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18-04-2025
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Today in history: 1868, Mark Twain lectures in Marysville
On Saturday night, April 18, 1868, residents of Yuba and Sutter counties had an opportunity to attend a comedy show disguised as a lecture performed by one Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. Mark Twain never wrote for a newspaper in Marysville, despite many claims that he did. The legend persisted for many decades, without any proof, that a desk at a former location of The Appeal-Democrat was once occupied by Twain, but biographies about Twain that mention his work at other Northern California newspapers are silent about Marysville newspapers. Those same biographies discuss his lecture series throughout the country, including swings through the American west. He is known to have visited the city twice in the 1860s, both times to perform. In 1868, three years after his short story 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' and eight years before publishing 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 33-year-old Twain appeared at the Marysville Theater, located on the east side of D Street between First and Second streets. The D Street Theater was a stop for popular acts playing the west coast, located on the rail line between San Francisco and Portland. An ad in the Marysville Daily Appeal described Twain's 1868 lecture in Marysville as being on 'Pilgrim Life…a sketch of his notorious voyage to Europe, Palestine, etc., on board the steamship Quaker City.' The edition of the Daily Appeal following Twain's performance had took only perfunctory notice of the appearance. 'Mark Twain was the observed of all observers on Saturday,' it noted in a column of items that included reports of downed fences and the numbers of farmers and teams of mules coming and going from wholesale houses. Twain was impressed with the Marysville he visited. In his words, 'This is the most generally well built town in California—nothing in it, hardly, but fine, substantial brick houses. I found there many a man who had made his fortune in Washoe, and didn't have the shrewdness to hold on to it, and so had wandered back to his old Marysville home. It is a pity to see such a town as this go down, but the citizens say the railroads are sapping its trade and killing it. They are a sociable, cheerful-spirited community, and if the town should die, they would hardly die with it.'
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10-04-2025
- Politics
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Today in history: 1942, 150 Army soldiers arrive to police Jpanese assembly camp
On April 10, 1942, 150 U.S. Army soldiers, from a military police unit in San Luis Obispo, arrived in Marysville by train to take up quarters at the Japanese concentration camp under construction in the Arboga district. 'The vanguard of the organization arrived here last night with truck and military accoutrements, including transport trucks to take the military police from the railroad to the camp,' The Appeal-Democrat reported. 'Members of the troop said they were not informed as to when Japanese evacuees might be expected in the camp but remarked that 'when we are sent to a camp for service there is usually very little time lost in finding something for us to do.' 'Significance of that statement links up with rumor which has persisted here throughout the week that Japanese evacuees were expected to be entered at the camp this weekend,' the newspaper stated. 'The concentration, or assembly camp, for temporary use, is nearing completion, despite the wet weather. It consists of 119 buildings, mostly for living and sleeping quarter for families and single persons, so constructed that partitions can be changed to fit requirements. It is designed to accommodate 3,000 Japanese evacuated from their homes and farms in zone one until they can be located permanently in other places. 'The camp here is supposed to be occupied six months or less,. Time limit for completion is April 15.'
