California Chronicle of Odd Bits and Local Events
A collage of notes from California towns reports on July tremors high prices 1850 milk whiskey, Indio taxes and clerk wages inched up, a 10 year old fished a shark, underwater blasting effects studied at San Luis Obispo, Caswell fined for car incident, library fines paused in Concord, Butte County rodeo signups, Sonoma scenery photos, El Dorado county wage gains and San Diego cloud seeding, Great family at state fair, fossils and camels, Riley’s barber shop TV mirrors, exotic flowers, rattlesnake rescue, seismic fault names, 25th wedding dress of Mrs Pearson, 1927 fashion, Flying war flags and Cal Poly P H T honor, oldest cyclist, a Lancaster dog wedding party, Lassie dogs, a 17 year old Holstein milk record holder Hazel, long time reader William Hanssler, picnic with Rennie the dog.
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California
Indio
Sandy Ruegg
Mill Valley
San Luis Obispo
Sonora
J. W. Caswell
Dog
Caswell
Concord
Butte County Fair
Sonoma Valley
el Dorado County
San Diego County
Cal
Fay
San Francisco Bay Area
James Pearson
San Jacinto
Aurelia Hall
Garden Farms
Lancaster
Lassie
Lassie, Jr
Hazel
Pellissier
Whittier
William Hanssler
Hemet
State Fair models pick pears at Cal State Fair
Models at the California State Fair in Sacramento try chain picking of luscious pears. Mary Elder holds the bucket while Anna Belle Kircher Susana Vazquez Merle Bedard and Teresa Vanquez participate as the pears reflect the state’s harvest of 14 668 000 bushels and the fair runs August 28 to September 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elder
Annabelle Kircher
Susana Vazquez
Merle Bedard
Teresa Vanquez
Sacramento
California Colleges Quiz Highlights Historic References
A fragmented quiz lists California schools and landmarks. It cites Pomona and Stanford as options for colleges, Mount Wilson as a nearby feature, UC Berkeley with a student count of 22 346, and Davis as an agricultural campus option plus Occidental College and Eagle Rock as miscellaneous clues.
Publicity careers for women rise in a competitive field
Ruth White Peters of Hemet, a Redlands University journalism graduate, leads the Farmers Fair of Riverside County as a publicity director. She notes opportunities for women, outlines required traits, and stresses accuracy and reliability in press agentry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth White Peters
Hemet
Redlands University
Peters
Farmers Fair of
Riverside County
Hemet Valley Chamber of Commerce
Riverside County Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Municipal Water District
Salads and fashion trends predicted for 1953 and beyond
A collage of 1950s forecast items covers dieting salads, tiny jewelry bands, spring cloaks and box collars, new hair pomades, funeral color shifts, avocado aspic desserts, cornmeal pineapple muffin mixes, suspender styles, and a beauty tip using egg white and lemon juice, plus a reader letter about dreams of home ownership and a stormy flood vision.
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Irene Rose
Hugo Benioff
Caltech
San Andreas
San Francisco
Salton Sea
Redlands
Mexican
Garlock
Mojave Desert
Inglewood
Seal Beach
Tolstoy
Hanssler
Mike
Rose Gitti
Boyes Hot Springs
Rennie
Magazine
California Ae
Ponte of
S California Weekly Newspapers, Inc
Munter ‘Vincen
Mike Ja
Helen Weill
Central’ Valley Hwy
Shafter
Central Valley Hwy
Bakersfeld
Yukon
Southern California
Colorado Street
Pasadena
Sycamore
EEE Plan CO
Vermont Ave
Los Angeles
Herbert Hoover
Pomona
Stanford
California * Institute of Technology
Cal Tech
Mount Wilson
Mount Beooubideaux
Mount Shasta
University of California, Berkeley
Dunsmuir
Davis
U.S.A
Eagle Rock
LaVerne College
Eagle Scout Training School
Occidental College
U.S.C
G.occidental College
Acapulco
Guadalajara
Mexico City
San Diego
Travel Advisors
Stockton St
Ali ' Ali
Criswell
Avis G
New Orleans
Down Town
Jones and Eddy Sts
Roosevelt
Berkeley
Locaert
University of California
Bay Area
United States
Hotel Whitcomb
Contes Se Se
Sisgie
Boadie
Oth Gerage
Karl C.weeee Ead
General Meseger
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