California Newspapers Research Articles

Characteristics of patients with irritable bowel syndrome recruited from three sources: implications for clinical trials.

Variation in the characteristics of irritable bowel syndrome patients recruited for clinical trials from different sources could affect their response and the generalizability of trial results. To describe and compare the characteristics of three different groups of irritable bowel syndrome patients recruited into a 'mock clinical trial.' We enrolled 245 irritable bowel syndrome patients from three sources: (i) 121 from British primary practitioners; (ii) 72 from California newspaper advertisements; and (iii) 52 from a California gastroenterologist's practice. We obtained demographic, clinical, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale data. Most patients were young to middle-aged women; the majority reported symptoms for > 5 years in all three groups. Subject characteristics varied among the groups. Typically, primary care patients were anxious, smokers and daily alcohol drinkers who had sought care recently for irritable bowel syndrome and tried antispasmodic drugs. Their symptoms were intermediate in severity between those of the other two groups. Advertisement subjects were the oldest, most highly educated, most often depressed, and were least likely to have sought care recently for symptoms, which were almost uniformly only moderate in severity. Gastroenterologist patients tended to be anxious and had nearly all sought care recently for symptoms, which were the most severe and most likely to include all three pain-related Rome I criteria. Recruitment methodology affects important characteristics of an irritable bowel syndrome study group.

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion

Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. Yet during these seven years it was not just prostitutes but all Chinese females who encountered at best hostility and at worst expulsion when they reached the Golden Door. In this first detailed account of Chinese American women's lives in the preexclusion era, George Anthony Peffer investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts enforced immigration laws. Peffer documents the habeas corpus trials in which the wives and daughters of Chinese laborers were required to prove their status as legal immigrants or be returned to China. He also surveys the virulently anti- Chinese coverage these trials and the issue of Chinese immigration received in California newspapers, confirming that Chinatown's prostitution industry so dominated the popular imagination as to render other classes of female immigrants all but invisible. In the words of one immigration judge, the United States remained favorable to Chinese immigration in the preexclusion period if they don't bring their women here. This important study amplifies the voices of immigrant women who did not fit into the preconceived categories American officials created and establishes a place for them within the historiographic framework of Chinese American studies.

Database Design for Preservation Project Management: The California Newspaper Project

In this article, database design for preservation project management is addressed. The system described manages a serials preservation project in which issues from multiple repositories are gathered and collated for preservation microfilming. The system accommodates the ongoing standardization of bibliographic data in the MARC format to facilitate the comparison of holdings among collections. It imports holdings records in the OCLC format and provides for the addition of condition reports and information about existing microfilm service copies, filmers, and the locations of master negative microfilm. Boolean search strategies, employing data from both bibliographic and holdings records, facilitate the identification of newsprint available for microfilming. Management information, added to bibliographic and holdings records, supports the production of reports tracking preservation activity.

Gender and Ethnic Role Portrayals: Photographic Images in Three California Newspapers

Analysis of photographic images ( N = 450) from the national ( n = 253) and sports sections ( n = 197) of 3 California newspapers indicated women and minorities were disproportionately represented relative to the California population gender and ethnic ratios. Female, Latino, and Asian individuals were disproportionately underrepresented, while black individuals were overrepresented. Women were most frequently presented as victims, while men were significantly more often presented in the role of rescuer or expert. Black individuals were most often depicted in sports and criminal roles.

From skisport to skiing: one hundred years of an American sport, 1840-1940

The first full-length study of skiing in United States, this book traces history of sport from its utilitarian origins to its advent as a purely recreational and competitive activity. During mid-1800s, inhabitants of frontier mining communities in Sierra and Rocky mountains used skis for many practical reasons, including mail and supply delivery, hunting, and railroad repair. In some towns skis were so common that, according to one California newspaper, the ladies do nearly all their shopping and visiting on them. But it was Norwegian immigrants in Midwest, clinging to their homeland traditions, who first organized skisport. Through founding of local clubs and National Ski Association, this ethnic group dominated American skiing until 1930s. At this time, a wave of German immigrants infused America with ethos of what we today call Alpine skiing. This type of skiing became increasingly popular, especially in East among wealthy collegians committed to romantic pursuit of strenuous life. Ski clubs proliferated in towns and on college campuses and specialized resorts cropped up from New England to California. At same time, skiing became mechanized with tows and lifts, and blossoming equipment and fashion industries made a business of sport. On eve of World War II, as book concludes its story, all elements were in place for explosion in recreational and competitive skiing that erupted after 1945.

