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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 79 — Request Line XIV
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 80 — Request Line XV
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 81 — Request Line XVI
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View ArticleBlack Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 82 — Request Line XVII
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View ArticleBlack Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 83 — Notes on L.A. Abortions...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Let’s have some fun, shall we? Since we’re talking about abortion and abortion rings, protection, etc., here are all the news stories involving arrests or...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 84 — Request Line XVIII
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View ArticleApril 25, 1907: Man Kicks Pregnant Wife Out of House for Not Cooking Pigs’ Feet
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Anthony Kallan likes pigs’ feet more than he cares for his wife and proved it by kicking her out of the house because she refused to cook his favorite meal for...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 85 — Request Line XIX
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April 26, 1907: Runaway Rail Cars Make Fast Trip to L.A. Train Yard
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Water is not the only thing that flows downhill, as switchmen at the downtown Southern Pacific freight yard discovered when two runaway flatcars made a 13-mile...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 86 — Request Line XX
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April 27, 1907: Man Badly Injured in Attack by Mule
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. W.S. Stanton of N. 117½ E. First St. was attacked by a vicious mule at the California Truck Company’s stables, No. 337 Aliso St., last night and seriously...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 87 — Request Line XXI
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. I have ceased blogging in real time as I read Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles.” Wolfe...
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Black Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 88 — Request Line XXII
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April 29, 1907: Blanche Hall Draws Crowds to Burbank Theater in ‘When...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Los Angeles theatergoers are transfixed by the new production of “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” Paul Kester’s adaptation of Charles Major’s 1898 novel, forming...
View ArticleBlack Dahlia: Blogging ‘Black Dahlia Files’ Part 89 — The Two-Minute...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. From Feb. 3, 2006, to April 28, 2006, I devoted a daily blog to Donald H. Wolfe’s “The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul and the Murder That Transfixed Los...
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May 1, 1907: Runaway Horses and a Fleeing Motorcyclist on the Dangerous...
Motorcycle Hits Her Miss Gertrude Young, who lives at No. 525 Wall St., was knocked down by a motorcycle yesterday as she stepped from a streetcar at 7th and Hope streets. The rider of the machine...
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Black Dahlia: Elizabeth Short Was Last Seen Alive at — Record Scratch
Wow. Sorry, Uproxx, this is totally wrong. Elizabeth Short was last seen alive at — before you say the Hotel Cecil — she was last seen alive at the Biltmore.
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May 5, 1907: The Shriners Ban Water Except for Bathing
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. Singing loud praises to Allah that strike a curious note in 2006, the special train of Shriners is flying across the Nevada desert brimming with Freemasons and...
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May 9, 1907: Shriners Present a Colorful Array
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. What, you might ask yourself, did Shriners do before the advent of those little cars and Harley-Davidson Electra Glides? The elaborately costumed men staged...
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