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Winter 2012

KAISER PERMANENTE TO HOSTFEBRUARY 16 PHS MEETING

new venue and a program featuring twointeresting topics willgreet an audience of

Pinole Historical Society members and the general publicat the society’s first quarterlymeeting of the year on Thursday,February 16.

We’ll be meeting in ConferenceRooms 2A and 2B in the KaiserPermanente Medical Office Building, 1301 Pinole ValleyRoad. We’ll begin at 6:30 p.m.and end around 8 p.m.

Commander Matt Messier of thePinole Police Department willpresent The History of LawEnforcement in Pinole, and authorDonald Bastin will do a shortpresentation and a book signing for his just-published Arcadiabook, Images of America: El Sobrante.

Many of you will remember Commander Messier’s first PHS programin 2010, which chronicled the 1929 murder of Pinole ConstableJerry McDonald and the subsequent capture of members of theFleagle gang, which robbed the Bank of Pinole branch in Rodeo,during which McDonald was machine-gunned to death.

Bastin is also the author of Images of America: Richmond, published in 2000.

AIn this issue

Search for your ancestors— Page 3 —

How the Carquinez Bridgewas built— Page 5 —

Please help PHS build a historical archive

— Page 6 —

PHS receives priceless donations

— Page 7 —

Pinole’s rural roots: Intothe 20th century

— Page 8 —

New library exhibit — Page 13 —

Local history books available from PHS

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PinoleHistoricalSocietyBoard of DirectorsMarcia Kalapus, President; Jeff Rubin, Vice President;

Sheila Grist, Treasurer; Jo Ann Gannotti, Secretary;Dr. Joe Mariotti; Shirley RamosDirectors EmeritusJack Meehan, George VincentNewsletter EditorJeff Rubin

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PHS Newsbriefs are distributed every quarter, generating readership among thousands of Pinoleand West County residents. Hundreds more receivethe newsletter directly from the PHS via its databaseand website. If you’re interested in advertising,please contact Jeff Rubin at info@PinoleHistorical-Society.org or call him at (510) 724-9507.

PHS CALENDARMEETINGS

ONGOING

February 16, 2012: Quarterly membership meeting: The History of Law Enforcement in Pinole,presented by Commander Matt Messier of the PinolePolice Department, and a book signing by DonaldBastin, author of the new book, Images of America:El Sobrante, Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Build-ing, 1301 Pinole Valley Road, Conference Rooms 2Aand 2B, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Pinole Library history exhibits. Two exhibits at thelibrary, 2935 Pinole Valley Road. Library hours are: Monday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.), Wednesday (2 to 8 p.m.),Friday and Saturday (12 to 5 p.m.).

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President’s Message

Marcia Kalapus

Marcia Kalapus, President, Pinole Historical Society

I am dedicating thisarticle to all the “miss-ing-person” ancestorswho have eluded all ofus doing family history.Generally, a forgottenentity, most folks aban-don searching for themafter a period of time.Keep looking. Mine is asuccess story.

y family beganlooking for Alonzo “Lonnie”Kinningham

(my grandfather’s olderbrother, my great-uncle)around 1899.

He had returned toTexas with an honorabledischarge after serving inthe Spanish-AmericanWar, but then disap-peared. The family fearedthat he had taken off to

From 1972 to 2000, I found nothing. I wroteto a message board onAncestry.com looking for information aboutLonnie. I received e-mailsfrom two of his grand-daughters who were also

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DON’T GIVE UP SEARCHING FOR YOUR ANCESTORSlooking for him. I learnedthat in early 1900, whilehunting for King, Lonnieended up in Arkansas,where he married EllaAvery and had two littlegirls. These were thedaughters of those girls.The family moved toOklahoma in 1905.

The granddaughters’story was their mothersnever knew Lonnie. Theirgrandmother, Ella Avery,refused to share anyinformation about whathad happened to him.There were no records of him.

In August 2010, Ireceived an e-mail fromCathea Curry, one ofLonnie’s descendants onElla Avery’s side of the

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pursue Sterling A. King, a rustler/train robber,who had murdered Lonnie’s father, Dr.William Kinningham, in1885. King was acquittedat trial and did not servejail time; there were nowitnesses. Lonnie, bornin 1872, was just a boywhen his father waskilled.

