"At an early hour this morning, the grey mists stole into the city, and when daylight dawned familiar landmarks were blotted from view. Only the faint outline of the Berkeley hills could be discerned. The fog is declared to be the most dense of the season and has engulfed the entire bay region."
"There are no slums, no dark and dreary tenements, no great foreign colonies, no apparent poverty. "And yet almost within the shadow of the Campanile there are families where misfortunate (sic) has a stranglehold. Here and there a widowed mother working hard day-by-day to keep her children in school. Not children in rags and tatters, no - organized agencies operating through the Community Chest prevent that."
"that God, not nature nor man, is the source of all blessings."
Berkeley experienced a dense fog on Thanksgiving morning 1925 that obscured familiar landmarks and enveloped the bay region. The Sierra Club held an outdoor service in the Berkeley hills led by Dean William Frederic Bade, who delivered an address on Nature and God and read from a first-century B.C. Alexandrian manuscript. Local churches held multiple services; Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter attributed blessings to God rather than nature or man. The community was portrayed as prosperous with no visible poverty, yet pockets of misfortune existed near the Campanile. Organized agencies and the Community Chest assisted struggling families and fed 150 undernourished children.
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