tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97944252024-03-07T18:43:32.967-08:00lmharnischnotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-1159887616377472632008-05-02T08:00:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:28:55.543-07:00The Mystery of Felt LakeOct. 3, 1907Stanford UniversityChester Silent was among the most promising young men of Delta Tau Delta at Stanford. The son of Judge Charles Silent and prominent in Los Angeles social circles, Silent, 22, had excelled in his studies and upon graduating with a law degree in the Class of 1907 had begun graduate work at Stanford and was expected to head to Harvard.His fraternity brothers described notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-1163002002902935632008-04-26T08:06:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:28:55.545-07:00Boy GeniusNov. 8, 1907Los AngelesMars F. Baumgardt is an interesting young man with an even more interesting project: a radio-controlled boat. Although many students’ projects are on display at the 30th Street School, including those of Mars’ brother Howard, it is the boat controlled by wireless telegraphy that interests The Times.“As nearly as a layman in the rudiments of electricity can understand the notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-11861342118467766202007-05-04T07:55:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:09:36.023-07:00New blog: The Daily MirrorCheck out The Daily Mirror.It's right herenotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-80061305593862233082007-03-16T05:55:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:23:33.499-07:00Postcards From the PastThe Hotel Green, Pasadenanotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-85684038830047148902007-03-15T08:47:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:28:55.546-07:00The Bridge March 15, 2007South Pasadena Here’s the Gold Line, its passengers mercifully unaware that they are zipping along to Pasadena in the “Gorge of Eternal Peril” beneath “The Bridge of Death.” Here’s a close-up of a patch made to fix one of the 1907 cracks in the bridge. And yes, the darn thing is still standing. Hm. Maybe I should call it “The Bridge of Hope” instead. notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-2717185381531250652007-03-15T05:58:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:32:27.359-07:00In Which a Ghostly Visitor Returns March 15, 2007Los Angeles “Well, dear boy, I suppose you thought you were through.” “Yes, I did.” “And?” “Good grief! Do you see this bridge over the Gold Line? It looks like it’s held up with hairpins and spit!” “Saliva, dear boy. And what is the Gold Line?” “Well, it’s sort of a streetcar, except it doesn’t run on the street.” She leaned back in her ghostly chairnotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-11459699285475471922007-03-14T07:16:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:29:13.936-07:00The Celebrity Inteview<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> March 14, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Harry C. Carr, future author of “Los Angeles: City of Dreams,” visits Fely Dereyne, who is starring in the San Carlo Opera Company’s touring production of “Carmen.” <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Accompanied by Times artist Harold R. Coffman, who sketched the singer, Carr conducted a notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-31056295056140197152007-03-12T08:25:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:28:55.549-07:00Farewell, Faithful CompanionFeb. 12, 1907Whittier Don had rushed up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders, fearless in the face of enemy fire. But he could not survive a speeding driver on the otherwise placid streets of Whittier. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> A present from Teddy Roosevelt to Hamilton Fish, Don was the mascot of Company B of the Rough Riders. Don was given to Col. William Wallace. When Wallace died notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-58585589428888707912007-03-11T12:53:00.000-07:002011-07-20T18:28:55.550-07:00Los Angeles Has No HistoryFeb. 24, 1907Los AngelesGoogle Earth, 2007lmharnisch.comlmharnisch.blogspot.comE-mail: lmharnisch (AT) gmail.comnotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-11703316611016131982007-03-10T07:38:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.551-07:00A Tumultuous Season<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> March 10, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Someone who opened the Los Angeles Times on this Sunday might be forgiven for wondering what had become of the world, for Page 1 was full of news about the demise of two religious leaders. The first was the death of John Alexander Dowie, the founder of Zion, Ill., who considered notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-46485360285534246262007-03-09T06:19:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:30:06.889-07:00Random Shots From Our 12-Bore March 9, 1907Los Angeles The Insanity Begins Led by I. Newerf and J.B. Dudley, the automobile owners of Los Angeles are fighting a new city ordinance that bans parking within 40 of downtown intersections. Newerf, the West Coast representative of Goodyear Tire Co., and Dudley, a car salesman, received citations for violating the law and have pleaded not guilty. In April 1909, notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-37540734584394153002007-03-08T07:06:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.554-07:00It Was a Kinder, Simpler Time...March 8, 1907Los Angeleslmharnisch.comlmharnisch.blogspot.comE-mail: lmharnisch (AT) gmail.comnotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-62928439912464768922007-03-07T05:54:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:30:57.952-07:00Forget Bird Flu, This Is Serious March 7, 1907Los Angeles A dreadful disease called acute glanders has been discovered in a horse and veterinarian R.J. Ramage ordered that the animal be destroyed immediately. In addition to rapidly causing death, acute glanders can be spread from horses to humans and there is no known cure, at least in 1907. Apparently several men in Los Angeles County died of acute glanders in 1893.notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-2809171667819882012007-03-06T06:38:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:11.104-07:00Belles Are Ringing!