My relatives wrote tothe United States Depart-ment of War in 1917, but there was no currentenlistment record forLonnie.

My grandmother, EffieMcCarty, asked me topromise to keep lookingfor him in 1972, beforeshe passed. “You have tosee he’s laid to rest,” shetold me.

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family. She had found him. (We never thought to lookunder Lonnie’s wife’s name during our research.)

Cathea had discovered an old newspaper article inHugo, OK, archives that said “Ella Kinningham wasarrested for the murder of her husband in Decem-ber 1906 in Grant, OK.” The article called “Mrs. K.” a holy terror and was hard to get along with.

Lonnie worked for the railroad in Oklahoma. Heand his wife were separated, and he went to see hisdaughters. Ella shot him in the gut, point blank. Thenewspaper article about the killing didn’t mentionLonnie by name. There were no witnesses.

The railroad took Lonnie to its hospital in Sedalia,MO, for extensive care. He died there in January1907. The Averys refused his remains. He was buriednear the hospital.

Ella was convicted of manslaughter but wasreleased from jail in 1907; Oklahoma was trying forstatehood and didn’t want any negative publicity.

The United States National Archives, after hearingfrom Cathea Curry about the circumstances of Lonnie’s death, sent the Curry family a military monument with his name and rank to be placed onhis grave.

The Averys never notified the Texas families(McCarty [my people] and Kinningham) of Lonnie’sdemise, and the two families looked for him for 111years.

Lonnie is now resting in a marked gravesite, andmy family is grateful to have found him.

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DAYS GONE BY: HOW THE CARQUINEZ BRIDGE WAS BUILT

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The Carquinez Bridge in 1927. It was the world’s longest highway bridge.

By Nilda Rego

ven J. Hanfordmay have been inhis early 20s, buthe already owned

three rather successful gro-cery stores, one in Vallejo,one in Oakland, and thethird in Alameda.

However, there was aproblem. Hanford truckedhis own merchandise, buy-ing from a farmer or a job-ber and delivering the prod-ucts to his stores. It wouldtake him a full day to get

from the Vallejo store to theother two. Not only was histime consumed, but thelong, arduous trip was wear-ing out his truck.

It was 1917. There wereno bridges. Hanford boughta barge and would goacross the Carquinez Straitin his truck, taking along afew passengers to helpdefray the costs.

Also traveling the sameroute day after day wasOscar H. Klatt, a youngsalesman for a San Francis-co wholesale grocery com-

pany. Thetwo metand deter-mined tofind a bet-ter way toget fromVallejo toother EastBay cities.

Theycame up with the idea of aferry and started the Rodeo-Vallejo Ferry Company,which was a good idea,except for the fact therewas a war going on. All theshipyards were way toobusy to build a ferry. So ifthe two couldn’t get a newboat, what about a usedone? Hanford heard of a lit-tle steamer called theIssaquah that ferried peoplearound Lake Washingtonnear Seattle.

Hanford went up to Seat-tle, bought the Issaquahand had it refurbished.Then he hired a crew, andeven though he had no sea-faring experience, he tookcommand of the ferry. Itwas a harrowing trip. Han-ford sailed the Issaquahthrough a fierce storm witha crew that was close tomutiny. But he made it.

It was a very popularferry. Hanford gave up thegrocery business. The com-pany bought more boats.But there were always longlines of cars waiting toboard. Sometimes, peoplehad to wait for three hours,and the lines kept gettinglonger.

Hanford and Klatt real-ized a bridge was the

answer. Then they heardthat someone else wasseeking a franchise to builda bridge across the Car-quinez Strait. Hanford wentlooking for a lawyer andfound A.F. Bray, of Martinez,who later became the pre-siding justice of the DistrictCourt of Appeal in SanFrancisco.

Bray suggested that Han-ford ask the Contra CostaCounty Board of Supervi-sors for a franchisebecause, according to thelaw, the governing countywas the one situated on the“left bank descending thestream or arm of the Bay.”

