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pos: NNP
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entity:
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id: 1056
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  ''The sea is still and deep; All things within its bosom sleep; A single step and all is o''er, A plunge


id: 4687
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  "O Lord of Rimini, with tears we leave her, as we leave a child, Be gentle with her, even as God has been....


id: 43103
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  The Ruef jury is complete and we are now in a way to learn all the truth about the particular crime for which Ruef is this time on trial


id: 43103
type: ORG
entity:
  the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants'' Association, Board of Trade, Real Estate Board and Merchants'' Exchange


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type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  "Life''s fevered day declines; its purple twilight falling Draws length''ning shadows from the broken flanks; And from the column''s


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# bib

id: 20259
title: Frontier Boys in Frisco
author: Roosevelt, Wyn
txt: ./txt/20259.txt
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extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Good-by, Jim," said Ketchel, as they gripped hands; "take care of Jim was soon to find that his old pirate friend, Captain Bill Broome, "Well, Jim," said the chief engineer of the _Sea Eagle_, James "Old friends, Jim?" asked Berwick who was quick to note the lad''s "Hold on, Jim," said the engineer, "I don''t think that is the wisest "No danger of that," replied Jim. Again a match was lit and this time Berwick held the flame close to the these hounds come back on their trail," suggested Jim. The engineer of the _Sea Eagle_ who was at present out of his element, "Wind ''em together and they will do," replied Jim. In a short time, he had got one end of the improvised rope over one of "Good old Chief," said Jim, returning his friend''s grip; "now I''m off." "Ah, the captain," said Jim to Berwick quietly. John Berwick, the engineer, had had an anxious time while Jim had been


id: 28443
title: The Readjustment
author: Irwin, Will
txt: ./txt/28443.txt
cache: ./cache/28443.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "I think Eleanor must be back from the city," Mrs. Tiffany was saying, "Say, we didn''t do a thing to that tree," said Bertram Chester, with "You remember the young man who went over with Eleanor to drive away To the great relief of Eleanor, Mrs. Tiffany came out to meet them, "Yes, I know it is overcrowded," said Bertram Chester, not a particle Mark Heath; the spirit came into the face of Bertram Chester. "This reminds me of the places one slips into abroad," she said, "Mr. and Mrs. Wark--Lars Wark you know--took me to just such an old ruin in Kate Waddington spent that night with Eleanor Gray in the Tiffany old Sturtevant mahogany, came upon Bertram Chester like a stage "Eleanor," spoke Mrs. Tiffany, "suppose you show Mr. Chester your end "The man who gets Eleanor Gray--and especially if Bertram Chester is


id: 30142
title: Little Brother
author: Doctorow, Cory
txt: ./txt/30142.txt
cache: ./cache/30142.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  What''s more, kids were clearly being used as guinea-pigs for a new kind of technological state that all of us were on our way to, a world where taking a picture was either piracy (in a movie theater or museum or even a Starbucks), or terrorism (in a public place), but where we could be photographed, tracked and logged hundreds of times a day by every tin-pot dictator, cop, bureaucrat and shop-keeper. "I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology -each of which make this book a must-read -but, at the end of it all, I''m haunted by the universality of Marcus''s rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it." He looked like he was Chinese or Korean -even Van can''t tell the difference sometimes -but with that bearing that said *American* in a way I couldn''t put my finger on.


id: 21903
title: The Californians
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
txt: ./txt/21903.txt
cache: ./cache/21903.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Magdaléna stood for some time looking out over the darkening bay, at the Helena paid the money like a blood, Magdaléna horrified at the "What queer-looking girls!" said Magdaléna. "Please tell him to stop a few doors from the house," said Helena; The time came when Magdaléna hated the monotony of Menlo, "A strange man in the house for two days," gasped Magdaléna, forgetting Trennahan saw the flash of dismay from Magdaléna''s eyes before her face "Here comes Mr. Trennahan," said Magdaléna, standing up. "I won''t admit it," said Trennahan, who was looking at Magdaléna. This looks like the stories they tell of old times." They were in Helena''s room, and Magdaléna sat down by the open window, Trennahan in that first month thought little of Magdaléna. On the third day Mrs. Polk said to Magdaléna,-Mrs. Yorba went straight to Magdaléna''s room, and for the first time in


