Los Angeles Growth Lifts Dream in a Desert City
A travelogue on Los Angeles shows a city rapidly expanding its real estate, hospitality, and transit as warm weather lures tourists and investors. It notes bungalow housing, a booming population projected toward a million, and a $21,000,000 water plan to support growth, with rails and roads expanding to meet demand.
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Santa Ana
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San Pedro
Santa Monica
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San Gabriel Range
Mojave
Prunes to be canned as new market development
California fruit growers discuss canning fresh prunes at a recent California Fruit Growers' Association convention. Prunes, long sold dried, may reach market in canned form like peaches, signaling broad potential for irrigated regions.
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California
California Fruit Growers’ Association
Great Adam Forepaugh Exhibition Showcases 500 Breeds
The horse fair of The Great Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers displays 500 specimens of premier breeding. A fleet trotter, racer, saddler, driver, Percheron, Arabia stallion, Kentucky thoroughbred, English cob, coach, and pony appear in this renowned exhibition.
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Adam Forepaugh
Sells
Nickel Plate Special Summer Tourist Fares
The Nickel Plate Road offers Special Summer Tourist tickets to Canadian and New England points at one fare plus two dollars for a fifteen day limit from Chicago and one fare plus four dollars for a thirty day limit from Chicago. Applications available at City Ticket Office 107 Adams St Chicago. 2tw June 29.
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Chicago
City Ticket
Adams St
Electric Bitters touted as cure for many ailments
A Benson era ad chronicles Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for snake bites and common disorders in India and the US. It cites S. A. Brown of Bennettsville South Carolina claiming his wife recovered from dyspepsia and a torpid liver. The product claims to cure chills fever malaria biliousness back pain kidney and bladder troubles, offered by Stewart druggist at 50 cents with a guarantee.
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S. A. Brown
Bennettsville
S. C
Stewart
Fourth of July Excursion Fares Announced by Iowa Central
For the Fourth of July the Iowa Central will set round trip excursion tickets to all points on its lines Within a radius of 250 miles from selling station at a rate of fare and one third, tickets on sale July 3 and 4 with return limit July 6, 1906. Call on agents for particulars. July 4.
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Iowa Central
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