18 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
The Daily Californian
Location
Bakersfield, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1905
Page
1
A Bakersfield ad promotes extended evening hours through Christmas and highlights a broad, easy buying experience. It touts a large, diverse stock with no crowding, moderate prices, and durable, stylish gifts for all budgets, urging careful buyers to visit for quality selections.
A busy toy section advertises Velocipedes from 2.75 to 8.00, rocking horses 3.00 to 5.50, express wagons 1.25 to 3.50, wheelbarrows 1.00 to 2.50, blackboards 1.00 to 2.00, rocking chairs 0.40 to 0.65, and other novelties including horns, trumpets, and mechanical toys priced 0.25 to 4.00, signaling a wide holiday stock.
Fairy Doll Land presents a grand display of dressed dolls in all sizes from 19¢ to 4.00. The crowd cheers the doll kingdom’s beauty and charm as little girls glimpse the fairy like creations. The event highlights a wide range of dolls in a gleaming, joyful setting.
New ready made garments department highlights affordable gifts including Ladies Empire Coats in tan kersey and crepe net with satin yokes, White Silk Waists, Mohair and Silk Waists, Petticoats in rose and lavender, and Children’s Coats in army blue broadcloth plus winter cloth coats with velvet trims. Prices range from three to twenty five dollars, emphasizing latest fashion and quality materials.
A local retailer promotes fine damask towels as popular gifts with a handsome selection for hot days. Styles include hemstitched and fringed designs priced at 40c 50c and 75c each.
A beautiful line of corset cover embroidery arrives in many new styles. Sold by the yard at 50c 75c and 1.00, promising strong demand for dainty Christmas gifts.
Advertisement urges early selection of umbrellas while stock is good. Umbrellas with desirable and stylish handles priced from 1.50 to 5.00, with daily delays risking a poorer assortment.
You can find a suit that is a little out of the common plus overcoats and waistcoats with unusual patterns. The store offers novelties in wearables for men with options to suit climate and taste. Prices range from $7.50 to $27.00.
A store advertises a wide stock of shoes and house slippers suitable as gifts for every family member. The message emphasizes practicality and reliability of the products available and invites choosing from their dependable selection.
A shopper’s guide to practical gifts for men highlights house coats bath robes dress gloves and linen silk handkerchiefs mufflers reefers fancy hose and umbrella sets. The message urges visiting the department for men’s wear to find useful year round presents.
If you would like to give some leather goods, be sure and inspect our stock, for we carry every article known to this class of goods. Our prices are under those of other stores for goods of the same quality. Suit cases and bags made of sole leather and alligator in brown, tan, and olive from $2.50 to $18.00.
A local ad showcases a diversified range of gent's neckwear from fifty cents to two dollars and fifty cents. It highlights silks, moire, satins, brocades, crepes, and styles including four-in-hands, ascots, tecks, and English squares in numerous widths and shapes.
Three large Chicago banks dominated by John R Walsh are ordered wound up by Comptroller Ridgeley. The Chicago Clearing House Association and other banks arrange a rescue, with deposits protected and a roughly 4 million dollar deficit to cover. The incident centers on loans to Walsh controlled enterprises and the banks’ exposure to railroad and coal ventures.
A serious riot among Coolie laborers in Shanghai today left 20 Chinese dead and many wounded among foreigners. British ships and American cruisers moved in as police stations burned and foreign shops were attacked. The unrest, linked to anti-American sentiment and a dispute over consular courts, prompted naval detachments to restore order.
M Flores, a fighting Mexican, had his face badly mashed in a downtown saloon last night by an unknown party. Deputy Sheriff Staley took the battered man to the hospital, where he is now being cared for.
The child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kiger of Weed Patch died yesterday morning and was buried today in Union Cemetery.
Charles P. Fox returned from the northern part of the state where he pursued business and sowed party seed he hopes will yield a hundredfold harvest. He believes people in other places share Bakersfield’s support for government ownership.
Superintendent Stockton allocates 56 200 dollars to county districts from state and county funds. Individual district shares include Bakersfield 9 900 and Augua Caliente 550, with many others at 550 or varied amounts. The High school receives 7 610.24, plus additional sums from special taxes for Aztec 3206.61 and Bakersfield 5112.11 among others.
A holiday program at the Union features Mulvey and Brown singers and dancers, Law Worth the vaudeville comic, and Martine and Martin the sketches. Moving pictures include The Drunkard The Trusible Fisherman and Rescued by Rover. The management promises comfort for patrons.
A local court jailed thirteen men who indulged in excess wine over the Christmas weekend. They were all working men, each found with cash or checks totaling over $60, with some over $100. Judge Millard gave lectures and released them this morning.
The meeting declared that they would meet the situation and care for the deficit if it proved necessary to advance more than $3,000,000 to meet all demands, with banks pledging to supply the amount whichever it might be.
OMAHA NEB Dec 18 The new Los Angeles Limited left Chicago last night and reached Omaha this morning over the Chicago and North Western. It leaves 15 minutes later over the Union Pacific for the west via Union Pacific Salt Lake and San Pedro roads arriving in Los Angeles Wednesday night. The train has a good passenger list and carried a party of forty newspaper men. The initial train was of unusual importance in railroad circles with few prominent traffic men aboard.
H C Starns has finished a large reservoir for Union Oil Company on section 5 and is now proceeding to complete a similar reservoir under a contract with Associated.
Washington dispatch reports a House joint resolution adjourns the Senate from December 21 to January 4. Senator Dailey criticizes Senator Mitchell’s legacy and questions his guilt while Senator Burton’s committee status is debated. Spooney and Spooner defend Burton and discuss funeral eulogies for Mitchell.
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