id: 401
title: Blix
author: Norris, Frank
txt: ./txt/401.txt
cache: ./cache/401.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  times Condy even told himself that he loved this girl so much younger "Condy," said Blix, "I think that diver''s story is almost too good for Gently, and a little at a time, Condy turned his head and looked at Condy''s face fell, and Blix gave a little gasp of dismay. back, and Condy and Blix set about the serious business of the day. "Sudden enough," said Condy, "but it IS a great thing for you, Blix, Blix and Condy had planned a long walk for that day. "Look, Condy!" said Blix. At the end, Blix''s little eyes were snapping like sparks; Condy''s face Let''s do it, Blix," Condy suddenly exclaimed; "let''s get to know "Condy, what''s the matter?" Blix was looking at him with an expression "Condy," said Blix, looking at him intently, "what is it stands in your Blix was going; she and Condy would


id: 3314
title: The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco
author: Irwin, Will
txt: ./txt/3314.txt
cache: ./cache/3314.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  San Francisco lay on a series of hills and the lowlands between. San Francisco Bay, a body of water always tinged with gold from the mountainous country to the south bring the real forest closer to San cable cars crawling up the hills of San Francisco to the south. Summer and winter, San Francisco women usually entered San Francisco by way of the Bay. Across its yellow a great part of San Francisco was building, the newly-rich perpetrated has always hung over life in San Francisco since the padres came and the fishermen of San Francisco Bay are all Neapolitans who have brought San Francisco was famous for its restaurants and cafes. with the best, and the others were in San, Francisco. almost any season of the year--and of long tours in the great mountains Chinese among the working people of San Francisco, and no white man,


id: 1056
title: Martin Eden
author: London, Jack
txt: ./txt/1056.txt
cache: ./cache/1056.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  looked him straight in the eyes as she shook hands, frankly, like a man. Martin Eden, with blood still crawling from contact with his brother-inlaw, felt his way along the unlighted back hall and entered his room, a Martin Eden''s head was in a state of addlement when he went away after other time I was here I said I couldn''t talk about books an'' things short time, you know,--but I always liked books, read everything I could "Yes, sir," Martin said humbly, wishing somehow that the man at the desk disciplined minds." Ruth looked expectantly at Martin, as if waiting for "Like trimming cargo in the tropics," Martin said, when they went his work and upon how to save time, pointing out to Martin where he did Ruth came up to them a second time, just as Martin began to speak. How hard, even she did not know, was the thought in Martin''s mind.


id: 2504
title: Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam
author: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
txt: ./txt/2504.txt
cache: ./cache/2504.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  SOME CITIES AND SAN FRANCISCO AND RESURGAM city of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18th. city and seaport at San Francisco bay; the importance to the army and will give you the finest site in the world for a city, with state-house peninsula of San Francisco covered by a real city equal in beauty and building material for a time, and thus protect the city-builders from San Francisco was destroyed by fire, and each time new houses were going Compare San Francisco casualties with those of other cities. women continue to live and build houses in those cities without thought city on the shores of San Francisco bay. twentieth-century young men cannot do better in artistic city building San Francisco is already a large manufacturing city; it will be many city of San Francisco will be what people make of it, neither more nor


id: 4687
title: Saturday''s Child
author: Norris, Kathleen Thompson
txt: ./txt/4687.txt
cache: ./cache/4687.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Not calling Susan a cow, or anything like that," said Miss Thornton Susan and Mary Lou went into the dining-room, and the closing door shut Susan was glad to get out of the kitchen, and in a moment Mrs. Lancaster and Mary Lou came into the dining-room, too, and Alice rang "I saw my pearl to-day," said William Oliver to Susan, under cover of "Miss Saunders," said Susan quickly, "will you tell Mrs. Fox that my "Good-morning!" said Susan, bravely, when Miss Thornton came into the "She wanted a good time and pretty things," said Susan to "That''s Miss Emily Saunders," said Susan, in a low voice. "We want some butter here," said Billy, as Susan took a roll, broke it "Did you know I was asked to the Juniors this year?" she said to Susan "You know why," Susan said, meeting his eyes with a little difficulty.


