News from 100 years ago: Navarro Highway planned, booze peddler in trouble, aurora borealis seen.
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Headlines from History! Men fined for prohibition violations — measles, mumps, & whooping cough run riot — courthouse burns — Mendocino Co. news for April, 1921
What was happening in town a century ago?
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Mendocino County history: Centennial of the 19th Amendment
Today, August 26, is the official centennial of the 19th Amendment — here’s some local history to recognize the occasion.
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For Memorial Day, President Lincoln’s letter to Mrs. Bixby, and Frederick Douglas’s speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
We republish President Lincoln’s letter and Frederick Douglas’s speech here.
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Gov. Newsom proclaims day of remembrance on anniversary of Japanese-Americans incarceration in camps
On this day 78 years ago FDR issued the order to begin rounding up Japanese-Americans into camps.