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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
4
The Los Angeles legislation committee reviews an ordinance to create the Los Angeles Municipal News to be published weekly at one cent per copy, with free issues for voters and taxpayers. It reserves ad space and allocates 36000 dollars for the first year, detailing free space for political groups and city officials.
The O Hara family funeral will be held here next Friday. Six members of a large horse trading and farming clan will be buried. The practice brings many relatives together, with bodies sent to Atlanta for embalming and combined burial of those who died in the prior year. Members hailed from Georgia Alabama and Kentucky.
Plans filed by Broadway Park Place company call for a 55 story building at Broadway and Park Place, with a 750 foot topper. The main block would be thirty stories plus a twenty five story tower, making fifty five total. At 750 feet it would surpass the Metropolitan tower at 700 feet three inches and the Singer tower at 612 feet, with the Eiffel Tower not counted as a building.
On Perkins Island North Tasmania a remarkable incident saw thirty seven monster whales strand along the coast. They floundered in the shallows as the tide fell and perished before help arrived. Bystanders formed a syndicate with 1500 capital to recover the ambergris from the carcasses and obtained 3000 pounds of the valuable commodity.
San Diego begins Panama-California Exposition preparations for 1915. Groundbreaking scheduled for July 1922 with four days of pageantry from Balboa discoveries to Junipero Serra missions. San Diego forms a $2 million fundraising base, state pledges $250,000, San Francisco funds $17.5 million for its fair.
An exodus of Republican employes of the house began today and next week many more will receive notice of removal. In nearly every branch employees packed their personal belongings and prepared to depart. About 300 Republicans are affected. some have served for a quarter century in Washington.
The Guttenberg Bible, one of the earliest printed books, sold for a record 50 000 dollars at the Robert Hoe library auction opening. Henry E Huntington of Los Angeles purchased it, part of a sale estimated to top a million dollars in value.
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