Alexandrite ring tale from Monterrey and Russia notes
The writer recalls buying Alexandrite jewelry in Monterrey with Mrs. William Prescott Allen and friends, detailing a three-stone ring and earrings, while sharing gem lore, origins from Urals to Siberia, and the tragic 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II with historical context.
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Mexico
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Drusia
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Ukiah
Ben Foster
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Papa
Alex
Ural Mountain
Alexander I
Russia
Alexander
Allen Library
Laredo
Texas
Ceylon
Allens
Siberia
Encyclopedia Americana
Alexander II
al Anton
Europe
Czar
Alexander III
Buffalo goring injures girl at Golden Gate Park
In San Francisco Alice Lorch aged 9 was gored by a bison in the Golden Gate Park buffalo pen after rushing to the fence for peanuts. The horned animal penetrated the wire, striking her temple. She is the Nashville, Tennessee, visitor daughter of Mr and Mrs Lee Lorch. treated at Park Emergency Hospital and released.
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San Francisco
Alice Lorch
Golden Gate Park
Alice
Lee Lorch
Nashville, Tenn
Park Emergency Hospital
Mercury Climbing As Summer Comes
San Francisco and Bay Area forecast day with the start of summer and predicted heat. Forecasters expect highs of 85 in the city, 92 in Oakland, 96 in San Mateo, and 100 in San Rafael. Yesterday brought 100s inland and 70s to 80s along the coast with several inland locations hitting the 100s.
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Fairfield
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Airlines Cancel Trips To Central America
All commercial flights from New Orleans to Guatemala were canceled today as order is restored in the country. Taca and Pan American announced they would suspend all further service to Guatemala from this airport until conditions normalize.
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New Orleans
Guatemala
Taca
Pan American
Coast Guard rescues two sailors after bay capsizing
In San Francisco Bay near Millbrae a sailing boat capsized and rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter. Peter Caciuc, 34, and William Stripp, 53, both Burlingame residents, were saved. The story references monuments to the Tsar Liberator and a later note about the new Czar Alexander III receiving a threat.
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San Francisco
Peter Caciuc
William Stripp
Burlingame
Coast Guard
San Francisco Bay
Millbrae
Alexander III
Teacher Planning Alaska Vacation for Ukiah Teacher
Margaret Ebert reports Mrs Margie Neese a Ukiah fourth grade teacher at Redwood Valley Elementary plans a month long Alaska tour with her sister Hilda Dixon of Indiana and her two daughters Don Schoenberger of Bakersfield and Margie Neese of Ukiah. They will depart June 25 by Seattle Hart highway and Alaska highway to Anchorage with side trips to Vancouver Island and Victoria. Mr Schoenberger will fly to Anchorage to meet the group where they will visit Mr and Mrs Robert Landau. Mrs Landau is the former Betty Neese. Mrs Neese plans to return to California by plane.
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Margaret Ebert
Redwood Valley
Margie Neese
Ukiah
Alaska
Neese
Hilda Dixon
Indiana
Don Schoenberger
Bakersfield
Uliah
Seattle
Anchorage
Vancouver Island
Victoria
Schoenberger
Robert Landau
S P Clerk Shot by Friend in San Francisco Robbery
Southern Pacific clerk Albert Maxwell aged 33 was shot in the neck and chest in his apartment after meeting a man about 25 at a bar. The stranger robbed Maxwell after they shared drinks and Maxwell offered a sandwich.
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San Francisco
Albert M. Maxwell
Southern Pacific
Maxwell
Poma Family Plans Napa and San Francisco Visit
Emi Poma and daughter Sharon will depart Thursday with Mrs. Terry Mathews to visit relatives in Napa and San Francisco. Mrs. Poma’s three sisters in Napa plan to join two sisters from Sacramento and Pasadena and two brothers from Willits and San Mateo for a 35 year family reunion. Mrs. Harry Mathews will visit her son in Oakland. Mrs. Glenn Johnek and her three daughters Katherine Mary Inilen and Rosemary visited the valley last week. The Johneks, now in Kalmath Falls Oregon, were former Redwood Valley residents.
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Poma
Sharon
Tarry Mathews
Napa
San Francisco
Sacramento
Pasadena
Willits
San Mateo
Harry Mathews
Oakland
Glenn Johnek
Katherine
Mary Inilen
Rosemary
Johneks
Klamath Falls
Oregon
Redwood Valley
Liberty Ship Patina Runs Aground In Dense Coast Fog
In heavy fog the Panamanian Liberty ship Patina ran aground near Santa Rosa Island in the Catalina Channel. The captain reported water entering the hold but said there was no immediate danger to vessel or crew as two Coast Guard cutters raced from Long Beach and Santa Barbara to the scene, about 75 miles off the Southern California coast.
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Long Beach
Calif
Imp
Coast Guard
Catalina Channel
Santa Rosa Island
Santa Barbara
California
Alcatraz Island Prison Began Use in LS68
Alcatraz Ishind, a federal penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay area, was first used as a prison in LS68, marking the start of its long controversial history as a high security facility.
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Iary
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