id: 4640
title: San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906
author: Stetson, James B. (James Burgess)
txt: ./txt/4640.txt
cache: ./cache/4640.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  I then went over to the power-house of the California-Street Railroad California Street and Van Ness Avenue. When I arrived at Sacramento Street and Van Ness Avenue I saw a woman California-Street power-house and had a talk with Superintendent Harris. At 3 o''clock the soldiers drove the people north on Van Ness and west up east side of Van Ness Avenue between Washington and Bush streets, and by From 4 to 4:30 St. Luke''s and the Presbyterian Church and all the houses on Van Ness Avenue of Van Ness and California Street, and the Knickerbocker Hotel felt that I could consider that my house had passed the critical time, Street, and the flames coming toward Van Ness Avenue, with the In the morning I went over to the California-Street engine-house, and One of our men who roomed near the engine-house on California Street, all the chimneys of the houses were littering the streets through which


id: 2193
title: A Ward of the Golden Gate
author: Harte, Bret
txt: ./txt/2193.txt
cache: ./cache/2193.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  told her, she said, All right, she wanted to see Colonel Pendleton too." "Can YOU think of something, Paul?" said the Mayor, appealing to "Paul," said the Mayor, reentering the office and turning to his "My dear colonel," said Paul, somewhat less positively, but still "I think, my dear sir," said Paul plaintively, "that I and my friends Paul smiled as she rustled away, and Yerba, entering the summer-house, "But you DO like it," said Paul, touched with this first hearing of her "Your brother seems to admire Miss Yerba," said Paul. "Colonel Pendleton belongs to no party," said Paul, curtly; "but if his "Very likely," said Paul, turning away with a faint smile. "Fact, sir--George there knows it all," said Pendleton. "There may have been nobody in the house at the time," said Paul "Well," said Paul, looking at him critically, "I don''t know about that. "God only knows," said Paul.


id: 6076
title: The Legends of San Francisco
author: Caldwell, George W. (George Walter)
txt: ./txt/6076.txt
cache: ./cache/6076.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  The legends of the hills, the fog, the gulls, the waters Ancient tribe of Indian people, Mighty Father, save my people, Save my people; Save the Tamals.'' When the Gods lived near the people, So the people called to Spirits. O''er the water came the foemen, Came and bowed their heads and waited. From the ocean came the west-wind, Change the foemen to Sea-creatures, Know you, then, that these blue waters Lived a tribe of fisher people, Fishing in the harbor waters Came the Sea King''s boat upon them, Long she prayed to the Great Spirit From the harbor came the night winds Change us, Father, into sea birds. Sea bird, sleeping on the water; Climbed the people of the Tamals, Then the people prayed the Spirit-One people around the great harbor. The water birds came at her calling, And that water-birds come at their calling,


id: 6884
title: Sleeping Fires: a Novel
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
txt: ./txt/6884.txt
cache: ./cache/6884.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Madeleine Talbot at this time was very happy, or, at least, too busy to Langdon Masters arrived in San Francisco during Madeleine''s third Such was Langdon Masters when he came to San Francisco and Madeleine To him, a far better judge of men than of women, Langdon Masters was seen a good many women in love in her time. end!" And for the first time in her life she felt like fainting. Madeleine sat at the end of the long double room behind a table and Masters turned after a time and his face looked as old as Talbot''s. imitation of the old Madeleine Talbot, and even mentioned Masters'' name he was leaving San Francisco for good and all, he looked like a man who man like Masters can quit cold no matter how far he has gone if the that Madeleine was in love with Langdon Masters.


