I began this post two days ago. Today, the Israeli Security Council just met about what to do next with Iran. Netanyahu want to “go crazy on Iran”. He knows if her destroys much of Iran’s power, he will be hailed a Messiah. Secular Judaism will be at a end. This may be a trap, and is exactly what radical Islam wants. This why I declared Secular Zelensky the Diaspora Messiah. I see a mass Exodus of Jews out of Israel. How about Baja?
But for adding the article about Wolves, I publish this post as is. Trump has blue eyes – and blonde hair!
A Prophetic Broadcast from The New Radio Church of God
by
John Presco
Let me begin by saying every world leaders should step down (but Zelenzky) for not being able to STOP the runaway train that that came at us, that is a ZIONIST TRAIN that is being driven by War Rabbid Rabbis who force Jewish Women to the back of the bus, and squeal with delight when Zionist Christians threaten women in Arizona with five year prison terms – for being immoral – not in sep with the Ten Commandments.
What we saw in the might sies last night, was a trial run for the really big holy war. The War Rabbis stripped down, girded their loins, and did the NAKED DANCE of King David before the ark. Alas, they got to relgiously shame the United States for not letting more Jewish refugees in as Hitler rose to power. Godly Payback – IS THE WAY OF YAHEW! As long as it takes. To render the U.S. impotent, and no longer able to chatize and Jew in the world, are tell really holy men what to do, was ure joy, a total voctity for Zionism. The sparks rose in the air about the ancient Tribal Bonfire, as it did when the Jewish Tribes got behind the Tribe of Judah – and slaughter all the men of tribe of Benhamin.Then – the virginal maidens that escpaded the gerocide art put in a filed – and raped by all tribal members so the Seed of Saul the Benjamite will be dispersed amnost all the tribes. What in the hell is going on here, many thealogians have longed wondered
In 1988 I declared myself a Nazarite after Samson and John the Baptist two biblcal character that are not quite Jewish. Why? Several theslogian suggested King Saul was Samuel the Nazarite Prophet. I concur. Saul was a Benahaminite. After years of study, I concur the Tribe of Benhami were Galatians. and the real Jesus – was a galatian. Yes! The blonde Jesus with blue eyes – is the real Jesus! I hate to say this, because I hate racist Neo-Nazi and Neo-Cnfederates. The Jews hated the Galatians amongst them, and were able to wipe them out, because it was easy to identitzy them. This is how Pal was ablte to findthem, imprison them, and torted them to get them to denhce THEIR LORD! Who was their lord?
Here he is! Let me instofude you to Ogmios…The Lord of The Way!
Herbert Hannay’s book, European and Other Race Origins, included ancient records that “representatives of Benjaminites spread over the whole length and breadth of Asia Minor.”(1) The Bible indicates that Israelites were living in Asia Minor during the Apostolic era. The book of I Peter begins by addressing “God’s People [marginal reading in the KJV] scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia.” The term “Galatia” indicated the same people as the “Gauls” of Europe. The New Testament records that one famous Benjaminite, Saul of Tarsus, was born in Asia Minor, so there is biblical evidence that Benjaminites lived in Asia Minor in ancient times. Saul of Tarsus was the Benjaminite who became the Apostle Paul (Acts 9:11
What is OutbrainThe group – which was the bulk of the passengers for most of the ride – was marking the launch of the “Grab A Spot” initiative, in which female students at the Hebrew University ride public buses in haredi areas to ensure that gender segregation is not being forced upon female passengers, who are allowed by law to sit in any part of the bus, and not be restricted to the rear, as is the norm on these lines.Six months ago, the High Court of Justice ruled “public transportation operators may not tell, request or order women to sit in a specific place on the bus just because they are women – or to tell them how to dress; and they are entitled to sit anywhere they wish,” thus effectively abolishing the so-called Mehadrin public buses. At the same time, women were permitted to board the bus from the middle door, and even punch their own tickets with a perforator tied nearby that exit point.The January ruling came in the wake of a petition originally filed five years ago by the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), and five women – including Israeli English-language author Naomi Ragen, who charged that there were no formal arrangements or conditions for the operation of these special bus lines and that, as passengers on these buses, they had been harassed by haredim for insisting on sitting in the front section.
Ogmios (also known as Ogmius; Ancient Greek: Ὄγμιος; Latin: Ogmius, Ogimius) was the Celticdeity of eloquence.[1] He is described as resembling a more elderly version of Heracles,[2] and uses his powers of persuasion to bind men to himself,[1][3] with stories describing thin, long chains connecting his tongue to the ears of his followers.
Most of the knowledge about Ogmios comes from comparisons between him and powerful deities and heroes in other ancient cultures.[1][3]
Even though there is not much on the history of Ogmios, one can tell that he was a powerful deity worshipped by the Gauls, the Celtic people of present day France. He is attested not only in Lucian’s account, but also in archaeological remains, such as coins and statuary, from the time of the Roman conquest of the Gauls.[1][3]
French specialists give two different explications of the Gaulish name: Philippe Jouët proposed to connect Ogme to the Indo-Europeanroot word *Hek- ‘sharp’, ‘stone’, ‘vault’, and to the Greek akmon (meteorite).[4]
According to Xavier Delamarre, the root word would be ‘path’, ‘guide’, confirming in this his role as a psychopomp.[5]
Ogmios was recorded by Lucian, a satirical writer in 2nd-century Samosata in his Hercules. He is described as resembling an older, more tanned version of Heracles, the Greek hero of strength. Ogmios and Heracles both wear lion skins and carry a bow and club in their hands. However Ogmios is depicted with long chains through his smiling mouth that pierce his tongue and attached to the ears of a group of men that willingly and happily follow him.[1][2][3] Anne Ross describes dark complexion as “a not uncommon feature of powerful or malevolent supernatural beings”.[6]
The most striking aspects of Lucian’s image of Ogmios are the thin, long chains running from his tongue to the ears of his followers. The chains, made out of amber and gold, represent Ogmios using his powers of persuasion and eloquence to bind his listeners to his every word.[1][7] From the description it appears that Ogmios’ followers willingly follow him with cheerful faces and try to get as close to Ogmios as they can. This shows that he has the power to change and influence men’s minds so that they want to follow him to the ends of the earth.[1][3]
Ogmios is considered to be a binding god and a psychopomp, both very powerful positions.[1][3] As a binding god he has the ability to bind people onto himself and control their actions. He can also create defixiones, which are tablets that have curses which he can bind on to other people. There are two known defixiones, recovered from Bregenz, Austria, that Ogmios is said to have created.[1][3] Not much is known about the story behind the defixiones, but it is known that one such tablet invokes Ogmios to curse a barren woman so that she can never marry a man.[3]
Ogmios is also a psychopomp, binding the souls of the dead onto himself and leading them to the afterlife.[8][9]
Almost all of the knowledge about Ogmios comes from the comparisons of him to other deities or divine heroes of different ancient cultures. By about 51 B.C. the Roman Empire had conquered Gaul. When the Gauls disappeared so did Ogmios. However, the existence of Ogmios can still be seen in Irish mythology. Their deity, Ogma, has many similarities to Ogmios, which could mean that they were once the same deity.
Long after the Romans conquered the Gauls, the Roman satiristLucian wrote a satirical story about Celtic beliefs. It describes Lucian and a Celtic man looking at a painting of Ogmios. Lucian’s description of the painting is the main source of visual representation of Ogmios.[2]
Initially, Lucian looks at the painting with horror because the painting says that the Celts liken Ogmios to Heracles. Ogmios appears to be an older version of Heracles since both Ogmios and Heracles wear lion skins and carry a bow and club. Lucian is shocked to see that “the (bound) men (following Ogmios) do not think of escaping… In fact, they follow cheerfully and joyously, applauding their leader and all pressing him close and keeping the leashes slack in their desire to overtake him; apparently, they would be offended if they were let loose!”[2]: p.65
In the story, a Celtic man explains that the painting shows how the Celts believe Ogmios is similar to Heracles,[2] the Greek hero who defeated many things with his strength. Heracles has the power of strength and Ogmios has the power of eloquence. The Celts believe that eloquence is the ultimate power because it can enthral men and control them more so than strength can.
Ogmios is also sometimes compared to Hermes, a Greek deity.[3] To the Greeks Hermes was also a symbol of eloquence as well as a psychopomp.
The Irish deity closest related to Ogmios is Oghma,[3][8] a warrior of the Túatha Dé Danann who is also credited with inventing the Ogham alphabet.[10] Both Ogmios and Ogma are known as smiling deities of eloquence.[1][3] Ogma is attested from Old and Middle Irish literature, which dates to significantly later periods than the material for Ogmios.[3][8]
Groups educating haredi women on ‘Mehadrin’ bus lines
Female activists: Gender segregation on buses part of radicalization trend in the haredi community.
By JONAH MANDELJULY 14, 2011 03:55
Iran’s attack on Israel stirs admiration among Gaza Palestinians
Abortion is not murder! There is no Mosaic Law against having an abortion, or, taking a morning after pill. One of the Ten Commandments says; “Thou shall not kill-murder.” The chosen children of God are murdering’ and slaughtering Palestinian women and children with “Dumb Bombs”. This post is the beginning of the end of all Biblical-like laws in America. Consider the Slaughtering of the Benjamites. This act of Genocide negates the influence of the Jewish Religion that Jesus turned his back on, as did Saint Paul. I am a Nazarite after John the Baptist. I bid all those who oppose the Slaughter of Palestinian Civilians, to take The Vow of the Nazarite in order to escape the Israeli Witch-hunt that labels Lovers of Peace and Life, antiemetic. As a Nazarite, you will have more Democratic Freedoms – and clout! You will be a member of a New Peace Movement. You will not be a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim. You will be a Child of the Peaceful Way. You will be fruitful – and multiply!
John ‘The Nazarite’
In Numbers 6, God gives the rules for being a Nazirite. This person is set apart for service to God. There are rules they must follow and actions they must take or refrain from.
They must not eat or drink anything that comes from grapes. This includes wine, vinegar, raisins, or even grapes themselves.
Avoid ritual impurity associated with corpses and graves. They may not even defile themselves for close family members.
Avoid cutting their hair. They must let it grow as long as the vow lasts.
How was the Nazirite viewed in Israelite society and how did this status change over time (if at all)?
Slaughtering the Benjamites II: merciless anarchy—Judges 20:29—21:25
Judges goes on to narrate the Israelites’ unbridled vengeance against the Benjamites and the continuing, sinful consequences of their overkill. Because Benjamin refused to hand over those who gang-raped a woman to death, the other tribes of Israel make war on the Benjamites. Up till this point, the Benjamites, equipped with long-distance weapons, have been winning the battles. They have consistently repelled the larger forces arrayed against them. Now, however, Israel has a divine promise of victory from the Lord (Judg 20:28).
Total war against Benjamin
In Judges 20:29, 33, 36-38, the Israelite allies set an ambush against the Benjamites. They borrow this strategy most clearly from Joshua’s earlier destruction of the nearby hostile Canaanite town of Ai (Josh 8:2-21), applying this strategy against Benjamin. This time they succeed, putting the Benjamites to flight. Throughout history, cutting down retreating warriors from behind proves much easier than having to face their weapons. Thus in 20:45 the Israelite warriors “caught” and killed five thousand fleeing Benjamite warriors on the road; the verb for violent catching here appears only one other time in the Book of Judges, where the Benjamite rapists forced themselves on the Levite’s concubine (19:25).
To forestall future conflicts, the law earlier prescribed herem—the utter destruction of total war—against enemy Canaanites (Deut 7:2). Israel carried out little of this in the Book of Judges, yet the vengeful Israelites now get so carried away with their victory that they practice herem against Benjamites! The law did prescribe this fate for apostate cities that followed other gods (Deut 13:12-18). But what about for an entire tribe that simply came to the aid of such a city because of clan allegiances? Common as it was in antiquity to kill all males who might grow up to avenge their fathers, the law prohibited killing children for their fathers’ crimes (Deut 24:16). Further, wiping out women and children was herem, not normal punishment.
In the heat of the moment, many hardened warriors, some of whose compatriots have been killed, now slaughter everyone in sight. Only six hundred Benjamite men escape, taking refuge for the next four months (20:47). After these months pass, however, Israelite tempers cool (cf. 20:47). Now many of the Israelites, whose warriors had earlier slaughtered the Benjamites, lament that God has destroyed one of the tribes of Israel (21:3, 15)! (Blaming God for human acts of depravity is not a new invention.) Granted, God is sovereign, but again his involvement here is at a more distant remove, not a direct action. In this narrative, God has ultimately delivered the Benjamite warriors into the other Israelites’ hands (Judg 20:28, 35); but the narrator never says that he commands or approves of this mass slaughter.
Much of Israel, in fact, themselves regretted their actions, as the narrator twice mentions (21:6, 15, two of the only three uses of this term in Judges). Israel’s leaders now need a way to replenish the tribe of Benjamin, but the six hundred surviving Benjamite men cannot reproduce without women. Israel has slaughtered all the Benjamite women, as well as taken an impulsive oath before God not to let Benjamites intermarry with them (21:1).
Seizing more innocent women
The leaders, however, reach a solution that prevents them from breaking their oaths. Now they will execute herem against another Israelite town, Jabesh Gilead! Judges 21:11 is in fact one of only two uses of the Hebrew verb related to herem in the Book of Judges. (Later Saul, who fails to execute herem against Amalekites in 1 Sam 15:3-23, essentially executes it against God’s priests in 22:19!)
Again Israel keeps their word: they had promised to kill anyone who did not come to help them with the battle (21:5). These oaths were may not have been a good idea; they certainly cannot justify the wholesale action that now follows. The virgin daughters of Jabesh Gilead are now seized, just as the Levite’s concubine was seized. Meanwhile, wives and concubines are slaughtered—just as the Levite’s concubine was killed. (Probably Benjamites later repopulated their maternal ancestor’s town. Later Saul as a Benjamite has natural ties with Jabesh Gilead, evident in 1 Sam 11:5-9 and 31:11-12.)
Thus Israelites again slaughter their own people. The intensity of lethal and sexual violence here readily reminds us of the sorts of atrocities that some Islamic extremists have committed in the Middle East or northern Nigeria, or genocidal actions elsewhere. The spirit of violence in the world is not new, even if modern technologies have provided increasingly efficient means of killing.
The decimation of Jabesh Gilead, however, did not supply enough young women for the Benjamites: just four hundred young wives for six hundred men. (Given the average likely age of marriage, most of these women were probably sixteen or younger—perhaps many in their early teens.) So what did the Israelites do? They went and kidnapped some other Israelite girls. They chose a convenient location that did not require much travel—their host town, Shiloh, just a day’s march from devastated Gibeah (21:12). (They had earlier gathered at another centrally located site, Mizpah, fewer than five miles from Gibeah; Judg 20:1, 3; 21:1, 5, 8.) At some point (perhaps later) Shiloh became the place of the tabernacle (18:31).
So—at a feast for the Lord (Judg 21:19)—the Israelites invited the two hundred Benjamites who were still single to capture two hundred single young women from Shiloh. The Hebrew text of 21:20 suggests that they “ambushed” them, the same terminology used for the recent attack against the Benjamites (20:29, 33, 36-38). (An attentive reader of Judges in Hebrew might recall that, in this book, apart from that recent attack only the wicked “ambush” or “lie in wait”; Judg 9:25, 32, 34, 43; 16:2, 9, 12.)
Although the strategy of ambush made sense against the opposing army, here it is carried out against unarmed, young teenage girls; the law prohibited ambushing or lying in wait (the same Hebrew term) for a neighbor to harm them (Deut 19:11). Each one “catches” a wife for himself (Judg 21:21), a Hebrew term elsewhere applied to violence (Ps 10:9). The other Israelites explain to the girls’ fathers in Shiloh that since they did not give their daughters in marriage to the Benjamites, they have not violated Israel’s oath. How much would this consolation have reduced the horror for the families now rent apart?
The Israelite actions began as a quest for justice, a call for vengeance on behalf of an unnamed women who was mercilessly gang-raped to death. Yet the quest ended up as the slaughter of men, women and boys, along with the seizure of preadolescent girls and unmarried teenage women.
Everyone did what was right in their own eyes
Recounting the acts without inserting moral comment so far, the narrator lets the horror of the story strike with its own graphic force. Only the book’s concluding comment sheds light on its perspective: there was no king in Israel, and everyone did what they personally viewed as right (21:25). This horrible story is a story of moral anarchy, the kind of violent lawlessness we sometimes might associate with the old frontier in the western United States, war-torn Somalia, or other unstable regions. It could well be the story of unbridled human hearts anywhere that lacks means of civil restraint, where the strong are free to prey on those socially or physically weaker than themselves.
Why do the final chapters of Judges begin and end with a refrain about moral anarchy associated with lack of kingship (17:6; 19:1; 21:25)? Although in this book God periodically raises up judges, Israel as a whole has no stable government here, no provision for continuing moral leadership.
As the subsequent story of Israel in Samuel through Kings illustrates, however, a continuing government without obedience to God was ultimately no less liable to fail. The first part of that story elaborates Saul’s failure and David’s success, quickly followed by David’s failure and its consequences for his kingdom. Within a generation, we witness the fraying of the delicate tribal unity often achieved under David and particularly achieved in the early part of Solomon’s reign. When there was a king in Israel who did only what was right in his own eyes (or in the eyes of others not obeying God), the nation was also led astray.
It fell to prophets to repeatedly call God’s people back to his Word. True prophets (as opposed to the corrupted ones) provided a conscience for Israel, some moral leadership. But prophets can influence only those willing to heed them.
Ultimately neither judges nor kings could provide more than stopgap measures (though stopgaps are safer than anarchy). Through the prophets, God ultimate promised Israel a more permanent solution: the coming of his own kingdom, when he would reign through his appointed vizier, the promised descendant of David. Yet what would a kingdom of righteousness mean for a sinful people, the sort of people we encounter in Judges? Fortunately for us, the promised kingdom has already made its first entrance into more gently our world; the king came first not to avenge, but to offer justice and righteousness a different way. Jesus’ way was not to kill sinners but to transform them. As followers of Jesus, we must work for the peace and justice that our king requires, even in this world of incredible tragedy and pain, until he returns to consummate his promise of that new era.
Judges 20New International Version
The Israelites Punish the Benjamites
20 Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the Lord in Mizpah. 2 The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords. 3 (The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, “Tell us how this awful thing happened.”
4 So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night. 5 During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died. 6 I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel’s inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel. 7 Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.”
8 All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. 9 But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots. 10 We’ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah[a] in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.” 11 So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.
12 The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you? 13 Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.”
But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites. 14 From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites. 15 At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah. 16 Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred select troops who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
17 Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle.
18 The Israelites went up to Bethel[b] and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?”
The Lord replied, “Judah shall go first.”
19 The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah. 20 The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah. 21 The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day. 22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day. 23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?”
The Lord answered, “Go up against them.”
24 Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day. 25 This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
26 Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord. 27 And the Israelites inquired of the Lord. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, 28 with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?”
The Lord responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”
29 Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah. 30 They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before. 31 The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah. 32 While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”
33 All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west[c] of Gibeah.[d]34 Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize how near disaster was. 35 The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords. 36 Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten.
Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah. 37 Those who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword. 38 The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city, 39 and then the Israelites would counterattack.
The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.” 40 But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke. 41 Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them. 42 So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there. 43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily[e] overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east. 44 Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters. 45 As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
46 On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. 47 But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months. 48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
Jesus means “savior”. Fifteen minutes ago I saw a adult male American announce he’s a candidate FOR JESUS. At least a million fellow American believe they saw Jesus go on trial. I predicted this in my cartoon book ‘My Christ-Complex’ wherein Trump is convicted of fraud. I am going to promote this prophetic book, that needs to be placed in the Vatican archive.
Because we live in a Democracy, I announce I too am a candidate for Jesus. A recent article I found on the Tribe of Benjamin, comes close to revealing the core of my theological book ‘Where Art Thou’. I will post on this on my Herbert Armstrong Prophecy Facebook. I will put forth the idea the real Jesus was a Celt with blue eyes – like me. The story of the Tribe of Benjamin needs to be studied around the clock, because Israel is bringing us to….THE END TIMES! I represent the millions who do not want to die a horrible religious death. There needs to be a survey of how many Christians believe Jesus was just put on trial by Satan – the real President of the most powerful country on earth. Trump is livid that he was not in our War Room shooting down incoming Iranian missiles. He looks like he was having screaming fit, and had to be sedated.
I made notes for ‘My Christ Complex’ in 1986. It is the story of a boy born to hippies who become the richest man on earth. I was inspired by adoration Donald Trump was getting. As a man, the Yuppie Christ appears on the David Letterman show,and when he holds out his arms showing the thickness of his stock portfolio, the studio is fill with light!
Being a real hippie liberal leftist, I knew I was the enemy of the rich, and, they had declared war against me – just me! This allowed me to into the future and predict events. I am a profit. I own a real Christ Complex.
I was born in Mendocino, when a bright light appeared in the Eastern sky. It’s a bust! Joe’s Harvard friends are wise lawyers, and the get Joe off the hook. I was a talented child. I got carried away at my elementary school pageant. I amazed members of the Christian Coalition, on how much I knew about tax law. Seeing Joe’s burl business is a real bust, I help bankroll his Futon Warehouse that made him a millionaire.
