Woman Attacks Officer in Court, May 18, 1939 |

I'm conducting an experiment today. Some readers have complained that
the page is slow to load. About three weeks ago, we went to Typepad's
new, "improved" editor, which changed the way "the platform" handles images. A
full newspaper page weighs in at 1 megabyte and when I run several of them, a post can be 6 megabytes. This is my attempt to
work around the problem with a low-resolution thumbnail linked to a high-resolution image. Let me know if it helps. If this makes a siginifcant difference I'll switch but this doubles the work.

Should Main Street's all-night movie theaters close at 1 a.m. to keep out the homeless?

Above and at left, all is not well with the streetcar system. The Pacific Electric Railway Co.'s request for a fare increase has resulted in a series of hearings by the State Railway Commission. Representatives of some communities want better service. They complain about substitution of buses or abandonment of streetcar routes. The commission's experts say there is "too much railroad" for the amount of business that is available.

Note the story on "Gilmore Island," an unincorporated parcel of land surrounded by Los Angeles that includes Farmers Market.

Don't think I've ever seen "mulcting" in a headline before.

6 Responses to Woman Attacks Officer in Court, May 18, 1939

zabadu says:

May 18, 2009 at 7:24 am

I can read it just fine and it loaded very quickly.

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Michael says:

May 18, 2009 at 7:30 am

“Should Main Street’s all-night movie theaters close at 1 a.m. to keep out the homeless? ” No. Where would all the Times’ reporters sleep?

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Richard H says:

May 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm

“Some readers have complained that the page is slow to load.”
I think those readers need to get a faster modem or a another Service Provider. I have DSL and the pages download fast enough. Slow downloads can be attributed to any number of causes.

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Richard H says:

May 18, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Regarding the P.E.
“In investigating the company, it is understood the commission’s experts found that, to a considerable extent, the unfavorable showing heretofore is directly attributable to the existence of “too much railroad” in proportion to the amount of business available.”
Talk about spin!
I think what is being said is that the P.E. is going broke because they are losing business (passengers and freight) to trucks, cars and buses.
This is in 1939. The future for P.E. would be bleak.

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MichaelRyerson says:

May 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm

doesn’t work for me. when I click on the image of the page, I get a blank page with a little ‘x’ in the upper left hand corner. sorry to see you change over to a new ‘system’.

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Dick Morris says:

May 19, 2009 at 12:21 am

The page has always been slow to load (and I’m on DSL), but one to two or three weeks ago I started getting incomplete pages with red x’s in the corner of where theimage should have been. In my technically challanged mind I assumed my browser was timing out for downloading the page. Today’s images work better for me.

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