id: 11875
title: The Blood Red Dawn
author: Dobie, Charles Caldwell
txt: ./txt/11875.txt
cache: ./cache/11875.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  platform Claire Robson, leaning forward, said to her mother: Mrs. Robson rose and faced Claire with a look of bewilderment. "My name is Stillman, and of course you know Mrs. Condor--the lady who The group clustered about Miss Munch broke up at the approach of Mr. Flint, who gave a significant glance in the direction of Claire Robson, As Claire had scarcely said a half-dozen words to Mrs. Condor on the Claire did not tell her mother about the invitation to Mrs. Condor''s "She''s come home in Stillman''s car," flashed through Mrs. Robson''s mind, For Claire Robson, there followed after the memorable Condor-Stillman "Only four--Mr. Stillman, Claire, Mrs. Condor, and a young fellow named Claire was disappointed that Mrs. Flint was not to be at home. Later in the day Mrs. Robson''s two sisters arrived in answer to Claire''s "They''re mine," Mrs. Robson had repeated to Claire again and again.


id: 12518
author: Knower, Daniel
txt: ./txt/12518.txt
cache: ./cache/12518.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  territory three times as large as New York and Oregon and the State of conceived at the time, I found the day before I arrived in New York, the There was great California excitement about this time, and other parties could not buy a ticket in New York for the steamer from Panama to San and day, and an extra present to the men if they made good time, for time to go on according to our contract, to be rowed night and day. I said to him, "This vessel is bound for San Francisco, and you He came back in a short time and said he had bought them, and that had not heard of the gold discovery, on his first day in San Francisco, He said a man could make $10 a day, and who was a going One man said he had $10,000 in gold with him; if his

title:
  The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days


id: 11507
title: The Lure of San Francisco: A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
author: Potter, Elizabeth Gray
txt: ./txt/11507.txt
cache: ./cache/11507.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  restore it, and as long as San Francisco shall last, a cross will rise "If we want to see the old building before lunch time, we shall have to He looked up at the two-story dwelling house before us, let his eyes building next door and crept close to the walls of this old adobe, when Luis Argüello, comandante of the San Francisco Presidio for twenty-three duplicate of the old bell hung in front of the Mission San Francisco de night five years ago, when Tetrazzini sang to San Francisco?" I asked. "That park is a relic of old Spanish days and one of the most historic "Portsmouth Square was once the Plaza of the little Spanish town of asked: "Would you like to see the location of the old Spanish fort?" He "This, you said, was the old Spanish Plaza. old adobe Custom House, the first building erected on the Plaza, and it


id: 11510
title: Fascinating San Francisco
author: Brandt, Fred
txt: ./txt/11510.txt
cache: ./cache/11510.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  cities that approach the natural beauty of situation of San Francisco. The Bay spreads out below San Francisco like an animated poster keyed in A city conscious of its obligation to the sea, San Francisco has always pueblo of Yerba Buena which has grown into the city of San Francisco. San Francisco is the greatest hotel city in the world in proportion to Constant shopping by San Francisco women gives stimulus to the city''s The dash of San Francisco women on the street, as well as in the hotels inevitable world city is San Francisco. Golden Gate Park is the aureole of San Francisco''s recreational haunts. Golden Gate, affords a distant but luring view of San Francisco. the residence parks of San Francisco. Industrial Activity: San Francisco leads the cities of the Pacific Coast Golden Gate Park cars on Market and Geary streets, or by taxi, auto or Californian''s Inc. 140 Montgomery Street San Francisco


id: 12560
title: Port O'' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
author: Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)
txt: ./txt/12560.txt
cache: ./cache/12560.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "We must arm and drive these robbers from our California," said Benito "By jove, he sits his horse like a king," said Bartlett''s companion, "I wish that Inez might have seen it," Mrs. Windham said a little Robert and Benito Windham, on the hill above Clark''s Point, looked down "Ah," Benito said, "we''ve talked that over, Adrian and I. center of a little group composed of Benito and Inez Windham, Adrian nothing," said Benito, adding, "save the talk of gold "Said he''d let you know about Benito. "Don''t know," said Benito, half bewildered. Thus Alice came to know what boded for the town of San Francisco. As Adrian, Benito and Samuel Brannan passed the new city hall on the "It looks very much as though we _were_ doing something," said Benito, "Yes, Robert," said Benito. "My son," Benito answered; "Robert likes work. "Yes, she came to me," said Robert Windham.


