"A century ago, Berkeley's City Council voted Sept. 29, 1925, to purchase a site on the northwest corner of Grove and Woolsey streets for the contemplated South Berkeley Library branch, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported. The property consists of two lots which will give ample room to erect a structure the size of the Claremont branch. It will cost $8,040. The little one-story Spanish Revival-style library built there still stands,"
"Mishaps: On Sept. 29, 1925, Police officer Gene Woods narrowly escaped falling from the roof fire escape of the Brasfield Apartments, 2520 Durant Avenue, at 2:15 this morning while attempting to catch supposed burglars who proved to be college students playing a prank. The apartment manager had called in the police, thinking burglars were on the fire escape. Woods managed to catch three men between 24 and 25 years of age."
Berkeley's City Council purchased two lots on Grove and Woolsey on Sept. 29, 1925, to establish a South Berkeley Library branch at a cost of $8,040. The one-story Spanish Revival library was built and remained, though the branch later relocated several blocks north on what is now Martin Luther King Jr. Way; the original building became the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in 1968. On the same date, an officer nearly fell from a fire escape while stopping prank-playing college students. A firefighter subdued a reportedly mad dog that was later shot and sent for examination. Police prepared traffic plans for an upcoming football game.
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