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Louis Adamic's fascinating history of the framing of union organisers Tom Mooney and Warren Billings of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing, and the subsequent campaign for their release, written in 1931.
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The pitched political battle over masks may feel like a quintessentially 2020 kind of conflict. But as it turns out, the
anti-mask movement is more than a century old. Columnist Gustavo Arellano takes us back to 1919, when the world was facing another devastating global outbreak: the so-called Spanish flu, which is estimated to have infected a third of the world’s population and killed at least 50 million.
The petition to the City Council was straightforward: Enact a mandatory mask policy to combat the pandemic, or “the disease will come back again, and will exact a heavier toll than ever.”
Seven hundred residents, doctors and concerned citizens alike, signed the document. But the council members who heard their pleas wouldn’t have it.
One said masks left the wearer “breathing in the foul air which they exhale.” Another cracked he might be more sympathetic to the issue “if the doctors would come through and agree on some one thing, or if any of them could agree at all.” Still another said he would “not propose to take the advice of a lot of outsiders.”
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The first women to hold top elected offices in San Diego County local governments after women in California got the right to vote weren’t chosen at the ballot box.
It was a pattern in the early years. Soon after California gave women the right to vote in 1911 and the 19th Amendment enfranchised women nationally in 1920, many of the groundbreaking women in San Diego County politics got a foothold in the top tiers of government when powerful men chose them to fill seats vacated by incumbents.
One of them was Mildred Greene, the first woman to hold elected office in San Diego County, in 1918.