Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominated that part of California north of San Francisco Bay which is generally known as the Sacramento Valley and which the Bee calls ''Superior California." The San Joaquin Valley, stretching to the south, was until a few years ago swayed by Editor Chester Harvey Rowell's morning Fresno Republican, long famed throughout the State as a fearless journal. In 1920 Publicist Rowell sold out to the Brothers Chase Salmon and George Augustus Osborn, sons of former Governor Chase Salmon Osborn of Michigan. Quick to seize the opening, the McClatchys invaded Fresno, established the afternoon Fresno Bee in 1922. Slowly, steadily...
...camp at Porterville, Calif, last week There was no work on the farms, no food, no place to go. Cesario Delgado and ten others decided they would make for Old Mexico by way of Bakersfield. Ysobel Nunez and Alexandro Deloa said they were going to take their families to Fresno, maybe find winter work there. Bernardo Ries said he would go along. Cesario Delgado hiked over to a doctor's barn and stole a sack of barley, which he distributed among the parting families. With dull adios they scattered...
...Fresno-bound party slept at Tipton where, before they went northward, they traded some barley with Felicitas Guerreo's aunt. The old woman gave the barley to her niece to make some tortillas. They all cursed those vile vagabonds from Porterville, because the tortillas tasted so bad. The barley must have been spoiled. The Guerreos buried the food. But the chickens scratched it up, gobbled it down and promptly died. Felicitas Guerreo, 19, felt too miserable to curse. Her legs and stomach ached. Her parents hurried her to a hospital at Visalia...
...travelers, meanwhile, had reached Fresno's outskirts where a Mexican told Ysobel Nunez that he could get him a job. The Nunezes were very happy, and Senora Nicholosa Nunez made a big mess of barley tortillas to celebrate. The Deloas and Bernardo Ries joined in, and some strangers appeared to dance and wish them luck. The four Nunez children ate until they nearly burst. The two Deloa children, being guests, were more mannerly. That was lucky for them. For in a few days everyone who had eaten at Nicholosa Nunez's banquet had the gripes, the Nunezes worst...
...four Nunez children died. All the rest went to the county hospital at Fresno where Senoras Nunez and Deloa died...