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Demon Liquor
January 23, 1927Pasadena, CA W.H. Latour, a 71-year-old night watchman at the Lamanda Park Citrus Packing Plant in Pasadena, was propped up with a bottle of white lightning when he caught Tom Clark...
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Does Not Necessarily Result in Better-Smelling Bandits
January 30, 1927Los Angeles, CA Today was a good day to be a bad guy in Los Angeles, and a profitable one, too. Calls to police flooded in from the terrorized, the carjacked, the held-up, and the...
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Anything for a Bust
February 6, 1927 Over the weekend, the District Attorney's crackerjack Prohibition task force proved beyond the shadow of a doubt their devotion to the cause. Then again, after the theatrical busts...
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Snow Davis, aka Harry Harpon, aka "The Sticker"
February 13, 1927Chinatown The headline read, "TORTURE DEN AND POISON PEN OF SUSPECTED DOPE SLAYER BELIEVED FOUND," and the story itself contained six missing girls, a basement torture chamber, and a...
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This Thurday at Central Library, LAPL reference librarians Greg Reynolds and Mary McCoy will be sharing ghastly stories of love gone bad in the City of Angels.The mild-mannered Marie Tucker claimed her...
View ArticleToday's Adventure: Tarzan and the Incompetent Burglars
February 20, 1927 Reseda, CA"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the...
View Article"Why Do You Suppose They Had That Pick, Shovel, and Canvas?"
February 28, 1927 Van Nuys, CAToday, Dr. Burt Fullmer was savagely attacked, after being lured to a cabin in the Princess Auto Camp near Van Nuys. When Fullmer entered the cabin, he was bludgeoned in...
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You Know, For Kids
March 5, 1927 Beginning in 1923, Aunt Dolly's Page occupied its own corner of the Junior Times, a Sunday supplement that urged young Angelenos to try their hands at blank verse, cartooning,...
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The Sunday Paper
In the past two weeks, I've come to understand why Kim usually waits until Fridays to post her 1947p stories. Ever since this leap year, I've found myself with the Sunday paper, which, while...
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A Second Chance
March 19, 1927 Long Beach, CAFred and Lela McElrath had been married for 25 years, and raised three children together, now grown. But just as the couple should have been settling down into contented...
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I Scream, You Scream
November 14, 1927Pasadena Over 100 Pasadena residents are clutching their guts today, the victims of a recent outbreak of food poisoning. Those affected had all eaten a batch of tainted French...
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Child Bride of the Ozarks
November 28, 1927 18-year-old Ora Obetz appeared in court today seeking to have her marriage of 5 years annulled. It seems that prior to their marriage, her husband, Louis Allen Obetz, 47, had been...
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Starlet Boo-Boos
December 5, 1927 Some minor cuts scrapes for Clara Bow today, but that's what happens when you take on the USC football team. No, no, it's nothing like that. Ms. Bow hosted a garden party, to which she...
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Little Girls Lost
December 5, 1927Mr. and Mrs. Jack Laughlin of 2115 S. Harvard departed for a weekend getaway in San Diego, leaving their daughter, June Blossom, 14, in the care of their housekeeper and family friends....
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Reindeer Paws
December 12, 1927 Santa Claus arrived in Los Angeles today, and set up shop in his Los Angeles Times-sponsored Ice Palace at the corner of 8th and Grand. While waiting in line to see Santa, the...
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Beware of the Goat
December 12, 1927Glendale, CA Three Glendale families found interesting missives in their mailboxes this week, and they weren't no holiday wishes. The Van Pelt family received a note reading: "You are...
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"I Never Would Have Let Marion Go..."
December 19, 1927 Superintendent of Schools Susan Dorsey spoke out on behalf of Mary Holt, registrar at the Mt. Vernon Junior High, saying, "I spoke with Mrs Holt, and am satisfied that I would have...
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The "Sack Murder" of San Fernando
December 26, 1927San Fernando, CA The body of an unidentified woman was discovered off of Mulholland St. (now called Foothill Blvd.) in San Fernando today.Her hands were bound across her chest with...
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The Very Rich Are Different from You and Me
January 2, 1927 The Spectator, a national insurance magazine, today made public the names of individuals in the United States with life policies valued at over $1 million. Twenty-six Angelenos made...
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William Wrigley's Ocean Marathon
January 16, 1927Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA In 1919, the heavily insured William Wrigley Jr. bought a controlling interest in the Santa Catalina Island Co., and sought to promote his lovely little...
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