<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> March 6, 2007San Francisco (VIA Associated Press)<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> The Irish of San Francisco are furious over a play at the Davis Theater called “The Belle of Avenue A,” which features a character named Mrs. McCluskey who drinks a glass of beer in the first act. “Three times, about 40 people charged the stage and thenotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-37647215862634128062007-03-05T05:26:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.557-07:00An Independent WomanMarch 5, 1907Los Angeles What shall we do with Emma? She’s gone off to New Mexico and married a Chinaman. Her horrified mother hopes to get the marriage annulled, but Emma is an independent-minded young lady. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Emma’s mother, Mary Culver of Monrovia, says she will do everything she can to undo her daughter’s marriage to Frank Chew, which The Times describes as “notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-71332279655061711272007-03-03T06:01:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.559-07:00A Page From the PastMarch 3, 1907Los Angeles Stroll into the Los Angeles Public Library on Central Avenue with me for a moment, over to the children’s section. The librarian says there are about 15,000 to 16,000 books, only half of what is needed, because about third of them are checked out every month. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> The most popular titles are “Little Women,” “Little Men” and “Old-Fashioned notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-90405093511491343502007-03-02T06:23:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.561-07:00Page 1 NewsMarch 2, 1907Los Angelesnotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-19217668113446387122007-03-01T06:54:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.563-07:00City Fathers Confront an Intractable Problem<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> March 1, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Downtown businessmen are at a complete loss over what to do with the garbage from their operations and want the city to either take it or designate a dump they can use. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> “They declare that the Board of Health has refused to let further deposits of garbage ornotarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-25834996255420431392007-02-28T04:53:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.565-07:00But the Line Is StraightFeb. 28, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> An old and massive California live oak used to mark the division between three Spanish land grants lies in pieces on the ground because an Edison foreman refused to run a transmission line around it. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> “The tree was a full hundred feet in its spread,” The Times says,” and stood notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-60556861841166215072007-02-27T08:06:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.567-07:00A Secretary's Dedication<!--[endif]--> Feb. 27, 1907Los Angeles A thick cloud of smoke from a raging fire in the basement swept through the Germain building on South Spring Street at lunch hour, engulfing businessmen and office workers. In a fraction of a second, the building’s occupants were transformed from powerful executives conducting elaborate stock deals into blind and struggling humans groping on their notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-49221387296416364922007-02-26T07:14:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.568-07:00In Indiana, There Is No Beer Feb. 14-26, 1907Los Angeles<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> The Rev. Ervin S. Chapman, a Presbyterian minister who heads the Anti-Saloon League of California, has won a victory through an address that persuaded an Indiana judge to rule that saloons are unconstitutional. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Chapman concluded his series of points by saying: <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Our notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-71222596300118168662007-02-24T10:03:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:09:36.034-07:00Architectural RamblingsFeb. 24, 2007Eagle RockThe Eagle Rock Bank, with aluminum windows and stucco, and braced with threaded rods. Here's to you, Samuel Tilden Norton....notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-66392489747266035992007-02-24T07:09:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.569-07:00Architectural Ramblings Feb. 24, 1907Eagle Rock <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Architect Samuel Tilden Norton has designed a bank building for Townsend Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock, The Times says. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Just to make research interesting, The Times misspelled his name as S. Tilton Norton. According to his 1959 obituary, his mother was the first Jewish child born in Los notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-12442868051891483242007-02-23T06:38:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.571-07:00Soccer Returns<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Feb. 23, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> The Scotch Thistles beat the English Victorias 3-2 in Southern California’s first soccer game since the Caledonians and the Pasadena team met at Agricultural Park in 1890, The Times says. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Despite the poor condition of the field, the players displayed notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9794425.post-51807058312942283112007-02-22T06:58:00.000-08:002011-07-20T18:28:55.572-07:00Speaking of the Weather<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--> Feb. 22, 1907Los Angeles <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Here’s how The Times weather stories read a century ago: <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> “For all the daylight hours yesterday, the rain drizzled down, much of the time like a heavy Scotch mist, but toward nightfall the storm deepened and the rain began to fall in earnest. For two hours notarysojackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14393842095041585457noreply@blogger.com0