Hanford and Klatt got thefranchise and organized theAmerican Bridge Company.Hanford became the com-pany’s president. The stocksold rapidly. However, bothHanford and Klatt had tomortgage their homes andall their personal propertyto add to the earnings ofthe ferry company for theconstruction fund.

Construction on the Car-quinez Bridge started inFebruary 1923 and wascompleted in May 1927.Hanford never got to seethe completion of his pro-ject. He died at the age of40 at his home in Berkeley.

His obituary in the Oak-land Tribune reported, “Hisdeath was caused by abrain hemorrhage due tooverwork.” Klatt took overHanford’s job as presidentto complete the bridge.

— Reprinted with permission from the Contra Costa Times.

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PHS SEEKING FAMILY FILMS FOR HISTORICAL ARCHIVEot film?

The Pinole Historical Society is embark-ing on a major project to archive the city’shistory — family by family and event by

event. Our objective is to establish a permanent, digitized collection of Pinole’s history.

Do you have film of past Holy Ghost parades,Pinole Valley High School Homecoming parades,Memorial Day or July 4 parades?

How about important athletic events, such as ahigh-school football, basketball, baseball, softball, orvolleyball game?

Perhaps you have film ofan important event that tookplace in Fernandez Park, or aribbon cutting or an eventthat has a place in Pinole’shistory—such as the 1958flood?

We’re looking for anyvideo or film you have—VHS,

Beta, camcorder, DV tape, 8mm, Super 8mm,16mm, 35mm, motion picture.

Nearly everyone has taken home movies. Thatmakes everyone who has taken film a historian.

We want to collect, digitize, catalog, and preserveold movies on DVD (and whatever formats are tocome) to exhibit, educate, and entertain.

The PHS will share these videos on a film archivethat we will establish, similar to the The PioneersFilm Archive on YouTube created by the CaliforniaPioneers of Santa Clara (www.youtube.com/sccpioneers).

Film connects with thepast in a unique way. It’simmersive, educational, andentertaining for young peo-ple. It’s a way to get youngpeople interested in history.

Got film? Please contactus at info@pinolehistoricalsociety.org

The Pinole Historical Society is grateful for donations of

artifacts, photos, newspapers, memorabilia—anything of historical significance. Please contact us at

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Not a problem. The city’s website now has adedicated section devoted to PINOLE HISTORY onits “Videos Online” page.

You can view the numerous PHS programs right

on your computer. Go to www.ci.pinole.ca.us/about/videos.html and scroll down to PINOLEHISTORY. You’ll find our interviews, Veterans Dayprograms, both of George Vincent’s Walking Toursof Historic Downtown Pinole, and the very fine PCTV-produced, 12-part series based on the Historic Walking Tour brochure. It’s great TV!

Pinole Historical Society Director Emeri-tus JACK MEEHAN donated the funds toenable the society to purchase thishandsome greeting-card and postcarddisplay rack (photo, right) for our farmers’ market booth and other events.

LAWRENCE RADCLIFFE, DDS, 2000 Appian Way, Suite 203, donated a copy

of IgnacioMartinezand theRancho El Pinole1823-1868,the master’s thesiswritten by formerPinole Mayor EgdarVovsi in December 1970. Vovsi submit-ted it to the Collegeof Holy Names, Grad-uate History Division.

DORIS MCPHERSON-SALMI, whose latefather, John McPherson, was a memberof the Pinole Historical Society in the1970s, and served as secretary, donateda file of her father’s papers, notes, andarticles.

“My father was not an ‘old-time’ Pinoleperson like so many I know from yearspast,” says Doris, who lives in Rodeo.“We moved to Pinole in 1955, but hewas very committed to his city and lovedevery square inch of it!”

LYN AND TED KELLER, of El Sobrante,donated a 1906 Punett Brothers clothmap of the Bay Area counties, featuringall of the ranchos of that era.

CHRIS TREADWAY AND TOM LOCHNER, of the WestCounty Times, donated numerous newspaper arti-cles and photos from the paper’s archives, includinginformation about the Pinole Spring Festival, Okto-berfest celebrations, home construction in PinoleValley, a 1991 oil spill, and events and programs atthe Pinole library.

