Week of February 14th Headlines
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (February 15, 1918)
*City Trustees Issue Building Permits: No Action Taken in Regard to Peninsular Railroad Tracks
*For the Honor of our Soldier Boys: For $1 Each, Christian’s Jewelry on Franklin Street Producing Plates with Inscription: ‘This is the Home of a Soldier Defending the Cause of God and Humanity and America’
*Thomas Bull Receives Telegram from England: Telling of the Death of His Sister
*Santa Clara Has Up-to-Date Grocery and General Merchandise Store: Sallows & Rourke at Corner of Franklin & Main Streets
*Promotion for Santa Clara Lad: Wilbur E. Wadams, Son of Dr. & Mrs. Wadams, Promoted at Camp Lewis, Washington
*Postmaster South Proclaims Importance of Thrift Stamps as Baby Liberty Bonds
*Santa Clara to Have New Undertaker: Mr. A. W. Nuttman of San Francisco to be Successor to William Fluery of the Undertaking Firm at 807 Washington Street
*Allied Enforcements Land in Italy to Hold Back Invading Army
*Second Annual Pacific Automobile Show, February 15-24, in San Francisco: See Special Automobile Issue of ‘Santa Clara News’
50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal & News (February 14, 1968)
*Old Time Cardrooms Disappearing: Franklin Street Once Dotted with Saloons and Night Clubs Operating Card Rooms on Side: Only One Remains – Phil and Shan’s Card Room, 1071 Alviso Street
*State Aid Cut: SCUSD Must Go It Alone in Financing Its Construction Program
*Two Santa Clara Supermarkets Burglarized by Armed Robber Pair: Safeway at 2100 Scott Blvd. and Speedee Mart at 1556 Los Padres
*Following Motion by Councilman Talia: Council Votes to Tighten Reins on City Bidding Procedures
*Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce to Hear Talk by David Packard: Hewlett-Packard Constructing $4.5 Million Electronics Plant at Intersection of Lawrence Expwy. & Stevens Creek
*Parks & Recreation Department to Study if Poor Lighting at Bowers Park Encouraging Juvenile Delinquency: Glue Sniffing, Fighting and Marijuana Smoking
*Request for Permit to Re-open Continental Bowl for Select Activities After November Closure Following a Teen ‘Love-in’
*Local Lodge Marks a Century of Elkdom: Santa Clara Elks Lodge No 2347 Plans to Build Permanent Lodge in Late 1968 on Its Homestead Road Property
*View of Ancient Telescope in Ricard Observatory on University of Santa Clara Campus
*City Hall’s 1967 Annual Report and Progress Review
