La Verne Sought as Ideal Southern California Town
Description extols La Verne as a fertile, well supplied community on major rail lines with free reading room, post office, hotel under construction, no liquor saloons, parks, sewerage, and strong climate. It promotes proximity to Pasadena and Riverside and invites visitors to see the town.
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la Verne
Great
San Gabriel Valley
Santa Ana Valley
Pasadena
Riverside
San Pedro
Ocean
Los Angeles
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Pomona
Great Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific
La Verne Viewpoints Sweep Southern California Range
The article extols La Verne’s broad vistas across mountains from the San Bernardino peaks to the San Jacinto range and Santa Ana winds into the Sierra Madre. It notes Mount San Antonio known as Old Baldy at 9,000 feet with year round snow, Telegraph Peak and Cucamonga Peaks nearby, and the Sleeping Giant profile near Pasadena. It mentions plans for a cog-wheel railway to Wilsons Peak and USC observatory funding by ex mayor Spence, with views extending to San Pedro Bay and Palos Verdes Hills.
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la Verne
California
San Bernardino Pine Mountains
Cajon Pass
San Bernardino
Canes
San Jacinto
San Gorgonio
Temescala
Santa Ana
Grand
San Ditmas Canyon
Telegraph Peak
Cucamonga Peak
Pasadena
Verdugo Mountains
Sierra Madre Range
San Fernando
Newhall
Antelope Valley
Raymond Sotel
Washington
Blackhawk
Observatory
Scientific School
University of Southern California
Spence
Los Angeles
San Jose Hills
Fuente Billa
San Pedro
Bay
Ocean
Sas Palos Verdes
High License Letters Back Pro-Prohibition Arguments
The New York Voice publishes private letters from major Mississippi Valley distillers urging high license as beneficial to liquor trade, claiming it provides legal standing and undermines prohibition. Firms like Anheuser-Busch Bremen Brewery Schlater Brewing and Liquor Dealers' Association leaders defend high license as the grandest law, challenging temperance advocates.
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New York Voice
Mississippi Valley
Personal Liberty Leagues
New Jersey
New York
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association of
St. Louis
Bremen Brewery Co
Schlater Brewing Co
Cleveland
Ker
United States
Liquor Dealers’ Association of
Nebraska
La Verne touted as ideal health town and growth hub
La Verne praised for high altitude, pure water, ocean breeze, and faultless sewer system. The article lauds its soil, views, lack of fogs, and rapid development aided by a strong town company. It highlights local sights, new mill, hotel, store, post office, and residents from Pasadena shaping a thriving community.
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la Verne
Riverside
Pasadena
San Pedro Harbor
la Verne News
Pasadena Daily Star
Marci
John Symes
The
Star
Santa Fe’ Ry
L. H. Bixby
E. A. Robbins
John B. Hill
M. F. Douglas
D. T. Orrin
California Empire and Pacific Growth Across the next decade
Blanton Duncan of Kentucky praises California from Los Angeles noting the Pacific slope will attract millions, boasting climate, soil, and production. He calls California an independent empire capable of self reliance and highlights open-air warmth, tropical blossoms, and abundant harvests as winter freezes elsewhere. Orange is listed as a city of the sixth class.
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Blanton Duncan
Kentucky
Los Angeles
The
Tribune
Pacific Slope
California
Aladdin
Lyman Allen Offers Cash Prizes For Beautiful La Verne Homes
An appeal to residents of La Verne California promises cash prizes to foster beauty in homes and grounds. Awards include best overall property best laid out grounds best lawn and rose displays with multiple prizes and a two prize per person limit.
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BACON
California college near La Verne attracts regional support
An institution near La Verne aims to be a premier regional college under Congregational oversight with ties to elite eastern schools. Citizens have contributed about two hundred thousand dollars for a first building and endowment lands, with plans for the cornerstone and beginning classes in September. Rev. B Sumner leaves Pomona to devote full time, and a campus with a scenic climate is planned alongside a new New York Los Angeles mail pouch route.
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la Verne
Live Oak Canyon
Congregational
Yale
Harvard
Amherst
B. Sumner
Congregational Church
Pomona
California
California's fruit future through trees small farms and land value
The author argues Californians should plant fruit trees and pursue small farming to exploit nearby fertile soils. He cites fruitful regions within a few hundred miles, notes potential independence from land, and envisions water from mountains via dams reviving deserts.
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California
Golden State
Europe
San Bernardino Base Line and Oceanside Wharf Plans
The San Bernardino base line marks land parcels near Oceanside where a new wharf will extend 30 feet to sea level. The $40,000 landing project promises regular steamship service with a Coronado connection. A Denver cattle trust contracts with France to supply 150000 head of beef annually for the French army, with shipments to Chicago for slaughter.
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Oceanside
San Diego
San Francisco
Coronado
the Cattle Trust of
Denver
Chicago
Train Switch Accident and Local Happenings In Town
At 7 am Monday a passenger section dash ran into Azuga and a car derailed at a switch. Frame sustained minor injuries while track walker John Faulkner was badly hurt. Dr. A E Engelhardt becomes postmaster with a new Washington commission. Covina's J B Phillips fills 16 000 grape cuttings order from Phenix Arizona. Lordsburg items report bronze turkeys arriving from San Francisco. Sallee and Bussey plan a Lordsburg nursery with sprouts from orange seed and peach pits. Water pipe work eases east town residents' access. Florida man contracts for 50 000 wave orange buds at Riverside.
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Glendora
Azuga
Lordsburg
W.P. Rhodes
Express
San Francisco
Sallee
Elbert Bussey
I. W. Lord’s Place
Poem by P C Tanner on Los Angeles 1869 origins hinted
The excerpt recalls P C Tanner’s 1869 poem on Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley from Spanish to American life. It notes ranch figures Bixby Stearns Philips Vejar Palomares and the San Jose ranch 22380 acres, with terms cienega carreta rancheria and local land water interests.
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P. C. Tanner
Los Angeles
San Gabriel Valley
San Jose Ranch
la Verne
San Jose
Mountain Valley
Philips
Vejar
Bixby and Stearns
Palomares
Tanner
Rancheria
Fruit Eating Family Described in Pacific Fruit Grower
A communication from Ballena in San Diego County describes a family subsisting largely on fruit and bread made from freshly ground grain. They consume four to six pounds of fresh grapes daily, avoid sugar, craft dairy products from fruit and grains, and pursue a fruit rich diet in a climate they praise as ideal California.
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Ballena
San Diego County
Alexis
California
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