When I was busted for stock trading fraud, I did community service, worked picking up trash along the highway with a guy that held up a seven-eleven, and a guy who claims he killed a man in Utah. Having worked on government road crews, he was a genius at leaning on your shovel, giving the appearence we were working. This is why the deputy titled us ‘The three crosses on the hill’.
Iran on Saturday evening launched drones toward Israel, the Israeli military said.
In a statement, Israel Defense Forces said that Iran “launched” unmanned aerial vehicles “from within its territory toward Israel.”
No further details on the assault were immediately provided. Israeli officials told CBS News it could be many hours before the drones reach Israeli airspace.
Iran’s attack comes in retaliation for an April 1 Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, which killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Israeli citizens in a video address on Saturday night, saying, “In recent years, and even more so in recent weeks, Israel has been preparing for the possibility of a direct attack from Iran. Our defense systems are deployed, we are prepared for any scenario, both in defense and attack. The State of Israel is strong, the IDF is strong, the public is strong.”
On Friday Biden urged Iran not to move forward, saying his message to Tehran was: “Don’t.” Earlier in the week the U.S. sent a senior general to Israel this week to coordinate with the close American ally on any response it might make to an Iranian attack.
Tensions in the region, however, continued to rise. On Saturday, commandos from special forces unit of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. government called on Iran to release the vessel and its international crew immediately. “Seizing a civilian vessel without provocation is a blatant violation of international law,” said National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson. “It must be condemned unequivocally, and we will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions.”
All U.S. embassies in the Middle East were put on high alert and required to hold emergency action committee meetings. Diplomats in Lebanon and Israel were specifically told not to travel to certain areas within those countries.
State media reported Jordan has closed its airspace “in light of the escalating risks in the region,” and Israel announced they would close their airspace from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m. local time.
“Adjacent to the mosque and hidden in a corner of the garden is yet another shrine, this one for Saladin, the Kurdish-Iranian hero of the Crusades. The shrine is a big tourist draw for Iranians, but visitors from around the world pour in through the open doors at the first call to prayer at sunset.”
I have said that any attack near the Umayyad Mosque will be the beginning of the Third World War. The remains of John the Baptist are here – as well as the remain of SALADIN!
I suspect Christian Nationalist have sold Netanyahu on their End Time Prophecy. They have the same targets Islam, and the Hippie Peace Movement. The Killer Rabbis hate Liberals and want to see Israeli Lovers of Peace – turned into Religious Killer-bots! This is why THEY are keeping IDF troops in Gaza so long – and drafting the Haredi. This is it, folks…..The Last Crusade!
The U.S. rushed warships into position to protect Israel and American forces in the region, hoping to head off a direct attack from Iran on Israel that could come as soon as Friday or Saturday.
The moves by the U.S. that are part of an effort to avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East came after a warning from a person familiar with the matter about the timing and location of the potential Iranian attack. A person briefed by the Iranian leadership, however, said that while plans to attack are being discussed, no final decision has been made.
On 1 April 2024, an airstrike blamed on Israel destroyed the Iranian consulate annex building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria,[2][6] killing 16 people, including a senior Quds Force commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and seven other IRGC officers. Two civilians were killed in the attack.[4][5]
Inside is the shrine of John the Baptist, with walls of green glass that seem to permanently emanate light from an undetermined source. Legend says that during the construction of the mosque, workers found a box containing the head of John the Baptist, which was then buried beneath a pillar.
Adjacent to the mosque and hidden in a corner of the garden is yet another shrine, this one for Saladin, the Kurdish-Iranian hero of the Crusades. The shrine is a big tourist draw for Iranians, but visitors from around the world pour in through the open doors at the first call to prayer at sunset.
Senior advisor to President Trump Jared Kushner was in Jeddah on Tuesday as part of a US delegation that met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
According to reports, the US delegation also included Jason Greenblatt, special presidential representative for international negotiations, and Dina Powell, deputy national security advisor for strategy.
Why doesn’t Israel honor John the Baptist – and worship Mary?
Israel–Saudi Arabia relations refer to the bilateral ties between the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The two countries have never established diplomatic relations
John, known as Yahya in Arabic, is praised by Muslims as well. He is one of twenty-five prophets mentioned in the Quran, and it is said that anyone who denounces John also denounces Islam.
While both the Quran and the Bible mention John’s miraculous birth and his righteous way of living, only the Bible reveals his greater purpose: “And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Luke 1:17).
An insider’s perspective on how the Abraham Accords were concluded and why they offer a way forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Middle East — if only they are not abandoned by the Biden Administration.
His colleagues have described him as “General Armageddon” and two days after his appointment, cities across Ukraine were hit by rocket attacks against civilian targets which included a road junction by a university and a children’s playground in a park.
Founder of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been calling for a tougher response to Ukraine’s counteroffensive called Surovikin “the most competent commander in the Russian army,” according to Live 24.
Veteran commander Surovikin was known for being “totally ruthless”
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The appointment of a notoriously “ruthless” Russian commander to lead the Ukraine invasion has fuelled fears that Vladimir Putin is set to repeat his brutal tactics from the Syrian war.
DAMASCUS, Syria — Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the presence of foreign troops in Syria, saying they are there against the will of the Syrian government and are blocking the consolidation of the war-torn country, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Putin was referring to hundreds of U.S. troops stationed in eastern Syria and working with Kurdish-led fighters in battling the militant Islamic State group, as well as Turkish forces in northern Syria. Speaking during a rare meeting in Moscow on Monday night with his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad, he said the presence of the foreigners is illegal because they don’t have permission to be there from the United Nations or Syria’s government.
MBS LIKELY ORDERED THE MURDER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI Hany Musallam/Shutterstock On October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi — a 59-year-old Saudi dissident, journalist, and columnist for The Washington Post — was allegedly assassinated by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was lured to the consulate in Istanbul under the guise of providing paperwork to prove his divorce so he could get remarried. But when he arrived, he was ambushed, suffocated, and dismembered by a 15-person assassination team, according to The Washington Post. Khashoggi’s final moments are captured in audio recordings and Turkish investigators concluded that Khashoggi had been strangled within minutes of arriving at the consulate.
The first is the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. The mosque was built on the remains of an ancient Christian church, and John the Baptist’s head is claimed to be buried there in a shrine.
Similarly, the Residenz Museum in Munich, Germany claims to have John’s head among other relics collected by Duke Wilhelm V in the 16th century.
And if you happen to visit Rome, you may come across his alleged skull at the Church of San Silvestro in Capite.
Finally, the 13th century cathedral in Amiens, France was built for the sole purpose of housing John’s head. Supposedly, a Crusader carried it from Constantinople in 1206.
The world may be confused about the final resting place of John the Baptist, but considering he was a man who cared nothing for himself, maybe we’re missing the point.
Israel And Saudi Arabia: No Longer Enemies But Not Quite Friends
Israel and Saudi Arabia: No longer enemies but not quite friends
Bloomberg / Updated: Sep 5, 2022, 13:39 IST
File photo: Saudi crown prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman
RIYADH: Israel’s longest-serving prime minister pops up on Saudi state-run television from Tel Aviv. An Israeli-American declares himself the “chief rabbi of Saudi Arabia” after arriving on a tourist visa. A prominent Saudi family invests in two Israeli companies and doesn’t bother to hide it. All these recent events would have been unthinkable not long ago. But previously clandestine links between Saudi Arabia and Israel are increasingly visible as some of the Middle East’s deep-seated rivalries cautiously give way to pragmatic economic and security ties. Saudi crown prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to accelerate his plans to overhaul an oil-reliant economy, while Israel is keen to build on 2020’s diplomatic breakthroughs with smaller Gulf nations. “We do not view Israel as an enemy, but rather as a potential ally,” Prince Mohammed said earlier this year in a striking reassessment of one of the region’s most consequential fault-lines. For decades after Israel’s founding in 1948, Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors shunned the Jewish state in solidarity with the Palestinians expelled to create it. The thought of doing business with Israel was anathema. Even today, polling shows a vast majority in the Gulf oppose accepting Israel as just another country, suggesting developments have more to do with the agenda of autocratic ruling elites than a sea-change in Arab views.
“It’s more of a thawing of relations rather than a warming of relations,” said Abdulaziz Alghashian, a researcher who studies Saudi foreign policy toward Israel. “It’s still nevertheless pretty significant.” Israelis are traveling to the kingdom with greater ease using third-country passports, a few routing their business through overseas entities and even discussing it in public.
Money flows
Qualitest is an Israeli engineering and software-testing company acquired by international investors in 2019. It doesn’t operate directly in Saudi Arabia, said Shai Liberman, managing director for Europe, Israel and the Middle East, but sells its product to other firms who then use it in the kingdom. Investment is heading in the opposite direction, too. Mithaq Capital SPC — controlled by the Alrajhi family, Saudi banking scions — is now the largest shareholder in two Israeli companies: mobility intelligence firm Otonomo Technologies Ltd, and London-listed digital advertiser Tremor International Ltd. Israel and Gulf nations established largely hidden security ties over shared concerns, especially Iran. But it’s primarily the strong economic motivation that’s driving more visible relations now as Prince Mohammed tries to lessen Saudi reliance on oil and develop advanced industries. “We like the innovation and the technology culture that Israel has, and we try to find ways to benefit from that,” said Muhammad Asif Seemab, managing director of Mithaq Capital. Officials in Riyadh are also allowing the wider debate around Israel to be re-framed. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed on Saudi television channel Al Arabiya, sitting in front of a Hebrew-language map and warning of the danger of a potential nuclear deal with Iran. Less well known is Jacob Herzog, the rabbi who’s been allowed to minister to a tiny Jewish community of foreign workers in the Saudi capital. Coveted prize When the UAE and Bahrain in 2020 signed US-brokered normalization pacts with Israel, which became known as the Abraham Accords, there was speculation Saudi Arabia would follow. For Israeli leaders, receiving recognition from Saudi Arabia — the region’s geopolitical heavyweight — would be a coveted prize, and that’s unlikely to change no matter what government is installed after elections later this year. They didn’t get it, partly because the kingdom’s religious and regional prominence dictates different political considerations than those of smaller neighbors. An Israeli business owner visiting Riyadh still can’t make a direct phone call to Tel Aviv, let alone a money transfer. Jason Greenblatt, who was a special envoy for the Middle East under former US President Donald Trump and one of the accords’ architects, said the Saudi leadership “recognizes that Israel can be a huge benefit to the region” even if it’s not yet ready to sign any kind of normalization agreement. Greenblatt is raising funds for a blockchain and crypto technology investment vehicle, and said it’s an “aspiration” of his to facilitate Saudi investment into Israel, though he concedes that will take time. Polling by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy suggests growing disappointment with what the Abraham Accords have delivered, with only 19% to 25% of respondents seeing them positively across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain. Yet their existence appears to have encouraged acceptance of unofficial ties with Israel among some in the Gulf, the institute said. Others continue to voice their disapproval. In July, an imam of Mecca’s grand mosque included a supplication against “the usurping, occupying Jews” while leading Friday prayers. And when an Israeli journalist who traveled to Saudi Arabia during a July visit by President Joe Biden found a way into the holy city that’s off-limits to non-Muslims, condemnation was swift. In this mixed atmosphere, Saudi officials maintain that a resolution between Israelis and Palestinians remains at the core of their policy. Normalization is “borderline offensive to keep talking about” and isn’t a policy goal in and of itself, Princess Reema bint Bandar, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US, said in July. The real goal should be a two state solution for Israel and Palestine, she said. It would be counterproductive for Israel to push the Saudis too hard, said Yoel Guzansky, a senior research fellow in Gulf politics at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. “Why go too fast?” he said. “You can actually cause damage to the relationship.” The US political landscape is another obstacle, said Alghashian, as Saudi leaders assess Biden is unlikely to muster the will to offer sweeteners they’d want, including security guarantees. Still, American entrepreneur Bruce Gurfein is among those betting even the current gradual opening will be good for business. Gurfein, who’s Jewish and has family in Israel, recently drove a White Nissan Armada from his base in Dubai through Saudi Arabia to Jerusalem — a 26-hour road-trip that he spread out over a week, meeting businesspeople along the way. He’s working on a business accelerator called Future Gig, connecting Israeli startups to the Saudi market and vice versa, with a focus on renewable energy, water scarcity and desert agriculture. Neom, the crown prince’s vision for a high-tech region on the Red Sea coast a 40-minute drive from Israel, could also fuel collaboration. On a popular Arabic podcast, Saudi political sociologist Khalid AlDakhil recently laid out his ideas for strengthening the kingdom, touching on nuclear energy and the military — and a possible partner, if the rewards are worth it. “We honestly need to learn from the Israelis,” he said.
Family and friends have betrayed me. I got it right about the Christian-right. I made hundreds of WARNING posts. Nieghbors ganged up on me and abused a friendly cat in front of me.
I have no collaborations, and no co-authors. Everything I write is protected by a special copyrights given to ministers.
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism is a 2020 nonfiction book by American journalist and author Katherine Stewart. The book describes Christian nationalism in the United States as a regressive political ideology with historical ties to opposition to abolitionism in the 19th century, hostility towards Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs in the 1930s, and resistance to the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Christian nationalists, Stewart argues, falsely believe that America was founded on the Bible and vocally reject the principle of separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers of the United States, desiring instead to impose their version of theocracy and authoritarianism in its place, often by force.
Stewart first became interested in the subject in 2009, when she was directly confronted with the problem in her daughter’s public school, where Christian evangelicals were using after-school programs known as Good News Clubs to promote their religious goals and proselytize to children, with their ultimate aim of defunding and eliminating public education in the United States. Her experience led her to write the book The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (2012).[1] Stewart would later expand on this idea in The Power Worshipers, proposing that charter schools are used by the religious and free market fundamentalists alike to privatize government services, which serves to both propagandize right wing ideas and beliefs and to redirect funds from the public to the private sector. “This privatization, although it covers itself in libertarian rhetoric, is essential to the project of indoctrinating the next generation in the ‘right’ ideology and the right religion—with the added benefit of funneling public dollars into the pockets of right-thinking businessmen.”[2]
The book argues that Christian nationalism in the United States is far more than just a social movement focusing simply on culture war issues like abortion and gay marriage, but a highly organized and well funded political movement that seeks to replace secular, democratic values and institutions with conservative and religious ones, where the will to power takes precedence over religious, spiritual, and moral tenets of the Christian faith. Stewart presents a history of the movement, showing how in the 1970s, early right-wing Christian nationalism was less concerned with morality and more interested in fighting the IRS to maintain the tax-exempt status of their churches. This led to the rise of the New Right and their novel use of abortion by Jerry Falwell and others as a political issue to unify their side, even as many conservatives continued to support legal abortion until the 1990s. The Christian nationalist movement attracted major funding by plutocrats with similar goals, leading to their increasing control and eventual takeover of the Republican Party, starting with the election of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, and ending with the election of Donald Trump in 2016, who would successfully help members of the movement repeal legal abortion and open the door to the goals of Christian nationalism at the federal level with his anti-democratic, autocratic style, which represents a recrudescence of the divine right of kings, a notion supported by Christian nationalists, who believe that kings derive their authority from God, and cannot be held accountable by the rule of law.
Reviewers noted that Stewart’s book fills a niche on the subject of Christian nationalism in the United States, including previous work by Jeff Sharlet on The Fellowship in The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008) and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (2010);[3]Anne Nelson‘s investigation of the Council for National Policy in Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (2019); Gerardo Marti’s historical focus in American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency (2019); and Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry’s Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (2020).[4]
Yes, a female James Bond has been over a half-century in the making.
Before Lashana Lynch briefly donned the 007 title in “No Time to Die,” the film adaptation of “Dr. No,” a woman was in talks to lead the franchise 50 years prior.
In Nicholas Shakespeare’s upcoming biography of Bond author Ian Fleming, titled “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” it’s revealed that original “Casino Royale” producer Gregory Ratoff had imagined a woman in the titular lead role. In fact, Oscar-winning actress Susan Hayward was in Ratoff’s mind to take the part.
Prior to “Casino Royale,” the two Bond films had floundered with “Thunderball” and “Casino Royale” receiving poor reviews, hence the proposed gender-swap.
Shakespeare writes in the biography, “Since the mid-1950s, many well-known actors had been approached. Gregory Ratoff had the arresting idea of having Bond played by a woman, Susan Hayward. Ian had entertained several possibilities, from Richard Burton (‘I think that Richard Burton would be by far the best James Bond’), to James Stewart (‘I wouldn’t at all mind him as Bond if he can slightly anglicise his accent’), to James Mason (‘We might have to settle for him’).”
Hayward had appeared in “My Foolish Heart,” and “Smash Up, the Story of a Woman,” in which she played an alcoholic nightclub singer, a role she echoed in “I’ll Cry Tomorrow.” Hayward later played death row inmate Barbara Graham in “I Want to Live!” and won an Oscar. She also infamously starred in “Valley of the Dolls.”
Eventually, after considering Peter Finch, Cary Grant, Dirk Bogarde, Trevor Howard, Rex Harrison, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Roger Moore (who did end up playing Bond), and Richard Johnson, Sean Connery was cast.
“We tried twenty or thirty. No major actor would play the part for more than one picture, and we couldn’t set up a deal with a distributor without commitment from a main actor,” Fleming’s film agent Robert Fenn said.
However, when Fleming first met Connery, Fleming was “shocked because he couldn’t speak the Queen’s English,” according to Fenn. “Fleming said, ‘He’s not my idea of Bond at all, I just want an elegant man, not this roughneck,’” Fenn recalled.
Meanwhile, Bond producer Michael G. Wilson said looking back, “Sean Connery was the right guy in the movie for the right time. If it hadn’t been Sean, who knows? Would it have captured the attention of the whole world?”
Co-producer Barbara Broccoli agreed, adding of Connery, “It was the sheer self-confidence he exuded. He walked like the most arrogant son-of-a-gun, you’ve ever seen – as if he owned every bit of Jermyn Street from Regent Street to St James. ‘That’s our Bond,’ I said.”
Broccoli previously said in 2018 that Bond will always be “a male character. He was written as a male and I think he’ll probably stay as a male.”
She continued, “And that’s fine. We don’t have to turn male characters into women. Let’s just create more female characters and make the story fit those female characters.”
Former Bond actress Rosamund Pike challenged the franchise to “take one of the Bond Girls and give her her own story” instead of gender-swapping the lead. Fellow Bond star Ana de Armas said that “here shouldn’t be any need to steal someone else’s character” with a woman in the role.
The upcoming Bond reboot is rumored to be led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
“Ian Fleming: The Complete Man” will be released April 9 by HarperCollins.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract for an airfield on Tinian, a Pacific island military leaders consider crucial to their plans in the region.
Fluor, an engineering and construction company based in Irving, Texas, will receive about $409 million to finish the project within five years, the company announced April 10.
“For many Jordanians, any kind of support, help, and then demonstrations of support that they can get from the outside world, both to signal to the Israelis, but also to signal to their people that Jordan is strong, and it will cope is important,” Jones said. He added that many in Israel are also afraid of their countries’ actions negatively impacting relations with Jordan.
According to a press release by the British government, in February, the two countries gave four tonnes of supplies, including medicine, fuel, and food, to Tal Al-Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza. The supplies were bought by the UK and delivered by the Jordanian Air Force. In March, Jordan helped with another airdrop and delivery on land.
Mark Broderick Presco, and Victoria Mary Presco, did not tell me Vic and Rosemary Presco was dead – and dying! They did not tell me that our grandmother, Melba Charlott Wilkins – was dead. They did tell me Christine Rosamond Benton was dead – and Vickie invited me to Christine’s funeral. Stacey was told right away who was dead – and dying in my family because he high school friend told her. It was Jacci that told Stacey Christine was dead – in the Rosamond gallery. Jacci told me a month after the famous Rosamond was dead, she made an offer to buy the entire estate – and pay off the creditors! Vickie knew this – and so did Mark. My sibling said they couldn’t find Shannon Sidle, Christine’s eldest daughter to tell her her mother was dead. Shannon disagrees.
“They knew where I lived – and had my number!”
Two days ago I sent my family genealogy to the Mayor and City Council of Belmont about the abuse of our dead. They were hidden – for several years! What the hell is going on!!!!
Let’s begin by saying this is a Prime Truth…Vic and Rosemary would be irate, and sue people because of what was written about them in Snyder’s biography of Rosamond. I cncur this is a good start. Half of my natal family are in full agreement that Vickie and Mark and complete assholes, and two of the greatest villain’s the Art World has ever known. But then there is my daughter’s family. Shannon . Drew and I are the surviving family artists.
Above is a picture of me and my grandson, Tyler Hunt, walking down Mommy Lane. Heather told me all the mothers go here to show off their babies – and gossip! When Mark and Vickie saw this pic on my blog – they hissed! They knew I had won – THEIR DARK EVIL GAME – to rake in millions form the sale or art, and, with the making of the movie about Rosamond. Tyler and I are..
The Happy Ending!
What the others are, are….SECRET CREDITORS! Except for Garth Benton, who hated what he got, or, was getting in the Benton Divorce – which was just about to be finalized. This is the Alpha and Omega of AI Art.
