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...San Francisco subscriptions were started to erect a $500,000 memorial to Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...coming eclipse will be about 100 miles wide. It will pass in a wide curve across the Pacific southeasterly from Kamchatka, touching the mainland of the U. S. at only two points?Point Concepción (on the California coast just above Santa Barbara) and the vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San...
...Wilson Observatory expedition, of the Carnegie Institute, of Pasadena, Cal., headed by Dr. Walter S. Adams, will observe the eclipse from two stations besides the main observatory, including one at Point Lonia, near San Diego. About 98.5% of the sun's disk will be covered at Mt. Wilson, and observations will be made there with...
...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "Back in London after delivering 40 spiritualist lectures, I declared Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco to be the world's most materialistic cities. Of an alleged message from Oscar Wilde, which described the Arctic as ' an ocean of foaming jasper,' said I: 'I think nothing could be more reminiscent of Wilde's style...