1769 San Carlos Arrival Near San Diego Bay
The San Carlos or Golden Fleece enters the San Diego Bay on April 29, 1769, with Pedro Fages and twenty five Catalan volunteers aboard, ending centuries of indigenous isolation as European contact begins.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1938
Page
3
The San Carlos or Golden Fleece enters the San Diego Bay on April 29, 1769, with Pedro Fages and twenty five Catalan volunteers aboard, ending centuries of indigenous isolation as European contact begins.
In autumn 1783 Governor Don Pedro Fages and Friar Junipero Serra clash over California policy. Fages plans to bring his wife and expand settlement while Serra urges broader mission work and more soldiers, fearing neglect of Church aims and native souls. The dialogue exposes friction between secular authority and religious expansion on the California frontier.
A. Cressy Morrison in Man in a Chemical World foresees a future where chemical progress reshapes medicine, food, transportation, television, and daily life. He highlights potential cures for scarlet fever and polio, edible plant innovations, synthetic medical advances, and surgical obsolescence, aiming to prolong life and improve overall well being.
Proper front door curtains should suit both sides and harmonize with exterior door color and interior hall scheme. White net or silk matching shutters or trim looks best on white doors, while pale yellow adds a soft light. Curtains should be anchored top and bottom, with rods supported by books as shown. Mrs Spears Sewing offers a 48 page guide with directions for slipcovers curtains and more. send 25 cents to 210 South Desplaines St Chicago IN for a copy.
Quote from Channing on the greatest man who chooses right with resolve and remains steadfast. Advertisement urges readers to keep the body free of waste with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, priced 60 pellets for 30 cents.
A compact reflection notes that true wealth lies not in gold or property but in the absence of greed and the joy of simple living, contrasting material abundance with inner contentment.
An eastern potentate enmeshed in boredom learns that trading shirts with a man who is perfectly happy would cure him. After an extensive search he discovers the perfectly happy man has no shirt to exchange, leaving the cure elusive.
Calotabs are advertised as a thorough intestinal eliminant and diuretic that cleansing the tract of virus laden mucus and toxins helps nature throw off a cold. The ad claims two tablets the first night and a repeat if needed and notes the price of a family package at twenty five cents.
A brief quoted pair contrasts Ruffini on anxiety as a useless bridge builder with a claim that youth is wholly experimental, followed by a remark attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson. The fragment reads as a literary aside rather than a news item.
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