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Old News Is Still News
Newspapers were and still are (although that is slowly fading away) used as a primary source of reading the news. People used to depend wholly on what was written in the newspaper and sometimes what was written and not written was due to the politics of that newspaper. Baseball Toledo, Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio), August…
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Lorena M. “Rena” Trickey- Horsewoman Extraordinaire
Sometimes when conducting research, you come across something or someone so interesting that you need to know more. Of course, that explodes into a huge rabbit hole. That was the case of the below article. A research project was under way when the article below came into view. We needed to know more about this…
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Don’t Talk Bad About My Wife: The Awful Tale of Harry Radcliffe and Andrew Riley
“I shot Andrew Reilly because he insulted my wife” is what Harry Radcliffe told a San Francisco Call newspaper reporter. Harry continued, “My wife was waiting for me at the corner of Ninth and Folsom at 1 o’clock this morning. Reilly approached and insulted her grossly. I followed him and killed him.” Well, that doesn’t…
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Dave Shannon Doesn’t Care For Tattling
Even as we learn more about crimes a hundred and more years ago, something that seems to stay true, is murder is an awful way to communicate your displeasure in someone’s actions. This story takes place on August 25, 1915 at the Oakland, Alameda County, California transit mole. Here is a postcard rendering of the…
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Wandering Through Old News
Doctor Reveals Phony Labels on Seized Liquors, The Long Beach Sun (Long Beach, California), April 30, 1934 So it only had alcohol in the purported “absinthe”? Wouldn’t that just be the equivalent of today’s Everclear? No sweet fennel, no green anise, no grand wormwood flowers and leaves? Sounds like Dr. J.D. Donshee is upset because…
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Death Over a Garden Hose…Really…
Today we are going to explore (as much as historical newspapers and such will tell us) the extreme ending to a neighborly feud April 27, 1934. Just South of State Route 1, a group of cottages stood at 1732 and 1740 Molino Avenue in the Whittier neighborhood of Long Beach, California. One cottage was occupied…
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The True Ballad of Alvera Schlosser- Part V
Is it time for Alvera to finally get her day in court? October 19, 1928 Alvera appeared before Justice George W. Holbrook for her preliminary hearing. During this hearing, the two “mystery witnesses”, George Simmonds and L.C. Thomas, retold their stories as did Police Investigator Ed Poppett, neighbor Tekla Merget, and two other witnesses who…
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The True Ballad of Alvera Schlosser- Part IV
Schlosser Headline, The San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA), October 3, 1928 We left off in the last part of this series, wondering who the “mystery man’s” identity is and Alvera confessing to the shooting saying she felt threatened by Fred. Well, the “mystery Man” is named George Simmonds, of 1116 1/2 King Street…
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