House Damaged By Girls’ Pony

May 28, 1947
Covina

Two little West Covina girls found themselves wondering today if a pony would ever go into a house, and what might happen if it did. They acted out their fancy within the unfinished El Rancho Estates home of Mrs. Bernie M. Osborn, causing $258 in hoof damage to the new linoleum. Sheriff’s deputies from the San Dimas substation detained the young equestrians, while the patient Mrs. Osborn declined to press charges until she had a chance to talk with the girls’ parents.

Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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  1. Blues Singer Given
    Sentence on Dope
    PHILADELPHIA, May 27. (U.P.)
    Billie Holiday, 28, Negro blues
    singer, was sentenced to a year
    and a day in the Federal Re-
    formatory for Women at Alder-
    son, W.Va., today for possession
    of narcotics. The entertainer, a
    self-admitted addict, sobbed in
    court as she told Judge J. Cullen
    Ganey that she is “brokeâ€Â al-
    though her earnings in the past
    three years exceeded $250.000.

    + + +

    On June 17, while Holiday was in prison, the film “New Orleansâ€Â opened in Los Angeles at the four Music Hall theaters: 8th and Broadway downtown; Beverly Hills at 9036 Wilshire Blvd.; the Hawaii at 5941 Hollywood Blvd.; and at 6523 Hollywood Blvd. Holiday played a maid in what was apparently her only credited role as an actress in a feature film.

    Released from prison, she returned to Los Angeles and was involved in a brawl in Billy Berg’s nightclub, 1356 N. Vine St., on New Year’s Day, 1949. While the charges were dismissed at her preliminary hearing, she was soon accused of drug possession in San Francisco and in March, barred from New York nightclubs. A San Francisco jury acquitted her of opium possession in June 1949, although her problems certainly didn’t end there.

    Situations Wanted, Women—102

    ADDRESSING & MAILING — PRIV.
    PARTY. $10 PER 1000 TU-5397
    ——————————————
    APT. col. Day work. Couple. Rev.
    Mitchell. AD-8026. AD-12795
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    CLEAN. OR LAUNDRY. Experienced.
    By hour. Mrs. Black. LU 1660
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    COL. Cook. Gen. Full or part time
    Home nites. Royal Agy. RE-4529
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    COL. Refined maids, cooks, chaufs.
    Day work. Rev. Sweeney. AD-11040.
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    COL. Help. Call Ladies’ Empl. Aid. As-
    sociation for extra help. AD-9505
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    COL. Neat. Exec. Party cook. Day work
    or child care. CE-27655
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    COL. Girl, exp. Wants day work as
    mother’s helper. AD-18166
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    COL. Girl with child care for child-
    dren in home. Stay AD-6845
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    COL. Girl da. Work A-1 clean &
    ironing. $1 hr & fare. RE-25018
    ——————————————
    COL. Girl. Neat, desires day work.
    Pvt home. RO-1528
    ——————————————
    COL. Wom. Day wrk. $1 hr or 5-da.
    Apt. wrk. NE 2-4174
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    COMPANION. Hskpr. Elderly lady
    Alone. References. Box F-46. Times
    ——————————————
    COMP. Hskpr. Cook or institute. Wrk.
    Ref. Lady. GL-2741
    ——————————————
    DAY or pt. time exp. Worker. Loc. Ref.
    $1 hr, fare. CE-20795
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    DAY WORK CLEANING, WHITE
    EXPERIENCED RI-8488
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    DAY WORK EXCEPTIONAL WORK-
    ER, Phone CE-27003
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    DAY work, part time. Will cook eve-
    ning meal. Refs. PR-1923
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    DAY WORK. EXPERIENCED COL-
    ORED GIRL AD-14063
    ——————————————
    DAYS work, exp. Col girl $8 day &
    Fare. Ref. CA-21822
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    source: Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1947; June 16, 1947; June 22, 1947; Jan. 7, 1949; Jan. 12, 1949; March 5, 1949; March 22, 1949; June 4, 1949

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