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Fontana Herald News
The ''Fontana Herald News'' is a weekly newspaper in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, founded in 1923 as the ''Fontana Herald'' by Cornelius DeBakcsy and in 1944 as the ''Fontana News'' by J. Clifton Toney and Vernon Paine. It is now owned by ''Century Group Newspapers''. ''Herald'' founding and growth The ''Herald'' was established as a weekly on June 7, 1923, by Cornelius DeBakcsy when Fontana had fewer than five hundred residents. In July, 1931, the newspaper moved into a building formerly occupied by a justice of the peace and two businesses, preparatory to extensive remodeling to accommodate a new printing press. The new plant was dedicated with a banquet where Senator Samuel M. Shortridge was the featured speaker, and other speakers were to be R.C. Harbison, editor of the ''San Bernardino Sun,'' Justus Craemer of the National Editorial Association, John B. Long of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and Burton L. Smith of the ''Los Angeles Times.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontana, California
Fontana is a city in San Bernardino County, California. Founded by Azariel Blanchard Miller in 1913, it remained essentially rural until World War II, when entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser built a large steel mill in the area. It is now a regional hub of the trucking industry, with the east–west Interstate 10 and State Route 210 crossing the city and Interstate 15 passing diagonally through its northwestern quadrant. The city is about 46 miles east of Los Angeles. It is home to a renovated historic theater, a municipal park, and the Auto Club Speedway, which is on the site of the old Kaiser Steel Mill just outside the city. Fontana also hosts the Fontana Days Half Marathon and 5K run. This race is the fastest half-marathon course in the world.Fontana Days Run Fontana.org. Retrieved January 13, 2015. The |
Panama–Pacific International Exposition
The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, but it was widely seen in the city as an opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. The fair was constructed on a site along the northern shore, between the Presidio and Fort Mason, now known as the Marina District. Exhibits and themes Among the exhibits at the Exposition was the '' C. P. Huntington'', the first steam locomotive purchased by Southern Pacific Railroad; the locomotive is now on static display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. A telephone line was also established to New York City so people across the continent could hear the Pacific Ocean. The Liberty Bell traveled by train on a nationwide tour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to attend the exposition. The 1915 American Grand Prize and Vanderbilt C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexico–United States border. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is about west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2020 census, McAllen's population was 142,210. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area ( McAllen–Edinburg–Mission) in the state of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area counts a population of more than 1.5 million. From its settlement in 1904, the area around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The introduction of the ''maquiladora'' economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an increase in cross-border trading with Mexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upland News
__NOTOC__ The Upland News was a weekly or semiweekly newspaper circulated in Upland, California, between 1901 and 1974. Family ownership The newspaper was established in 1901 by Walter Curtis Westland, who came from Michigan. Its office was then situated in a small house on A Street in Upland, but within a year a new building was constructed for it. Westland died of consumption on December 1, 1902, and his wife, Ella L. Westland, took over as editor and publisher. She left the business in December 1910, and her son, W.E. Westland, who had been part owner, purchased her share. W.L. Miller was editor in 1910-11. In 1912, the newspaper office was "considerably damaged" in a fire that swept through Upland's downtown district. In 1919, the paper increased its publication frequency from weekly to semiweekly. It later went back to weekly. Other ownership In 1928, the company was sold to J.B. Hungerford and his son, John Hungerford, both of Carroll, Iowa. They moved to California to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Paine
Vernon may refer to: Places Australia *Vernon County, New South Wales Canada *Vernon, British Columbia, a city *Vernon, Ontario France *Vernon, Ardèche * Vernon, Eure United States * Vernon, Alabama * Vernon, Arizona * Vernon, California * Lake Vernon, California * Vernon, Colorado * Vernon, Connecticut * Vernon, Delaware * Vernon, Florida, a city * Vernon Lake (Idaho) * Vernon, Illinois * Vernon, Indiana * Vernon, Kansas * Vernon Community, Hestand, Kentucky * Vernon Parish, Louisiana ** Vernon Lake, a man-made lake in the parish * Vernon, Michigan * Vernon Township, Isabella County, Michigan * Vernon Township, Shiawassee County, Michigan * Vernon, Jasper County, Mississippi * Vernon, Madison County, Mississippi * Vernon, Winston County, Mississippi * Vernon Township, New Jersey * Vernon (town), New York ** Vernon (village), New York * Vernon (Mount Olive, North Carolina), a historic plantation house * Vernon Township, Crawford County, Ohio * Vernon Township, Scioto C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Blythe
Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter; September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 talkies over the course of her career. Early life She was born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter in Los Angeles, where she attended Westlake School for Girls, and the University of Southern California. Betty had already shortened her name to Betty Blythe when she and three other women posed for a photo shoot of the newest swim fashion for women, a bathing suit. Prior to then, women were expected to wear stockings with full dresses or skirts into the water. Career Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as ''So Long Letty'' and ''The Peacock Princess''. She worked in vaudeville as the "California Nightingale" singing songs such as "Love Tales from Hoffman". In 1915, she had an unbilled part in '' Bella Donna'' for Famous Players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yucca Salamunich
''Yucca'' is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry (arid) parts of the Americas and the Caribbean. Early reports of the species were confused with the cassava (''Manihot esculenta''). Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Taíno word for the latter, ''yuca''. The Aztecs living in Mexico since before the Spanish arrival, in Nahuatl, call the local yucca species (''Yucca gigantea'') , which gave the Spanish . is also used for ''Yucca filifera''. Distribution The natural distribution range of the genus ''Yucca'' (49 species and 24 subspecies) covers a vast area of the Americas. The genus is represented throughout Mexico and extends into Guatemala (''Yucca guatemalensis''). It also extends to the north through Baja Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
