From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Sonoma in 1911. Drawn for insurers, these maps recorded every building in a town, street by street — a remarkably intimate snapshot of the valley’s towns a century ago.
What the paper was printing that year
SATURDAY, JAN. 28; Commencing at.7:30 p. m. 20 Four-Minute, 10 2- Minute Records All the latest Edison Records for February, which include two of the latest hits—‘‘Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me” and “‘Alma, Alma, Where Do You Live?” This will give our patrons an To Bidders! Huichica School District Bonds—$4, 000.00. Public notice is hereby given by the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma county that sealed proposals fur purchasing Huichica School District bonds… — 1911-01-14
‘‘The Bishop of Ballarat,” a. farce in three acts, was put upon the boards and splendidly carried out by the students of the Sonoma Valley High School at Union Hall on Friday night of last week. A crowded house greeted the young aspirants for histronic honors and, what is more, the students made good. The play kept the audience convulsed with laughter with its ludicrous situations. It | was the unanimous verdict of the|is some very small trading in new aud… — 1911-06-10
R. J. Keogh went down to San Francisco Sunday afternoon for a visit with relatives. Miss B: Thomas of San Francisco visited at the Thomson home on Napa street Saturday and Sun- day. Alfred Warriner made a trip to San Francisco . last Saturday morning where he went to pay a few socia) calls. Mr. Chas E. Noyes, salesman for the Los Dos Naciones Cigar Co, the largest manufacturers of Mexi- can cigars on the coast, was in town Wednesday: Jim Modini, one of the… — 1911-06-10
More of it is in the archive, and arranged by place in places in the archive.