Stay updated with breaking news from யூஜின் ஸ்கிமிட்ஸ். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The Crazy True Story Of The 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing grunge.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from grunge.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Book World: Vera bears witness to the lives ruined by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - For fifteen years I d been waiting for a catastrophe greater than my birth, says the eponymous protagonist of Carol Edgarian s new novel Vera. The quake gave it to me. By the quake Vera means the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Vera, at 15, feels like most things revolve around her experience, including this disaster. She has a flair for the dramatic. Brought up by Swedish widow Morie (a diminutive for mor, or mother) alongside her stepsister Pie (for Piper), Vera has always known that her biological mother is notorious brothelkeeper Madame Rose, with whom she has intermittent contact. ....
'Vera,' by Carol Edgarian book review - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Please Donate Downtown politics helped build the Parkside Parkside and the Graft Trials By Woody LaBounty (Originally published in the WNP Member Newsletter, Spring 2002) The well-chronicled postscript to San Francisco s devastation in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire is the revealed municipal graft, and the resulting legal prosecution of the city s administration. Coinciding with the physical rebuilding of a great metropolis came the downfall of the city s boss, Abraham Ruef. Using the Union Labor Party as his vehicle, Ruef orchestrated the election of Eugene Schmitz as mayor in 1901, and not only won Schmitz reelection in 1905, but control of the board of supervisors as well. ....
Rachel Zarrow February 28, 2021Updated: March 2, 2021, 8:42 pm “Vera” by Carol Edgarian Photo: Scribner Living in San Francisco in 1906, the eponymous Vera of Carol Edgarian’s latest novel is a headstrong and fiercely independent teenager. Born to Rose, the madam of one of the city’s most notorious bordellos, and placed in the care of Morie, a woman with alcohol and gambling addictions, Vera lives between two worlds and two families. Save for what she gleans from the occasional visit to Rose’s mansion on Lafayette Square, “which sat like a fat queen on the throne of Pacific Heights,” Vera knows little about Rose, and what she does know Rose’s occupation she keeps to herself, while maintaining the charade that Morie is her mother. ....