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. NWS Precipitation Image overlays are provided by the National Weather Service. USGS rain-gage data shown in the table are available at Water Data for the Nation : Current North Carolina Precipitation “ – – ” Parameter not determined, usually due to missing data.The "no data" icon is the result of an NWISWeb status code: The colored portion of the icon will represent the precipitation amount for that time interval. Half colored icons designate gage data that appears to be logging correctly but is over 1 hour and 15 minutes older than the NWISWeb time stamp at the top of the Rainfall page.Hourly and Daily values are calculated from the last time a gage value was updated, which is not necessarily the time this web page was updated. * For precipitation values less than 0.01 inches, the USGS gage symbol is white and the National Weather Service overlay is transparent. Legend colors refer to both USGS gage and National Weather Service precipitation overlay (at full opacity).
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