“Hi Heather! Is this really your baby – and father?”
Victor was the son of Melba Charlotte (Broderick) Wilkin and Victor Hugo Presco. His father, born July 18, 1885, in Hartford, CT, died July 21, 1955, in San Francisco County, CA.
Victor and Rosemary Rosamond were married on September 17, 1944, in Reno, NV. In 1950, they were living in Concord, CA, with their three children, Marc B. (age 4), Jon G. (age 3), and Christine R. (age 2). Victor and Rosemary divorced as Rosemary had remarried by 1976.
He was laid to rest at Golden Gate National Cemetery on December 13, 1996.
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After being kidnapped and disappeared from my life for almost two years, my daughter gets pregnant by Ryan Hunt, who demands Heather Delpiano get an abortion! He doesn’t want to be married. He just wants to fuck my daughter, and back her getting some Rosamond Art Money – from somebody – and he doesn’t care who.
Ryan loves to drink allot of booze and do as much cocaine as he can get. Meanwhile, Tom Snyder is typing away, saying many vile things about Christine – and her parents – who are dead! Vicki Presco is happy as can be, because Robert Brevoort Buck and Sydney Morris have empowered her – along with non-family members – who are selling her share of the family partnership prints under the table. Stacey told me she has nothing to do with those Rosey images. Snyder tries to get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement – while pretending he wants my story, my version of how one gets Art Money.
Seeing outsiders are helping themselves to Art Money, Aunt Linda Comstock reasons she and her sister deserve some money – too! It turns out Linda wanted Heather to get an abortion because she wants her niece to fuck, and marry a millionaire – like she did! Linda may have some older men in mind who met Heather when she was fifteen.
Because Vicki is a Born Again Christian, she talks her eighteen year old niece into keeping the baby. Six months later I find out from Shamus Dundon, I am going to be a grandfather. He did not want to me to know, nor Vicki, because I asked good question about how Christine drowned.
Ryan Hunt does not show up at the hospital when my grandson is born. I go down to Santa Rosa as many times as I can afford – on the train – so there will be a male in Tyler’s life. Meanwhile, Stacy is in the Rosamond gallery telling customers she is the caretaker of the Family Art and Literature. She and her father are very pleased I am THE VILLAIN whose miracle has been destroyed.
Here is Alan Pierrot. Did he have conversations with Robert Brevoort Buck? Alan is a Nip&Tuck millionaire. They had a series about guys like him. When Netflix buys my Family Story I will use My Art Money to run for Republican President of the United States. I will exploit, and fuck-up – everyone! I will leave it all to Tyler Hunt!
John ‘Presidential Candidate’
Nip/Tuck is an American medical drama television series created by Ryan Murphy that aired on FX in the United States from July 22, 2003, to March 3, 2010. The series, which also incorporates elements of crime drama, black comedy, family drama, satire, and psychological thriller, focuses on “McNamara/Troy”, a cutting-edge, controversial plastic surgery center, and follows the personal and professional lives of its founders Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy (portrayed by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon, respectively). [2] Each episode features graphic, partial depictions of the plastic surgeries on one or more patients, as well as developments in the doctors’ personal lives. Focus is also given to McNamara/Troy’s anesthesiologistDr. Liz Cruz, Christian’s many sexual partners, and Sean’s family. With the exception of the pilot, each episode of the series is named after the patient(s) scheduled to receive plastic surgery.
Webmaster’s note: in German, Turnverein is a single word, and it means Gymnastics Club.
Per the Oregon History Project website under Ethnic Diversity in the City“Though Portland was described by journalists as a city dominated by native-born Americans, its ethnic diversity reflected that of most frontier cities. The proportion of foreign-born was less than in San Francisco, but by 1890, 59 percent of the population was either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent. After 1890, Oregon’s foreign-born increasingly concentrated in Portland, which became far more segmented by class and ethnic districts.
The Germans were the largest foreign-language ethnic group, with a conspicuous social presence at the Turnverein Hall at First and Ash, and the Arion Society, the local branch of a national singing club dedicated to bringing German classical music to America. The officers of the Turnverein in 1874 were working men, including barber A. Staender, bookkeeper Peter Wagner, as well as a saloon keeper and a porter. The officers of the Arion Society in 1889 included the foreman of a harness shop, the owner of a machine shop, a printer at the Freie Presse, and a police captain. The German Aid Society drew men of more means, including several German Jewish merchants as trustees. Through the 1880s, Germans from the first ward elected small businessmen to represent them on the city council.”
N.E. corner of 4th and Yamhill. Also known as “Turn Hall” or the “Scandinavian Socialists Hall”, this was the site of a pioneering lecture on homosexuality. In August 1915, Emma Goldman was on her West Coast tour of the United States talking about birth control, socialism, Russian drama, Frederick Nietzsche, and included a lecture entitled, “The Intermediate Sex.” This was a contemporary term for homosexuals popularized by her contemporary and friend Edward Carpenter, who had published a book by the same name a few years earlier. Incredibly, the Oregonian published advertising of the event, and also covered in detail the controversy surrounding her arrest in Portland during the same lecture tour on charges of distributing “obscene” birth control literature.
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Emma Goldman’s series of lectures given in Portland, Oregon, are advertised on a handbill published August 1, 1915. Courtesy of the Emma Goldman Papers.
Oregon Journal January 11, 1936, page 12
Research by GLAPN has discovered that one woman in particular, Mrs. Josephine Devore Johnson (wife of the prominent City Attorney for Oregon City, William Carey Johnson) instigated the City’s attempt to shut down Goldman’s soapbox. In a letter in William Warren, Secretary to Portland’s Mayor Albee, Johnson wrote: “Please present to the Mayor, the protest of myself and others against permitting Emma Goldman the anarchist from continuing her propaganda of atheism, anarchy and free love in this city to the extent and manner that she has planned…
Last year we who are kindly protesting, reported to the Mayor’s office, as he will doubtless remember the substance of Goldman lectures of the 1914 mission, those being practically the same as those of this year; and in consequence detectives were sent to the meetings to gather evidence, and in the end Miss Goldman and her manager, Reitman, were ordered out of the city. This cut short an advertised plan to have Miss Goldman deliver a six weeks’ course of lectures and to found an anarchist colony here, (similar to that on Puget Sound) all under the patronage of certain distinguished citizens.
This year the Goldman lectures continue the former lectures of atheism, anarchy and free love and emphasize what was introduced last year for the first time, “Birth Control.” Last year (which finally drew the city’s authorities attention), she was openly advocating to a mixed audience the use of certain precautions of conception to be bought in the drugstores; which communication was contrary to the law and against the public good.
This year the “lecture” course of Miss Goldman contains the “birth control” lecture (for Friday evening next) and supplements this, for the first time, by distributing at other lectures (as last Tuesday night at Col. C.E.S. Wood’s lecture on this anarchist Schmitt and Caplan, whom he expects to defend in the court, which lecture preceded Miss Goldman’s) printed leaflets containing specific directions for preventing conceptions, including articles to be bought at the drugstore. Such directions cannot be passed through the mail or printed in a book as is well known, and the distribution of them constitutes an unlawful act.
This year Miss Goldman has a new lecture (to be delivered next Saturday night, called “A Study in Homosexuality.”) She defined this to an inquirer as being the advocacy of self-use, that is, “self-abuse.” This advocacy is a new and startling note, and one that cannot be struck in the city without question being asked as to how it is permitted. I am taking it for granted that it will not be permitted for the certain above-described literature to be circulated long or… it to be publicly treated of, or for the last mentioned unspeakable suggestion to be more than made (There are some young boys who attend Miss Goldman’s lectures. And there is being an effort made through the “Collegiate Socialist Club,“ I believe to bring out the “intellectual” people through complimentary tickets. So it is especially detrimental to permit this propaganda.)
The suggestion that we make to you is for you to send from your force person who will give you full and accurate stenographic reports of Miss Goldman’s lectures of Friday and Saturday (perhaps sitting in the gallery to be inconspicuous) in order to obtain absolute and full evidence to be used by your office and also for a larger purpose, if you permit. The following are the lecture that we desire to refer to particularly,
Friday, August 7 The Birth Control (with instructions)
Saturday, August 8 – The Intermediate Sex (A Study of Homosexuality)
We would advice [sic] for the sake of gathering complete evidence, Miss Goldman be permitted to deliver both of the above lectures, and if she is stopped, it ought to be at the close of the second lecture (which certainly ought not to be repeated in this city).”
Although the above letter suggests that the police may have been present taking notes of her lecture, no such notes have been found in the City Attorney’s records at the Portland City Archives, and no copies of her lecture “The Intermediate Sex” are known to exist. We do know from Goldman’s autobiography, Living My Life, however, that her lecture was an extraordinary defense of the homosexual to live his/her life without society’s stigmatization. Goldman reports that “sexual inverts” used to stop and talk to her after her presentation, and they confessed to feeling “freed” by her talk. She described these people as being “of finer grain than those who’ve cast them out.” At the same time, her anarchist colleagues tried to pressure her to stop speaking on the subject, because “they felt that anarchists were already suspect as a class,” and they didn’t want any additional antagonism from society. These attempts to censor Emma Goldman made her even bolder and more resolved to see anarchism became a “freeing spirit” in every aspect of life including sexuality.
Check out other articles: Oregonlive article link Oregon’s Trails: Firebrand Emma Goldman left mark in Portland.
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I applaud the efforts of Crafted by Belmont Poet Laureate Monica Korde. She is doing a fantastic job in calling Belmontese to the World of Poetry – with Save the World side show? Monica gave me a warm and curious greeting after I sent her an e-mail with this poem. I promised her J.R. Tolkien. How about Christina Rosetti? Eureka! I found her in an one of Joaquin Miller’s play at Woodminster. Miller befriended the Rossetti family, and admire Michael newspaper The Germ. I discovered the Pre-Raphalites i 1969 and had a vision of my family founding a Poetry and Art Association. When I discovered my grandfather founded Gem Publishing, it was a miracle! I put an r in Gem. The cap and Rossetta Stone was applied when my aunt Lillian sent me her father’ correspondence with Otto Rayburne who published Arcadian Magazine. Otto asks Royal to pass a form to a 100 of his poet friends in California.
Royal Rosamond was a good friend of Otto Rayburne, the Ozark Historian, and appears in Vance Randolph’s ‘Ozark Folklore’. Tom’s daughter, Jessie Benton, married Folk Musician, Mel Lyman, who contacted Woodie Guthrie. Mel played in the Kweskin Jug Band. He is wearing a captain’s hat in this video.
Artist and Muralist, Jirayr Zorthian, was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton. Zorthian was given the title ‘The Last Bohemian’. Christine and I lived with the Zorthian sisters in a commune in San Francisco, with Nancy Hamren. Then there is the Kesey Family, Thomas Pynchon and Mary Ann Tharaldsen. Jack London and George Sterling, the Carmelites, all on a Quest. Over there – Tortilla Flats.
I just found a Zorthian mural that shows Charles Quint staring down – Tlaquiach and Tlalchiac? Garth Benton would have been the man to call to fix any damage to his kindred’s mural. Garth sued his friend, Gordon Getty, for painting over his mural in their home, that was designed to be taken down.
On April 17, 2014, I found a Pre-Raphaelite Grail at the Lane County Historical Society, that hopefully will change the way we look at things today, and the way we live and communicate with one another. I beheld the beautiful master plan put forth by the Miller Brother Prophets, who are right out of the Lord of the Rings.
What I discovered was a pamphlet announcing Joaquin Miller Day. A musical drama was performed at the Woodminster Amphitheater on September 24, 1944. There was going to be the planting of memorial redwood trees around the equestrian statue of Joaquin Miller. On stage was a replica of the studio and garden used by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. The Poet, Christina Rossetti was played by Jeanne Jardin. Elizabeth Siddal Hunt’s model and muse is played by Helen Kraum. Carmencita Sanchez and her Mexican dancers, performed. In Scene Two we have the Bonaparte and Queen Victoria.
When we were children we would call up Juanita Miller who we knew as ‘The White Witch’. She gave advice if you had problems. At thirteen, Bill Arnold, Nancy Hamren, and myself adopted the Beat Scene, Jack London and George Sterling, and as Hippies we understood Joaquin Miller was the source of our Bohemianism that some claim is the fastest growing religion in the world. In Eugene Oregon there is a worship of Ken Kesey. Now add to this the images of the Pre-Raphaelites and J.R. Tolkien, and you have the most powerful imagery outside of the Christian Church.
But, we are not done! Joaquin Miller was approached by Japanese Poets who asked if they could live with Joaquin and treat him like their master. There were several Japanese houses built on ‘The Hights’ that was also named ‘The Fremont Ranch’. Fremont is in my family tree because he married Jessie Benton whose father was the proprietor of the Oregon Territory. My later sister was the world-famous artist, Christine Rosamond Benton who had a gallery in Carmel a Art Colony that Elsie Martinez and her husband help found.
Joaquin Miller had dinner at Rossetti and ate with many of the Pre-Raphaelites. I suspect William Morris was present. In 1969 I began to render images on furniture after Morris whose novel ‘The House of Wolfings’ was the main inspiration for Tolkien.
Crafted by Belmont Poet Laureate Monica Korde, the latest addition to this year’s “Project POETRY 360” initiatives is an interactive installation at the Belmont Library urging community members to share uplifting personal sentiments or messages directed towards the Earth and centered around the theme “Planet vs. Plastic.”
At the project’s conclusion, a collective poem will be crafted using all contributed words and messages. Drop by the Belmont Library throughout April 2024 to witness the development of this community endeavor and be a part of a poetic creation for National Poetry Month 2024.
Music, Taljk; and Dancing Mark Completion of Temporary Home
BIG ATTENDANCE
With music end speeches the ttmpo; rary San Franclseo Turn Verein If all, 853 Turk street, was formally dedicated Sunday night, and In the presence of a large aasembly of members the keys of the new building were presented by the president ofthe building committee to the’ first president- of the association. After the exercises had been, brought to a. close the -remainder of the evening was spent in j dancing. Cigars and refreshments were served and everything possible . wa.s done to make, the occasion one of enjoyment for all present. – No sooner had the earthquake and fire destroyed the – old hall than the members of the San Francisco Turn Verein j began to plan the erection of another building.; On. the Friday following, the earthquake a meeting was held.for that purpose and committees were appointed. to look after the work. The new building would have been completed some time ago but for the scarcity of lumber. • , “, ■”, ‘
The present building will serve all the purposes of the organisation until the new,’ expensive structure, work on which will be commenced almost immediately, is completed. .Then the’present hall will be used simply as a gymnasium. ..:;. :: /.; ;
The building committee having in charge the construction of the new hall consists of John Slmmen, ‘• president; William Plagemano and Hans V*ronl. The board of trustees consists of Fran* Acker, president; Paul Leonhardt. Hans VeronJ, psear Hooka and Charles Wolters.:’. V:” .’: ‘ ‘; ‘ : ‘ . .’ . . . ■ ‘7- :
The San Francisco Turn. Veraln. was organized in 1.853 and is the oldest association of its kind on .\the. Pacific Coast. Th» , main building, which Is soon : tQ b$ erected, will be 70×70 feet and will be three stories in height It will cost about?2o,ooo.
. BELMONT PARK! a THE PUBLIC, WHO WISH TO spend a few hours pleasantly, are invited to visit BELMONT PARK, located in a BEAUTIFUL GROVE at the entrance of Cafiun Diablo, ibout 25 miles from San Francisco, one hour’s ride >n the Ban Francisco and San June Railroad, and about 300 yards from the Depot at Belmont. The Proprietor. MR. C. JANKE, is a Herman, ilso proprietor of Turn-Verein Hal!. San Francisco, Having bad many years experience in beautifying places of amusement, feels confident that this PARK is more attractive than any other place in California, and will be completed on the lit day of May. U is hotel is built around a very large OAK TREE, near a fine stream of water surrounded by large >aks and shrubbery, with winding stairs up and platforms in many of the trees. The ground is properly laid out in order, with tables, seats, » to., and son tains about 30 acres; the dance hall is largeand veil arranged ; the bar well lupplied with chetce iqunm; suites of rooms and meals at all hours. Mu.’ic for danciDg will be at this place at all times ‘hen the Han Francisco and San Joai Railroad >mpany run excursion trains. Belmont. April 15. 1864. iplo-tf
Governor Ron DeSantis needs to condemn the Oath keepers and other Traitors who admit they were doing Trump’s bidding when they stormed the Capital in an act Seditious Conspiracy. Descants must take The Iron Clad Oath to prove he is loyal to John Fremont, the first Republican candidate for President. Trump’s promised to pardon these illegal and seditious militias. This is a violent threat to all loyal Americans. Less than half of Florida Voters – are Democrats. They need to be protected by a Lawful Governor, not a Outlaw Governor!
My ancestors were wealthy Prussians. Were they investors in Prussia’s attempt to purchase California, that did not happen possibly due to the Revolutions of 1848? Did some Germans realize California could be had by a intensive migration? The six million dollars could be used to buy portable homes, and other necessities. The chances Count Cipriani purchased a portable home from Carl Janke, is high. Unless he brought one in his wagon train.
The Jankes were members of the California Fusiliers. Did they have any contact with my kin, John Fremont, who was talked out of founding a new nation in the West during the Civil War. Consider the Manifest Destiny propaganda of his father-in-law and John Astor, who paid Washington Irving to author a propaganda novel that clamed the right of Americans to take the Oregon Territory – from BRITISH ROYALS. Astor launched a financial conquest of China – that could be the model for China today! If they take over Central America, will they manufacture Chinese cocaine after exterminating the criminal cartel and all gangs south of the border? Texans would be – pleased as punch! As long as China does not take away their right not to wear masks – or their guns! What about – their God? China could get its powerful think tank to invent a Cocaine Jesus for anti-Democratic cult followers, who will honor the day the Democrats cheated them our of their birth right with fake elections. To the Chinese, we look like members of a superstitious Cargo Cult, we easy pickens when it comes to….Divide and Conquer. Our tribal system is open to covert bribes, pitting one tribe against another tribe.
On November 29, 1858, M.C. Blake, County Judge of San Francisco County, appointed Major Isaac Rowell to enroll members in a volunteer military company to be known as the California Fusileers. The name fusileer (or fusilier) originally applied to a soldier armed with a fusil. In the British Army the designation Fusiliers is still retained by ten regiments distinguished from the other regiments of the line only by wearing a kind of busby and other peculiarities in costume.
Accordingly on December 9, 1858, Major Rowell presided at the meeting and superintended the election of officers of this new organization. F. G. E. Tittel was elected Captain and Peter Lesser, First Lieutenant. The company was composed almost entirely of German citizens of San Francisco and was a well drilled unit.
Their first recorded appearance in public was in connection with the elaborate military reception tendered to General Winfield Scott on October 18, 1859. Governor Weller and other dignitaries attended the reception and tendered their respect to the famous hero of the Mexican Campaign. (1)
The path of the California Fusileers proved to be rough and rather stormy for in the latter part of 1863, a bitter feud between Captain Tittel and Colonel West, commanding the First Regiment of Infantry, culminated in the refusal of Colonel West to deliver uniforms to Company E, California Fusileers as long as Captain Tittel was in command. When Captain Tittel was promoted to Colonel of the Sixth Infantry Regiment, First Lieutenant John Obeneimer made a new demand to Colonel West for their uniforms.
The Colonel again refused to deliver the uniforms until the company should show that their bona fide active members were sufficient to comply with the law, and that the officers evinced a disposition to do their duty and obey proper orders and regulations. In reply to this letter, the Lieutenant urged the Colonel to prefer charges against him if he had been negligent in duty or disobeyed orders. The Lieutenant was a “fighter” evidently, for he not only contradicted the Colonel but he took the matter up with Brigadier-General Ellis, who then ordered.an inspection of the company by Major Hill on December 10, 1863. The inspection showed their arms and equipirient in good and serviceable order, their books well kept but in German language, the discipline of the company good and their drill passable. Thirty-seven members were in old and badly worn uniforms, and seven without any uniforms. These uniforms belonged to the old company and were private property.
The records do not reveal the outcome of the strife, but it is assumed that the unit received their uniforms for soon after the passing of the Inspection, the California Fusileers were transferred to the Sixth Infantry Regiment, Second Brigade as Company A. The Colonel of this Regiment was the California Fusileers’ first Captain (F. C. E. Tittel) and no doubt the new assignment ended the ill-feeling between Colonel West and the California Fusileers.
With the conclusion of the Civil War the need for a large militia force was lessened and the Legislature passed a law reducing the number of the militia. This law provided for the organization of a Board of Organization and Location. The duty of this Board was to select companies that were to be mustered out, their selection being decided according to local requirements, ability.to concentrate on short notice, and the ability to meet the standards required regarding efficiency and enrollment of individual companies. It is assumed the California Fusileers was mustered out because of their location in relation to military need, since a large number of companies were mustered out in San Francisco for that reason. Their mustering out occurred on July 23, 1866.
The Armory Hall at Sacramento and Montgomery Streets, home of the California Fusiliers.
