Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/43

... that The Californian (pictured), California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?
... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?

August 2009