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01-03-2025
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1943: On the first day of war time grocery rationing, Y-S shoppers not so eager
On March 1, 1943, readers of The Appeal-Democrat learned that grocers in Yuba and Sutter counties reported light sales of newly rationed groceries during the first day of war time 'point rationing' and they expected sales would continue to remain light during the first week. Readers were urged to shop local. 'Shoppers in the immediate area were strongly urged to buy their canned goods and rationed foods in Marysville and Yuba City,' the newspaper reported. 'Future inventories will be based entirely on points collected by local grocers and merchants during March. 'If citizens purchase rationed foods in their own communities, the grocers of those communities will be able to secure equal amounts of food from the wholesalers at the end of each month. Supplies of rationed foods can only be obtained in amounts which the point system shows to be needed in specific areas.' Supply and demand issues, military needs, and the economy were all factors in the federal government's food rationing and price ceiling program that impacted every American every day. Coffee, cooking oils, and sugar was limited not just by their use to feed the military, but also because civilian cargo ships were converted to military use, and shipments of coffee from central and South America were disrupted by enemy submarine attacks, according to the National Parks Service. As Japan captured places across the Pacific, they cut the United States off from its main source of cooking oils. In December of 1941, Japan cut the U.S. off entirely from its main sugar supply by capturing the Philippines. In addition, across the U.S. agricultural workers were drafted into the military or moved from the farms to industrial center to work. The resulting shortage of labor risked the American food supply, both for the military and for civilians. Among rationed food items: meat, fish, dairy items; canned, bottled, and frozen fruits and vegetables; dried fruits, juices and all canned soups. Because metal was needed for the war effort, canned soup took more points than dried soup in packages. Two ration books were distributed per person, including babies, each month, and the books expired after a certain date to discourage hoarding. 'And here is what 'Mr. Grocer' does with the coupon you turn in to him for some rationed product,' The Appeal-Democrat explained to readers. ''He deposits it in the bank. The bank in return issues him a ration check book which he turns over to the wholesaler at the end of each month when he wishes to replenish his supply.'
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28-02-2025
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Dozens of eviction notices go to Yuba mobile home owners
Dozens of mobile home owners in Villa Seville mobile home park in Olivehurst received 60-day eviction notices Wednesday, according to the park owner's attorney who prepared them. Sacramento attorney Joseph W. Carroll said his client's goal is to rescind all the notices and not evict any of the resident/homeowners so long as the residents correct violations identified by the state agency that regulates mobile home parks. 'My client only served the 60 day notices because the (California Department of Housing and Community Development) advised the park owner that its permit to operate would be suspended if any resident/homeowner did not immediately correct the violations,' Carroll said. Carroll confirmed there were about 40 eviction notices issued, although at least one mobile home owner said she believes the number may be as high as 60. In a statement to The Appeal-Democrat from Mitch Baker, Assistant Deputy Director of Housing and Community Development Codes and Standards, said the agency issued a notice of intent to suspend the park's permit to operate on Jan. 21, 2025, and will conduct a follow up inspection at the park in April. 'HCD will not take any action to suspend the park's permit to operate until after the April re inspection,' the statement read. The statement also said the agency does not have the authority to evict residents and that 'the action taken by a park is at their volition.' 'This is not a notice to cure a violation or comply with a rule and/or regulation,' a note on the front of the termination notices sent by the park's attorney read. 'It is a notice that your tenancy has been terminated.' Mobile home parks are regulated by the state, not local government agencies. Carroll said the California Health and Safety Code requires the state to inspect mobile home parks to ensure they are complying with state laws regarding construction, maintenance, and operation of the parks. Villa Seville was inspected on July 29, 2024, and resident/homeowners were notified if their mobile homes were not in compliance with state law. The eviction notices included a list of 22 different types of violations found by the state agency at various homes in the park. They included electrical issues, structurally unsound stairway landings or handrails, structurally unsound porches or decks, structurally unsound carports, missing stairways, missing handrails on stairways, accumulations of rubbish, accumulations of animal feces in yards, water heaters not properly protected from the weather, and leaks in drain lines. Homeowners were notified on Aug. 18 and the violations and given until Oct. 17 to make corrections. Carroll said the park's owners were not provided copies of the individual notices sent to homeowners after the initial inspection, but they did receive copies of the second round of notices sent Nov. 20 after a follow up inspection, which required corrections by Dec. 25, 2024. After a third inspection, the park owner/operator received a 'notice of intent to suspend permit to operate', which states it is their responsibility for correcting any remaining violations. 'The only way that the park owner/operator can gain possession to correct the violations is by terminating the resident/homeowners' tenancies in the park,' Carrol said. According to Dun & Bradstreet, the park is owned by Villa Seville Mobile Home Park and the key principal is Deborah Hayes.
