Category Archives: Books and Authors

The Eternal Problem

Posted on July 18, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 18, 1907Santa MonicaOfficials of Santa Monica and Ocean Park are fighting a lawsuit that seeks to block the discharge of raw sewage into the ocean. According to testimony, the outfall pipe sags so badly that it isn’t always cleared … Continue reading →

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Fanning the Flames of Suspicion

Posted on July 17, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 17, 1907Los AngelesA serial arsonist has been at work in Hollywood, setting six fires in the last three weeks. The community’s small volunteer fire department has been overwhelmed by the crimes.“The entire neighborhood rushed to the scene,” The Times … Continue reading →

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What Prudes!

Posted on July 16, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 16, 1907Los AngelesUnder continued lobbying from the Church Federation, the city attorney is preparing new restrictions on prizefighting that local promoters say will kill the sport.“The new ordinance hedges the boxing game about with sufficient restrictions to make the … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the Past

Posted on July 14, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 14, 1907Los AngelesLed by the Rev. Juan Caballeria (or Cabelleria), the city is preparing to celebrate its 126th anniversary Aug. 2 with concerts, Mass in the Plaza church and cannon fire. The old artillery piece will be lit by … Continue reading →

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Into the Pit

Posted on July 12, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 12, 1907Los AngelesGas Co. employees found a man scalded over the lower half of his body wandering the yards at Center and Aliso after he fell into a vat of boiling water produced by the carbon pit. The man, … Continue reading →

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Oh You Poor Things

Posted on July 11, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 11, 1907Los AngelesAmong the presentations at the current educators convention is a seminar on teaching the arts. If you have ever attended a colloquium on arts education or listened to arts educators, these comments from another era sound depressingly … Continue reading →

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And Show Them How to Run Casinos

Posted on July 10, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 10, 1907Los AngelesAmong the features of an educational conference being held in Los Angeles is a group of Native American students brought by Francis E. Leupp, the commissioner of Indian Affairs.A Times editorial praised Leupp, saying: “He appears to … Continue reading →

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A New Prison for Lost Souls

Posted on July 9, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 9, 1907Los AngelesGrace Methodist Episcopal Church on Hewitt Street was barren; the pastor had gone away and the congregation had moved on. And so the City Council, in struggling to house inmates at the crowded, filthy prison on West … Continue reading →

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Beer, the Health Drink

Posted on July 5, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 5, 1907Los AngelesSee here, you pesky temperance workers, beer is “liquid bread.” It’s good for you. Lmharnisch.comLmharnisch.blogspot.com

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Can This Be the Fourth of July?

Posted on July 4, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 4, 1907Los AngelesAnd how does Los Angeles celebrate Independence Day? With cricket matches and bagpipe contests. “The Times said: Oratory and music are to replace firewater and fireworks in this year’s celebration of Independence Day. The official program as … Continue reading →

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They Weren’t Fakes

Posted on July 3, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 3, 1907Los AngelesRobert T. Hall, head of the Los Angeles Anti-Fakers League (or Anti-Fakers Society), says shots were fired at him as he returned from an outing to a friend’s summer camp, and he blames local spiritualists and mediums.He … Continue reading →

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Number-Crunching the Horseless Carriage

Posted on July 1, 2006 by lmharnisch

July 1, 1907Los AngelesIf you ever wondered if the Locomobile or Pope-Hartford got great gas mileage, the answer is no, as shown in the results of the 185-mile Lakeside Endurance Race. In cost and fuel efficiency, the 1907 automobiles were … Continue reading →

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Whats that on your shirt, Phelan?

Posted on June 30, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 29, 1907Los AngelesThrough the jail cell’s bars, the officer asked, “Where did you get that blood on your shirt?”E.H. Phelan, a barber at the Hotel Alexandria, said: “No, I did not beat my wife.” He whispered: “She was drunk … Continue reading →

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Angelenos and Their Cars

Posted on June 28, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 28, 1907Los AngelesGive cars to a bunch of wealthy Los Angeles residents and what do they do? Race them, of course. Not on a track this time, but in an endurance test from Los Angeles to Lakeside. And yes, … Continue reading →

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A Kinder Simpler Time

Posted on June 27, 2006 by lmharnisch

A Kinder, Simpler TimeJune 27, 1907Los AngelesLouise arrived in Los Angeles three months ago from Norway with her four young children. She met a man who worked in San Pedro (we only know his initials, F.G.) and before long, they … Continue reading →

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The Brute

Posted on June 26, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 26, 1907Los AngelesFred D. Samuels is a monster and nothing less, according to his aunt, Sister Kostka, assistant mother superior of the Ursuline Convent in Frontenac, Wis. As her mother, Maria S. Bowman, lay dying at her home, 1266 … Continue reading →

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Route 66 Begins

Posted on June 23, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 23, 1907Los AngelesThe Auto Club of Southern California has begun posting white enamel signs with blue lettering along Foothill Boulevard between Los Angeles and Riverside.Spending about half a day, auto club President George Allen Hancock and Charles Fuller Gates, … Continue reading →

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You must be kidding

Posted on June 22, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 22, 1907Los AngelesLet’s suppose for a moment that you are a handsome former Army sergeant who has served in the Philippines. Let’s further suppose that you get into a fight in a bar on South Main Street and hit … Continue reading →

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Summer Heat

Posted on June 20, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 20, 1907Los AngelesThe salesclerks of Los Angeles are steaming—and not over the warming temperatures. Beginning last summer, all the department stores agreed that instead of closing at 10 p.m. on Saturdays, they would close at 12:30 p.m., giving the … Continue reading →

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Soothing Music

Posted on June 19, 2006 by lmharnisch

June 19, 1907Los AngelesWhat shall we do with the insane? Don’t give them drugs… give them music! (Well, some music).Dr. E.C. Dent of the hospital for women on Ward’s Island in New York says: “I firmly believe in the curative … Continue reading →

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