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Dec. 9, 1907
Los Angeles
Mayor Harper has restored E.J. Bowen to his old job in the Fire Department after the rookie police officer was fired for allegedly being a coward
Dec. 8, 1907
Los Angeles
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Dec. 7, 1907
Los Angeles
Dec. 5, 1907
St. Louis
A Los Angeles couple have a novel way of making money: Antonio Thompson and his wife sell their daughter Marie to the Gypsies, then go to court to get her back. According to statements taken in St. Louis, Marie has been sold off several times as a Gypsy princess.
The girl
Dec. 4, 1907
Arcadia
Charley Chew, the water superintendent on the Lucky Baldwin ranch, had fired two Mexican workers several months ago and one dark night near the Unruh residence, they ambushed him, shooting him in the back. Chew drew his pistol and shot Francisco Ramirez and Miguel Palamoratz in the stomach, then fled.
Badly wounded, Ramirez and Palamoratz struggled to walk about a mile to a friend
Dec. 3, 1907
Los Angeles
Officer Patrick Lyons had been on the force for four months when he was shot in the head while trying to arrest two robbers a little after 11 p.m. at Central Avenue and 14th Street.
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Dec. 2, 1907
Los Angeles
The Times’ real estate section features an apartment building at 2nd Street and Figueroa
Dec.1, 1907
Los Angeles
The Times runs a small blurb on writer Willis George Emerson, noting that the National Magazine has begun serializing a new story,
