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News comes from China of famine, wars, and disorder, thus illuminating one spur to their emigration.
about 24 hours ago
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Lots at Rincon Point greatly increase in value after Pacific Mail Steamship completes terminal and warehouse. Up, and Up, and Up.
2:47 PM Mar 4th
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Reading the tragic and curious tale of Louis XVII, his mysterious death, and the spurious claimants of the Bourbon restoration.
10:43 AM Mar 4th
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More money's to be made in processing raw stuffs (rice, tobacco), than in the value of the commodity itself.
1:51 PM Mar 3rd
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Inspected lots at Jackson & Sansome. Fine ground for cigar factory and a rice mill.
1:50 PM Mar 3rd
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The Chinese, it seems, can happily subsist on naught but rice, ginger, and greens, totally ignoring the nutriment of milk. [Note: BUY RICE.]
4:43 PM Mar 2nd
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The Chinese are industrious, thrifty, and more numerous every day. All the more reason they are despised by lazy, indigent whites.
4:37 PM Mar 2nd
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Cigars and Chess at the Masonic Lodge. Much talk of the character of Chinamen.
12:13 PM Mar 2nd
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In happier news, the $5000 reward for arsonists and nightly patrols make it far likelier my buildings won't burn down this time.
2:31 PM Mar 1st
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Over 3 months 4 hanged; 1 whipped; 14 deported to Australia; 14 banished; 14 handed over to public law; 41 discharged. Such is frontier law.
2:26 PM Mar 1st
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No burglar, incendiarist or assassin shall escape punishment by legal quibbles, insecure prisons, careless/corrupt police, or lax justice.
9:20 AM Mar 1st
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I stand with the Vigilance Committee. It is time that men of property come out against vagrancy and lawlessness.
9:09 AM Mar 1st
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Since the great fire of this year, the fervor for stone and brick building has grown such that granite now regularly arrives from China.
12:48 PM Feb 28th
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"Become such as you are, having learned what that is;" a quote for edification from Pindar. But the Greek sage fails to elucidate *how.*
10:50 AM Feb 28th
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If found, please return to 110 Battery, near the British Consul, or Occidental Lodge #22 of the Freemasons.
4:55 PM Feb 21st
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This is the commonplace book of Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, now of San Francisco these last three years.
2:28 PM Feb 21st
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- Name Emperor Norton
- Web http://reorb.it/e...
- Bio The first and greatest of San Francisco eccentrics who in 1859 proclaimed himself Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico.
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