Week of May 31st Headlines
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (June 1, 1917)
- Committee to Boost War Bonds: People of Santa Clara Called Upon to Support Floating of Liberty Loans
- Portuguese Fiesta to Begin Saturday Night: Main Street Being Decorated
- Memorial Day is Being Observed: Schools Closed and Businesses Suspended: Many Residents Proceed to Catholic Cemetery and Santa Clara City Cemetery
- Santa Claran Thomas Cahill, an Employee at Carmelite Monastery, Patents Device for Locating and Raising Sunken Ships
- Arrangements Completed for Registration Day Parade: Celebration to Commence at 10 o’clock: Big Attendance Expected: County Clerk Issues Instructions As to Who Must Register on June 5th, a Holiday
- Postmaster Charles D. South Announces that Every Employee of Santa Clara Post Office Had Made Application for a Liberty Bond
- Post Office Holds Up Mail Intended for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Turkey
50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal & News (May 31, 1967)
- State Action Needed to Rescue School District: SCUSD Lacks Money to Meet Record $16 Million Budget
- School Bond Barely Squeezes Through: Old Santa Clara Proves Stubborn: Despite Losing in Four Precincts –Bond Issue for New Elementary School Classrooms Passes
- Expansion of Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital: 94-Bed Wing Added Along with Extensive New Parking Lot
- Mobil Oil Co.’s Design for Futuristic Service Station at Corner of Scott and El Camino Real Draws Fire: Cross Between Arizona Flagstone and Disneyland ‘Tomorrowland’ Look Fails to Woo City Council
- Peterson High School Holds $5 Peace Corps Banquet: State Assemblyman John Vasconcellos and Dr. Richard Smith of San Jose State College to be Speakers
- J. H. Wagner, New Principal of Washington Elementary School, Honored at Reception
- Santa Clara Players Opens New Season with ‘Never Too Late’
- Wade Brummal Editorial: El Camino Real Corridor is the Real Santa Clara Downtown
(compiled by Mary Hanel, Historic Preservation Society of Santa Clara)