Big Green And Careful: How major California Newspapers Covered Two Ballot Initiatives in the 1990 General Election

Big Green And Careful: How major California Newspapers Covered Two Ballot Initiatives in the 1990 General Election

California Proposition 63: Language Attitudes Reflected in the Public Debate

In the November 1988 elections, three states—Colorado, Arizona, and Florida—passed measures making English the official language of those states. These victories were foreshadowed by the passage, in 1986, of Position 63 in California. Proposition 63 amended the state constitution to declare English the official language of California and charged the legislature and state officials with the preservation and enhancement of English as the common language of the state. The appearance of Proposition 63 on the political horizon brought language into public parlance, allowing us the opportunity to explore American language ideology. Preelection editorials and letters to the editor in California newspapers speculating on the need for and effects of Proposition 63 reveal the language attitudes of the writers. Certain themes that regularly appeared on both sides of the issue may be taken as elements of current American ideology.

Physicians and Journalists

<h3>To the Editor. —</h3> As a medical writer for a large California newspaper I was most disappointed to read the report in the Aug 8 issue ofThe Journalabout the Case Western Reserve conference on journalism and ethics, at which the journalists apparently agreed that training researchers to deal with the media was a bad idea.¹ In the course of interviewing hundreds of medical clinicians and researchers, I occasionally have found one who understands what reporters need. More often I find them ignorant of our methods and, as a consequence, afraid of encounters with us. To suggest, as my colleagues apparently did, that training physicians to deal with journalists will create a group of media-savvy physicians who would manipulate the media is absurd. There is already such a group actively doing just that. There is a much larger and growing group of physicians who refuse to take media

The Impact of Newspaper Endorsements

Endorsements in 51 California newspapers and corresponding election returns for a 10-year period were studied. While overall impact on voters remained minimal, endorsement editorials appear to have produced the greatest effect on primary election measures and on the least controversial issues. Small and independently owned papers seemed to influence readers more than larger and group-owned papers. Editorials that opposed public-benefit measures appeared to carry more weight than those in support. Endorsements had the least effect on candidate races and non-economic, ideological issues.

Are the News Media Responsible for the Disaster Myths? A Content Analysis of Emergency Response Imagery

Disaster research scholars and emergency planners have often contended that the news media play a major role in creating and perpetuating various myths of natural disaster response. These myths include widespread panic flight, psychological dependency and vicious competition for necessities on the part of victims and physical convergence for the purpose of looting by non-victims. The evidence which ties the news media to these myths of community breakdown is largely indirect. Survey data reveal a generalized belief among members of the public that the above enumerated behaviors are typical reactions of people faced with a sudden crisis. These data also indicate that the news media are the principal source of information about disasters for most people. Lacking are detailed analyses which document the extent to which the myths of community breakdown actually appear in news coverage of natural disaster events. The present study, which focuses on the reporting of four earthquake events by two Southern California newspapers, attempts to address this issue. The results, though preliminary, suggest that some caution is warranted in making the generalization that natural disaster coverage disproportionately conveys a breakdown imagery of communities facing a major natural catastrophe.

