It was known as the great quake. The mere mention of the year caused Bay Area residents to shudder. The year was 1868. Once upon a time, that was considered the big one in the Bay Area. In writing on ...

OSLO, Norway (WCSC) — The 26th president of the United States became the nation’s first chief executive to be honored with a Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10, 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt received ...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States, and remains high on the ...

Mount Ida, 1906: “His Master’s Breath,” in a whiskey jug. The card played off the famous “His Master’s Voice,” an 1898 painting by Francis Barraud of a dog named Nipper starring into a gramophone. It ...

Cotter, 1906: Eleven people and a dog were on or around a canoe at White River. “Did you ever see anything like this?” says the note to Thayer, Mo. The river was decades away from being dammed and the ...