id: 12911
title: A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
author: Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
txt: ./txt/12911.txt
cache: ./cache/12911.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  think I remember a man who was sixteen years old when the Declaration as is known, not a white man lived in all California west of the Coast The third day they reached a large river flowing from the south, February 17th, one hundred and four days from Rich Bar. The four who started to follow the beach had experiences no less trying. pushed on to San Francisco and organized a party of thirty men to return It was good to find that men read and thought, even when they lived in depicting the picturesque life of the early days which made California For seven years New York City was generally his winter home. world''s noted streets, but at this time the city''s life pulsed through My second year in San Francisco I lived in Howard Street near First and Fifty years of municipal life have seen great advance and promise a rich


id: 8535
title: The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
txt: ./txt/8535.txt
cache: ./cache/8535.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  members of that distinguished old band, whose glory, like Mrs. Groome''s You look like an exceptionally decent young man. Mr. Dwight comes of the best old American stock from New York. Said Alexina: "Sibyl, what are you going to do with your young life? That night Alexina knew that romance had surely come to her. Alexina still occupied her old room in the front of the house where the only a little after two." As Gora turned to leave the room Alexina put The poor old parlors and dining-room do look like they elect to live a life of serene spinsterhood like Alexina''s Aunt "Now, this is life!" said Alexina to Aileen. Alexina felt like a very young girl. Gora did not see her sister-in-law for a moment and Alexina had time to she and Alexina as they said good-night looked full into each other''s


id: 12883
author: Carey, Joseph
txt: ./txt/12883.txt
cache: ./cache/12883.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast; with Scenes The meeting of the General Convention of the Church in San Francisco, Our sojourn in Salt Lake City gave ample time to visit the Great Salt the great Bay of San Francisco, make a deep impression on the mind. devout men and true women in early San Francisco, who, in the midst of great city the names of men who either benefited California or take To-day you can live as cheaply in San Francisco or any other city of the Chinese people, whether in Chinatown in San Francisco, or in China Joss-House made all these years on the life of San Francisco outside were only 3,000 Chinese in the City of San Francisco; but even then of the Church in California--The General Convention in San Francisco--A diocese, with San Francisco as its chief city, Right Rev. William

title:
  By the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast With Scenes and Incidents Characteristic of its Life


id: 13321
title: In the Footprints of the Padres
author: Stoddard, Charles Warren
txt: ./txt/13321.txt
cache: ./cache/13321.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Thrice happy days so long ago in California! than two thousand miles across the sea, she loomed like a Noah''s Ark shores, but lay half submerged in mid-stream, like huge water-logged after having been toeing the mark on a ship''s deck for a dozen days or Our life for three days had been like a veritable "Jungle Book." Gate to the sea-wall of San Francisco. Not a day, not an hour, but watchful eyes sought that signal in the hope What an inland sea it is--the Bay of San. Francisco, seventy miles in We had been but a few days in San Francisco when a new-found friend, the eggs of the sea-gull, the gull that cries all day among the shipping old mission days, wrote thus of his first sight of Monterey: "The sun the Misty City and the sea-fog that had walled it in through the night


id: 37314
title: The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of ''Frisco
author: Doughty, Francis Worcester
txt: ./txt/37314.txt
cache: ./cache/37314.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  warehouses," declared Old King Brady, and he gave Harry orders Old King Brady, Alice and the other two Secret Service men ascended to "I see no other way," replied Old King Brady, and once again he started "Come, boys," said Old King Brady, "we''ll sneak along the bulkhead and The day after Alice''s disappearance Old King Brady was notified by Mr. Narraway that the regular force would finish up the matter, inasmuch as The Secret Service man gave his promise and Old King Brady hurried away. Old King Brady with his back to the door talked aloud to Leggett on a "Harry, my dear boy, where are you?" cried Old King Brady, for like "Yes, yes, I know," said Old King Brady. "It does," replied Old King Brady, "and it don''t give us the Chinese "Go on in, Harry and Alice," said the old detective. Harry covered the Doctor, Old King Brady managed to make the princess


id: 32287
title: Know Thy Neighbor
author: Lewis, Elisabeth R.
txt: ./txt/32287.txt
cache: ./cache/32287.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  It began with the dead cat on the fire escape and ended with the green elevator when Ellen came out to get her paper. Mrs. Moffatt must have heard Ellen''s footsteps in the hall. She opened the door of her apartment and peered out. The old woman closed her door, shutting off the musty smell, and Ellen Isn''t there something about landing on your feet like a cat? Ellen opened the window and asked, "How do you think it got there, Ellen could see the door standing slightly open. I''ll go back to the apartment and call Dr. Clive, thought Ellen. Ellen looked out at the street through the glass front. her in the lobby; he held the front door open for her. He opened the elevator doors, The man held the door open and for a moment she Ellen backed away from the door.


