Week of October 4th Headlines
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (October 5, 1917)
- Liberty Loan Drive is On: Loyal Santa Clarans Begin Patriotic Campaign for Big War Fund: Welfare of Our Nation is at Stake
- Film Feature to Aid Liberty Loan Drive
- More Local Boys to Leave for War Today
- University of Santa Clara Rugby Coach Drafted: Leaves for Camp Lewis
- Patriotic Meeting at Presbyterian Church
- Santa Clara Officials Offer More Land to Western Pacific Company
- State Highway Work Started on the San Francisco Road from Scott Lane to the City Limits
50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal & News (October 5, 1967)
- 55,000 Attend Mammoth 3-Hour Parade of Champions: 229 Entries Viewed Along Lincoln, Franklin & Monroe Streets
- Parade, Drill Team Winners Announced
- Fiesta Days in Swing: Carnival Starts Tonight, Mexican Day Scheduled Saturday
- Funeral Service Held for SC Journal Newsboy (13-year-old Ronald Lee Smith, 740 Salberg Avenue, struck by truck while riding home on bicycle from Wilson School)
- Substitute Teachers & Clerical-Classified Staff Dissatisfied with Raise (5% raise only worth 1.61% as their weekly hours being increased from 37-1/2 to 40)
- California Association of Nurserymen pick Itsuo Uenaka of Cupertino Nursery, Inc. as Their New President
(compiled by Mary Hanel, Historic Preservation Society of Santa Clara)