San Francisco Plans 28 Story Shell Building on Bush and Battery
Construction has begun on a 28 story Shell Oil building at Bush and Battery streets in San Francisco. The $3 million steel and concrete tower will reach 330 feet with a central shaft rising above the first ten stories. Occupancy is targeted for May 1 1930 with Shell Pacific Coast HQ. Flood lighting will illuminate the façade at night.
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San Francisco
Shell
Bush and
Battery Streets
Russ
Telephone P
Shell Oil Company
Pacific Coast
Bush Street
Battery
California Calls for Study of Self-Sought Deaths Why People End Lives
Sacramento reports Dr. Walter M. Dickie urges state funded research into why individuals choose to die by their own actions. California shows high rates with 30 self sought deaths per 100000, major cities most affected, and factors like mental distress and economic pressure.
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Walter M. Dickie
California
Dickie
San Diego
Stockton
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Oakland
Berkeley
Long Beach
Pasadena
Fresno
Hunting season opens and sporting goods sold locally
Local ads announce the opening of hunting season with offers on binoculars from B power Binoculars at $22.50 and various sizes. Meininger & Co. advertises stationery Vietor records Vietrolls books and magazines at corner B and Castro streets Hayward. Also promotions for Pig and Chicken deli meals and Rexall drugstore items. Roofing and crepe paper supplies appear along with fall hats from Kelly Bros. and Denison Crepe Paper shipments.
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Meininger & Co
Vietor Records
Castro Streets
Hayward
Passing Strange Theatre Note in Novels and Golf Ballad
A fragmented note mentions a man who cannot sing and his wife amid eight attendees in a theater lobby. It references a dozen standers and a golf ballad item, with stray phrases like Pets alt Novws. The readable text remains nonsensical.
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