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Dec. 25, 1907
Los Angeles
There are precisely two African American attorneys in Los Angeles and their appearance against one another in court provides a bit of amusement for The Times. We can dispense with the news article and its unfortunate use of dialect rather quickly: Paul M. Nash was suing G.T. Crawford, an African American waiter, for attorneys fees after representing his wife in a divorce. Crawford was represented by Charles S. Darden.
Like most mainstream newspapers of the period, The Times rarely wrote about African Americans and stories always identified them as:
Dec. 22, 1907
Los Angeles
As Police Capt. Flammer approached Yuma, Ariz., to take custody of George White, he noticed the smoke of hundreds of campfires made by hobos burning old railroad ties.
The hobos, Flammer learned, were avoiding Yuma because the marshal meted out hard justice to vagrants, as he warned in posters all over town. But Flammer also learned all those homeless men were heading for Los Angeles.
Dec. 21, 1907
Los Angeles
Lillian Poelk was new to Los Angeles, with no friends and little more than a job as a waitress that didn
Dec. 19, 1907
Los Angeles
What you have to understand first about George White is that he isn
Dec. 18, 1907
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Coroner Roy S. Lanterman was arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly at the Navajo, a bordello run by Ida Hastings, 309 Ord St. Hastings called police, who arrested Lanterman.
A Mills Seminary graduate nicknamed
Dec. 10,1907
Los Angeles
Mayor Arthur C. Harper happens to be in all sorts of trouble. He
Dec. 9, 1907
Los Angeles
Mayor Harper has restored E.J. Bowen to his old job in the Fire Department after the rookie police officer was fired for allegedly being a coward
Dec. 5, 1907
St. Louis
A Los Angeles couple have a novel way of making money: Antonio Thompson and his wife sell their daughter Marie to the Gypsies, then go to court to get her back. According to statements taken in St. Louis, Marie has been sold off several times as a Gypsy princess.
The girl
Dec. 4, 1907
Arcadia
Charley Chew, the water superintendent on the Lucky Baldwin ranch, had fired two Mexican workers several months ago and one dark night near the Unruh residence, they ambushed him, shooting him in the back. Chew drew his pistol and shot Francisco Ramirez and Miguel Palamoratz in the stomach, then fled.
Badly wounded, Ramirez and Palamoratz struggled to walk about a mile to a friend
Dec. 3, 1907
Los Angeles
Officer Patrick Lyons had been on the force for four months when he was shot in the head while trying to arrest two robbers a little after 11 p.m. at Central Avenue and 14th Street.
There
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