PHS THANKS THESE DONORS:

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PINOLE’S RURAL ROOTS: INTO THE 20TH CENTURY

Back in the day By George R. Vincent

Second of two parts

he late 19th cen-tury saw Pinoleemerging from asleepy rural out-

post based on farming tothe elevated status of apromising village.

Noted as a “small ham-let” in an 1880 countyhistory, Pinole’s characterwas changing from itssurrounding agriculturalbase to a recognizedurban community, with acentral downtown andfamily institutions.

St. Joseph’s Churchwas built in 1881, and in1886 the first downtownschool was erected—both on land donated by the Samuel Tennentfamily.

Pinole’s population

increase had come withthe 1879 industrial stim-ulus of new jobs at theCalifornia Powder Worksin Hercules, as well asthe transportation facili-ties provided by theSouthern Pacific andSanta Fe Railroads. New-comers built Italianateand Queen Anne-style

clapboard homes andbarns along San PabloAvenue on lots sold byTennent family heirs.

As Pinole entered thenew century the townshipwas still a place of horsetroughs and hay wagons,now sharing space withtelephone poles and fire-plugs. The old heritage of

ranch and farm influencedid not disappear.Instead, the new urbanface blended with thefarming tradition in aunique way.

Even the new down-town homes had barnsand livestock. Dusty cat-tle drives and cowboyscame through centralPinole to and from thevalley ranches to theSouthern Pacific Depotuntil 1945. Pinole’s econ-omy would continue tobenefit from its loveaffair with agricultureeven as it competed withthe new industrialmachine at the HerculesPowder Company.

By the late 1870s,Bernardo Fernandez hadacquired many of theranch properties in the

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Hay and grain wagonsand livestock came downTennent Road to the bayto unload their cargo.The ranchers surroundingPinole, as well as thosedeep in the valley,depended on Fernandezto buy and store theirwares. Fernandez had amonopoly of the tradefrom both ends.

This practice contin-ued until the late 1950s,when the last remainingwarehouse burned down

one evening. A favoritetrick for young farmhands bringing high balesof hay on wagons was tojump up and hang fromthe Santa Fe overpass onTennent Road untilanother wagon passedunder for them to drop

down upon.The 1880s saw a large

influx into California ofPortuguese immigrantsfrom the Azores. Manytook up ranching andfarming as their liveli-hood or worked at theHercules Powder Compa-

ny. Fernandez, who wasalso Portuguese, leaseddwellings and farmlandto the newcomers,including the old Mar-tinez Adobe Ranch homeand premises.

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ranches in the valleyalone, mostly worked byitinerant Portuguese farmhands. Hay presseslabored from dawn todusk in the summer andfall. Steam-powered trac-tors and horse-poweredhay presses and balerswould cut, bale, andpress hay into 250-poundbales to be stored andsold as winter livestockfood up and down Cali-fornia.

Children playedIn the 1950s, the one

remaining warehouse atthe foot of TennentAvenue was more than100-feet high andjammed to the toprafters with hundreds ofhay bales. Kids danger-ously climbed to the topbales to look out the

missing shingles of thedecaying roof.

Shafts of sunlight fromthe holes in the roof litup the straw-coveredfloor. There was an eeriesilence all around. It feltlike being in an ancientcathedral, complete witha musty smell of long ago

and the statuary of whitebarn owls watching fromtheir perches. In spring,the eaves of the oldwarehouse hummed withthe wings of countlessbarn swallows buildingtheir mud nests.

Simas RanchThe Nunes family ran a

large dairy ranch in thevalley that later becamethe Audrey and TonySimas Ranch. More than1,000 acres, it was thevalley’s largest ranch.

In 1956, the landboom changed much ofthe valley from cattle

grazing and tomato fieldsto tract homes. TheAntone Rose family camefrom the Azores in the1880s and settled on thewest side of Pinole ValleyRoad several miles fromtown. Antone and Florin-da Rose farmed andraised cattle and threechildren—Antone RoseJr., Mary Agnes Rose(Faria), and Manuel(Molly) Rose. Their farmbecame the site of thenew Pinole Valley HighSchool in 1967.

Many ranchesFamilies of other

nationalities also operat-ed large ranches orfarmed around Pinole.