Photos: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
1849: Badly drawn paintings of nude women adorn the walls of the best cafes in the city. Prostitutes begin to arrive from the east. They are frequently auctioned off from the decks of the arriving ships. Cafe owners often hire them to pose nude in displays in the dining halls. Gambling houses were everywhere. At the El Dorado it was reported that $80,000 once changed hands on the turn of a single card. Liquor and female companionship were often provided free of charge by the house as an incentive to frequent patrons.
May 4, 1975 – January 9, 1976 Barbary Coast is a short-lived American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. One of the episodes didn’t even air in it’s entirety. President Ford gave about a twenty minute spech at the top of the hour and Monday Night Football had to start at the next hour, so when they joined it in progress, an announcer quickly described what the audience missed. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama.
At 7:40 A.M. on August, 6, 2022, I discovered articles written about my German Ancestor, by Jack London. He testifies to Grand Marshal Robert Wienke leading an army of Goths against Rome. My grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, was born of the Wienke family who contributed a Father and three Nuns to Order of Saint Francis that fled Germany. I have found a Lost Generation and Kingdom. The German influence in America was immense. Due to the two world wars, the history of the German American was oppressed, and, went into hiding. My mother did not know who the people are in the top photo. She said they were my father’s people “Bohunks” she believed. There is a rifle in one of the trees. I believe this photo was taken in Twin Peaks Park in Belmont.
This is an astounding Literary Discovery, being, John Fremont co-founded the Republican Party with the help of German Immigrants. A group of people are forming a new Republican party due to the evangelical radicals who came out of the Red Slave States. These Germans fought the Confederacy. Gavin Newsom has declared Cultural Warfare against proponents of Christian Nationalism that is born of Neo-Nazis and Neo-Confederates who took over Fremont’s party. To have London mention my Wieneke kin and the Turnverein Rifle events the Jankes took part in, is to say…..
In one of the film’s final scenes, M picks up a book and delivers a eulogy: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
If you’re wondering about the origin of those lines, look no further — but fair warning, there will be spoilers ahead. The lines that M reads come from Jack London, the 20th-century American novelist best known for adventure books like “The Call of the Wild” and “The Sea Wolf.” The passage was first published in the San Francisco Bulletin in 1916, which said that the author “is known to have said these words, just two months before his death, to a group of friends with whom he was discussing life and living.”
The Goths have entered Rome! Aye, it is so. But there was no cry in the night, no clamor of hasty flight, no scurrying with household gods to the citadel. Rather, did San Francisco throw wide her gates and fraternize with her Teutonic invaders. On the other hand, these descendants of the Germanic tribesmen who swept down out of the forests of middle Europe some two thousand years ago, are quite unlike their savage forebears.
Grand Marshal Robert Weineke, for all that he had done, was honored by the addition of another badge to the many on his coat. But he was not alone, for the breasts of the President and the group about him on the platform were bespangled and blazing with innumerable medals. It was a martial scene, and it dissolved in true martial manner to the rattle of drums, the unisoned tramp of feet and ringing German cheers.
Here is the e-mail I sent Gavin Newson, the Governor of California.
Dear Governor; I am kin to all members of the Getty family via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and thus all the Gettys are kin to Ian Fleming the author of James Bond novels. I began my own Bond novel ‘The Royal Janitor’ three years ago. The newest Bond movie has been delayed for over a year due to the Coronavirus. There many not be any profits from this movie. Hollywood must be hurting.
Today, I founded the European Union Kingdom of Helgoland, and made Harry and Meghan Windsor the titular King and Queen of this amazing island. I have suggested this royal couple read the names of the Knights of the Garter whose cote of arms are found in the stalls of Saint George Chapel where both Princess Diana’s sons got married. In researching Queen Califia, a African pagan, it occurred to me that Megan could play her in a movie, a propaganda movie aimed at weakening the threat of China. My 9th. grandfather is buried in Saint Georges and has a stall. His son was the Puritan leader, John Wilson.
I just had a vison: As Meghan and Harry take turns reading the list outside their home in Montecito, one by one – they appear – the Knights of the Garter of Saint George. Suddenly, Meghan is transformed into the ancient pagan queen who ruled California. Her court of beautiful Amazons are startled to see these English Knights, and a battle looks eminent. Just then, three ancient Chinese Knights appear – from the past. They are the Dragons of Buddha. They plead for peace, and ask for the Queen and King of Helgoland to help defeat the oppressive rulers of China, and restore the beautiful rituals that made China famous.
My kin, Carl Janke, was a Pioneer of Belmont. His sons wore the flag of the California Fusiliers that were a legitimate militia. Today is Archie Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday. He lives in California. He will soon have a sibling – that will be born in California. His mother has been in great distress due to royal protection not provided her child – and his parents.
What I suggest, is, you reform the California Fusiliers, and have them be bodyguards to all the Windsors who have migrated to our beloved State. They will be financed by The Movie Lottery you will establish, where many citizens of all nations, can purchase stock in all movies made in Hollywood – before they are made! The common people who love Movie Goddesses, can read a synopsis of a script, and purchase a ticket in advance. When the movie comes out, they are given a free ticket to another movie. I see three sequels to California and Her Knights. Contact Meg Whitman to see if she could help make all this possible.
Grandly Opens the Third National Bundes Shooting Fest
San Francisco Examiner/July 15, 1901
Author of “Son of Wolf” Describes Great Invasion
Peaceful Conquest by the German Sharpshooters
Parade Promptness
One of the Most Picturesque Processions This City Has Seen
The Goths have entered Rome! Aye, it is so. But there was no cry in the night, no clamor of hasty flight, no scurrying with household gods to the citadel. Rather, did San Francisco throw wide her gates and fraternize with her Teutonic invaders. On the other hand, these descendants of the Germanic tribesmen who swept down out of the forests of middle Europe some two thousand years ago, are quite unlike their savage forebears. They are not clad in the skins of wild beasts, and though they bear weapons in their hands, we do not fear; for they come not in war, but in love; not as foes, but as blood-brothers. And though their ancestors of old time looted many a fair city, we need keep no anxious eye upon our possessions. We have but one thing which they might appropriate, and which they surely would appropriate if they were able—and that is our climate.
It was a unique parade, that which passes through San Francisco’s peaceful streets Sunday forenoon. Beneath fluttering banners and between packed rows of spectators, to the martial music of band and fife and drum, marched two thousand men, and picked men all. Not since our own “Californias” has so splendid a body of men been in our midst. And picked men they certainly are, picked from all the States, these men of the shooting clubs, these sharpshooters, these Schützenbrüder.
Men from the cities and men from the fields and forests; riflemen and sharpshooters from the Eastern centers, and hunters and fighters from the plains and mountains of the West. From Montana, Idaho, Arizona and Colorado, from Chicago, New York and Boston, and even from Europe they have come to take part in the Third National Bundes Shooting Festival. They are skillful men, eagle-eyed and steady of nerve, who have won trophies everywhere—gun experts and crowned kings of the target, to say nothing of princes and knights galore, who have demonstrated their fitness in rifle ranges the world over, and who have come together here, by the shores of the Pacific, in friendly contest.
Promptly at the target The Examiner’s siren the parade swung into motion from the corner of Market and New Montgomery streets; and right here, in passing, it is meet to state that promptness pre-eminently characterizes these riflemen. No delays; no lagging. They achieve the impossible feat of doing everything on schedule time.
Grand Marshal Robert Weineke led the long column of many divisions, and with the assistance of innumerable aides on gaily caparisoned horses, went over the line of march in splendid order. The route was up Market to City Hall Avenue, around the Lick monument, countermarch on Market to Kearny, to California, to Montgomery and down Market to the Oakland ferry.
The banners were many and beautiful, but it was the uniforms that especially caught the eye. Gray and green predominated. And it is indeed a pretty sight, a body of stalwart men clad in the traditional hunting green, with black drooping plumes of ostrich in their dark slouch hats. But with the recent developments of the machinery of warfare in one’s mind, one would not forbear looking a second time at the unobtrusive, inconspicuous grays. They would surely conceal more easily a sharpshooter’s movements at a time when discovery would mean to invite a whirlwind of death-dealing missiles. And the grays were pretty, too—in fact, all the uniforms were neat and tasty.
From the ferry a special boat, and from the Oakland mole a special train, carried the sharpshooters to Shell Mound Park. And there, at 12 noon, to the stroke, Captain F. A. Kuhls, President of the Shooting Bund, made the opening address. This part of the programme took place in the big pavilion, with the furled standards swaying beneath golden eagles of victory and the marksmen leaning picturesquely on their rifles.
Grand Marshal Robert Weineke, for all that he had done, was honored by the addition of another badge to the many on his coat. But he was not alone, for the breasts of the President and the group about him on the platform were bespangled and blazing with innumerable medals. It was a martial scene, and it dissolved in true martial manner to the rattle of drums, the unisoned tramp of feet and ringing German cheers.
Then the great crowd scattered and spread over the grounds in quest of restaurants or quiet places where hampers and lunch baskets might be opened, and also in quest of that national beverage that made Milwaukee famous.
At 1 o’clock sharp President F. A. Kuhls opened the great shooting contest by firing three shots into the air. The first was “for our adopted country,” the second “for the old Fatherland,” and the third “for the commonweal of the National Shooting Bund.”
At once followed a wild scramble for the honor of making the first bull’s-eye, and the hasty firing only eased down when loud cheers proclaimed the lucky individual.
Then what seemed like an indiscriminate fusillade set in. There were so many targets and so many shooting boxes that the whole thing seemed confused and disorderly. That there was any sanity about it, an adjacent lady could not be convinced. “How does anybody know anything?” she demanded excitedly, her voice pitched high in order to get above the roar of the guns. “Who is shooting? What are they scoring? Who is judging? Who is keeping track? And where are the targets?”
Nay, she could not see them. There were no targets. Preposterous! But a young fellow in the uniform of the United States artillery calmed her apprehensions after a quarter of an hour of endeavor, whereupon she undertook the hopeless task of re-explaining everything to her grandfather.
And well might she be forgiven her minutes of anxiety lest the whole shooting contest had gone to smash. At first glance it was indeed hard to locate the targets amid the maze of timbers and uprights that studded the range. Besides, two hundred yards is not to [be] sneezed at, and a black bull’s-eye at that distance does not appear over large.
What really gave the impression of disorder, however, was the smoothness with which the machinery was running. The whole trouble was subjective. There was no evidence of the mind of some man behind and directing it all; no creaking of the wheels, as it were; but gradually, as one grew accustomed, order began to appear out of chaos. Each man was firing in turn. The shooting secretaries were at their posts; and down at the far end of the range the targets were constantly being replaced, and the long-handled spotters and vari-colored flags of the markers were indicating the scores as fast as they were made.
And in this manner did the ten days’ contest commence; and not only is it the greatest shooting festival California has ever had, but it is the greatest ever held in the United States. It might well put the tournaments of the Middle Ages to scorn; for in those same Middle Ages it is to be doubted if knights ever jousted for as princely prizes or for honors more highly esteemed and verily, in those days it was a rare knight who fared three thousand miles or more to a tilting match.
The glittering array of prizes in the Temple of Gifts cost not a cent less than $100,000, while the honor that accompanies them is something that cannot be measured by worldly and commercial standards. Yes; the standards are quite different from those of old time. Here at the Bundesfest they will crown a man king. He will be a common-man king, crowned not because of what his father or grandfather chanced to do, but crowned because of the things he himself has done; and to be king of American riflemen; to possess the steadiest nerve, the keenest eye, the finest and subtlest judgment, and to be so adjudged by one’s own fellows —surely this is finer and bigger than to sit vacuously in a high place because, forsooth, some greater and stronger robber-ancestor ground a people under the iron heel.
And while the sires and sons and husbands and brothers line up at the firing butts their womenkind and children are not a whit behind in enjoying themselves. All over the big grounds is frolicking and merrymaking of young and old; children in the swings and on the hobby-horses; lusty young fellows doing the giant swing on the bars or striking with the heavy mallet till they ring the bell three clips out of four; and then, since there are many men to shoot and only so many targets, there is dancing going on at both pavilions, and it must be confessed the floors are crowded with whirling couples. Everywhere is the clink of glasses to genial laughter, while over all, ringing and reverberating throughout the place, are the rifles. And for ten days without intermission, with balls, receptions and concerts in the evenings, this will continue. This is the Schützenfest.
The works of Jack London and other major journalists are freely available from The Archive of American Journalism: www.historicjournalism.com
On April 14, 2021 I posted on Jack London’s connection to Ian Fleming and James Bond. With the release of ‘No Time To Die’ that post has proved very prophetic. It was my goal to ground Ian Fleming and my Bond book in Belmont California co-founded by my great grandfather, Carl Janke. I was met with opposition that will be in my book ‘The London Eulogy’.
With the discovery Jack London lived and worked in Belmont, I have grounded my life’s work, and the creative direction of several generations of my family. who were Belmont Pioneers. And San Francisco Pioneers who helped found Fruit Vale that became a part of Oakland.
Jack London helped found the City of Carmel with the help of George Serling who was a founder of the Bohemian Club. My sister Rosamond had two galleries in Carmel. I bring my grandfather genetic DNA to Belmont where I found this day ‘The Belmont Bohemians’. I bring Ludwig Wittgenstein to Belmont. Like London and Martin, he was a philosopher. Edgar Albee said you got to fight for your bench. I own Belmont in a Literary Way.
This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.
Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight Babcock, Eric Taylor and Dashiell Hammett. In the front row, again from left to right, are Arthur Barnes (?), John K. Butler, W. T. Ballard, Horace McCoy and Norbert Davis.
Rosemary told me her father, Royal Rosamond, used to sail to the Channel Islands and camp with his friend, Dashiell Hammett who is seen standing on the right in the photo above.
Aunt Lillian told me she would fall asleep listening to Royal and Erle Stanley Gardner on the typewriter in the living room. Royal was Gardner’s teacher and a member of the Black Mask. I believe I can almost recoginize Black Mask authors under the tree on Santa Cruz Island sitting under a tree with my grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, who does not look very happy as she embraces a black dog. Who is that woman? Is she a writer? She looks a bit crazed, as does the guy holding a gun. Is Mary hearing some far-out and weird ideas around the campfire?
When I was fifteen Rosemary showed me about six magazines wherein her father’s stories appeared. There were several mysteries. I am going to send the camping photo to some experts. That looks like Raymond Chandler in front of the tent. Is he the guy packing heat?
Hammett wrote the Maltese Falcon that begins with a story about the Knight Templars. Was this a tale passed around the campfire on Santa Cruz Island?
The child plays The toy boat sails across the pond The work now has just begun Oh child Look what you have done.
I could not believe Rosemary had given me her father’s ship lanterns that once hung in the cabin of his sail boat. It was the last tour we would take together of the secret treasures that lie at the bottom of her cedar chest. My mother let me thumb through several issues of Out West magazine while telling me her father was a writer and a poet, but, she never let me read the work of a man I never met, never saw face to face. When my best friend, Bill Arnold, told me Rosemary had shown him the evidence Royal Rosamond was a writer, I was puzzled, and jealous. What gives?
Jack London studied Communism. I guessed at what the wharf area of Belmont looed like when I had Victoria Rosamond Bond, and Miriam Starfish Christling come to Belmont to investigate the California Barrel. Company. Jack’s parents were psychics, I believe involved in Remote Viewing. Company. I saw the coming War of Words between the United States and China. I posted on the facebook of Jon Rosamond yesterday. I introduced him to the Sea Lord Caspar John who is the son of the artist, Augustus John, who is kin to Ian Fleming. The Bohemian Ghost (Caspar) fleet has landed in Bohemian Belmont. The knight under White Mountain – ride out to meet the enemy!
When I began the Royal Janitor I founded a THINK TANK – my think tank! It sits at the end of this wharf in Bohemian Belmont. There is a fading sign facing the Bay….
Here is a fantastic article about my great grandfather, Carl Janke, rebuilding the Turn Verein Hall that was destroyed in the infamous 1906 Earthquake! Wow! This makes all members of my family SURVIVORS of one of the greatest Historic Events – IN HISTORY!!!!
Too bad I can’t post it on the Belmont Historical Society because I have been banned because I threatened all of the members that I would go to the Mayor of Belmont. Did they think I was going to get them in trouble – for not giving me a warm greeting, and inviting me to MC events at the next Oktoberfest! I’m gong to write the German Consulate and tell them how my plan to esteem the German People of the Bay Area was thwarted. I mean, other races from other nations are honored.
My mother’s favorite movie is Gone With The Wind, followed by ‘San Francisco. My father looked like Jimmy Stuart when young, and a bit like Clark. Vic was born in San Francisco. After THREATENING to make a movie about Belmont, on the Mayor’s facebook, he took down all my posts, and banned me! I was still being a BAD BOY, a roguish rebel who does not want to go along with the program. My history must be taken from me, and I sent to Siberia-Mont.
Rosemary Rosamond’s favorite movie of all time, is ‘Withering Heights’. She died knowing nothing of our roots in Belmont, where Carl – was just like Clark! She did not know we are kin to Robert-E. Lee. With Lawrence Ferlinghetti out of the way – I’m the King of San Francisco. See?
This morning I awoke, and felt THEM combing through this blog – to really get something on me. They gleefully found some real dirt – and have taken it to The Mayor!
“We found some good shit, your honor. Mr. Presco has an inflamed ego – out the here!’
“Who does he think he is – GOD!”
“Exactly! He’s been playing GOD with us. But, he’s a scallywag and a cad!”
Below is a photo of Janke’s descendants at General Vallejo’s house. Then at the Janke crypt. This family built, and helped rebuild – SAN FRANCISCO! Hit it boys!
Wait a minute! Hold your horses! I think ‘Sweet Home Belabama’ should be a musical!
Unfaithful, too striking… why William Morris’s wife was painted out of the Arts and Crafts movement
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Jane Morris’s creative influence on her husband’s design empire has finally been revealed in a new book
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Revered for his textiles, his art and his socialism, William Morris is the celebrated leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, a renowned intellectual who revolutionised decorative art and design in Britain. His wife, Jane, meanwhile, has been relegated to the status of a silent muse.
Now, the first joint biography of the couple will shine a light on their personal and creative partnership, and reassert the rightful place of Jane Morris – a skilled embroiderer and talented designer – in the history books.
“Jane’s work has been undervalued and generally ignored,” said Suzanne Fagence Cooper, author of the forthcoming biography, How We Might Live. “She is seen as just a face and not as a maker with her own ideas.”
THOU rose-land! Oakland! thou, mine own! Thou sun-land! leaf-land! land of seas Wide crescented in walls of stone! Thy lion’s mane is to the breeze! Thy tawny, sunlit lion steeps Leap forward, as the lion leaps!
And thou, the lion’s whelp, begot Of Argonauts, in fearful strength And supple beauty yieldeth naught! Thine arm is as a river’s length. Thy reach is foremost! Thou shalt be The throned queen of this vast west sea!
Yet here sits peace; and rest sits here; These wide-boughed oaks, they house wise men: The student and the sage austere, The men of wondrous thought and ken. Here men of God in holy guise Invoke the peace of paradise.
Be this my home till some fair star Stoops earthward and shall beckon me; For surely Godland lies not far From these Greek heights and this great sea. My friend, my lover, trend this way; Not far along lies Arcady.
Remarks: My father was the first to bring portable houses to the city. I believe two were erected where Sherman & Clays Music store now stands (Sutter & Kearney). One on Montgomery Street on part of the lot now occupied by the D.O Mills building and two on Folsom Street near First All were covered with slate roofs.My two brothers wore the flag of the Old Fusilier Guard. A building company called California Fusiliers (German) of which Colonel Little was the captain.My father also built and managed the first Turn Verein Hall situated on Bush Street near Powell. The hall was dedicated Christmas Eve and all the people of note in the city attended the exercises.
I am heir to the literary kingdoms of Tolkien, Fleming, and London. When I searched the internet for a replacement muse of Rena Easton, I gasped when I saw the three photographs of Lara Roozemond. If she was born in another time, and she came upon them, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood would have fought bloody battles over her. Would Joaquin Miller join the fray?
There is a debate over the source of the name Rosamond. Some say it means “rose mouth”. Lara’s lips are like rose blossoms.
