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In the second such raid, the files of the anarchist paper "The Blast" are seized by police after a "hand-to-hand struggle" with associate editor Eleanor Fitzgerald. Correspondence seized from the paper's Dolores Street offices is expected to play an important part in the forthcoming trial of Thomas Mooney, charged with complicity in the Preparedness Parade murders. Later, seized love letters between Fitzgerald and a fellow Blast editor are leaked to the press. — Jan. 1
The new Domestic Relations Bureau, established by the city's district attorney's office, announces that alcohol has broken up 45 families in the previous three months. Gambling destroyed two families; infidelity, seven; delinquent wives, three; and unemployment, 13. One insane woman broke up a family, but all other causes were dwarfed by the broad "incapability, laziness, lack of responsibility or thrift" category, which broke 163 homes. — Jan. 10
Thomas Mooney is sentenced by Judge Franklin Griffin to death by hanging for the Preparedness Parade bombing. — Feb 25
Chin Lau of Grant Avenue, who has a habit of carrying two rolls of $20 gold coins in his pocket, pulls a fast one on would-be thief G. Lopez when he prepares two lead-filled wooden spools and begins carrying them instead. "You bet I'm too cute for him," Lau told Judge Oppenheim during Lopez's arraignment for stealing the worthless spools from under Lau's pillow, adding that he didn't care if the man was charged or not since he was so dumb. — March 4
"Whipping itself into shape for immediate war duty," the 62-member San Francisco calvary troop hopes to be the first volunteer force called into service in the event of what now seems an inevitable war against Germany. — April 1
The city's Coast League ball club, cruising in first place, is feeling patriotic: Seventeen Seals and their manager pool their money and buy $2,500 worth of Liberty Bonds to support war preparations. — June 1
In a charity fund-raiser, the staff of the Fairmont Hotel will have the day off and be replaced by female volunteers. Bellhops will be replaced by "young society maids, arrayed in Red Cross nurse uniforms. The taxicab man will not be a man at all, but a woman. The chap who mixes your before-dinner cocktail will be thrust aside into temporary darkness, while a dainty- fingered miss takes his place behind the broad mahogany." — June 13
Many prominent San Franciscans, including multimillionaire Leopold Michels, are among the 147 persons indicted by a federal Grand Jury in the case of "Germany's gigantic conspiracy against American neutrality." The complex "neutrality plot" involves an alleged attempt to foment revolution in India against British rule and a conspiracy to ship supplies from the city to German ships in the Pacific. — July 8
Crippling the city's transit system, 1,300 United Railroads employees are on strike. — Aug. 12
The president of the police commission says United Railroads can not mount gunmen on its trolleys, since to do so would be "a plain invitation to violence." — Aug. 27
As Marines are sent to guard the Union Iron Works and 32 men are arrested in street demonstrations, the "biggest strike that has taken place on the Pacific Coast in years (begins) with the walking out of twenty odd thousand iron-workers in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda." — Sept. 18
The California Fruit Growers' convention in Sacramento passes a resolution asking that Chinese farm laborers be imported to fill the void left by men leaving the fields as soldiers for the war in Europe.
— Nov. 24
When she lands her biplane at The Presidio in front of a cheering crowd, aviator Katherine Stinson, "a mite of a brown-eyed girl, weighing less than ninety pounds," establishes a new American endurance record by flying from San Diego. When greeted by an admiral, Stinson is modest: "Any American girl can do what I have done," she tells him, but admits she'd like to "fly for Uncle Sam as an aviator over in France." — Dec. 12