Mark Twain in San Francisco
The following news articles by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
were printed in the San Francisco Daily Morning Call between June and October
1864.
These excerpts are used by gracious permission of Barbara Schmidt of
www.twainquotes.com.
Take a look at her site for more material from Mark Twain from all over
the world.
June 7, 1864 - Burglar Arrested
June 11, 1864 - Another Chapter
In The Marks Family History
June 15, 1864 - Petty Police Court
Transactions
June 23, 1864 - Another Of Them
[earthquake]
June 25, 1864 - A Trip To The Cliff House
June 25, 1864 - Charge Against A
Police Officer
June 28, 1864 - Charges Against
An Officer
June 28, 1864 - Missionaries
Wanted For San Francisco
June 29, 1864 - The Kahn Of Tartary
July 1, 1864 - House At Large
July 1, 1864 - Schoolchildren's
Rehearsal
July 1, 1864 - The Old Thing
July 1, 1864 - Police Commissioners
July 4, 1864 - Original Novelette
July 6, 1864 - Fourth Of July
July 8, 1864 - Swill Music
July 8, 1864 - Arrested For Bigamy
July 8, 1864 - The Bigamist
July 9, 1864 - Opium Smugglers
July 9, 1864 - Young Offender
July 9, 1864 - United States Circuit
Court
July 9, 1864 - Burglary - The Burglar
Caught In The Act
July 10, 1864 - The Bigamist
July 12, 1864 - Chinese Slaves
July 12, 1864 - The Bigamy Case
July 12, 1864 - United States Circuit
Court
July 12, 1864 - Policy Court Testimony
July 14, 1864 - Runaway
July 14, 1864 - Calaboose
Theatricals
July 14, 1864 - Inspection Of The
Fortifications
July 16, 1864 - A Gross Outrage
July 16, 1864 - Moses In The Bulrushes
Again
July 16, 1864 - The "Coming Man" Has
Arrived
July 16, 1864 - The Camanche
July 17, 1864 - The County Prison
July 17, 1864 - Independent
Candidate For Stockton
July 17, 1864 - Juvenile Criminals
July 19, 1864 - Assault
July 19, 1864 - Real Del Monte
July 20, 1864 - A Stage Robber Amongst
Us
July 21, 1864 - Amazonian Pastimes
July 21, 1864 - Detective Rose Again
July 22, 1864 - The Boss Earthquake
July 22, 1864 - Good Effects of a
High Tariff
July 22, 1864 - A Scene At The Police Court
- The Hostility Of Color
July 22, 1864 - Rough On Keating
July 22, 1864 - Arrest Of A Secesh Bishop
July 23, 1864 - Demoralizing
Young Girls
July 23, 1864 - False Pretences
July 23, 1864 - Rape
July 24, 1864 - A Merited Penalty
July 26, 1864 - Concerning Hackmen
July 30, 1864 - Trot Her Along
July 30, 1864 - Mrs. O'Farrell
July 30, 1864 - End Of The Rape Case
July 30, 1864 - More Sanitary Molasses
July 31, 1864 - Disgusted And Gone
July 31, 1864 - Another Lazarus
July 31, 1864 - Burglary
July 31, 1864 - Custom House Resignations
July 31, 1864 - The Camanche
August 2, 1864 - Sombre Festivities
August 2, 1864 - Enlisted For The
War
August 2, 1864 - Refused Green-Backs
August 3, 1864 - Attempted Suicide
August 3, 1864 - A Movement In Buckeye
August 3, 1864 - More Stage Robbers
And Their Confederates Captured
August 3, 1864 - Democratic
Meeting At Hayes' Park
August 4, 1864 - Recovered
August 4, 1864 - Fruit Swindling
August 4, 1864 - Otium Cum Dignitate
August 5, 1864 - Soldier Murdered
By A Monomaniac
August 6, 1864 - Another Obscene
Picture Knave Captured
August 6, 1864 - The Fitzgerald
Inquest
August 7, 1864 - How Among The Doctors
August 7, 1864 - Attempted
Suicide
August 7, 1864 - Shop-Lifting
August 9, 1864 - Mysterious
August 9, 1864 - Assault By A House
August 9, 1864 - Escaped
August 10, 1864 - Collision
August 10, 1864 - The Murderer Kennedy
- A Question Of Jurisdiction
August 10, 1864 - Our U.S. Branch Mint
August 10, 1864 - Intelligence
Office Row
August 11, 1864 - An Accumulation
Of Copperheads
August 12, 1864 - What A Skyrocket
Did
August 13, 1864 - Sundries
August 13, 1864 - "Won't You Walk Into
My Parlor"
August 16, 1864 - An Ill-Advisted
Prosecution
August 17, 1864 - School Director
Pope And The Call
August 18, 1864 - Man Run Over
August 18, 1864 - Daring Attempt
To Assassinate A Pawnbroker In Broad Daylight!
August 19, 1864 - The New Chinese
Temple
August 19, 1864 - What Goes With The
Money?