Dinner at Rossetti’s by Joaquin Miller ________________________________________ There is no thing that hath not worth; There is no evil anywhere; There is no ill on all this earth, If man seeks not to see it there. September 28. I cannot forget that dinner with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, just before leaving London, nor can I hope to recall its shining and enduring glory. I am a better, larger man, because of it. And how nearly our feet are set on the same way. It was as if we were all crossing the plains, and I for a day’s journey and a night’s encampment fell in with and conversed with the captains of the march. But one may not gave names and dates and details over there as here. The home is entirely a castle. The secrets of the board and fireside are sacred. And then these honest toilers and worshippers of the beautiful are shy, so shy and modest. But I like this decent English way of keeping your name down and out of sight till the coffin-lid hides your blushes–so modest these Pre-Raphaelites are that I should be in disgrace forever if I dared set down any living man’s name. But here are a few of the pearls picked up, as they were tossed about the table at intervals and sandwiched in between tales of love and lighter thoughts and things. All London, or rather all the brain of London, the literary brain, was there. And the brain of all the world, I think, was in London. These giants of thought, champions of the beautiful earth, passed the secrets of all time and all lands before me like a mighty panorama. All night sol We dined so late that we missed breakfast. If I could remember and write down truly and exactly what these men said, I would have the best and the greatest book that ever was written, I have been trying a week in vain, I have written down and scratched out and revised till I have lost the soul of it, it seems to me; no individuality to it; only like my own stuff. If I only had set their words down on the next day instead of attempting to remember their thoughts! Alas! the sheaves have been tossed and beaten about over sea and land for days and days, till the golden grain is gone, and here is but the straw and chaff. The master sat silent for the most part; there was a little man away down at the other end, conspicuously modest. There was a cynical fat man, and a lean philanthropist all sorts and sizes, but all lovers of the beautiful of earth. Here is what one, a painter, a ruddy-faced and a rollicking gentleman, remarked merrily to me as he poured out a glass of red wine at the beginning of the dinner: “When travelling in the mountains of Italy, I observed that the pretty peasant women made the wine by putting grapes m a great tub, and then, getting into this tub, barefooted, on top of the grapes, treading them out with their brown, bare feet. At first I did not like to drink this wine. I did not think it was clean. But I afterward watched these pretty brown women” and here all leaned to listen, at the mention of pretty brown women– I watched these pretty brown women at their work in the primitive winepress, and I noticed that they always washed their feet after they got done treading out the wine.” All laughed at this, and the red-faced painter was so delighted that he poured out and swallowed another full glass. The master sighed as he sat at the head of the table rolling a bit of bread between thumb and finger, and said, sitting close to me: “I am an Italian who has neven seen Italy. Belle Italia!…” By and by he quietly said that silence was the noblest attitude in all things; that the greatest poets refused to write, and that all great artists in all lines were above the folly of expression. A voice from far down the table echoed this sentiment by saying:”Heard melodies are sweet; but unheard melodies are sweeter.” “Written poems are delicious; but unwritten poems are divine,” cried the triumphant cynic. “What is poetry?” cries a neighbor. “All true, pure life is poetry,” answers one. “But the inspiration of poetry?” “The art of poetry is in books. The inspiration of poetry in nature.” To this all agreed. Then the master very quietly spoke: “And yet do not despise the books of man. All religions, said the Chinese philosophers, are good. The only difference is, some religions are better than others, and the apparent merit of each depends largely upon a mans capacity for understanding it. This is true of .poetry. All poetry is good. I never read a poem in my life that did not have some merit, and teach some sweet lesson. The fault in reading the poems of man, as well as reading the poetry of nature, lies largely at the door of the reader. Now, what do you call poetry?” and he turned his great Italian eyes tenderly to where I sat at his side. To me a poem must be a picture,” I answered. Proud I was when a great poet then said: “And it must be a picture–if a good poem so simple that you can understand it at a glance, eh? And see it and remember it as you would see and remember a sunset, eh?” “Aye,” answered the master, “I also demand that it shall be lofty in sentiment and sublime in expression. The only rule I have for measuring the merits of a written poem, is by the height of it. Why not be able to measure its altitude as you measure one of your sublime peaks of America?” He looked at me as he spoke of America, and I was encouraged to answer:”Yes, I do not want to remember the words. But I do want it to remain with me a picture and become a part of my life. Take this one verse from Mr. Longfellow: “And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.’” “Good!” cried the fat cynic, who, I am sure, had never heard the couplet before, it was so sweet to him; “Good! There is a picture that will depart from no impressible clay. The silent night, the far sweet melody falling on the weary mind, the tawny picturesque Arabs stealing away m the darkness, the perfect peace, the stillness and the rest. It appeals to all the Ishmaelite in our natures, and all the time we see the tents gathered up and the silent children of the desert gliding away in the gloaming.” A transplanted American, away down at the other end by a little man among bottles, said: “The poem of Evangeline is a succession of pictures. I never read Evangeline but once.” “It is a waste of time to look twice at a sunset,” said Rossetti, sotto voce, and the end man went on: “But i believe I can see every picture in that poem as distinctly as if I had been the unhappy Arcadian; for here the author has called in ail the elements that go to make up a perfect poem.” “When the great epic of this new, solid Saxon tongue comes to be written,” said one who sat near and was dear to the master’s heart, “it will embrace all that this embraces: new and unnamed lands; ships on the sea; the still deep waters hidden away in a deep and voiceless continent; the fresh and fragrant wilderness; the curling smoke of the camp-fire; action, movement, journeys; the presence–the inspiring presence of woman; the ennobl- ing sentiment of love, devotion, and devotion to the death; faith, hope and charity,- and all in the open air.” “Yes,” said the master thoughtfully, ‘no great poem has ever been or ever will be fitted in a parlor, or even fashioned from a city. There is not room for it there.” “Hear! hear! you might as well try to grow a California pine in the shell of a peanut,” cried I. Some laughed, some applauded, all looked curiously at me. Of course, I did not say it that well, yet I did say it far better, I mean I did not use the words carefully, but I had the advantage of action and sympathy. Then the master said, after a bit of reflection: “Homer’s Ulysses, out of which have grown books enough to cover the earth, owes its immortality to all this, and its out-door exercise. Yet it is a bloody book a bad book, in many respects–full of revenge, treachery, avarice and wrong. And old Ulysses himself seems to have been the most colossal liar on record. But for all this, the constant change of scene, the moving ships and the roar of waters, the rush of battle and the anger of the gods, the divine valor of the hero, and, above all, and over all, like a broad, white-bosomed moon through the broken clouds, the splendid life of that one woman; the shining faith, the constancy, the truth and purity of Penelope–all these make a series of pictures that pass before us like a panorama, and we will not leave off reading till we have seen them all happy together again, and been assured that the faith and constancy of that woman has had it reward. And we love him, even if he does lie!” How all at that board leaned and listened. Yet let me again and again humbly confess to you that I do him such injustice to try thus to quote from memory. After a while he said: “Take the picture of the old, blind, slobber-mouthed dog, that has been driven forth by the wooers to die. For twenty years he has not heard the voice of his master. The master now comes, in the guise of a beggar. The dog knows his voice, struggles to rise from the ground, staggers toward him, licks his hand, falls, and dies at his feet.” Such was the soul, heart, gentleness of this greatest man that I ever saw walking in the fields of art….
Joaquin Miller had dinner with the Pre-Raphaelites and was my grandmother’s friend. This history is being compiled for the grant I am applying for. The history of the Pre-Raphaelites has not been discarded, thus, Kehinde Wiley has no right to claim it and hand it out to NOBODIES who don’t deserve it! I don’t give a rat’s ass what the color of their skin is, and how badly they were oppressed. Let them work for their bragging rights. Just because Wyley thinks he has immortalized these non-artists, does not give them any titles. I will see to that.
Miller built a monument to my kin, John Fremont, the first Presidential Candidate for the Abolitionist Republican Party, and the first to emancipate slaves, forcing Lincoln’s hand.
I will be going out to Coburg today to plant another flower at the grave of George Miller, the brother of Joaquin Miller, a honorary member of the Bohemian Club that was a place for Bay Area Journalists to gather and compare notes. If Miller lived in the Bay Area, then he too would be a honorary member.
Elizabeth Maude “Lischen” or “Lizzie” Cogswell married George Miller. Lizzie was the foremost literary woman in Oregon. On Feb. 6, 1897, Idaho Cogswell, married Feb. 6, 1897, Ira L. Campbell, who was editor, publisher and co-owner (with his brother John) of the Daily Eugene Guard newspaper. The Campbell Center is named after Ira.
The Wedding of John Cogswell to Mary Frances Gay, was the first recorded in Lane County where I registered my newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press. Idaho Campbell was a charter member of the Fortnightly Club that raised funds for the first Eugene Library.
George Melvin Miller was a frequent visitor to ‘The Hights’ his brothers visionary utopia where gathered famous artists and writers in the hills above my great grandfather’s farm. The Miller brothers promoted Arts and Literature, as well as Civic Celebrations. Joaquin’s contact with the Pre-Raphaelites in England, lent credence to the notion that George and Joaquin were Oregon’s Cultural Shamans, verses, he-men with big saw cutting down trees.
A year ago I received in the mail a book I ordered on E-Bay. I quickly scanned it to see if their were any illustrations or photographs. Then, I found it, what amounts to my personal Holy Grail. Joaquin Miller dedicated his book of poems ‘Songs of The Sun-Land’ to the Rossetti family that includes Gabriel, Michael, and, Christine. Gabriel was a artist and poet, Michael, a publisher, and Christine, a poet.
“TO THE ROSSETTIS”
Gabriel, who had Joaquin over to his house for dinner, where he met several members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Miller sends Michael a photograph of himself, and is sent a photo. This photo may be the famous one taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known as Lewis Carrol the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. If Joaquin had glued this portrait to a piece of paper, then we might have seen it on the dedication page.
What is going on here is extremely profound. Miller has exported his vision and lifestyle to the England, where he wrote Song of the Sierras, and now he is importing to America a cultural brand that contains Grail and Arthurian subject matter that was at the epicenter of the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Lewis Carrol posed two children as Fair Rosamond and Queen Eleanore. I associate Fairmount with Rosamond. Johnnny Depp is starring in another Alice in Wonderland movie. Eugene can celebrate our Land of Make Believe, our White Rabbit made famous by the Jefferson Airplane. I stood before the Mayor of Eugene and suggested a Newspaper Museum at Kesey Square wherein is a model of Miller’s Fantastic Flying Machine. We could build a parade around this contraptions, a world contest that would bring creative people to our Fair City. Children would love this! They too would be in costume for the White Rabbit Run!
Here is what amounts to MY FANTASTIC MOVIE shot in Eugene. What an Amazing Journey is has been!
Christine Rosamond Benton and I were drawn into Tolkien’s Trilogy. The artist known as ‘Rosamond’ could not put these books down, nr could I. This caused our mutual friend, Keith Purvis, a British subject, to comment;
“She doesn’t know these books are real.”
We three were original hippies who took the Lord of the Rings to heart as we modified the modern world, made it over more to our liking, we oblivious to what normal folk were about. This is exactly what William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brother and Sisterhood did. They – returned!
I discovered the Pre-Raphaelites in 1969 and let my hair grow long for the first time. I gave up drugs in 1967 and was looking for a spiritual format. I came under the spell of the Rossetti family who were friendly with Joaquin Miller. We Presco children knew Miller’s daughter as ‘The White Witch’ and we would call her for advice. Miller’s home ‘The Abbye’ was above our home in the Oakland Hills. Our kindred were friends of Miller, who was also a friend of Swineburn, who wrote ‘The Queen-Mother and Rosamund’ and ‘Rosamund Queen of Lombards. Tolkien was inspired by the Lombards.
Filed away in Rosamond’s probate is my plea to the executor to allow me to be my sister’s historian. I mention Miller and Rossetti. I saw myself in the role of Michael Rossetti who had his own publishing company. He published Miller and other famous poets. When I was twelve, my mother read evidence I might become a famous poet.
All my imput has been ruthlessly ignored, because petty un-creative minds have forced our families creative legacy down the tiny holes of their hidden agendas, into the mouths of worms and parasites, because these ignorant people sensed I and the real Art World, did not let them in the door – would never admit them into our circle, our ring of genius!
William Morris had a major influence on J. R. R. Tolkien. As John Garth points out, unlike most authors traumatized by the experience of World War I, Tolkien did not “discard the old ways of writing, the classicism or medievalism championed by Lord Tennyson and William Morris. In his hands these traditions were reinvigorated so that they remain powerfully alive for readers today” (40). His love of Morris, in particular, goes back to his undergraduate days when he turned from studying the Greek and Latin classics to the the northern traditions — the language and literature of the Scandinavian and Germanic past. According Garth, William Morris, from the late 1870s on, decided to “remedy” the defects of the real historical record by producing specific works of “pseudo-history,” fully-fleshed stories that he could present as “re-discovered” manuscripts of ancient tribal lore. So eager were the Germanic speakers of 19th century Europe to know more about their ancestors, that sometimes even academically trained scholars would be fooled by the books Morris wrote, and asked him for his sources, and wanted to read the original saga manuscripts themselves. To which requests Morris replied “Doesn’t the fool realize, that it’s a romance, a work of fiction — that it’s all lies!” (from May Morris, daughter of W. Morris recollections).
JRRT, a generation later than Morris, got in on the tail end of this nationalistic/ romantic period, and became as fully enmeshed in its allures as Morris. Tolkien went on to “sub-create” his own “pseudo-histories,” manufacturing his versions of the source myths that would allow a richer understanding of the Nordic tradition, especially the Anglo-Saxon phenomena of England. Between them, as much by accident as firm intent, Morris and Tolkien established an entire genre of pseudo-history that has, by now in the 21st century, become one of the most popular fields of literature.
“These two men knew either much (Morris) or most (Tolkien) of all that was known about these [northern] people and their lives. They used that wealth of knowledge to create ‘dreamed realities’ (Morris) or an ‘imaginary history’ (Tolkien) about what it might have been like to live in those days. While what they wrote wasn’t necessarily true in a strict sense, both knew enough about the past and were talented enough as writers that what they wrote created a strong sense that they described what might have been.” ( Michael W. Perry, More to William Morris, p. 7, 2003)
So, the question then becomes, for Tolkien readers, how does Morris stand up to JRRT? Is it worth the money to buy Morris’s books? Will I get the same, or at least a very similar thrill from reading them as I get when running through the pages of LotR and The Hobbit? Well, that’s what I am trying to decide in the next few installments of this topic. How do the works of the two authors compare, in what ways are they similar, in what ways do they differ?
Joaquin Miller looked me up at Somerset House, and left with me the remaining proofs of his forthcoming volume. He showed me the dedication, ‘To the Rossettis.’ I strongly recommended him to write direct to Gabriel as to the matter before anything further is done. I mentioned the dedication to Christina. She feels some hesitation in sanctioning it, not knowing what the book may contain. If she makes up her mind to object, she is to write to Miller. I looked through the proofs and noted down some remarks on them. They include a series of poems about Christ, named Olive Leaves, implying a sort of religious, or at least personal, enthusiasm, mixed up with a good deal that has more relation to a sense of the picturesque than of the devotional. These poems, though far from worthless from their own point of view, are very defective, and would, I think be highly obnoxious to many readers and Reviewers. I have suggested to Miller the expediency of omitting them altogether. – Christina, I find, has already read these particular poems, and to some considerable extent likes them, which is so far in their favour as affecting religious readers”
The wider world of Victorian London is present: Turgenev comes to dinner, Browning sends his new volumes, Swinburne arrives drunk, and the American poet and adventurer Joaquin Miller makes himself known to the Rossetti circle. Nine appendices include five devoted to Poems and one to the Fleshly School controversy.
Joaquin Miller Cabin is located in Washington, DC. The Hights, the Oakland home Miller built at the end of his life, is currently known as the Joaquin Miller House and is part of Joaquin Miller Park. He planted the surrounding trees and he personally built, on the eminence to the north, his own funeral pyre and monuments dedicated to Moses, General John C. Frémont, and the poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Japanese poet Yone Noguchi began his literary career while living in the cabin adjoining Millers’ during the latter half of the 1890s. The Hights was purchased by the city of Oakland in 1919 and can be found in Joaquin Miller Park.[42] It is now a designated California Historical Landmark. Miller went to England, where he was celebrated as a frontier oddity. There, in May 1871, Miller published Songs of the Sierras, the book which finalized his nickname as the “Poet of the Sierras”.[22] It was well-received by the British press and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti. While in England, he was one of the few Americans invited into the Savage Club along with Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The younger Hawthorne referred to Miller as “a licensed libertine” but admitted him “charming, amiable, and harmless”.[ The Savage Club was formed to supply the want which Dr Samuel Johnson and his friends experienced when they founded the Literary Club. A little band of authors, journalists and artists felt the need of a place of reunion where, in their hours of leisure, they might gather together and enjoy each other’s society, apart from the publicity of that which was known in Johnson’s time as the coffee house, and equally apart from the chilling splendour of the modern club.
At present, there are 315 members. The club maintains a tradition of fortnightly dinners for members and their guests, always followed by entertainment. These dinners often feature a variety of famous performers from music hall to concert hall. Several times a year members invite ladies to share both the dinner and the entertainment — sometimes as performers. On these occasions guests always include widows of former Savages, who are known as Rosemaries (after rosemary, a symbol of remembrance). Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti. He was one of the seven founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, and became the movement’s unofficial organizer and bibliographer. He edited the Brotherhood’s literary magazine The Germ which published four issues in 1850 and wrote the poetry reviews for it. It was William Michael Rossetti who recorded the aims of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at their founding meeting in September 1848: 1. To have genuine ideas to express; 2. To study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; 3. To sympathize with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; 4. And most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. Although Rossetti worked full time as a civil servant, he maintained a prolific output of criticism and biography across a range of interests from Algernon Swinburne to James McNeill Whistler. He edited the diaries of his maternal uncle John William Polidori (author of The Vampyre and physician to Lord Byron), a comprehensive biography of D. G. Rossetti, and edited the collected works of D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti. Rossetti edited the first British edition of the poetry of Walt Whitman, which was published in 1868; however, this edition was bowdlerized.[1] Anne Gilchrist, who became one of the first to write about Whitman, first read his poetry from Rossetti’s edition, and Rossetti helped initiate their correspondence.[2] In 1874 he married Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of the painter Ford Madox Brown. They honeymooned in France and Italy. Their first child, Olivia Frances Madox, was born in September 1875, and her birth was celebrated in an ode of Swinburne. William Michael Rosetti was a major contributor to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; his contributions on artistic subjects were criticised by many reviewers at the time and since, as showing little evidence of having absorbed the mounting body of work by academic art historians, mostly writing in German.
I want to move to Belmont. I will need a means to make living there, in the home of my ancestors. How about I minister to Espionage Weddings? I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a spy novel. Belmont needs a Character and Author in Residence. I will conduct Nazarite Weddings. I will spend my days in a Gypsie Wagon modeled after the work of my kin Augustus John. I will read my Tom Poems while my sheep keep the grass low at Twin Piness Park.
John Tom Braskehill
To: Belmont City Government April 8, 2024
Four days ago it came to my attention that the City of Belmont and the City Parks Department is promoting weddings. My great grandfather, Dr. William Stuttmeister married Augustus Janke, the granddaughter of Carl Janke, a founder of Belmont. Alice Stuttmeister is the sister of the groom, and mother of my father’s mother, who owned a fruit orchard below the orchard of Joaquin Miller, who befriended the Rossetti family, and other Pre-Raphaelite artists – and poets! Did he meet Christina Rossetti who wrote the poem Goblin Market? Elisa Martinez fell in love with one of the Japanese Poets that lived on Miller’s Bohemian retreat. His brother George Miller helped publish Martin Eden, and was going to cover Jack London’s adventures with sailing the Snark. London worked in Belmont.
When I contacted the Belmont Historical Society fur years ago, I did so to in order find a buyer for my registered newspaper in Lane County ‘Royal Rosamond Pres, named after my grandfather who published poems in Out West Magazine, as did Miller, How about London? I taught my sister, Christine Rosamond, how to paint and she took up art in 1972, and became one of the highest earning artists of our time. In researching the weddings, I looked at the home George Center built. He was the director of the Bank of California that William Ralston founded. I was invited to the wedding of William and Kate by a relative of Lord Hesketh, who married William Sharron’s daughter. We talked about restarting the Sharon family reunions at the Palace Hotel. When I saw the paintings on the wall of the historic building, I gasped. This artist is influenced by Rosamond. There needs to be a show of my late sisters art here.
I need to be in Belmont on April 13th. in order to promote my plans to found a Wedding Company. I suggested Wedding for Spies after I suggested a College of Spies be founded in Belmont. If you pay for travel, I will give talks about my family history. I hope to form a partnership. I would like the Mayor, city Councilmen, and the press to meet me in the Stuttmeister family crypt in Colma. Dr. Stuttmeister paid for the Tiffany window so that his people, who were dug up form the Oddfellows graveyard in SF. would be RE-BURIED with class. I would like The Founders Janke placed here. I would like to be here as well. I became a Odd Fellow six months ago. Read how we honor our dead.
I took a break for breakfast, turned on CNN, and saw the news abut 350 couples getting together to get married when the Ring of Fire is overhead. Here is God’s wedding ring. Let no man cast asunder, what God has untied.
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
braskewitz@yahoo.com
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888 STUTTMEISTER-JANKE.
One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont, and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm. Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen. The Rev. A. L. Brewer of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations. The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.
1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133). Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke – Stuttmeister Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born February 2, 1869, died March 1902. William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born 1612, died January 29, 1877. Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born 1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York. Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New York.
In her book “Heritage of the Wooded Hills,” Ria Elena MacCrisken writes, “… if the railroad looked down its nose at the San Francisco picnickers, the little town of Belmont welcomed them with open arms. These early-day tourists brought lively times to Belmont and revenue to its stores…” Unfortunately for the Jankes , when the train stopped bringing carloads of revelers, much of Belmont Park’s clientele disappeared. By 1910, the property had sold to George Center, the director of the Bank of California, who built a home on the property. Later Dr. Norbert Gottbrath opened a sanitarium called “Twin Pines,” which operated until March of 1972. The City of Belmont took over the property, dedicating Twin Pines Park in June of 1973.
