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"With production catching up to sales for the first time in four months, Henry Doelger announces the opening of a new model home at Thirtieth Avenue and Kirkham Street. Furnished by the Emporium ......... it is the special feature of a tract of new homes now under construction on Thirtieth Avenue. Two are complete. Eleven more will be finished at the rate of two a week, Doelger said." — Jan. 11
"Fire, accompanied by gas explosions, routed two score families from a three-story, frame apartment building at 1715 McAllister street last night and produced a heroine in Ruth O'Brien, 16-year-old radio singer. ......... (O'Brien) discovered the fire shortly after it broke out in the basement furnace room. She immediately telephoned an alarm and then raced through the hallways, warning occupants of the 40 apartments." — Feb. 10
Judson Hobart, 17, amateur boxer, died in Sacramento from a skull fracture received in a final bout of the Pacific Coast intercollegiate championships which was witnessed by his parents. — March 22
"A motorman and one passenger were injured and a dozen passengers severely shaken last night when two No. 14 cars of the Market Street Railway Company crashed head-on on Mission at Sixth street." — April 21
"Hundreds of members of families who lived 'south of the slot' in the days before the 1906 earthquake and fire will be on hand to reminisce about 'the city that was' at the annual picnic of the South of Market Girls at Ocean Beach Park." — May 16
Advice for women visiting San Francisco in summer from "smaller cities and valley towns: This is perhaps the only town in the country where white shoes look out of place" and "It is folly ever to expect to be comfortable here with a silk dress for more than an hour or two at noon without a coat." — July 10
"Registration at the University of California approaches an all-time high — 13,024 — as figures for the first three days of Fall semester registration top those of last year by almost a thousand." — Aug. 25
New evidence linking the paid assassination of George W. Alberts, chief engineer of the freighter, Point Lobos, to Communists and "beef squad" killers, was revealed yesterday when District Attorney Earl Warren "declared that Edward C. Widmer, marine fireman whose discharge from the ship by Alberts was the immediate excuse for the slaying, was fired because of apparent Communist activities aboard the vessel." — Sept. 6
Gas-filled balloons carrying a political ad lost altitude over Kezar Stadium at halftime and were ignited by a fan's cigarette, burning 17 people. — Oct. 19
William Randolph Hearst editorializes on the abdication of Britain's King Edward VIII: "So England loses her exceptionally able, up-to-date, and well-trained King, whom she needs far, far more than she realizes. England has done herself ......... (and) the rest of the world a disservice ......... (proving) that the old regime is really irreconcilable with modern thought, and human instincts and ambitions. She has made the world await impatiently the day when this ridiculous top-heavy structure of out-moded privilege and hidebound tradition will collapse and crumble into the dust of ages, where it belongs." — Dec. 13