August 20, 1864 - Mary Kane
August 20, 1864 - More Abuse Of Sailors
August 21, 1864 - The Chinese Temple
August 21, 1864 - It Is The Daniel
Webster
August 23, 1864 - No Earthquake
August 23, 1864 - Rain
August 23, 1864 - The New Chinese
Temple
August 23, 1864 - Inexplicable
News From San Jose
August 23, 1864 - Camanche Items
- Sanitary Contributions
August 24, 1864 - Supernatural
Impudence
August 24, 1864 - A Dark Transaction
August 24, 1864 - Ingratitude
August 24, 1864 - Police Contributions
August 25, 1864 - The Theatres, Etc.
August 25, 1864 - The Ladies' Fair
August 26, 1864 - A "Confederacy"
Caged
August 26, 1864 - Good From Louderback
August 27, 1864 - How To Cure Him Of
It
August 27, 1864 - The Fair
August 27, 1864 - Arrest Of Another
Of The Robbing Gang
August 30, 1864 - Enthusiastic
Hard-Money Demonstration
August 30, 1864 - Chinese Railroad
Obstructions
August 31, 1864 - "Shiner No. 1"
August 31, 1864 - Mayhem
August 31, 1864 - Strong As Sampson
And Meek As Moses
September 1, 1864 - The Cosmopolitan
Hotel Besieged
September 1, 1864 - Rincon School
Militia
September 1, 1864 - Fine Picture of
Rev. Mr. King
September 1, 1864 - The Theatres,
Etc.
September 1, 1864 - Strategy, My
Boy
September 2, 1864 - The Mechanic's
Fair
September 2, 1864 - Lost Child
September 3, 1864 - Suicide Out Of
Principle
September 3, 1864 - Labyrinth
Garden
September 3, 1864 - The Lost
Child Reclaimed
September 4, 1864 - The Californian
September 4, 1864 - The Hurdle-Race
Yesterday
September 4, 1864 - Domestic Silks
September 4, 1864 - Looks Like Sharp
Practice
September 4, 1864 - A Terrible
Monster Caged
September 6, 1864 - A Promising
Artist
September 6, 1864 - Peeping Tom Of
Coventry
September 6, 1864 - Turned Out Of Office
September 6, 1864 - A Small Piece
Of Spite
September 7, 1864 - Christian Fair
September 7, 1864 - Terrible
Calamity [Explosion of Steamer Washoe]
September 8, 1864 - Earthquake
September 8, 1864 - Beautiful Work
September 8, 1864 - Captain
Kidd's Statement [Explosion of Steamer Washoe]
September 8, 1864 - Democratic
State Convention
September 9, 1864 - Mrs. Hall's Smelting
Furnace
September 9, 1864 - Charitable
Contributions
September 9, 1864 - Cross Swearing
September 9, 1864 - Democratic
Ratification Meeting
September 10, 1864 - Race
For The Occidental Hotel Premium
September 10, 1864 - Curiosities
September 10, 1864 - A Philanthropic
Nation
September 11, 1864 - Attempted
Assassination Of A Detective Officer
September 13, 1864 - Sad Accident
- Death Of Jerome Rice
September 13, 1864 - The Camanche
September 15, 1864 - An Ingenious
Contrivance
September 15, 1864 - County Hospital
Developments
September 15, 1864 - Interesting
Litigation
September 16, 1864 - Extraordinary
Enterprise
September 16, 1864 - More Donations
September 16, 1864 - Suicide
Of Dr. Raymond
September 16, 1864 - The Alleged
Swindling
September 16, 1864 - Officer
Rose Recovering
September 17, 1864 - Dr.
Raymond Not Removed
September 17, 1864 - The Late
Suicide - Coroner's Inquest
September 18, 1864 - Cruelty
To Animals
September 18, 1864 - Theatrical
Record
September 18, 1864 - Due Warning
September 20, 1864 - The Theatres,
Etc.
September 21, 1864 - Stabbed
September 21, 1864 - A Terrible
Weapon
September 21, 1864 - Out Of Jail
September 22, 1864 - Queer Fish
September 22, 1864 - Strike
Of Steamer Employes
September 23, 1864 - Dedication
Of Bush Street School
September 23, 1864 - Farewell
Address of Dr. Bellows
September 24, 1864 - Ah Sow Discharged
September 24, 1864 - Children
At The Fair
September 25, 1864 - The Fair
At The Fair
September 25, 1864 - Mortimer Again
September 25, 1864 - Accommodating
Witness
September 25, 1864 - The Mint
Troubles
September 27, 1864 - Boat Salvage
September 27, 1864 - Nuisance
September 29, 1864 - Deaf Mutes
At The Fair
September 29, 1864 - After Mortimer
September 29, 1864 - Advice
To Witnesses
September 30, 1864 - More Children
September 30, 1864 - Robbery
October 1, 1864 - Damages Awarded
October 2, 1864 - Everybody
Wants To Help
October 2, 1864 - The Last Hitch
At The Mint
October 6, 1864 - An
Interesting Correspondence
October 8, 1864 - A Rough Customer
October 9, 1864 - The Roderick
Case
October 9, 1964 - Miscegenation
October 9, 1864 - The Camanche
October 11, 1864 - Had A Fit
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