Category Archives: Comics

Times Opposes Picture Brides

Posted on November 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale on a Thanksgiving theme – a union turkey. Nov. 26, 1919: The Times editorializes against picture brides, charging that they are just a maneuver around a California law that prevents Japanese immigrants from owning land.

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November 25, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Fresh but Polluted In the broad scheme of things, the Fern Dell water hole isn’t very important.  But people who knew about it and went there to fill their jugs with cool, fresh spring water are disquieted since the Health … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 23, 1959

Posted on November 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Adrift in the City       A bellboy, 25, was in municipal court a few days ago charged with impersonating an officer.  His arrest grew out of an argument in a saloon when the bartender refused to sell him … Continue reading →

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Injured Diver Dies After Falling From Rescue Helicopter

Posted on November 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

“Mary and Pete Are Reunited.”   Skin diver Harold B. Gavenman dies after a tragic series of accidents in which he was struck by a boat propeller and fell 100 feet while being lifted to a rescue helicopter. Nov. 23, … Continue reading →

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Seniors Make Foolish Marriages, Judge Says

Posted on November 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

“A Pathetic Scene on the Nineteenth,” by Clare Briggs Nov. 22, 1919: A judge trying a divorce case between a 55-year-old woman and her 67-year-old husband says: "I wish you would keep your old folks down in Long Beach from … Continue reading →

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November 21, 1959: Matt Weinstock, Nov. 21, 1959

Posted on November 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Car Troubles Two years ago, Bob Joseph bought a two-cylinder French Panhard, which has positively no area in front for a license plate.  He has been driving it with only the rear plate. On consecutive days recently he received two … Continue reading →

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November 20, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

About Football This is Big Game Week and I might as well get into the act, too.  I suppose it’s true — once a sports writer, you never get over it entirely. SC and UCLA are being criticized for the … Continue reading →

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Opera Tenor Confined to Mental Ward

Posted on November 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Clare Briggs on “That Guiltiest Feeling.” Pietro Buzzi in 1905. Nov. 19, 1919: Pietro Buzzi, operatic tenor, is take to the psychiatric ward  of county hospital after being removed from a Hollywood studio. According to a 1916 story in … Continue reading →

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Beauty Queen Seeks Divorce From Dockworker

Posted on November 18, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Nov. 18, 1959: Shirlee Garner Witty seeks a divorce, saying that her husband was always making snide remarks. Witty competed for the title of Miss Universe in 1956 even though she was a wife and mother, because at that … Continue reading →

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November 19, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Cross Your Fingers Well, today’s the day.  If we get past it we’re in.  Of course, no one is sure for what or for how long. Today, according to Kenneth D. Wilkins of Manhattan Beach, a momentous event in world … Continue reading →

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November 17, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Farming Lesson Young schoolchildren who are found after tests to be retarded are placed in a Point 1 group, as it is called, and given special tasks to perform. A little boy in such a group in a suburban school … Continue reading →

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Plane Crash Kills 42

Posted on November 17, 2009 by lmharnisch

Nov. 17, 1959: Investigators speculate on whether a bomb exploded on a National Airlines DC-7B that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 42 people. Ultimately, no cause was ever determined. … And  Gene Sherman reports on border drug traffic. … Continue reading →

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November 16, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

Conditioned Reflexes After a business failure several years ago a young man decided to pursue the career he’d always wanted — teaching.  He was aware that it meant a drastic change and involved great sacrifice but he and his wife … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 14, 1959

Posted on November 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

       Today Is Forever     Thirty years ago R. Julian Dashwood, a Britisher, found himself broke and hungry in Sydney, Australia.  Standing in a free food line, he determined never to be dependent again on how others mismanaged the … Continue reading →

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School Board Sells Downtown Property

Posted on November 14, 2009 by lmharnisch

Clare Briggs on the day after Halloween. Nov. 14, 1919: Here’s one of the problems of research – a story about the sale of Mercantile Place, which is so well known that the reporter doesn’t say where it is.  June … Continue reading →

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November 13, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 13, 2009 by lmharnisch

The End Is in Sight Bravely ignoring the tear-inducing smog which was seeping in through the woodwork, the gentlemen of the copy desk yesterday, between, editions, went into their daily seminar titled “Whither Drifteth?”  Their despondent conclusion, delivered to my … Continue reading →

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November 12, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on November 12, 2009 by lmharnisch

Serious Slapstick As you may have read, that was quite a comedy of errors the other night in the little city of Cypress in Orange County. On a tip that Louis Ross Lord, 35, road camp escapee, was there, two … Continue reading →

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Cops Pose as Beatniks to Catch Drug Suspects

Posted on November 9, 2009 by lmharnisch

Like, dig the crazy berets on the fuzz, daddy-o! One New York detective even wrote poetry to fit in with the beats! Jack Webb’s cult classic about the newspaper business is about to open.   Los Angeles Times file photo … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Nov. 7, 1959

Posted on November 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

  The Fight Against City Hall Continues     It's an old adage that you can't fight City Hall.  Nevertheless, some people keep trying, whether they get anywhere or not.  Today's candidate for head bumping is Kenneth Reiner, who writes in … Continue reading →

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Policewomen Experiment a Success

Posted on November 7, 2009 by lmharnisch

  Clare Briggs takes another look at golf in “Conceding Yourself a Putt.” Nov. 7, 1919: London retains 100 of the women police officers who were put into service during World War I. Part of the force was disbanded after … Continue reading →

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