Joe Blackstock
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Neither escaped convicts nor officers fare well in chase that ended in San Bernardino County (opens the original)
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Let’s face it, 1934 was not a great year for some of America’s notorious bad guys, and not just because the lawless days of Prohibition were over. Chicago gangsters John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd, both on the lam for months, met their end after being tracked down that year by authorities. Al Capone, the period’s best-known criminal, was sent to new digs at an island prison — Alcatraz — to serve his tax evasion sentence. Things were no better that year for a pair of criminals no one remember
Angry at trespassing trains, Chino woman pulls up the tracks (opens the original)
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Emma Kreigh got angrier and angrier in 1910 as she watched trains of the Chino Land & Water Co. trespass across her land, hauling sugar beet pulp to a nearby silo. So she took things — and a crowbar — into her own hands. With an uncle helping her, she pulled the rails off its ties, ending the train trips on March 2, 1910. “She so effectively blockaded the road that not a train has passed over the line since,” reported the San Bernardino Evening Index, May 4. Repair crews were stumped about deali
3-time presidential hopeful William Jennings Bryan’s talks filled 2 Inland Empire downtowns (opens the original)
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The Inland Empire may have come of age, at least politically, about the turn of the 20th century when the rest of the country finally realized there were lots of voters among our citrus trees, grapevines and mining camps. Presidents Benjamin Harrison (1891) and William McKinley (1901) made brief stops in the area while Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a large crowd at Pomona College in Claremont in 1903. But it’s hard to imagine a more remarkable political spectacle in our region than in 1900 when fa
100 years ago, scammers used Frank Miller’s name to defraud orange lovers (opens the original)
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Evil-doers were out in force in the Inland Empire many years ago working hard to separate good people from their money. These people – we’d call them scammers today – even victimized as prominent a person as Frank A. Miller, founder of Riverside’s famed Mission Inn. His name was besmirched 100 years ago this week by three men selling fruit, claiming it came from his hotel’s orange grove. On Aug. 20, 1926, De Witt Hutchings, a member of the staff and future manager of the hotel, was called by a S
Enterprising young aerialist was a popular Inland Empire attraction in 1929 (opens the original)
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When it came to seeing the Inland Empire from a lofty perspective, it was hard to match Rosalie Evans Cahill. Otherwise known as Reckless Rosie, she was a star of extensive advertising and promotional events that had her jumping out of airplanes almost weekly throughout California in 1928 and 1929. Locally, cities and chambers of commerce would hire her and her team to promote their businesses. Ads telling of her parachute jumps were sold to businessmen and placed in newspapers. The advertisers
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