I found Carl and Dorothea (also and Doretta) are buried at the Union Cemetary in Redwood City.
Carl_August_Janke Names Listed on the Marker: Janke, Carl August Janke, Dorette Catherine Janke, Mutter Heinrich Inscription: — From the 1937 headstone survey — Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881 Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877 Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke, born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876 NOTE: In 1937 the Daughters of the American Revolution recorded all the headstones.
EXTRA! I posted this post, then turned on T.V. just in time to see the eclipse at the wedding festival. What are the ODDS! I feel I completed my mission. What I saw in getting married is an agreement to raise your dead in uniting your family genetics with the genetics of another family, so everyone is reborn. You can not do this with just your family genetics. To discover the reason the Stuttmeister crypt exists, and then have your remedy all but destroyed by author and a historian – of your family history – was all too much to bear. I can admit, this abuse of my dead changed me. In this video I see all the souls who were dug from their graves (mine in the middle of the night) – REBORN! All the glorious agreements that we make – are made good! Consider this – a High Noon Show! We have overcome!
I will post on the mythology of the eclipse – when the sun forsake he children of the sun, and the darkness of the dark ones overcomes them. Only when the hero steps foreword and stands up to the great power of darkness, will The Sun……be reborn! This is a poem.
“Presumably, the bodies removed from Odd Fellows’ and Masonic cemeteries were exhumed in an orderly manner, but because these two cemeteries were removed in the 1930s, several years before bodies were removed from the larger and more prestigious Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries, the regulations governing their disassembly were not as comprehensive as they were for the latter two, and almost no details of their removal conditions exist. Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries made great efforts to locate survivors and/or plot owners before disinterment, and Cypress Lawn and Holy Cross maintain fairly detailed records for those reburied in their mass gravesites.
The Board of Trustees of the Laurel Hill Cemetery Association signed a contract with the Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association and the Cypress Abbey Company for removal of bodies to Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Approximately 35,000 bodies were removed over a sixteen-month period, with sites being disinterred blocked from public view by six-foot tall windscreens. Remains were placed in reinterment boxes of various sizes, depending on the condition of the remains. Each box had a metal identification tag affixed to it. All bodies disinterred one day were transported to Cypress Lawn and reinterred in Cypress Abbey Company’s mausoleum the same day. Laurel Hill Cemetery Association originally planned to reinter the remains in a new mausoleum, but because of the start of World War II in 1941, construction was delayed for six years. After the war, construction prices had risen enough that proceeds from the sale of Laurel Hill Cemetery land were no longer sufficient for mausoleum construction. Eventually, the Association settled on the burial mound plan that included an elaborate monument.”
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William August Janke, the son of Carl August Janke of Belmont, lived in a Victorian house at 320 Haight St. a a block and a half from Fillmore St. Carl founded what may be the oldest theme park in America that catered to members of the Odd Fellows who lived in San Francisco. Carl Janke hired a special train to bring people to his theme park modeled after a German folk town and beergarten. Carl owned the Belmont soda works and sold a drink that may have contained cocaine. Carl made a jail for his town because folks got out of hand. Consider the Haight-Ashbury that was the haven for the Hippie Movement, that got out of hand. It became a theme-park that attracted folks from all over the world, and was the focal point of the war on drugs.
Consider the rise of the Republican religious-right that has become very powerful by opposing and demonizing the fun time my kindred were having – before California became a state! You could say my good buds and I made them what they are to day, fake political Puritans that destroyed our economy, and spent a trillion dollar on the Bush holy war. Too bad there is no longer a land of the free to go to out west, that is not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government of the United States, so we can do what we want – and have more fun! Making fun is a huge industry, verses making blue laws.
Google 320 Haight to see my great grandfather’s home (grey-blue) and 2795 Pine St. to see the second story apartment I lived in with Nancy Hamren, Keith Purvis, and Carrol Schurter. Two members of the Jefferson Airplane partied with us, and hung out the bay window while on acid trying to cause an accident – which they did!
Keith, Tim O’Connor, Peter Shapiro, and myself, lived in a large Victorian house in Oakland. That is us on a bridge in Venice California. Peter played with The Marbles that played at the longshoremen’s Hall, and later with the Loading Zone at the Fillmore. Zone members also lived with us in Oakland.
Bryan McLean of Love sang at my wedding, and was good friends of the folks that began the Renaissance Fair, another theme park. Disney studied Fairyland in Oakland for his theme park. Add to this my conection to Elmer ‘Big Bones’ Remmer, gambling, and Tanforan horse racing, then you can say my kindred started the greatest party of all time!
Here is the obituary of William in the San Francisco Call.
JANKE – in this city, Nov. 22, 1902 at his residence 320 Haight St. William August Janke, beloved husband of Cornelia L. Janke, and beloved father of Mrs. W.O. Stuttmeister and Carl and W.E. Janke, a native of Hamburg Germany aged 59 years. Internment, Laurel Hill
“According to Belmont Historical Society records, Dorothea and Carl August Janke sailed around Cape Horn from Hamburg, Germany, in 1848. After landing in San Francisco, they settled in Belmont in 1860”
I found Carl and Dorothea (also and Doretta) are buried at the Union Cemetary in Redwood City.
Carl_August_Janke Names Listed on the Marker: Janke, Carl August Janke, Dorette Catherine Janke, Mutter Heinrich Inscription: — From the 1937 headstone survey — Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881 Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877 Mutter Heinrich, mother of Dorette Catherine Janke, born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876 NOTE: In 1937 the Daughters of the American Revolution recorded all the headstones.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF UNION CEMETERY By: John G. Edmonds Before Union Cemetery
Times and Gazette Building The first entry that mentioned a cemetery in the Times and Gazette (which was the only newspaper in San Mateo County at that time) was in early January 1859. William Cary Jones had allowed 13 burials on his property, the site of today’s Sequoia High School. Now that Horace Hawes had taken over the property, he informed the county that he no longer wanted the dead to be buried on his property and he wanted all 13 bodies exhumed and moved elsewhere. This caused great anxiety in Redwood City.
1864-1910, page 133). Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke – Stuttmeister Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born February 2, 1869, died March 1902. William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1642, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born 1812, died January 29, 1877. Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born 1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York. Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New York.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2012
Belmont park has history of sun, libations, mystery and disasters
October 22, 2001, 12:00 AM By Paul D. Buchanan Daily Journal Feature Writer
The most popular daytime excursion destination on the Peninsula during the late 19th century once occupied the area in Belmont now known as Twin Pines Park. The Belmont Picnic Grounds proved so popular, in fact, that scores of picnickers would travel regularly from San Jose and San Francisco for sun, fresh air and libations. The size of the crowds and the fondness for libation, however, eventually led to the attraction’s demise. According to Belmont Historical Society records, Dorothea and Carl August Janke sailed around Cape Horn from Hamburg, Germany, in 1848. After landing in San Francisco, they settled in Belmont in 1860. Industrious and entrepreneurial, Carl Janke purchased land in the vicinity of 6th and Ralston. Janke set out to create a site for leisure activities, modeled after the biergarten in his native Hamburg. His creation became Belmont Park. Janke’s park offered all the necessary provisions for an outdoor holiday, which included a dance pavilion to accommodate 300 large glassless windows, a conical roof and a dance floor situated around a large spreading tree. The pavilion was also equipped with a bar, an ice cream parlor and a restaurant. Outside the pavilion, the park provided a carousel for children, footpath bridges crossing the meandering of creeks, and a shooting gallery, with picnic benches and lathe houses situated about the shady grounds. Brass bands performing from bandstands could be heard all around the woodland. In 1876, Janke opened Belmont Soda Works, located north of Ralston along Old County Road. Janke’s sons, Gus and Charlie, operated the soda works, which offered a variety of sarsaparillas. Within two years, the Soda Works produced more than 1,000 bottles a month — a large percentage of which would be sold at Belmont Park. Between the Soda Works and the several bars situated in and around the park, the liquid refreshment flowed abundantly. Belmont Park became so popular that Southern Pacific Railroad began reserving exclusive trains for the sojourn to Belmont. Several local organizations and fraternities used the grounds for the celebrations, such as the Germania Rifles, the Apollo Verein, the Blue Bells, the Bunker Hill Association, the Ignatian Literary Society, the Hibernians and the Purple Violets. Races – foot, three-legged, and pony cart – as well as other amusements became commonplace at the gatherings. The same year the Belmont Soda Works opened, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) hired 75 Southern Pacific railroad cars to transport 7,000 of its members from San Francisco to Belmont Park. There, 1,000 other members met them there, making the largest picnic ever held at Belmont Park. With all the alcohol, dancing and overheated bodies gathered in a relatively small place, trouble seemed destined to follow. In 1880, rival gangs started a small riot at Belmont Park, leaving one person dead and several injured. On another occasion, a young girl named Anne Mooney mysteriously disappeared. Authorities assumed she had been kidnaped, but a suspect was never identified. The fate of Anne Mooney remains a mystery. By the turn of the century, the weekly treks to Belmont had become something of a nuisance. The drunken tussling would often begin at the on-board bars, continuing and intensifying by the time the passengers reached Belmont. The small communities through which the trains rumbled complained about the outsiders cavorting and otherwise disturbing their peaceful Peninsula neighborhoods. Southern Pacific, tired of the rowdies and the damage inflicted to the railroad cars, finally stopped operating the excursions in 1900. In her book “Heritage of the Wooded Hills,” Ria Elena MacCrisken writes, “… if the railroad looked down its nose at the San Francisco picnickers, the little town of Belmont welcomed them with open arms. These early-day tourists brought lively times to Belmont and revenue to its stores…” Unfortunately for the Jankes , when the train stopped bringing carloads of revelers, much of Belmont Park’s clientele disappeared. By 1910, the property had sold to George Center, the director of the Bank of California, who built a home on the property. Later Dr. Norbert Gottbrath opened a sanitarium called “Twin Pines,” which operated until March of 1972. The City of Belmont took over the property, dedicating Twin Pines Park in June of 1973.
theme park is the modern amusement park, either based on a central theme or, divided into several distinctly themed areas, or “spaces” as is often used. Large resorts, such as Walt Disney World in Florida (United States), actually house several different theme parks within their confines. The first such built park still in operation is ‘Bakken’ at Klampenborg, north of Copenhagen. It was founded in 1583. Walt Disney is credited with having originated the concept of the themed amusement park. Disneyland was based loosely on Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke.
In October 12, 2023 I discovered how Charles Ferdinand Janke died. He was taking part in a Republican’ celebration when his horse collided with a team of horses. Belmont Historians, and alleged family neighbors do not record this?
There is a prophecy in these Belmont posts. Israel started shelling Lebanon. It sounds like
JUDGEMENT DAY
John Presco ‘Nazarite Judge’
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, No. 12, 1888, p.1, col.4, Pacific Coast Items. “Charles F. Janke of Belmont, who was wounded in a collision while on horseback with a double team during the Republican procession at Redwood on the 3d inst., died yesterday. He had been a resident of Belmont for twenty-five years.”
San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Nov. 12, 1888, p.3. “JANKE—In Redwood City, November 11, C. F. Janke, a native of Germany, aged 49 years, 5 months and 2 days.” (Calculated birth date.)
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888 STUTTMEISTER-JANKE.
One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont, and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm. Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen. The Rev. A. L. Brewer of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations. The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.
1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133). Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke – Stuttmeister Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born February 2, 1869, died March 1902. William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born 1612, died January 29, 1877. Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born 1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York. Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New York.
When Elizabeth Dorothy Janke was born on 14 November 1844, in Hamburg, Germany, her father, Carl August Janke, was 24 and her mother, Dorothea, was 24. She had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Amassa Parker Johnson. She lived in Belmont, San Mateo, California, United States in 1880 and San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1900. She died on 20 January 1929, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
Brief Life History of Amassa Parker
When Amassa Parker Johnson was born on 9 July 1836, in Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States, his father, Elias Johnson, was 44 and his mother, Phebe Finney, was 42. He had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Elizabeth Dorothy Janke. He lived in Delhi, Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States for about 5 years and Belmont, San Mateo, California, United States for about 50 years. He died on 1 January 1931, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
At great expense to himself, my great-grandfather, William Suttmeister, moved the bodies of his wife and kindred from the Laurel Hill cemetery in San Francisco to a tomb in Colma where I brought my daughter and grandson so they can own their heritage. These bodies were evicted from their graves. Many tombstones were used to make a sea wall.
My daughter came into my life for the first time when she was sixteen. When she bonded with Bill Cornwell, she forsake her father, she choosing to believe I was a “parasite” because Mr. Cornwell wanted to believe I was a “parasite” so he could take my grandson from me. Mr. Cornwell was jealous of my ancestry, and at forty had failed to sire children. Cornwell did not want my daughter to serve as my Trustee and bid her to ignore my calls. Cornwell refused to respond to his cripple mother’s calls, she confined to a wheelchair. Mr. Cornwell is a Tea Party crazy who claim they are protecting America’s patriotic Heritage from “parasites”
It is my plan to take some of the cremated ashes of Hollis Lee Williams to the family crypt in Colma. As my adopted son, via the Elks Society, I am in keeping with the traditions and good work of the Odd Fellows, and thus, Family Traditions.
The trouble I have had in burying and honoring my dear friend and adopted son appear to be leading me to found an Odd Fellows-like organization that would make sure homeless veterans will leave this earth with dignity and respect, and will no longer be orphans.
Below is an e-mail I sent to the Mayor of Eugene on March 15th. The same message was faxed to Congressman Peter DeFazio. I had a vision of Hollis’ hand coming down from a cloud and pulling up the next homeless veteran – to heavan! In turn, that nameless unfamilied veteran pulls up the next veteran. A Hand from a Band of Brothers.
Jon Presco
Burying the dead was taken very seriously by early Odd Fellows, and most lodges purchased land and established cemeteries as one of their first activities in a new town or city. In many areas all phases of burial (sometimes including services now provided by undertakers) were provided by Odd Fellows in the earlier days. Cemeteries were often open to the public, and plots were sold for a few dollars each. Many California lodges still own and operate cemeteries, and in some instances the major cemetery in the community is the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Hollis Williams Memorial From John Ambrose To kitty.piercy@ci.eugene.or.us
Dear Kitty Piercy
My dear friend Hollis passed away on March 8th. He was a homeless Veteran for many years and had been placed in an apartment two months ago by HUD-VASH. He also received funds from The Vet-Vincent De Paul program. Because Hollis has no next of kin, I adopted him through the Elks Society, and am paying for his cremation with monies from a Special Needs Trust. I am on SSI. Mr. Williams is now my son. I did not want him to be treated like a unfamilied pauper – after he is dead!
The people at HUD-VASH have been very helpful, however, they have no funding in order to make sure Veterans like Hollis – have not served in vain! For this reason, I have established the Hollis Williams Memorial Fund at Selco Community Credit Union. At Hollis’ memorial, I will present the idea that if we collect $1,005 dollars, then Hollis himself can pay for the burial cost of the next Homeless Vet who dies unfamilied. This is the passing of a baton amongst a Band of Brothers. Here is a hand from heaven lifting up the next Homeless Veteran who passes on.
I am not a Veteran. I was drafted in 1966, but because of grave emotional problems I was classified 4F.
I have always respected those who served, and have considered them my brothers.
Mememorial will be at Campbell Senior Center at 1:30 the 17th
Sincerely
John Presco
541 844-1974
Visiting the sick was a daring, bold thing to do in 1819, and indeed for in excess of one hundred years more, because of the very real possibility the visitors would contract the illness or disease. Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs after they came into existence in 1851, visited the sick as a matter of course. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs continue to this day to make special efforts to visit the sick.
Relief of the distressed was a major goal of most or all fraternal organizations, then and now. Odd Fellow Lodges normally provided monetary sick benefits to its members who were ill or injured and unable to work. A few California lodges still provide monetary sick and/or death benefits for members. Assistance to those in need, whether in the form of donations to charities, or donations of money or goods and services to members or others in the community is commonly provided today by all lodges.
In addition, lodges commonly provided all kinds of assistance to members who were in need, such as a box of groceries, a cord of wood, or a member or visiting nurse to care for a seriously ill member at home. With the modern day social welfare programs operated by government agencies, these services by the Order are no longer as vital as they once were, but Odd Fellows and Rebekahs still provide friendship that members require for a wholesome and full life.
Odd Fellow Lodges continue to conduct funeral and memorial services for members when requested prior to their death or by their families. This may be the only service, or may be in conjunction with a church service or with other organizations.
Educating the orphan was also taken seriously, and orphans of Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs too, could expect to receive at least a high school education through the lodge. In California the Rebekahs were in the forefront of caring for the orphans, and in the late 1800’s they were granted authority to establish the Odd Fellow-Rebekah Children’s Home in Gilroy. They likewise were in the forefront of providing funds to insure an education for orphans and needy children of members.
Have cemetery removals similar to the ones in San Francisco happened in other cities?
Cemetery removals have happened all over the world, but are usually spawned by individual circumstance, rather than by laws systematically passed that ban cemeteries from an entire jurisdiction. The city of Paris relocated the bones of approximately six million dead to the Catacombs during the 1700s and 1800s. One major distinction is that Parisians did not vote on whether or not to preserve the cemeteries, while San Francisco citizens voted on the issue four times, albeit only after the city had already banned burial and cremation within city and county limits (San Francisco’s city and county borders are the same). Also, most remains from San Francisco cemeteries were kept intact if conditions allowed, rather than just preservation of bones.
What were the “Big Four” cemeteries?
The “Big Four” cemeteries were Odd Fellows’, Masonic, Laurel Hill, and Calvary. They were located in the Inner Richmond area of San Francisco, and surrounded Lone Mountain, with Odd Fellows’ to the west, Masonic to the south, Laurel Hill to the north, and Calvary to the east. These are the cemeteries on which A Second Final Rest concentrates. While many other cemeteries came and went before the “Big Four” were removed, the “Big Four” were the ones most directly affected by legal battles and referenda that finally banished almost all cemeteries from San Francisco. They were removed from San Francisco between the early 1930s and 1947. All bodies were exhumed and relocated by 1941, but lack of manpower due to World War II prevented the complete removal of monuments from Laurel Hill until 1947.
What happened to the bodies once they were removed from the cemeteries?
The vast majority of bodies were moved to mass gravesites in Colma, a small town known as “The City of Souls”, just a few miles south of San Francisco. Colma has the peculiar distinction of being home to approximately 2,000 living and 2 million deceased individuals. Colma has seventeen cemeteries, including a pet cemetery.
Did either the City of San Francisco or the cemeteries pay for relocation of bodies if families did not want their deceased loved ones put in a mass grave?
No. Anyone wanting to have decedents privately reburied had to pay for it themselves. The “Big Four” cemeteries have mass grave sites in Colma cemeteries: Laurel Hill’s site, called Laurel Hill Mound, is in Cypress Lawn Cemetery; Calvary’s is in Holy Cross Cemetery; Odd Fellows’ is in Greenlawn Cemetery, and Masonic’s is in Woodlawn Cemetery. There is also a small mass gravesite with approximately 100 bodies in the Japanese Cemetery.
Were bodies in the cemeteries removed in an orderly and respectful fashion?
Presumably, the bodies removed from Odd Fellows’ and Masonic cemeteries were exhumed in an orderly manner, but because these two cemeteries were removed in the 1930s, several years before bodies were removed from the larger and more prestigious Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries, the regulations governing their disassembly were not as comprehensive as they were for the latter two, and almost no details of their removal conditions exist. Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries made great efforts to locate survivors and/or plot owners before disinterment, and Cypress Lawn and Holy Cross maintain fairly detailed records for those reburied in their mass gravesites.
The Board of Trustees of the Laurel Hill Cemetery Association signed a contract with the Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association and the Cypress Abbey Company for removal of bodies to Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Approximately 35,000 bodies were removed over a sixteen-month period, with sites being disinterred blocked from public view by six-foot tall windscreens. Remains were placed in reinterment boxes of various sizes, depending on the condition of the remains. Each box had a metal identification tag affixed to it. All bodies disinterred one day were transported to Cypress Lawn and reinterred in Cypress Abbey Company’s mausoleum the same day. Laurel Hill Cemetery Association originally planned to reinter the remains in a new mausoleum, but because of the start of World War II in 1941, construction was delayed for six years. After the war, construction prices had risen enough that proceeds from the sale of Laurel Hill Cemetery land were no longer sufficient for mausoleum construction. Eventually, the Association settled on the burial mound plan that included an elaborate monument.
The Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco oversaw the removal of Calvary Cemetery remains to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. A priest was in attendance at all phases of body removal and transport, and an inspector from the Department of Public Health was on hand for disinterment. Relatives could watch the disinterment if they wished. As with Laurel Hill removals, screens were erected, remains placed in boxes according to condition, and bodies disinterred on one day transported to Holy Cross and reinterred the same day.
(Information from Location, Regulation, and Removal of Cemeteries in the City and County of San Francisco by William A. Proctor, Department of City Planning, City and County of San Francisco, August 1950.)
Did either the City of San Francisco or the cemeteries pay for the relocation of tombstones?