West of First Avenue(now Appian Way), wasthe Tom Fitzgerald familyranch. Of Irish descent,the education-mindedFitzgeralds had Pinole’sfirst one-room school, aconverted barn, on theirproperty. Also west ofPinole was the JosephPfister Ranch, whichextended from First andSan Pablo avenues southto today’s former Doctors

ROSE FAMILY: Antone Rose Sr., Antone Rose Jr.,Mary Agnes Rose (Faria), Manuel (Molly) Rose,and Florinda Rose.

We have postcards, greeting cards, and refrig-erator magnets—featuring photos from our book,Images of America: Pinole. You can order themat www.PinoleHistoricalSociety.org.

To order on-line, print the order form and mailit with your check to the Pinole Historical Soci-ety, P.O. Box 285, Pinole, CA 94564.

All of the photos in our book—and others inour collection—are available for purchase in anysize you want.

All of these items make thoughtful holidaygifts. For more information, contact the PHS at(510) 724-9507 or at info@pinolehistoricalsoci-ety.org.

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activities and events — and, of course, the history of the

sweetest city in the East Bay.www.PinoleHistoricalSociety.org

PINOLE’S RURAL ROOTS: INTO THE 20TH CENTURYHospital. This beautifulranch setting was fea-tured in a county historylithograph in the 1880s.

Pioneer familiesThe Krieger family, of

German background, hada huge ranch runningfrom Pinole’s western citylimits north to the bay.Krieger’s Point (nowcalled Point Wilson) wasnamed for the family.

Closer to town, andrunning north of SanPablo Avenue to theSanta Fe tracks, was theBrandt Ranch, later theBuckley Ranch. The cattle roaming the hillseast of downtown Pinolebelonged to the Eller-horst family, also of German ancestry.

Many of the earliestranches changed owner-ship and names as thenew century dawned.After Samuel Tennentdied in the late 1880s,his heirs sold the ranch

estate, including sonJames Tennent’s impres-sive two-story home on ahill across from the oldhomestead. This homewould later be sold tothe Faria family.

Three generations ofFarias would be reared inthe old house before thelandmark was relocatedto downtown Pinole in2005.

Bill and Margaret Fariawere the home’s lastoccupants, and theirthree daughters—Dolores, Deanna, andMargaret—grew up there.

Tomato kingsBill Faria, Antone

Lopes and Manuel Duartepioneered tomato growing on their proper-ties, contracting with theHeinz Cannery in Berke-ley. Overturned tomatotrucks with housewivesfilling their bags were notan uncommon sight onSan Pablo Avenue.

The Samuel TennentRanch was sold to theJoe Silva family, whichran a dairy there. Hisdaughter, Albertina, married Jimmy Ceselini,and they built a Spanish-style stucco home thatstood until the 1990s.

Early economyThe old Tennent barn,

slaughterhouse, andbunkhouse remained onthe property for manyyears as reminders of thehuge, 1,500-acre Tennentspread of the 1860s.

Farming and ranchingand the many workerswho came into town tospend their wages onsupplies, barbers, andbar entertainment fueledPinole’s early economy.

Though the farmingculture declined afterWorld War II, Pinoleansnever really gave up theirbarnyard past. Well intothe 1950s and 1960schicken yards, crowing

roosters, and horsebackriders along city streetswere commonplace.Fresh eggs were solddoor-to-door and everyhome had a garden patchand orchard.

Two remainA fading glimpse of

Pinole’s once-rich ruralhistory can be seen inthe two remaining operat-ing ranches just outsidethe city limits. Timestands still in the settingsof the 100-year-oldMohring Ranch and barnin Pinole Valley and theolder McLeod Ranch(once the Kate Tennentand Ellerhorst ranch) inHercules.

Both are reminders ofPinole’s romantic heydayof horse power, hay wag-ons, and hard-workingranchers.

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It happened back thenHistoric Pinole: Pinole deputy captures cattle rustlersEditor’s note: This article isfrom the California DigitalNewspaper Collection, Centerfor Bibliographic Studies andResearch, University of Cali-fornia, Riverside http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc.

These articles are featuredweekly on Pinole Patch(pinole.patch.com). We thankPinole Patch Editor Rob Sheafor preserving and promotingthe history of Pinole.

