Here’s what I like about the 1908 papers: The stories are a crazy mix of tragedy and sentiment, flowery language and daily life that can be absolutely brutal … The county puts unemployed men to work building Laurel Canyon Boulevard … Ghastly conditions at the Receiving Hospital (What? It doesn’t have an ambulance?) … A couple of homeless men complain about the "fly specks" on the pastries handed out at a soup kitchen–turns out they’re poppy seeds … A woman who claimed to be a famous author is in jail on charges of defrauding the Lankershim Hotel … What happens when 14 mail carriers get ill? The mail does not go through … A young woman is gagged and tied to the bed while burglars ransack her home … A two-ton mechanical model of Jerusalem is on display at the Broadway.
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