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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1928
Page
2
A Hayward column urges spending wisely during Christmas to boost local prosperity. It argues that circulating money supports all, includes gifts for others, and calls on community leaders to pursue factories and payrolls to raise the town’s fortune by next Christmas or the one after.
A citizen envisions a Bush terminal style port district here. He says the lowlands could become factory sites, planted with coastbound plants within five to twenty years. He urges Hayward to prepare to attract these factories and seize the opportunity.
The Review urges readers to spend Christmas money locally to support nearby projects and faster local returns. If home options are unavailable, buy in Oakland then San Francisco, arguing away reliance on distant sources like New York. It promotes keeping money within the region to foster local factories and growth.
The piece argues John D Rockefeller favors acclaim over wealth though he already has riches. It mocks public rhetoric from the Los Angeles area and critiques political rhetoric and media sensationalism while urging support for the unknown voter amid regional citrus politics.
A San Quentin escapee, Ralph Joseph Sawyer, confessed to leading a string of church burglaries from Mendocino to Los Angeles, confessing to a Hayward July 21 theft that yielded about 600 dollars in vestments and sacred items. Authorities say accomplices remain sought as more loot valued around 106000 dollars tied to 90 churches.
Niles Children’s home hosts a Christmas Eve party organized by the Welfare board’s children’s department in Niles. A living evergreen from Niles nursery will decorate the event, with gifts funded by a committee led by E W Burr. Donations of $1 or more are welcome to support foster-home children throughout southern Alameda county.
Friends of Captain Bertinius I. Lee honor the late mariner at a Friday funeral service in the Sorensen Brothers mortuary. The Rev. Charles E. Lukens Jr. delivered comforting remarks on a long life of service and faith. Burial followed at Mountain View cemetery. Lee died Tuesday in San Lorenzo after a 12 year residence there and 44 years elsewhere in California. He was born July 1, 1960 in Stavanger Norway and is survived by his wife Olena and five sons Bjarne Alfred Oscar Roy Bert and three daughters Inga Abrahamson Myrtle Fries and Ruth Hedier. Pallbearers included his five sons and Abrahamson.
Foresters of America Court Hayward 7S held a Thursday session outlining a December 20 Christmas turkey whist party. A $106 donation to the Salvation Army’s Donation Day campaign was reported, along with a large weekly influenza sick list of about 20 members.
The gang robbed San Leandro and Alameda then shipped items to San Francisco dealers. Purchases were told the treasures came from Mexican Catholic churches and were smuggled out during recent disturbances. Sawyer said a San Quentin prison reading spurred the burglaries. A jeweled chalice valued at 1560 dollars and vestments ranging from 500 to 1000 dollars were taken.
The Christmas Seal drive supports the Del Valle children's sanitarium. Mrs R Rosenberg leads the Harvard committee with receipts sent to the Oakland health center. Lion points out seals reduce taxes by cutting hospitalization costs and charity. The Del Valle preventorium aids children at risk of tuberculosis and halts it early.
Mrs B De Leon of the Princess Mary company conducts a perfume demonstration at E-D Drugstore this week. Advertisements in The Review of the Narcissue Yvonne product drew strong response, with many Hayward women buying Christmas gifts. The safe will eloge at 9 o clock Saturday night.
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