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Subject: Today in History - July 21-31 1901
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:50:27 -0700
this is a daily article in the Redding Record Searchlight for July 1901
21st a "tramp with every indication of being a victim of drugs" mistakenly
chose night watchman Dack's residence when he stole a hat from the porch. A
neighbor saw him and immediately reported the crime to the sleeping deputy.
The tramp was charged with petty larceny.
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22nd a correspondent of the Anderson News reported 25 camps and 80 people
crowded the Big Bend Hot Springs. The place was beginning to resemble a
town with a photo gallery, an ice cream/candy stand, and violin and guitar
music every night. Talk was to build two or three bath houses to
accommodate the crowds.
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23rd a supposed love-sick fellow was blamed for the recurring theft of a
photo of a young Redding woman from two separate locations in town. The
photos were part of a display from Honn studio and to prevent a third
incident, Miss Honn removed the photo from the rack.
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24th the latest in calculating machines arrived in Redding. Called
"comptometers," the machines, which could do the work six times as fast as
man, looked like safe deposit boxes with a keyboard on top. They cost $125.
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25th W.A. Scott was one of two men arrested for destroying trout with
dynamite explosives near Dunsmuir in the Sacramento River.
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26th the Clerks Club of Redding, determined to have a unanimous compliance
with all businesses in Redding to obey an early closure ordinance it had
passed, placed a public boycott on two stores that would not agree to the
plan. In addition, three clerks at a time were to picket each of the two
stores to dissuade customers from entering after set hours.
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27th Capt. A.G. Bridge of Balls Ferry, a veteran of the British Army,
proclaimed his disbelief in wire news from a London Dispatch. It said that
a number of officers and men home from South Africa had refused medals
offered to them by King Edward because they had not received their service
money and had to pawn their medals to support their families. "If England
can't pay her soldiers, who can?" Bridbe said.
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28th prospector Charles Holmes of Happy Valley walked too close to a moving
train and was struck and killed by steps protruding from the train. The
73-year-old man died a few hours later. He was first thought to be shot
when he was found next to the tracks.
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29th W.D. Pratte, a newspaperman from Washington, had just shipped
equipment including a press and type to the Redding area. The De La Mar and
Bully Hill area was to have its own weekly newspaper by the end of the
first week in August. It would be called the De La Mar Enterprise.
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30th a well-known miner of the Shasta King mine, Tim Foley, sprained his
knee while trying to sidestep a rattlesnake in his path. He was in Redding
for recovery.
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31st a contract was signed for the construction for the four-story Lorenz
Hotel building in downtown Redding. Planners expected to finish the project
by mid-December.
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Transcribed by Viola Patton
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