id: 50651
title: The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties
author: Drake, Samuel Adams
txt: ./txt/50651.txt
cache: ./cache/50651.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  a boy who would run away from such a good home as Walter had, would Walter went home that night thanking his lucky stars that he had come One day Ramon, with more than ordinary cordiality, asked Walter to "All right; I understand," said Walter, walking briskly away on his look on Walter''s face, said, as he had said a hundred times before to about town, before going home," Walter replied, a word at a time. The old man waited a moment for Walter to speak, and finding that Walter, however, drew a long breath of relief as the ship moved away the jib on her; come, bear a hand!" Walter went forward with the men. Bill''s eyes were almost closed, and poor Walter''s face looked as if he Neither Walter nor Charley could have said one word for the life of "Why, no," said Charley, looking at Walter, to see how he would take


id: 51571
title: Subject to Change
author: Goulart, Ron
txt: ./txt/51571.txt
cache: ./cache/51571.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  On one corner Pendleton stopped and took a deep breath, Pendleton crossed the street and turned down the alley the old man had Pendleton liked the pre-quake apartment house Beth lived in. "It''s because I''m so intense," Beth said, near her bedroom door. Pendleton let himself into Beth''s darkening apartment. Pendleton opened the bedroom door and turned on the lights. beyond Beth''s low, blue-covered bed was open and the wind was flapping Edging around the bed, Pendleton closed the window and picked up the Something started tapping on the window behind Pendleton''s chair. Pendleton spun and saw the cat scoot through the open bedroom door. and anyway Beth would want to get in when she got home. Pendleton took Beth''s shoulders. Beth shrugged her shoulders until Pendleton let go. Pendleton slammed Beth''s door and went out into the clear night. Pendleton called Beth''s name over and over, but she wouldn''t come back.


id: 43103
title: "The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
author: Hichborn, Franklin
txt: ./txt/43103.txt
cache: ./cache/43103.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  [22] At Ruef''s trial on the charge of offering a bribe to Supervisor [22] At Ruef''s trial on the charge of offering a bribe to Supervisor then, through Ruef, receiving bribe money from public-service [51] Supervisor Gallagher testified at graft trials that Ruef had [70] Ruef advised strongly against Schmitz leaving San Francisco. Gallagher removed Langdon and named Ruef as District Attorney Heney objected to Ruef appearing, if by officer of the court he meant court before an untutored Grand Jury for an indictment." Ruef charged The Grand Jury, on the evidence, indicted Schmitz and Ruef on five The San Francisco Examiner said of the indictment of Schmitz of Ruef and Schmitz, who represented a San Francisco district in The day following, Ruef''s attorneys appealed to the State Appellate elected Schmitz-Ruef Board of Supervisors at the time of the exposures graft trials that after Gallagher had gone Ruef stated that


id: 41808
title: The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early Times
author: Anonymous
txt: ./txt/41808.txt
cache: ./cache/41808.txt
extension: .txt
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  LONG years ago, ere Spaniards lived on California soil, Down came the Fish''s lower jaw upon her light canoe, Down came the Fish''s lower jaw upon her light canoe, She was a lovely Fairy, and she lived right down below. And soon her fine Fish Monster drew down his under jaw There, right upon a golden throne, sat San Francisco Fairy. Says the Fairy to Li-Lamboni, "This wampum''s all your own; When stepping down the ladder you can take the wampum chair. No Indian maiden e''er so rich as Li-Lamboni that day, She found her old Fish Monster with everything all right, Her Chieftain soon did see it, and said ''twas very good. But Li-Lamboni oft wonder''d if her Fairy friend was gone. One day while at her Wigwam door, the baby in her arms, Then she saw her old Fish Monster swimming gracefully along, Li-Lamboni felt sad to bid her friend good-bye.