No. Anyone wanting to preserve the tombstone of a loved one had to pay for the relocation of it. The San Francisco City and County cemetery removal ordinance of 1937 (after which time Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries were removed) mandated that grave markers and monuments could remain on cemetery property for ninety days after bodies were removed. Those not claimed were turned over to the City and County Department of Public Works, which used them for a variety of purposes, including sea wall construction at Aquatic Park, creation of a breakwater/municipal yacht harbor in the Marina District, lining for rain gutters in Buena Vista Park, and erosion prevention material at Ocean Beach. According to a San Francisco Chronicle article dated May 17, 1946, an organization called the Laurel Hill-Anza Vista Development Company hired contractor Charles L. Harney to haul away monuments from Calvary and Laurel Hill Cemetery sites. Harney then accepted the SF Park Commission’s bid of 80 cents a ton to dump the monuments into San Francisco Bay, where they remain.
Were records kept of where bodies were moved to?
Yes, but much of the recordkeeping was left up to the cemeteries themselves. Cemeteries in Colma with mass gravesites containing bodies moved from San Francisco have records. They vary greatly in their thoroughness. San Francisco has been referred to as a “genealogist’s nightmare”, due not only to the loss of information on the city’s deceased that resulted from the various cemetery removals, but also from the destruction of vital records at City Hall in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
Did bodies removed from San Francisco get moved anywhere else aside from Colma, California?
While the majority of bodies from the San Francisco cemeteries were moved to the mass gravesites in Colma, any next of kin could privately reinter decedents wherever they chose. Many were moved to cemeteries in Oakland, California.
Why is Mission Dolores Cemetery still intact?
Mission Dolores is the birthplace of San Francisco. It was built in 1776 and is the oldest building in the city. Because the location is of such historical significance, the cemetery has, at least in part, been preserved. It is not by chance that remains of individuals of historical significance have been preserved in the today’s reduced version of the cemetery, while those of commoners and indigenous people who originally dwelled in the area are not well represented. Many of the indigenous people were likely not buried on the consecrated ground of the mission if they did not convert to Christianity, but on the perimeter of it. See Ron Filion’s page on Mission Dolores for some intriguing bits on the cemetery’s history.
Why are the Presidio military cemetery (San Francisco National Cemetery) and the Presidio pet cemetery still intact?
The two cemeteries were located on federal land, and not subject to local laws. The Presidio was decommissioned as a military area, and has been part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area since 1994. The San Francisco National Cemetery is managed by the United States Department of Veteran’s Affairs. The nonprofit organization Swords to Plowshares is the official caretaker of the pet cemetery.
Why is the Columbarium still allowed to take cremated remains?
Once part of the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, The San Francisco Columbarium was, for unknown reasons, neither dismantled nor maintained after the bodies were removed from the surrounding cemetery in the 1930s. Over time, the Columbarium passed through various hands and fell into disrepair until the early 1980s, when it was purchased by the Neptune Society. It has been meticulously restored since this time. While there are laws banning burial of bodies and cremation within city limits, there is no specific ban on the housing of cremated remains. The Columbarium provides the main, if not only, secular location where one’s remains can be housed in San Francisco legally and for public visitation.
What happened to the cemetery that was at the present-day site of Dolores Park?
The present-day location of Dolores Park was once the site of both Nevai Shalome (Home of Peace, Peaceful Abode) and Giboth Olam (Hills of Eternity) cemeteries. The cemeteries were owned by Congregation Emanu-El and Congregation Sherith Israel, respectively. Lacking space on which to expand, the congregations bought property in Colma and moved the bodies in the San Francisco cemeteries there by 1900, before San Francisco banned burials and cremations. Today, there are three Jewish cemeteries in Colma — Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El Mausoleum, Hills of Eternity Cemetery and Mausoleum, and Salem Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum.
Was there a cemetery where San Francisco City Hall is today?
Yes. From 1850 to 1871, Yerba Buena Cemetery, the first city-sanctioned cemetery in San Francisco, occupied a triangular swath of land bordered by Market, McAllister and Larkin streets. Today, the new San Francisco Public Library building and the Asian Art Museum (the original San Francisco Public Library building) also occupy this land. Many of San Francisco’s first cemeteries were consolidated into this one location after residents complained of the unsightly appearance and unsanitary conditions of the city’s spontaneously established graveyards in the Telegraph Hill, North Beach, and Russian Hill neighborhoods.
“From Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur of the fiftieth year, slaves would not return home but would not work either. The fields would not return to their hereditary owners, but the owners would eat, drink and rejoice with their crowns upon their heads. Then, when Yom Kippur arrived, the slaves would return home and the fields would revert to their hereditary owners.”
It has become manifest that I am the Prophet of the Lutheran-Protestant Church.
In 2011 I found a book on the Sanhedrin. It said they did away with the Jubilee Laws fifty years before Jesus was born. I concluded it was Jesus’s mission to RESTORE the Jubilee, FREE SLAVES, and RETURN ancient lands – TO FAMILY LINES! This is why Jesus goes to his HOMETOWN and declarers he – with God’s Blessing – has restored the Jubilee! And, he produces thirty pieces of silver, and throws it on the ground!
“I am the Go-el of Ruth who married Boaz who promised this land would remain in her family – forever! I have PAID the price of Liberty. Now, pleases remove your property, your sheep, the beam of your house – from my land!”
This is when THE EVICTED rushed Jesus, took hold of him – and tried to throw him off the cliff! Here is the HISTORIC JESUS – that I found! It was my destiny. To find my great grandparents, evicted from their graves in Belmont, and more kin evicted from the Oddfellow’s graveyard in San Francisco, the City that William Ralston built.
On the Day of Atonement, I claim the property where Carl Janke and his wife – were buried. I believe Carl had an agreement, even a Deed, that allowed his remains to rest here – to perpetuity! I demand the City of Belmont – remove all structures built on the Janke Family property, and with dignified religious observances – restored to the ground God made for them.
After a day of repentance and reflection, it is customary to have a meal to “break the fast.” Families, congregants and friends gather to eat together at sundown, which signals the end of the holiday.
I restore The Jubilee. Today is Yom Kippur.
In my book I will reveal why John the Baptist and his priestly linage wanted the Jubilee restored, and why Jesus was – ritually crucified in order to restore- The Kingdom of David. As the embodiment of David, Jesus broke fast with his followers on the Mount of Olives – on the Day of Atonement!
John ‘The Nazarite’
EXRTA! At 3;33 P.M on Yom Kippur I found this article on my phone. It says there was a ongoing argument over what day Yom Kippur fell on. I figured this out in 2011 – at least! Paul had to know the history of this argument. Did her really have dead Jesus’ permission to gift Gentiles with the crux of the Judaic religion – mins the Judaic Calendar! I am a valid theologian – and then some!
John ‘The Essene’
“The Qumran group, who left behind the Dead Sea Scrolls and other artifacts, were probably Essenes, a smaller, mystical-oriented sect. Adler adds that the “wicked priest” was likely one of the Hasmonean priests or rulers, who arrived — possibly with soldiers — to admonish the desert worshipers because that group was observing the Day of Atonement on what was considered the wrong date.
“It seems, once the Torah became well-known — and ever since — people have argued how to observe it,” Adler says, thus leading to the existence of the different sects of the period. In this case, different opinions about exactly when a new lunar month began could lead to different groups celebrating holy days one or two days apart from each other.
At 1:38 A.M. on April 13, 2021, I founded the new Belmont Soda Works. An hour later I found a branch of the Janke family, born of Elizabeth Janke, the daughter of Carl. Her children and grandchild lived and worked in many places in Belmont. I also found proof that my great, great, grandfather brought six portable houses around the Cape and erected them in Belmont, a city that means ‘Beautiful Hill’. This makes Janke a premiere pioneer builder in the Bay Area, and the owner of one of California’s first Theme Parks. Cark and his family are business peers of Walt Disney. I also found the copyrighted post of my families achievements, that precedes all copyrights by anyone who had written about this very important and historic family. Elizabeth and Melba Broderick, my father’s mother, look alike. This post remains untouched, and contains the double posting of images that was occurring at this time, until I learned how to fix this. I will now make the Janke family the premiere family genealogy. I believe the photos above were taken in Janke’s Park. This is one of the or the First Families of the Bay Area. Anyone interested in manufacturing a soda, please e-mail me.
When Eva Adelia Johnson was born on 27 February 1880, in California, United States, her father, Amassa Parker Johnson, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Dorothy Janke, was 35. She married Lewis Charles Vannier on 19 October 1901, in Marin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Judicial Township 2, San Mateo, California, United States in 1940 and Belmont, San Mateo, California, United States in 1969. She died on 21 December 1974, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 94.
This morning I opened an email from my kin, Murray Oltman, and read the proof of what I have been saying for over ten years, being, Augusta Stuttmeister, the beloved wife of William Oltman Stuttmeister, is kin to Carl Arugusta Janke the co-founder, if not sole founder of the City of Belmont California.
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1842, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke.
Carl Janke came to San Francisco in 1848, one year before the Gold Rush. According to an article in the DAR, he brought six portable houses around the Cape and erected them in Belmont for gold miners who had struck it rich. As fate would have it, William Ralston ‘The Man Who Built San Francisco’ and his partner, lived in Belmont in a house that still stands, called Ralston Hall. I believe this is one of Janke’s homes that Coun Leonetto Cipriani purchased, and added on to. This house had 5,000 screws in it according to one (lost) article I read. Another lost article said these homes were manufactured in Mass. then shipped to California. I suspect two of these homes are found on Dolores Street in the Mission. One article said one house was moved a distance from the Tanforan ranch. The name Tanforan may have been the name of the Theme Park that Janke built in Belmont, perhaps the first in California. It also might be Turnverein, the German gymnastic clubs of the Forty-Eighters. There is much evidence the Stuttmeisters were members of the Turner Societies of Free-thinkers.
What is truly astounding, is that Sir Thomas Hesketh married Florence Sharon at Ralston Hall, and Florence Breckenridge married their son. Florence descends from John Witherspoon,and thus is kin to the Jessie Benton Fremont, thus the Presco family, when Christine Rosamond Presco married Garth Benton.
This is truly a Rags to Riches story. Christine and I used to take walks in Piedmont where the Sharon family lived. The Hesketh family are in the Peereage.
Then there is the Oddfellow gathering in Belmont that may have been staged by William Ralston. The Oddfellows were forming a union with the Freemasons and holding Knights Templar titles. Was the Stuttmeister-Janke union a Masonic-Odfellow marriage? If so, my family owns all those legends that Dan Brown gathered into his basket to create a money-making work of fiction.
When my daughter gets married, I will do all that is humanly and divinely possible to see that she ties the night at Ralston Hall, because; “All’s wll, that ends well!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
Florence Louise Breckinridge was born in November 1881 at California, U.S.A..2 She married Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh, son of Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Bt. and Florence Emily Sharon, on 9 September 1909 at British Embassy Church, Paris, France.
1888: From the Daily Alta, an article on the marriage of Dr. William O. Stuttmeister and Augusta D. Janke.
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888 STUTTMEISTER-JANKE.
One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont, and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm. Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen. The Rev. A. L. Brewer of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations. The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.
1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133). Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke – Stuttmeister Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born February 2, 1869, died March 1902. William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25, 1642, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born 1612, died January 29, 1877. Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born 1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York. Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New York.
NEW YORK (WPIX) – A “ring of fire” solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the United States and Mexico next month, according to NASA.
On Oct. 14, the annular solar eclipse will be visible in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas, as well as some parts of California, Idaho, Colorado and Arizona, NASA predicted.
This morning I read about a Ring of Fire Event over Eugene. Yesterday I had my fictional characters see the coming of a great celestial event. I do this, because no one close to me, and afar, has taken my Sight, seriously. They chose to see me as Mad, so they can rip off my channel to the Heavens, and turn my visions into money.
On October 14m 2023, I will publish my Revelations.
Victoria and Miriam were looking at the faint Arora Borealis from the knoll that sloped down to their Maze, when a large comet – streaked across the sky! They barely left go a collective gasp – when another green comet came chasing the first one – across the heaven. Starfish jumped up, and let out a shout that echoed down into Eugène!
“They are here!” Yeeeehaw!
“Who’s here?” Victoria asked.
“The – Comet Kings!”
Above is the image of a Parthian King with two stars and what may be the path of comet.
If you’ve been wanting to get out and see Comet Nishimura for yourself, this week is likely your last chance.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura has just a few days left before it moves closer to the sun and will no longer be visible in the pre-dawn hours.
For some reason, my phone has a better search-engine than my laptop, so I have been able to find more info about my German Family History in Belmont. I’m waiting for Cypress Lawn to be open so I can have them search for the remains of Charles F. Janke who died of a concussion at 47. Was he kicked by a horse, or, did he die defending his town and business establishments – from thugs? Charles Janke owned the Emmet House, and may have paid for its construction. People of Belmont did not want it moved, because they wanted what many cities, have – a historic center. How come it was not moved to Twin Pines Park? I detected an anti-German angst – from the start of my genealogical research!
I almost wept at the City Council meeting because I knew what was coming due to the Palestinian War. Germany is being discussed due the Holocaust. There are hostages. The Emmet House and my family history – WAS BUTCHERED! I want it restored! It appears many elected officials honed their civic swords on The Janke House, so they can earn a paycheck telling people what to do – and how to do it. At the end of my three minute presentation, I thought I heard the Mayor say….”We honor all peoples!” This is the ongoing excuse to wipe out – FAMILY HISTORIES! Enough! U.S. Citizens are going to pay billions to protect the antiques and archeological digs of Israel – who are guilty of treating the Palestinian inhumanly, and, with no respect! Enough! This is the Last Go-round with that BULLSHIT!
On the news a Jewish woman who lives in the SF Bay Area says Jewish Males that live in America are flying to Israel to fight against Hamas. Carl Janke appears to have formed a militia. Russia bragged about taking back Alaska, and Fort Ross – employing force. Many Jews are calling for the firing of Netanyahu, that I think is being prevented by President Biden – for the sake of UNITY! The Republican still can’t get – UNIFIED!
Throwing’ out – and banning OUR HISTORY – does not prevent history from being made! “Don’t!” There have been several Westerns on cable. I should have proposed one called ‘Belmont’. I will do so! I see a pattern in Belmont. Every time there is A NEED FOR MORE LAND, the solution is to dig up another Janke, or, move a Janke home -somewhere else!
“Let’s dib up another Nazi from their grave! Those German deserved it for what they done!”
I see these Kevin Kostner clips, where his character built up a great ranch, and now NON-FAMILY FOLKS – want to tear it all down – or make the ranch their own! The biggest fight in our family, was between my mother, Rosemary, and aunt Lillian, as to whom Errol Flynn desired the most. They both dated him as teenagers. Rosemary married Carl Janke’s great grandson, Victor William Presco.
John Presco
EXTRA! I just found Charles F. Janke, his wife, Louisa, and their daughter Rose Hannah. This is my first gravesite I have located after becoming a Odd Fellow on August 27th.
In looking at the evil resting place of Carl and his wife, I keeping reading this..
“From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone)“
This is saying there was an original tombstone, that was removed, to put new bodies in the same hole, and then capped by a new tombstone!!! I never saw such a thing. Are you telling me the City of Belmont could not afford – a new grave! Outrageous! This city is dripping with money. They also cut corners with the Emmet House – destroying it as a Landmark. There is a George Schmoll in the Janke plot. I read last night that Belmont took the land of John Schmoll. Is Geroge his son, who died poor? I suspect there was, and still is, a family who had it out for my ancestors. I’m coming to Belmont!
Cypress Lawn Memorial ParkColma, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapGPS-Latitude: 37.6744650, Longitude: -122.4502480PLOTEast Side Garden, Lot 332, Div SMEMORIAL ID245445776 · View Source
Carl Augustus Janke
BIRTHOct 1806
Dresden, Stadtkreis Dresden, Saxony, GermanyDEATH31 Oct 1881 (aged 74–75)
Belmont, San Mateo County, California, USABURIAL
Union CemeteryRedwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA Show MapGPS-Latitude: 37.4737300, Longitude: -122.2239100MEMORIAL ID186938257 · View SourceSHARESAVE TO
Carl Augustus Janke was a local merchant in the city of Belmont, California he founded Belmont Park in 1865 which was modeled after a German beer garden. Janke subsequently he founded a local soft drink bottling plant, the first industry for the town of Belmont.
— From the 1937 headstone survey — (apparently there was a different stone) Carl August Janke, born in Dresden, Germany Oct. 1806, died Belmont, Calif. Sept. 2, 1881 Dorette Catherine, wife of Carl August Janke, born in Hamburg, Germany, July 21, 1813, died in Belmont, California, Feb 16, 1877 Mutter Heinrich (spelled Catherine Hendrickson on the gravestone), mother of Dorette Catherine Janke, born in Island of Heligoland, Germany, 1781 died in Belmont, California 1876
DENVER (KDVR) — As a violent attack continues in Israel, a handful of Coloradans are traveling to the country, some to help fight.
Rabbi Menachem Siderson of Aish of the Rockies said seven members of his synagogue have now arrived in Israel. He said some are reservists in the Israeli army, while others are making the trip completely voluntarily.
“It was quite surprising to me, actually, to find out the news that we had young men and women that are in our community that just felt the need — one of them called it the raw need — to just pick up and find their way to Israel,” Siderson said. “It makes the emotions so much higher, so much more personal, when we know the people in our community who are no longer here because they are there risking their lives to protect the country.”
“Originally Carl abd Doretha were buried under a huge bay tree there and bodies later moved to the Union Cemetary “during the dark of night” my mother used to tell us.”
Here is some soundtrack to go wi with the Lewis Family Film starring Rosemary Rosamond who is seen walking by the sea. The Lewis family owned a large ranch in Camarillo – that fist with Belmont! Play both videos at the same time.
My ancestors were wealthy Prussians. Were they investors in Prussia’s attempt to purchase California, that did not happen possibly due to the Revolutions of 1848? Did some Germans realize California could be had by a intensive migration? The six million dollars could be used to buy portable homes, and other necessities. The chances Count Cipriani purchased a portable home from Carl Janke, is high. Unless he brought one in his wagon train.
The Jankes were members of the California Fusiliers. Did they have any contact with my kin, John Fremont, who was talked out of founding a new nation in the West during the Civil War. Consider the Manifest Destiny propaganda of his father-in-law and John Astor, who paid Washington Irving to author a propaganda novel that clamed the right of Americans to take the Oregon Territory – from BRITISH ROYALS. Astor launched a financial conquest of China – that could be the model for China today! If they take over Central America, will they manufacture Chinese cocaine after exterminating the criminal cartel and all gangs south of the border? Texans would be – pleased as punch! As long as China does not take away their right not to wear masks – or their guns! What about – their God? China could get its powerful think tank to invent a Cocaine Jesus for anti-Democratic cult followers, who will honor the day the Democrats cheated them our of their birth right with fake elections. To the Chinese, we look like members of a superstitious Cargo Cult, we easy pickens when it comes to….Divide and Conquer. Our tribal system is open to covert bribes, pitting one tribe against another tribe.
Posted Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:30 pm PT|Updated Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:07 am PTReply
Saturday’s rain ceased just long enough for Belmont to enjoy a moment that’s been a long time coming: unveiling the renovated Emmett House.
The approximately 100 residents, city officials and local politicians who gathered at the Emmett House on Saturday cheered as Mayor Coralin Feierbach snipped the bright red ribbon with a pair of gigantic scissors, symbolizing, at last, that the Emmett House was open.
“They said it couldn’t be done,” Feierbach said. “It could not be moved; it would fall apart, so let’s tear it down. But it got moved and it looks fantastic. One of our last historical pieces is saved.”
It’s been a little more than three years since Belmont residents — also in the rain — watched the historic building be moved down the street from Ralston Avenue to its current location at 1000 O’Neill Ave.
The city of Belmont purchased the historic building in 1999, but the first survey of the property dates back to 1990. The house itself — a two-story Victorian complete with a wraparound porch — was originally built around 1885.
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Belmont Historic Society President Denny Lawhern said there have been more than 125 meetings before the Emmett House reached its current state: modernized and ready for two low-income families to move in.
The building, now split into two homes, features bright, carpeted rooms with views of Belmont from all angles.
The project of renovating the Emmett House, Lawhern said, contained two elements: historic preservation, and providing low- and moderate-income housing.
The Emmett House is named after Walter Emmett, a pioneer, merchant and postmaster who had an early and very strong presence in the city of Belmont.
“We’re here to honor Walter A. Emmett,” Lawhern said. “He came to Belmont in 1880 and became a major merchant who led the business community in the earlier years of Belmont. This was Mr. Emmett’s home.”
Community Development Director Carlos de Melo said the city’s Redevelopment Agency funded the purchase and reconstruction of the original house, as well as the purchase of the lots on which the house now resides.
“The Redevelopment Agency took care of all the components financially to make this home a reality,” de Melo said. “That’s why Redevelopment Agencies are important.”
Assemblymember Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony as well and commended Belmont for its dedication to preserving history.
“This is a perfect example of how Belmont does it best,” Hill said to applause from the audience. “This is a prize that we need to preserve, not just for us, not just for the next generation, but for those generations that we’ll never know.”
Hill also presented the city with a certificate of recognition from the California State Assembly for its “commitment to preserving what’s best about this Peninsula,” he said.
