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Largest pet on display was Clover Leaf. a cow. Oldest were two tortoises claimed to be 350-500 years old. Smallest was an unidentified fish. Loudest was Susie, the Sebastopol goose. Most desperate were 462 squeaking canaries lodged in a crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk...
...Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a, baseball, the first freestone, blood-fleshed plum ever developed. Trees to bear this luscious giant planted two years ago (from Wisconsin to Alabama, California to New York) have lived and borne this year despite dry summer and hard winter...
Saul Singer at 15 was proprietor of a hardware store in Sebastopol. At 17 he was earning $4 a week in a Manhattan sweatshop. He became in due course president of the $15,000,000 Garment Centre Capital buildings, president of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association. At 47 he has a rambling colonial house of 25 rooms and a large forested estate on Long Island where he employs two chauffeurs and three gardeners, owns saddle horses, a station wagon and two limousines...
Luther Burbank, horticulturist: "I discontinued the nursery business. My Sebastopol, Cal., farm is for sale. I will now turn my attention to the world distribution of my improved seeds, thus insuring the permanency of my life's work...
...Lieutenant Schmidt's cruiser was joined by nine other ships and an infantry regiment on shore, which attempted to seize the city of Sebastopol. Ships loyal to the Tsar opened fire on the rebel boats, sinking the Otchakov, the Dneiper and a transport. The remaining seven quickly surrendered, and, after several conflicts, the mutineers on shore gave themselves up. The casualties on both sides amounted to 5,000. Subsequently 39 sailors were tried, some acquitted, others sentenced to hard labor for life. Schmidt and three others were shot...