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5.23.2003
AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR
Good Will Council, No. 629,
second and fourth tuesday evening. 311 Main street.
ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS (Colored.)
Court Solomon No.
8677, first and third Friday evenings. 252 ½ South Main
street.
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ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS.
Division No. 1, first and
third Tuesday evenings, 330 ½ S. Broadway.
ANCIENT ORDER UNITED DRUIDS.
Los Angeles Hain No. 80,
Tuesday Evening, 128 North Main street.
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ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN.
East Los Angeles Lodge
230, Thursday evening. 510 Downey Avenue.
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ROYAL ARCH MASONS.
Los Angeles Chapter No. 33 - First
Wednesday, Masonic Temple.
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ROYAL AND SELECT MASTERS.
Los Angeles Council, No. 11 -
First Thursday, Masonic Temple.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS COMMANDERY.
Los Angeles Commandery, No. 9
- First Thursday, Masonic Temple.
CONSISTORY OF ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE.
Hughes Des
Payens Council, 3, Knights of Kadosh. - Meets at the call of commander,
Masonic Temple.
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ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.
Acacia Chapter, No. 10, O.E.S.
- First and Third Saturdays, Masonic Temple.
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MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA.
Los Angeles Board of Relief. -
Wednesday evening, Pythian Castle.
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NATIVE DAUGHTERS OF THE GOLDEN WEST.
La Esperanza Parlor, No.
24. - Wednesday evening, 130 ½ S. Spring
NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST.
Corona Parlor, No. 196. -
Wednesday evening, 330 ½ S. Broadway.
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ORDER UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS.
Los Angeles Lodge, No. 1.
- Wednesday evening, Druids' Hall.
REGULAR ARMY AND NAVY UNION.
Gen. Geo. Cook Garrison, No.
138. First and third Friday evenings, 127 N. Main.
ROYAL ARCANUM
Los Angeles Council, No. 1489. - First and
third Thursdays, 130 ½ S. Spring.
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SONS OF HERMANN.
Los Angeles Lodge, No. 12. - Monday
evening, Turn Halle.
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SONS OF ST. GEORGE.
Royal Oak Lodge, No. 220. - Monday
evening, 135 W. Fifth.
UNITED ORDER OF RED MEN.
Los Angeles Stamm, No. 252. -
Tuesday evening, 231 S. Spring.
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
Fremont Camp, No. 466. - Wednesday
evening, 125 ½ S. Spring.
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YOUNG MEN'S INSTITUTE. Montgomery Council, No. 473. - Monday
evening, Y.M. evenings, St. Joseph's Hall, Pico and Santee. I. Hall, East Los
Angeles.
[Ellipses indicate multiple locations.] Rotholtz, Benj. Wilson's
Illustrated and Descriptive Souvenir and Guide to Los Angeles and Near-By
Towns. Los Angeles: Wilson Publishing Co., [c. 1900].
5.21.2003
GAMES AND MUSIC
Few aspects of Chumash life are more completely forgotten than their games
and songs. The common California Indian games were played: kickball, shinny,
hoop-and-pole, and gambling games. Dice were made of half walnuts and similar
goods, filled with asphaltum in which shell was inlaid. Peon, a gambling game,
was as popular as it was (and is) everywhere among Southern California
Indians. Cat's cradle was played. Music and dancing were evidently popular,
with rattles, flutes, whistles, musical bows and bull-roarers all in use.
Stories and songs must have been popular and numerous, but we know almost
nothing about them. A few animal tales survive; they feature Coyote, the
inevitable trickster of California Indian stories. And a few songs or
fragments of songs remain. One of these last may serve as an epitaph for the
Chumash:
"Where in the world are we?
Would that we were in
Hueneme,
That we might dance,
That the women might see us."
Anderson, Jr., Eugene N. The Chumash Indians of Southern California.
Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1961. Second Printing, 1981. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 15
pages, wraps.
The exhibition with the
Cash Register then followed, Captain being asked to get a paper dollar, then
change it for small silver, when he brought out a half dollar and two
quarters...
