Every which wayįor many years, people driving wagons or cars on Euclid Avenue in Ontario and Upland had to be pretty sharp when it came to knowing what way was up. and would become superintendent of American Fruit Growers, which at one time operated 35 packing houses in California and Arizona. Poor later went to work for Redlands’ Randolph Fruit Co. The Call reported that “the world’s championship made the very air hum with excitement” for several thousand spectators, all of whom were obviously in real need of entertainment. The 22-year-old Poor beat nine other competitors by putting together and nailing 93 apple boxes in 60 minutes. Such contests would become a regular event in agriculture fairs early in the 20th century. In October 1910, he was the star of the Watsonville Apple Show near Santa Cruz, easily winning the “first world’s championship box making contests ever held,” reported the San Francisco Call on Oct. Poor wasn’t really involved in any fisticuffs – his skill with his hands was in making boxes. You won’t find Homer Poor’s name on the list of heavyweight champions of the past despite the fact the Redlands resident was a world champion boxer in 19. “A fuse blew out, and about everything else happened that would spoil the show.” The projector was missing a reel so some of the film played out onto the floor, and then a light went out. “In the first place, the (projectionist) was drunk in the second place, the films of the kinetoscope were so impaired by long use that great sections had to be cut out, making very funny effects,” wrote the Progress. “The twenty-one folks who saw the exhibition on the first evening, Friday, queered the proposal by their sarcastic testimonials,” wrote the Progress on March 17.Įven at a time with very few phones and certainly no social media, the word about the lousy Friday show spread like wildfire. No tickets were sold for the Saturday show because of what happened Friday night. The show often was accompanied by a piano.Īn advertisement in the Pomona Daily Progress for “Edison’s Moving Picture Entertainment” said the cost was 15, 25 or 35 cents to watch the Friday or Saturday show at Pomona’s Armory Opera House. They would attend for their first look at moving pictures of famous people, news events or landscapes. In those days, it was definitely the medium, not any storyline that brought people in. Hopefully you kept the list the newspaper published defining all 12 different combinations of the five flags in this meteorological semaphore. If the triangle flag was below white/blue flag, then it was going to rain but be cooler. If the black triangle flag was below the white flag, it meant fair but cooler.Ī flag that was half white and half blue foresaw warm but also rainy weather when the black triangle flag flew above it. When that white flag flew below a second flag with a black triangle, it indicated fair, warmer weather. Here’s some of the combinations: A white flag alone meant fair weather, which was easy enough. The paper said it planned to use telegraphed weather information from the Signal Service Department in San Francisco and offer a rather complicated combination of five flags for anyone within sight of the flagpole. In January 1896, the evening newspaper announced it would run up colored flags on its flagpole so residents could know the day’s weather each morning at 11. Getting the up-to-date weather details wasn’t all that easy 127 years ago, but the San Bernardino Daily Times-Index offered a rather lofty idea.
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