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"Next thing they will be taking the seals off Seal Rocks!" frets a small front-page item, announcing that the Cliff House is to begin selling such plebeian fare as coffee, doughnuts and hot dogs. — Jan. 6
With nine minutes to go in a men's basketball game between eternal rivals Cal and Stanford, the Bears lead 14 to 6. But the Cardinal, which hadn't made a single field goal in the first half, storm back to victory, 16 to 15. — Feb. 22
The cornerstone for a new temple for the Emanu-El congregation is laid on at Arguello Boulevard and Lake Street, with 1,500 in attendance. Twelve old-timers in the crowd witnessed a similar ceremony for the congregation's original Sutter Street temple in 1864, which was destroyed in 1906 and subsequently rebuilt. — Feb. 23
A monkey named Jerry, pet of a police sergeant attending Calvin Coolidge's inauguration in Washington D.C., escapes and defies the entire police Morals Squad, sent out to recapture him. During his rampage, Jerry breaks into and trashes a house, causing a couple to faint; ruins radio reception during the inauguration broadcast at 14 houses by swinging on antennae; swallows the canary of Mrs. Jacob Bocel, of East Twenty-Second Street; and bites two pursuers. He is captured when his handler, Joe Wells, bites him back. — March 5
Members of the Park Commission admit they ordered drawings of nude women to be removed from the Palace of the Legion of Honor. "Members of the jury appointed by the San Francisco Art Association are indignant over the fact that their judgment as to what constitutes art has been questioned by mere laymen." — May 1
After three more convicts die in ongoing race riots, the Mexican government demands those responsible for killing Mexican nationals at San Quentin "be ferreted out and punished." — May 2
"Following a debate marked by bitter charges that the city is being rushed into a situation that endangers its $55,000,000 investment, the Board of Supervisors last night ......... directed the Board of Public Works to sign the Hetch Hetchy power disposal contract with the Pacific Gas and Electrical Company." — June 30
At the Marin County Fair, young Viola Clark, Anita Bacaglio and Lucia LaFranchi ride a huge champion Ayreshire bull they have tamed. The bull, "Mac, Statesman of Elkhorn," was a fierce creature following after his father (who actually killed a man in Novato) until he met the three young girls who now ride him as if he was a gentle pony. All three girls are candidates for queen of the fair. — Sept. 16
The Examiner comic pages are filled with strips about sassy young unmarried women in the workplace who dance the nights away doing the Charleston with dashing "sheiks" — and then break engagements willy-nilly. Wage earners Gussie (waitress), Switchboard Sally (telephone operator) and Tillie the Toiler (secretary) are all portrayed as concerned with just about everything except actual work — i.e., boys and clothes. — Dec. 26