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1900

An epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown begins, the first plague epidemic in the continental United States (reviled investigator Joseph J. Kinyoun pictured)
The California Automobile Company is founded in San Francisco
The Sempervirens Club is founded with the goal of preserving old growth coast redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains
The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, by William "Cocktail" Boothby, is published by the Palace Hotel, San Francisco