“It’s wonderful that two families will be living in it,” Hill said in an interview after the ceremony. “They were able to preserve the historic value and place this home in a nice neighborhood. It will add a lot to the redevelopment of downtown Belmont.”
City Manager Greg Scoles called the Emmett House a “significant” project for the city of Belmont.
“To me, it represents the history of Belmont,” Parks and Recreation Director Jonathan Gervais said. “Historic structures don’t stand the test of time unless people are taking care of them, monitoring them, managing them, and this, with folks living in it, will stand the test of time.”
Not everyone, however, agrees the building should be used for housing.
Daniel Greenberg, who lives minutes away from the Emmett House near the border of Belmont and San Carlos, said that while he commended Belmont for renovating the historic building, he thought the city could financially benefit more by leasing the property for commercial use.
“Kudos to the people that were involved, it’s a beautiful house,” Greenberg said. “I’ve seen the Emmett House through its transformation, from when it was first moved to this beautiful state today. I think it’s added a lot to the neighborhood.”
But, he added, he believes the building should be used for a purpose other than to house two families.
“They could probably do a better job of preserving this for the long-term by leasing it out for commercial use,” for instance to professional service firms like accounting or law firms, Greenberg said.
“If you’re really looking to preserve a house for the long-term, you don’t have people living in it, you have people using it in a low-traffic manner.”
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“The project was redefined so many times with new councils, new planning commissions and new city managers,” Lawhern said.
The Belmont Historical Society applied for registration of the house on the National Register, however, it was rejected due to the extent of modifications made to the building.
“What a sense of completion,” Lawhern said. “Maybe now I can go out of town for a week without worrying about it.”
“It has taken a long time to save our Emmett House,” said Mayor Coralin Feierbach. “There were concerns raised from the neighborhood about relocating the building to this new site. However, when one looks at it now, we were right, it can be done.”
A historic renovation: Belmont’s Emmett House to reopen
Bill Silverfarb/Daily Journal Denny Lawhern, president of the Belmont Historical Society, stands in front of the Emmett House. The house, constructed in 1885, has undergone three years of renovations after being moved from its original home on Ralston Avenue.
After years of renovations, Belmont’s historic Emmett House is finally set to reopen after being moved from its original home on Ralston Avenue in 2008.
The historic structure was first constructed in 1885 and bought by the city in 1998 for about $750,000.
Emmett House was relocated on a rainy night in January 2008, when hundreds of people braved the elements to watch the structure move from its original location to its new resting place on O’Neill Avenue near City Hall.
Since the move, it has been renovated and remodeled into a two-unit residential building that will provide low- to moderate-income housing for local families.
The tenants will move in next month, said Denny Lawhern, president of the Belmont Historical Society.
In total, the purchase and renovation of the building will cost about $2 million, Lawhern said. A significant portion of the money came from the city’s Redevelopment Agency.
Lawhern has spent more than 12 years with the Emmett House and has attended more than 120 meetings related to the structure. Initially, the city intended to renovate the structure at its original resting place.
“The project was redefined so many times with new councils, new planning commissions and new city managers,” Lawhern said.
Lawhern is happy the project is almost done.
“What a sense of completion,” Lawhern said. “Maybe now I can go out of town for a week without worrying about it.”
The original Emmett cottage was built in the mid-1880s, with the second story added in 1899. Some modifications were made to the building over the years, including its change of use from residential to commercial and office space and removal of its wraparound porch. For a time, the house was even a sanitarium.
The integrity of the original structure remained, however, and it survived its 2008 move intact. A number of its historic components have been restored, including the porch and the widow’s walk. The infrastructure has been upgraded to meet all current building codes, including plumbing, mechanical and electrical. A detached two-car garage is also included on the site.
The two units are three bedrooms each and are reserved for families who qualify for affordable rent.
In 1990, the San Mateo County Historical Association conducted a State Office of Historic Preservation Historic Resources Inventory and as a result, in 1992 Belmont declared the building a historic landmark under the city’s Historic Resources Ordinance.
The Belmont Historical Society applied for registration of the house on the National Register, however, it was rejected due to the extent of modifications made to the building.
Lawhern intends to reapply for the federal designation based on who the home’s original owner was.
In the 30 years between 1880 and 1910, Walter Alfred Emmett became Belmont’s leading merchant, according to city documents. He purchased a general store from Carl F. Janke at the northwest corner of the Old County Road in 1880 in partnership with Matthew O’Neill. He bought out O’Neill in 1888, and acquired the Belmont Soda Works in 1892. By 1893, he owned the entire block on the north side of The Corners and constructed a livery stable, according to city documents.
Emmett was a one-man Chamber of Commerce, Lawhern said.
The house sits adjacent to the Belmont Creek across from the Twin Pines Senior and Community Center and directly across the street from the Beli Deli on Sixth Avenue.
Gin Nikoloff, the deli’s owner, is excited the project is done.
“I’m delighted they completed. It sat idle for a while and was an eyesore,” Nikoloff said. “Everybody’s pretty happy.”
The city will hold a ribbon-cutting next weekend to celebrate the reopening as the historic aspect of the renovations will be finished.
“It has taken a long time to save our Emmett House,” said Mayor Coralin Feierbach. “There were concerns raised from the neighborhood about relocating the building to this new site. However, when one looks at it now, we were right, it can be done.”
A celebration of the completion of renovations for Belmont’s historic Emmett House is set for Saturday, March 19, 3 p.m., 1000 O’Neill Ave. The public is invited and refreshments will be served.
During the Middle Ages, many towns had to find ways to defend themselves from gangs of marauders. For this reason, clubs and associations were founded, comparable to militias; these paramilitary associations were sanctioned for the first time in the Law for the Defensive Constitution of the Towns by King Henry I, and officially integrated into the towns’ defense plans. Accompanying the military exercises and physical examinations of the towns’ contingents, festivities were combined with festive processions. Participants from other parishes and, at times, even the feudal heads of state were also invited to these Marksmen’s Courts (Schützenhöfe). However, the self-confident spirit of the townsfolk that marked these festivities was not always regarded positively by the authorities. For this reason, different traditions developed in other regions. The military significance lessened over the centuries and became meaningless with the creation of regular troops and garrisons for national defense. The Schützenfests, however, continued in the form of a regional patriotic tradition.
July 15, 1901 . The Goths have entered Rome ! Aye, it is so, but there was no cry in the night, no clamor of hasty flight, no scurrying with household gods to the citadel. Rather, did San Francisco throw wide her gates and fraternize with her Teutonic invaders. On the other hand, these descendants of Germanic Tribesmen who swept down out of the forest of middle Europe some two thousand years ago, are quite unlike their savage forbearers. They are not clad in the skins of wild beasts, and though they bear weapons in their hands, we do not fear; for they come not in war, but in love; not as foes, but as blood-brothers. And though their ancestors of old time looted many a fair city, we need keep no anxious eye on our possessions. We have but one thing they might appropriate if they were able–and that is our climate.
The contestants for Miss Russian San Francisco 2017 pose with the founder Karina Zakharov, center in white skirt and perwinkle top.
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Chapter Five: The Manhattan Declaration
“She’s pregnant!” Clive told Victoria across the cold glass that covered his families ancient mahogany desk where the fate of world’s shipping was mapped out in secret trade agreements. Everything was Insured.
“Who’s pregnant?” Victoria asked, and tried to oppress the hot blood that rushed to her brain.
“Miriam.” Clive said, and studied Victoria’s reaction.
“She’s….with child? She told me she was a virgin. I am a virgin. That was our seal, our bond. How do you know? Did she tell you?”
“Breath! Take three deep breaths – and think calm thoughts. Your face is turning red. You need to meditate!”
“I need to meditate?” Victoria was fighting off a torrent of Christian Shame. She had used logic to dismiss the truth that she was having a Lesbian relationship, but, the idea that her lover got pregnant, filled her soul, her brain, with the idea she had done something – very bad – as if she knocked-up her beloved Starfish.
How she acquired Catholic Sin in the bowels of the College of Heraldry, must be due to all the mottos she read on the Coat of Arms, and, the religious notes she had to carefully study in cases of Crusader Knighthood. There were many who belonged to orders that sprang from Jerusalem. There was images of baby Jesus in a manger. All this sin and shame!
“How did you find out Starfish is pregnant? Victoria was glaring at Clive.
“Please! Sit back down. Take three deep breaths. Our toilets test all BAD women, automatically, when you use them.”
“You mean……you chemically analyze our urine – in the toilet? Do you test for drugs, too? Do you take pictures of us?’
“Yes – breath!”
Victoria slid out of the chair in a dead faint. Her chin his the glass top and put a crack in it. When she came to, she was on the greatest leather sofa ever made. A antiseptic sheet was put on it. Victoria heard the sound of the last staple put in her chin. Her wound required three staples. The BAD doctor wiped away the blood that had rolled down her neck and stained the sheet. Victoria tried to wipe away the vision of a grown man pissing in a BAD toilet with his…….She had never seen a penis!
“Are the men at BAD tested? Do you have photos of them relieving themselves on file!” asked Victoria, she sounding like a moron due to her lower jaw being numb. Reaching with her hand, she swore when she felt the big white bandage.
“Fuck! I had planned to go shopping while in London! I can’t be seen like this!”
“Wear a smog mask. They make very expensive ones that are in fashion! Don’t get up.”
“Fuck you! Give me something to throw. It must be spendy. Couldn’t you have ordered a bouquet of flowers and put them on the desk, when you told me the fucking blessed good news. I love Miriam, you rotten bastards! I feel so defiled! I want my tinkling pics – now! And Miriam’s! How dare you! Is nothing sacred?”
“We do not capture you while tinkling, but when you turn on the faucet to wash your hands. This flushes the toilet. Haven’t you noticed the delay?”
‘Why do you do this?” Victoria asked, then, took three quiet breaths. “Washing ones hands is a very sacred practice – you creeps! When we use public toilets we spread the message we are not spreading germs. You have dirtied – us! We love our mirrors you place a camera behind. We give our best look. Why!”
“When women have an unexpected pregnancy, they become very vulnerable – to our enemy. Most women believe it is their right to privately summon their higher power to deal with – the big surprise! Many women have no higher power, and fall back on the myth of pure logic – that does not exist! Everyone in Western Culture is subjected to a Shame-base, Christian morality. It comes with the total package. There exist a very intrusive ambitious Abortion Cult that swoops down on vulnerable women in high places. Have you heard of Charles Colson?”
“Do you mean, Chuck Colson, of Watergate fame?”
‘Yes! He was ordered by the President to get something dirty on the Democrats. There was talk one of the leaders owned a porno collection of naked Hippies posing with Senators and Congressmen at a commune on a secret island. Have you heard of Jonah Puffhausen, and Cardinal Foley?”
Foley I know very well. I worked on his genealogy and coat of arms. He subscribe to the coming of a American Prophet who would rebuild the temple in Jerusalem! Miriam knew when to close her mouth, and listen.
“Here’s the bottom line. There are Americans and Russians who believe Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California belongs to Russia via saints of the Russian Orthodox Church that built Fort Ross. Miriam’s parents were leaders in this movement. They met Jonah at UC Berekley. Jonah sent them to Oregon where they eventually studied at North West University. They founded the Russian Bear and Star club. This is the Star of Bethlehem held in the talons of the double eagle of the Orthodox church.”
Clive studied Victoria as she did a chart in her head. She connected some dots to coats of arms, and other private information secret orginizations with the College of Heradlry. Many people want to be seen as immortal. When she read the President of the United States was wanting a bogus coat of arms, she picked up the phone and out the kabash on his fraudulent dream.”
‘POTUS is poised to sign an executive order, turning four States over to Putin…..BREATH!”
“Why would he do such a thing?’
“Think Electorial College and the fact the West will forever be for the Democrats. California has 58 electorial votes, that will be removed from the election of POTUS. If this happens, then there will forever be a Republican President. No longer will the Repbulican Abortion and Heathen Club have to get dirt on the Democrats. This is a religious cult, who for two thusand years have taken over the land of Non-Christians who are deemed godless heathens -who can not be saved. This is why POTUS built his wall. ”
Victoria went to rub her chin, and, felt the bandage. She understood all this via Christian coat of arms – and flags!
“We can not tell Miriam. She was seduced by a disciple of Puffhausin who she had a crush on when they met. She was fifteen. He was twenty. They both have Royal Alute blood. There has been an interest in their breeding, and the child they would produce. They are looking for their Virgin Mary.”
‘Does Miriam know about this?”
“Some. Her increble intuition is putting the jigsaw puzzle together, starting with the blue sky pieces. You know how she is. We have set up a War Room. We want you to do a chart. You, we, must arrive at the epicenter before Miriam does. I’m afraid she sees you as a conduit of information. She does not want to see you this way. She will use you. You must use her. Study Calexit and its connecteion to Brexit. The Manhatten cult wants to do away with the Europan Union and NATO. They convinced POTUS France was the world capitol of infidelity because French men of means have a mistress.”
(Blank stares exchanged here)
Here is the Manhatten Declaration and a list of times POTUS said there would be an uprising if he is Impeached. The Democrats will file tomorrow. They are having a pow-wow right now. You need to do a Story Board. We are looking at Biblical Prophecy – LIVE!”
“Miriam knowns evertything there is to know about prophecy. She would be a tremendous help right now!”
“Once the storyboard is complete, we will bring her here to look at it on the big screen. Once she has seen our work, she will own the upperhand. It must appear that we own the high ground, or, she will run circles around us. Thank God, for this!” Clive put a file before Victoria made of green velvet.
“This is your Puritan ancestry we have kept from you. John von John is your kin. His real name is John Wilson Rosamond. He has revived Herbert Armstrong’s church. Call him, now. He needs to be here. We are going to fight BAD prophecy, with BAD prophecy. We are going into the Sage&Scribe business. When the storyboard is complete, you are going to Scotland to stay over night with The Poker Club.”
“The Poker Club?” Victoria chimed. Aren’t they an ancient all male club who some say rule the Western World?” Victoria got no answer.
“Why are you and Miriam sneaking about Osborne House?”
“We are looking for Victoria’s lost library.
“Interesting. In four days I want you and Miriam on a plane. You are going to Harvard to look for the lost library of Reverend John Wilson, who is your 9th. grandfather, too!” Clive watched his remark sink in.
“Are you saying John von John and I share this ancestor? Miriam hates him. Wait a minute, the Puritans and California Russians, are on the same path. Who owns America is the question.”
“They say Manhattan was purchased from the heathens for a pair of beads. The Russian Pioneer Monks married native women. They kept very good genealogical records. Look at Saint Innocent of Alaska. Miriam claimed she was a Russian Native American Princess.”
“And this is why she dresses like Sheenah, Queen of the Jungle?” added Victoria, with three calm breaths. “I wonder if Russia has a Walt Disney?”
Today, we crossed the Rubicon. There is no turning back. President Trump sent the Speaker of the House an extremely demonizing letter – with eagle seal – that invoked the name of my Puritan ancestors. Nancy tore it up.
If I were a young man, again, I would want to marry all the beautiful women in the Russian beauty contest. Paul bid members of the first church – not to marry because The End was coming, and so was Jesus. He was a no-show. Paul, latched on to our genitals, and the church has been shaking them like a Pitbull ever since in order to get our attention, and trillions in tithe.
Today, we saw Trump trying to run their Holy Blackmail scam. Remaining neutral as a non-believer, is almost impossible. The Christian-right wants to go to war with the Democrats. Republican women, should jump ship.
The abortion issue was invented by Paul Weyrich to counter the Civil Rights Movement that was opposed by Southern Baptists. Robert P. George founded the Witherspoon think tank. He says religious disobedience is required. History is about religious wars. The End Time is a tool for religious terrorists.
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday savaged House Democrats’ impeachment proceedings in a six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that read like a collection of his most vitriolic tweets.
The fiery missive, frequently punctuated with exclamation points, came loaded with hyperbolic assertions — including the president’s claim that “more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials” and his accusation that Pelosi and House Democrats “view democracy as your enemy!”
Beginning in 1854 with the establishment of what was eventually called the Laurel Hill Cemetery, the Lone Mountain area became the original “city of the dead” for San Francisco. Laurel Hill was found to the north of Geary between Presidio and Parker, where you would now find part of the UCSF campus and the Laurel Heights neighborhood. In 1860, the Roman Catholic church bought the land between Geary and Turk and east of Masonic to open the Calvary Cemetery. Today, you would go shopping there at the City Center complex. In 1864, the Masons fraternal organization opened the Masonic Cemetery on the south slope of Lone Mountain, where you would find USF today.
The reason these cemeteries were located in the Lone Mountain area was that in the 1850s and 1860s, this area was so far out of town that they were, in fact, outside the city limits of San Francisco at that time. It wasn’t until 1866 that the Outside Lands Act brought this area into city limits. After the Masons opened their cemetery, the third cemetery on the slopes of Lone Mountain, another fraternal organization followed suit.
Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1885. (wnp26.342; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
155 years ago this week, on November 19, 1865, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows opened their own cemetery. The Odd Fellows Cemetery was located on the west slope of Lone Mountain, between Geary and Turk and west of Parker. At that time, there were very few public parks to be found, so cemeteries were developed as “green space” with park-like landscaping.
View east toward Lone Mountain of Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1880s. (wnp37.01340; Isaiah West Taber, photographer – Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Although this was the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, others could buy plots there and some groups purchased sections there. One was a Greek Cemetery section near today’s Stanyan and Golden Gate intersection. The Grand Army of the Republic, the Civil War Veteran’s group, purchased a plat of land there and would hold Memorial Day parades that started downtown and ended at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Odd Fellows Cemetery, 1900s. (wnp15.208; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Perhaps the most prominent person interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery was Charles de Young, the co-founder (with his brother Henry) and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. De Young was shot and killed on April 23, 1880 by the son of the mayor of San Francisco, the culmination of an escalating feud between the mayor and the newspaperman. The funeral service for de Young, an Odd Fellow member, began at his home on Eddy Street. Then a procession of carriages took him to his not-so-final resting place (we’ll get to that) at the Odd Fellows Cemetery.1 De Young’s widow later had a magnificent monument to her husband built at the cemetery near the entrance. Perhaps not surprisingly considering the source, the entrance to the Odd Fellows Cemetery was later cited as the “most picturesque of any of the cemeteries.2”
Crematorium at Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1905. (wnp33.01105.jpg; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
The Odd Fellows Cemetery was funded by the sale of gravesites, from which the grounds were maintained. As the cemetery filled up though, there was no longer sufficient monies to keep the site up and it began to look worse for the wear. Consequently, the Odd Fellows looked for a new source of funding. Their solution, in 1895, was to open a crematorium on the grounds and began advertising cremation as an alternative to burial.
Columbarium at Odd Fellows Cemetery, circa 1905. (wnp33.01104; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
Of course, once someone was cremated, you might need a place to store the ashes. So the Odd Fellows Cemetery opened a striking new building called the Columbarium. It was designed by architect Bernard J.S. Cahill in a neo-Classical style and featured a copper dome. Construction started just after Easter in 18973 and was completed around the end of the year,4 in time to be opened in early 1898.
View north across Odd Fellows Cemetery with Columbarium in back right, circa 1900. (wnp31.00027; Bauchou Family Photographs / Courtesy of Peter Linenthal / Potrero Hill Archives)
While Odd Fellows and its fellow Lone Mountain cemeteries started out in the boonies, San Francisco quickly spread westward to and past the cemeteries. As early as the 1880s, there were calls to move the cemeteries in order to put the land to better use, although couched in terms of the potential health hazards of having cemeteries so close to the population. On March 26, 1900, the supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting burials within city limits, which would take effect on August 1, 1901.5 The ultimate goal was the removal of the cemeteries completely and the Odd Fellows saw the writing on the wall. As with other cemeteries, they looked south to Colma and purchased land there in 1904 for a new cemetery which they named Green Lawn Cemetery.
M. Rider postcard of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Crematorium at center, circa 1908. (wnp25.4260; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
After banning burials, San Francisco, on November 21, 1910, took the next step and banned cremations within city limits.6 The same year, the United States Supreme Court upheld the City’s ban on burials.7 Although it would not be until the 1930s before the City began forcing Odd Fellows and other cemeteries to remove bodies, the end was nigh. Relatives of the deceased at Odd Fellows Cemetery were given notice in 1912 to move their loved ones. Charles de Young, as one example, was moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma. In 1932, some 26,000 graves were moved from the Odd Fellows Cemetery to Green Lawn Cemetery.
WPA Workers converting Odd Fellows Cemetery into Rossi Playground, December 26, 1933. (wnp14.2425; Courtesy of a Private Collector)
By the end of 1933, San Francisco was rapidly converting a portion of the Odd Fellows Cemetery grounds into Rossi Playground. In 1949, the Coronet Theatre opened on Geary on a small part of the former Odd Fellows Cemetery. Other public, private, and governmental uses were made of the cemetery land. However, one part of the Odd Fellows Cemetery still remains. The Columbarian was allowed to stay and it passed through different owners over the years, but eventually fell into disrepair. Finally, it was purchased by the Neptune Society, which rededicated it on September 10, 1980 and began a long and costly restoration effort.8 It can still be visited today, though perhaps not while the pandemic continues to rage.
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