Then he was called to the chimes and the audience was informed that Captain
could play "Nearer, My God to Thee,"...
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We do not know the language of the animals; we do not know whether they
have one or not...
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But he never called me "Captain" while he was visiting me in the stable;
nor did he ever allow Chili to call me "Captain." I was always "Boy!" except
when he was teaching me. You see there was a reason for that. When he said
"Captain," I soon learned that we were at school and I must attend strictly to
business; at other times I used to do as I liked, but when we began "work," I
found out I had to take everything seriously, do just as I was told, and stick
to my lessons, trying hard to learn what I was being taught. If I didn't I
failed to get the carrots, apples sugar or candy that I expected.
James, George Wharton. The Story of Captain, the Horse with the Human
Brain. Pasadena: The Radiant Life Press, 1917. 9" x 6", 48 pages,
wrappers.
...Stems of the most
diverse and scattering types of meaning showed similarities in distinct
stocks: beyond onomatopoetic names of birds there was no one class of words
that seemed more or less given than others to transference by loan. The
results, in short, appeared completely meaningless.
Finally, in a mood of rather baffled impotence, an interpretation of
the cases of most abundant resemblance as due to genetic relationship was
applied. At once difficulties yielded, and arrangement emerged from the chaos.
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Dixon, Roland B. and A.L. Kroeber. Linguistic Families of
California. University of California Publications in American Archaeology
and Ethnology, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 47-118. Berkely: University of California
Press, 1919. 10 3/4" x 7 1/4", 118 pages, wrappers.
5.20.2003
Periodically the city
chortled at newspaper accounts of attempts of inebriated automobile drivers to
negotiate the mile of tunnel. As the entrance to the subway was in direct line
with Glendale Blvd., they could perhaps be pardoned, considering their hazy
state of mind. Some autoists even made it into the Subway Terminal, doubtless
creating a certain amount of consternation in that sacred-to-rail country.
Such intrepid voyagers were carted off to sober up and a PE crane and flat car
picked up their car and returned it to good asphalt footing. In due time it
became the turn of the sobered autoist to register consternation; this usually
took place when he received a bill from PE for services rendered plus repairs
for any damage caused.
The Pacific Electric Magazine. Volume 10, number 1, June 10, 1925.
Published by Interurbans Electric Railway Publications, Los Angeles.
5.18.2003
Ninth--Cases of nervous
prostration, and all the innumerable train of tormenting ills that come of an
overtaxed or deranged nervous system, may hope for relief by a residence in
some one of the many pleasant spots that dot the land. It is a restful
climate. One can live all day in the open air, under the shade of the trees,
and then at night lie down to revivifying sleep. Strangers speak almost
invariably of the refreshing slumber of the night. To an overtaxed nervous
system the day is equally soothing. There is in it a hinting of that land,
"In which it seemed always afternoon"
Read Tennyson's "Lotus Eaters" and you will understand it. It is an Indian
Summer air, with the haze, and the stillness, and the restful peace.
Widney, J.P. "California as a Health Resort" in A Southern California
Paradise {In the Suburbs of Los Angeles} Being a Historic and Descriptive
Account of Pasadena, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre, and La Canada; With Important
Reference to Los Angeles and All Southern California, and Containing Maps and
Illustrations. Edited and published by R.W.C. Farnsworth, Pasadena, 1883.
10" x 7", 132 pages, brick cloth, title and devices in gilt.
In brief, the town is
pure, pure.
Adamic, Louis. The Truth About Los Angeles. Girard, KS:
Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1927]. Little Blue Book No. 647. 5" x 3 3/8",
64 pages, wraps.
5.16.2003
BE IT KNOWN BY ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, THAT
WE WILL GIVE
$1000.00
IN GOLD
TO CHARITY
If every testimonial appearing in this
circular is not
genuine and was not voluntarily written to the Club
by a
regular member.
(Signed) SEGNO SUCCESS CLUB
A. Victor Segno,
President.
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MAN'S GREATEST DISCOVERY
"I consider your Success
Club the greatest discovery ever made by man..."
