An Actress and Her Dog

Posted on December 28, 2009 by lmharnisch
Dec. 28, 1909, Cover 

"Five iron manhole caps, each weighing more than 100 pounds, shot into the air last night when "burn-out gas" in the sewer between Spring Street and the northeast corner of 1st and Main streets blew them higher than the trolley wires."

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It’s our old friend, Olga Nethersole!

Dec. 28, 1909, Nethersole

Dec. 28, 1909: I couldn’t decide on a single story in today’s paper because the whole page is interesting. There’s the unfortunate deaf and dumb man who is arrested for being drunk and is booked as John Doe No. 2 … A couple of con artists passing themselves off as the American Salvation Army … Preparations for a huge project to tunnel through the Newhall grade … And an interview with Olga Nethersole that’s quite unlike the celebrity interviews published today.

A sample: "Nethersole has become famous through doing plays that concern questionable damsels who kiss like a house on fire and in the last act tear up the rugs and generally rough-house the furniture of the flat and cry: 'You shall not leave meh; you shall not leave meh; yow, yow, yow.' "

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