This article recalls a legendary law enforcer fromPinole, M.J. Scanlan. DeputySheriff Scanlan shows up inthe archives as a superla-tive lawman often calledupon to track down fugi-tives.

MARTINEZ, June 1—Forsome time past, cattlethieves have been helpingthemselves to fat cattle,belonging to Thomas Mur-phy, who has a ranch onMarsh Creek in the easternpart or this county, and ashort time ago seven large

steers belonging to Hayes &Co. of the stockyards werestolen from Mr. Murphy'spasturage.

As soon as the firm wasnotified of their loss theysent word to Deputy SheriffM. J. Scanlan of Pinole, andauthorized him to take thetrail of the thieves.

The latter, who is consid-ered one of the best trailersof outlaws in this county,immediately went on hismission, and after a chasethrough portions of Alame-da. Santa Clara, SanJoaquin and Contra Costacounties, caught up withthe thieves at Tracey [sic]and succeeded in arrestingthem.

The guilty parties provedto be August and Paul Hard-er, members of the firm ofHarder Bros., butchers atTracey [sic], and the stolencattle had been slaughteredbefore Deputy Sheriff Scan-lan reached there. He

secured evidence enough to warrant their arrest, andthey were brought to Martinez this afternoon, andon examination were heldto appear for trial on June16 before Justice Smith ofthis place.

It is thought their arrestwill stop the disappearanceof cattle from Marsh Creek.

— From the June 2, 1894,edition of the San Francis-co Call newspaper.

Editor’s note: M.J. (Michael)Scanlan was a relative ofEmily Scanlan, mother ofPinole Historical Society co-founder George Vincent.

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The Pinole Historical Society promotes awarenessand appreciation of history through preservationand education, and chronicles the city’s heritage

for current and future generations.

NEW LIBRARY EXHIBIThotographs from Pinole’s past andpresent highlight the new PinoleHistorical Society exhibit at thePinole Library.

This exhibit joins our permanent exhib-it featuring artifacts, photos, and memo-rabilia from our city’s history. The PHSthanks the Pinole Library for the exhibitspace.

“”Pinole . . . Then and Now” featuresphotos from the society’s archives ofbuildings that existed at the turn of the20th century—and recent photos of

buildings on those sites today.There are some surprises for visitors to this

exhibit of the the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same variety.

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Pinole Historical Society Director Emeri-tus Jack Meehan and Secretary Jo AnnGannotti in front of the newly installedPHS exhibit, “Pinole . . . Then and Now,”at the Pinole Library.

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# of Pinole books @ $27 ______

# of Hercules books @ $27 ______

# of Richmond books @ $27 ______

# of El Sobrante books @ $27 ______

# of Crockett books @ $25 ______

# of Rodeo books @ $25 ______

# of Martinez books @ $25 ______

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TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $___________(includes sales tax and postage)

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payable to Pinole Historical Society, to:PINOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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he Pinole Historical Soci-ety stocks Arcadia booksabout Hercules, Rodeo,Richmond, El Sobrante,

Crockett, Martinez, and PortCosta. And, of course, we haveplenty of Pinole books in stock.

You may purchase one ormore of these books from us atthe Pinole Farmers’ Market—we’re there every other Saturdaythrough the end of December.

The Pinole, Hercules, Rich-mond, and El Sobrante booksretail for $24, including 8.75%sales tax. The Crockett, Rodeo,Martinez, and Port Costa booksare $22, including 8.75% salestax.

Or, you may order one ormore by mail and we’ll shipthem to you. Send your order toPinole Historical Society, P.O. Box 285,Pinole, CA 94564.

The prices via mail, including8.75% sales tax and postage are:

Pinole, Hercules, Richmond,and El Sobrante: $27

Crockett, Rodeo, Martinez,and Port Costa: $25

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the South Pole.April 15: Titanic, on its maiden voyage, sinks at

2:27 a.m. off Newfoundland.May 7: Columbia University approves plans for

awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories. The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer, formerpublisher of the New York World.

June 4: Massachusetts passes first U.S. minimum-wage law.

August 27: Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes “Tarzanof the Apes.”

November 5: Arizona, Kansas, and Wisconsin vote forwomen’s suffrage.

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