Word: los
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the head SCIENCE in TIME, March 12. This item referred to a quake shock at "dreadfully hot Bakersfield," and seemed to imply that a series of mild shocks felt here about ten days ago was a fulfillment of a prophecy of Prof. Willis of Stanford for earthquake at Los Angeles...
...seven years; my husband for 15. We are agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...
...original Andrew Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a Los Angeles realtor, and the missing Albert Marble Jackson, were brought up at "The Hermitage," historic Jackson plantation near Nashville, Tenn. Before vanishing, reputedly by steamer to Europe, Albert Marble Jackson is thought to have disposed of valuable Jacksoniana from "The Hermitage...
...famed cinemadog) was at home in Los Angeles, asleep. Burglars came, ransacked, walked off with a silver coffee urn, spoons, knives, forks. Rin Tin Tin did not awake, neither did his master, Lieut. Lee Duncan...
...branches). The result was the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association with capital of $30,000,000, resources of $115,000,000. The business of its offices, now nearly 300, all in California, requires that one board of management sit constantly in San Francisco, and another in Los Angeles. James Augustus Bacigalupi is president; Lorenzo Scatena, 78, chairman of its directorate. Amadeo Peter Giannini gives it banking advice, in much the same fashion that engineers advise public utilities on their operations...