MEMBER No. 5515,
Coffeyville, Kansas.
[From promotional material for the Segno Success Club, A. Victor Segno,
President. Los Angeles, 1910.]
We hear her say that now
that the last times are upon us, God has raised Him up a woman to lead out of
Babylon (the false churches) His Bride...
We read of anti-Christs and of spectacular and meteoric figures that shall
appear, working havoc, rending asunder and producing disruption, but the Bible
does not tell us of a woman wearing a white uniform, who shall appear, amid
cheers, as she marches into her temple. We are not given the story of
thousands being buried with Christ beneath the liquid waves, covered with rose
petals and lilies, while sweet odors are wafted to the people and glimmering
colors play upon the pantomime. No prophet has pointed his finger over the
centuries to such a woman!
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7. How much money did you raise over America by selling little bags of
cement?
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SOME INTERESTING FACTS
In her book, This is That, Mrs. McPherson refers to herself over ten
thousand times.
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Shuler, Rev. R.P. (Bob). "McPhersonism" A Study of "Healing" Cults and
Modern Day "Tongues" Movements. Second Edition. Los Angeles: Bob Shuler,
c. 1925. 6 7/8" x 5 1/8", 72 pages, wraps.
Now comes the sixth
Scarlet
Thread in the Old Testament. It is
found in the story of Rahab.
Jeri-
cho's walls were to be overthrown.
Death was stalking through the
land
and when she said, "How shall I es-
cape when the city of sin is
over-
thrown?" they answered, "There is
only one way."
"I am a terrible sinner. My life
has been spent far from God."
"Yes you are a sinner but you can
be saved if you will take a
Scarlet
Thread and bind it in the window,"
which she did.
I have been right down through
that city and seen remains
of the
wall. Rahab was spared and the
little house in which she lived
still
stood because of the scarlet line in
her window.
McPherson, Aimee Semple. The Scarlet Thread. [Los Angeles]: Aimee
Semple McPherson, 1925. 4" x 3", 64 pages, wraps.
5.15.2003
Bunker Hill survives,
but it is now no more than another place-name on the map of Los Angeles. All
that remains is a small handful of records accumulated in the archives during
its scant century of existence and the devoted efforts on canvas, paper and
film by those who sought to retain for a while longer the memory of its scenes
and history. These pages are offered with some trepidation as a sort of
addendum, not so much in hopes of adding anything previously unknown as to
fill in a few places where there may have been a void.
Hylen, Arnold. Bunker Hill: A Los Angeles Landmark. Los Angeles:
Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. 9 1/4" x 6", 160 pages, pictorial boards.
Decentralization
Continuing this analysis of the growth of the various uses expressed in
terms of dollars, we find that portion of this development which has taken
place within the Central Business District is not proportional to the increase
in city population except in the case of office buildings, public utility
buildings, and possibly garage buildings; and that none of these three shows
an accelerating rate of increase. In all other uses a declining rate is
indicated. In some cases this decline in rate of increase is very marked. The
explanation of this is obvious. As the city has increased in population it has
also increased very markedly in extent, and it has not been possible to meet
the demand for increased facilities entirely within the confines of the
Central Business District. In other words, decentralization has taken place.
Report on the Economic and Engineering Feasibility of Regrading the
Bunker Hill Area of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Wm. H. Babcock & Sons,
1931. 12 1/2" x 11", 96 pages, boards.
Children - Goody,
goody babies and nothing else will rush into being the first three weeks of
the month. They will make excellent clerks - meeting the public face to face -
and have the power to draw and hold trade and make a host of friends. They
will fall in love, we may say: automatically. The least push and they will be
overcome. So in training the boys, warn them regarding the girls. In training
the girls put them in a wire cage.
From the Planisphere for July, 1932, in Frank E. Ormsby's Planets and
People: Ormsby's Annual Prognosticator and Year-Book of the Heavens.
Alhambra: Pyramid-Cube University, 1931. 6 1/2" x 3 3/4", 48 pages, wraps.
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