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CA - 1875-1972 - California Newspaper Grab Bag - Gil Schmidtmann Collection

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CA - 1875-1972 - California Newspaper Grab Bag - Gil Schmidtmann Collection
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Wrapped in an unused 16” x 24” folding Garfield Hallmark Christmas card. 1) The Daily Times from San Bernardino, CA. Vol. 1, no. 48. The 26 October 1875 edition. It has an account of the Virginia City fire and the Reno fire. Very fragile. Flaking and yellowing. Published by Isaac and Rodemyre. The paper was published under this name from 1875-1876. Four pages. Measures 14” by 19.” 2) The Daily Free Press from Bodie, CA. Vol. V, No. 135. The 11 February 1882 edition. Timothy Hughes says this edition is “quite [a] rare issue from this remote, Northern California mining town of the 19th century preserved today as a State park and a popular ‘ghost town’ tourist attraction. Measures 16” x 24.” The edges have some tears and nicks but the paper itself is not yellowing. It does have a few spots of foxing. The highlight of this four page paper is the ad about ozone being the “new” process for preserving food. An article titled “Maudlin Sentimentality” describes “Women Who Make Fools of Themselves Over Murderers.” The main gist of the article recounts men who are in jail for murders attract women followers. The writer goes on to name various men in jail for murder and what women get romantically involved with them. 3) Rand District News from Randsberg, CA. Vol. 1, No. 2. Special issue. Published on 14 June 1922. Three copies of the same edition. Eight pages each. Measures 35” x 22.” This issue is devoted to silver, gold, ore, mining and property values. Randsberg is a mining district located in Kern County and now encompasses three small mining towns on the tail end of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Harry B. Russ was the editor. There is no information on the paper or editor available. High fabric content in the paper. Fairly good condition. Some yellowing and tears. 4) Three folders titled “Then . . . and Now,” “Commemorating the Grand Opening of the Santa Fe Federal Plaza Building and Plaza Office, December, 1972.” Inside each brown folder is a map “The Russian Colonies of California” which is derived from a map published in 1849, which was taken from another map made in 1844 by De Mofras; a poster of “El Juéz, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, owner of Rancho San Bernardino, 1842-51,” which has a story about him on the back; a poster, “Apostle, Latter-Day Saints Apostle Amasa M. Lyman, Co-founder of San Bernardino Stake, 1851-58,” which also has a story about Lyman on it’s back; a poster titled, “Prospector, William F. Holcomb, who Discovered Gold in Holcomb Valley in 1860” with a mini biography of the man on the back; and finally, a poster titled “Pioneer, Frederick T. Perris, Engineer who Conquered Cajon Pass for the Railway, 1885” accompanied by a long biography on the back. All three folders contain the same information. The posters and maps are in excellent condition. [http://www.rarenewspapers.com/list?list_results_format=standard&page=21&per_page=20&q%5Bcategory_id%5D=106&sort=items.id&sort_direction=ASC].