncan
George P. Anderson
R. A. Milne
Hofman
Oalit
Mannon & Brazier
Law Savings Bank
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