id: 42210
title: Bancroft''s Tourist''s Guide. Yosemite. San Francisco and around the Bay, (South.)
author: nan
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  miles directly south of the lower hotel in Yosemite valley, and about front, half a mile east of the old City Hall, and slightly ascending the Mission Bay, ending in South street, less than a block and a half of Market street the blocks are about one seventh of a mile long from stands on the south side of Market street, occupying the whole block The city has four: The San Francisco and Pacific, Bay, California, and one-half miles west of the City Hall, at the head of Bush street. high, and stand four miles southwest of the City Hall. Heights, near Alta Plaza, a mile and a half west of the City Hall, are City Almshouse stands on the hill, half a mile south of the lake. north of San Francisco, and two and one half miles east of the Golden Next to San Francisco, it is the largest city in the State, having a


id: 42582
title: A Little Girl in Old San Francisco
author: Douglas, Amanda M.
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  "Oh, but I remember things," said the little girl with a confident "This is my little girl, Laverne," said her mother. David Westbury, and when her little girl was a month old he came back down the street was a group of little girls, but Laverne''s light hair "I wonder if you would like a pony?" he asked of the little girl, as "It was very nice," declared Laverne, "only I think I like the little All these things were far away from the little girl''s life. "Will you like to go?" Laverne asked of Miss Holmes as they were "Of the little girl Miss Alwood is to have, and whether I shall like "Uncle Jason is coming home early with the horses, you know," she said Miss Holmes thanked him cordially, and the little girl said the same The little girl was quiet so long that Miss Holmes said presently:


id: 45306
author: Goodkind, Ben
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  they live, act, and what they do, and Billy wanted to know how Mormons much in old England, Billy told me, and have to serve long years at morning a long train full of empty cars came our way and we made it "Let''s hike out of this place, Billy," said I; "the best cure for the out a likely looking restaurant along the water front where a good meal The angry man now got the thought through his noddle that Billy wasn''t We got out of the place all right, the old man and I telling Billy said it was like getting money from home. "You''re way off, Windy," replied Billy, "the old country is different "You say I can''t beat my way in the old country, Billy; why not?" asked After a good long time I got down in the steerage and saw the steerage

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  An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country


id: 46653
title: The Slave of the Mine; or, Jack Harkaway in ''Frisco
author: Hemyng, Bracebridge
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  the jack, I tell you," replied Dan Markham. Lena''s brother Alfred wished her to marry Jack, but her mother, Mrs. Vanhoosen, wished her to espouse the rich nobleman. Lord Maltravers gave him the gold, and at the same time Jack took a "Ask Lord Maltravers," said Jack. "No man shall call me that," cried Jack. "Of course," continued Jack, "Maltravers will send the papers to Lena, "Look at this," said Jack, handing the letter to Harvey. "Put up your iron, you old fool," he said; "we only want Jack Harkaway "That''s all right," replied Jack; "I knew that was coming." "Certainly," replied Jack; "but let me ask you a few questions." "They say I took a man''s watch, and I got five years," replied Jack. "Come to report, sir," replied Jack. "Start right away," said Jack, "and you shall have a hundred dollars if


id: 51241
title: Bridge Crossing
author: Dryfoos, Dave
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  "Come here, fellow," Roddie said. "I''m Roddie," he said, squatting to Scrabbling fearfully in the dust for his hammer, Roddie paused "I wouldn''t know," Roddie said, closing his fingers on the hammer, and "Scouting around," Roddie said vaguely. "Well, I guess the boats have gone," Ida said. Uneasy, Roddie hefted the hammer in his hand. "I''ll go first," said Roddie. soldiers will never leave the city; their purpose is to guard it and "It''s all right," Roddie said, his voice breaking. But because his friends knew neither pain nor fatigue, Roddie would had ever come even this far, for soldiers, as he''d told Ida, never left Roddie awoke as Ida finished struggling free of his unconscious grip. Fascinated, Roddie stared for minutes, but turned when Ida showed no Roddie noticed that her eyes were dark and frightened, yet Ida began to weep again, and Roddie found it necessary to comfort her.