Effects of the Pony Express and the Transcontinental Telegraph upon Selected California Newspapers

Effects of the Pony Express and the Transcontinental Telegraph upon Selected California Newspapers

They Were Only Diggers: A Collection of Articles from California Newspapers, 1851-1866, on Indian and White Relations

They Were Only Diggers: A Collection of Articles from California Newspapers, 1851-1866, on Indian and White Relations

The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920

About the Second Printing: The authors have taken the opportunity presented by the second printing of this book to make a very few changes in the text. We became conscious, after the book was published, of occasionally imposing on the reader our own emotional reactions, and it is these subjective expressions which we have modified or deleted. This title includes a collection of 168 documents in the form of official letters from military personnel, Indian Agents, and unsigned articles in California newspapers dating from 1847 to 1865 dealing with the treatment of California Indians will be published shortly by the Peregrine Press of Santa Barbara. These documents will provide some of the original material which was used in writing The Other Californians and may, therefore, be looked on as a companion volume. From the Preface to the first printing: It is the authors' hope to provide in this book a social history of non-Anglo ethnic groups in California's past as illustrated by attitudes of prejudice and acts of discrimination directed against these groups. Historians have been aware that racial prejudice was displayed by California whites, but in general they have treated the subject as though it was an unimportant one, perhaps because race prejudice in the last century was not always considered inhumane in the collective conscience of Americans. We have drawn our information from many sources, and we have quoted liberally in the belief that the wording of the original accounts illustrate the atmosphere of the times much more objectively and forcefully than anyone could describe it. Long documents have not been incorporated into the text, but have been collected at the end in a separate section.

The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920.

About the Second Printing: The authors have taken the opportunity presented by the second printing of this book to make a very few changes in the text. We became conscious, after the book was published, of occasionally imposing on the reader our own emotional reactions, and it is these subjective expressions which we have modified or deleted. This title includes a collection of 168 documents in the form of official letters from military personnel, Indian Agents, and unsigned articles in California newspapers dating from 1847 to 1865 dealing with the treatment of California Indians will be published shortly by the Peregrine Press of Santa Barbara. These documents will provide some of the original material which was used in writing The Other Californians and may, therefore, be looked on as a companion volume. From the Preface to the first printing: It is the authors' hope to provide in this book a social history of non-Anglo ethnic groups in California's past as illustrated by attitudes of prejudice and acts of discrimination directed against these groups. Historians have been aware that racial prejudice was displayed by California whites, but in general they have treated the subject as though it was an unimportant one, perhaps because race prejudice in the last century was not always considered inhumane in the collective conscience of Americans. We have drawn our information from many sources, and we have quoted liberally in the belief that the wording of the original accounts illustrate the atmosphere of the times much more objectively and forcefully than anyone could describe it. Long documents have not been incorporated into the text, but have been collected at the end in a separate section.

Review: The Filibusters of 1890. The Captain John F. Janes and Lower California Newspaper Reports and the Walter G. Smith Manuscript. Volume XIV, by Anna Marie Hager

Review: <i>The Filibusters of 1890. The Captain John F. Janes and Lower California Newspaper Reports and the Walter G. Smith Manuscript. Volume XIV</i>, by Anna Marie Hager

Newspaper Editorial Endorsements and California Elections, 1948–62

In this study of the editorial endorsements of 11 California newspapers, comparisons with voting results show the influence of the endorsements, particularly at local levels and on lengthy ballots.

Review: A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858, by Edward C. Kemble and Helen Harding Bretnor

Review: <i>A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858</i>, by Edward C. Kemble and Helen Harding Bretnor

Review: A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858. Reprinted from the Supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858, by Edward Cleveland Kemble and Helen Harding Bretnor

Review: <i>A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858. Reprinted from the Supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858</i>, by Edward Cleveland Kemble and Helen Harding Bretnor

Review: HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS. 1851 - 1876, by Muir Dawson

Book Review| December 01 1950 Review: HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS. 1851 - 1876, by Muir Dawson HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS. 1851 - 1876Muir Dawson J. Gregg Layne J. Gregg Layne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly (1950) 32 (4): 336. https://doi.org/10.2307/41168283 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. Gregg Layne; Review: HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS. 1851 - 1876, by Muir Dawson. The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 1 December 1950; 32 (4): 336. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41168283 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Southern California Newspapers, 1851-1876: A SHORT HISTORY and A CENSUS—PART II

Southern California Newspapers, 1851-1876: A SHORT HISTORY and A CENSUS—PART II